Useful Wallpaper for Linux newbies
Today, I stumbled over this really useful wallpaper (if you are a newbie), which is a list of useful Linux commands. Use this as your default background and if you have some spare time hanging arround on your desktop you can read up a few commands, their meaning and their …
read moreMultiple Firebird Servers on Ubuntu
In this tutorial I will show you how to install multiple separate Firebird 2.1 servers on a single Host, lets just say you are short on budget and you want to have your testing/integration database running on the same environment as your production database, which is usually not …
read moreOpenvpn Server Failover with Drbd, Heartbeat and Pacemaker
I recently needed to experiment with a setup of having a highly available Openvpn server, as one of our clients asked for this. As I've just got this working I thought I would share with the world how I managed to get this setup working. I won't go into any …
read moreInstall Firebird 1.5 Classic Server on Ubuntu 64bit
In Ubuntu versions > 8.04 you will encounter the problem that there are no more packages of Firebird 1.5 Classic Server available in the package repository. Therefore we need to install all dependencies and all packages manually. Firebird 1.5 only exists in 32bit which results in even more …
read moreHow to get Skype 2.1 working with your webcam on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 32/64bit
So I recently tried to install skype on my new Ubuntu Installation as I found out that skype wasn't available anymore in the medibuntu repositories for Karmic. So I installed the official deb package for Ubuntu 8.04 from the official skype website. All just seemed to be working fine …
read moreChange zone files with sed
As we had to move our server roma from root.lu to our home, and as roma serves as dns server, we had to change IPs and serials in all the zone files. Therefore we forged together some regular expressions to use with sed. sed is a stream editor for …
read moreCrontab fun Decipher the following
I've been croning a lot lately, and this is one cool combination of cron which I haven't thought was possible. In this example you see how powerful cron can be. Defying a lot specific rules in just one line of syntax. So let's come to it ... try to decipher the …
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