Linux/Unix Adding more disk space to a Linux Virtual Machine There comes a time where you set-up a VM and don't set the hard-disk size to be big enough for what you are going to do. I hit that problem just the other day and I needed to increase the size of my home dir on a Ubuntu
Linux/Unix Linux: Changing UIDs and GIDs for a user Just had to do a quick switch over of UID [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_identifier_(Unix)] and GIDs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_identifier_(Unix)] for a couple of users. I'm using Puppet [http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet] to manage server configurations and it'
Linux/Unix SSH SOCKS Proxy I first saw this tip a while back on the Ubuntu Blog [http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/] and it's a useful way of using SSH to set-up private web surfing. Not to mention I've come across several public wifi installs that leave port
Linux/Unix Dedicated server recovery mode This is really just a note for my future reference, but these details should pretty much apply to most linux servers that have a recovery mode. As is the case with several suppliers the instructions for how to mount the hard disk to fix problems are often left out or
Linux/Unix Ubuntu Edgy under Parallels Desktop for mac As Ubuntu [http://www.ubuntu.com/] Edgy has not long been released I thought I would see how it runs on parallels [http://www.parallels.com/] desktop for mac. I downloaded the standard .iso and followed pretty much the same instructions as when I installed Ubuntu Dapper [https://muffinresearch.co.
Linux/Unix Keeping ssh connections alive Picture this; you come back from lunch at "My Old Dutch Pancake house" and every one of your ssh connections has been closed due to lack of activity. It's reasonable that the server you are connected to (or the hardware you are connecting through) closes connections
Linux/Unix Ubuntu Breezy Badger install horrors I decided to check out Breezy Badger the latest version of Ubuntu linux [http://www.ubuntulinux.org]. First I thought I would try the in place upgrade from Hoary to Breezy by altering /etc/apt/sources.list to the Breezy repositories and then running sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get
Linux/Unix fscked up beyond all recognition Strange things were afoot this evening when I switched on my laptop. Ubuntu [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/] did the intermittant "HAL could not be initialized" error first of all. A quick reboot and everything seemed ok for a couple of minutes. The update indicator was red so I
Linux/Unix Ubuntu Ubuntu they drink it in the congo XP Pro started giving me grief on my laptop with a blue screen every time I booted it up, which seemed to relate to the wireless card. So to fix the problem I installed Ubuntu Linux [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/], problem solved! Installation is text based, and I found that
Linux/Unix Linux command locate - useful for err... locating files? I came across a useful linux command that i hadn't seen before. Called locate. it returns the full path of a file that you enter. For example: # locate php.ini /etc/php.ini As you can see it produces the full path for that file. Pretty handy. However