When your DHCP client has lease renewal issues, Sendmail may be at fault
On one of our VPS instances, I noticed some seriously erratic behavior with the DHCP client taking a long time to renew its leases when the machine was booting up, …
Linux
Fixing some keyboard shortcuts in XFCE (Ctrl+F5 and Ctrl+Alt+T)
Old habits die hard, or something like that 🙂 Cloning one of my Ubuntu Desktop set-ups to a VirtualBox environment, I switched to using XFCE4 for my desktop (“xubuntu”). This …
ttf-mscorefonts-installer and Ubuntu 16
As has been confirmed in a number of posts on the Internet, there’s a problem with the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package on Ubuntu 16. There are a number of solutions, and as …
SSH keys are no longer working after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04.LTS – Help!
I recently upgraded one of my laptops to Ubuntu 16.04.LTS (going from 14.04.LTS). The upgrade went very smooth and I have no issues with the resulting operating environment 🙂 Having …
wget segfault | wget segmentation fault
We mirror the Webmin website to bring it somewhat closer to Sweden, and recently I had to move the hosted mirror to another of our servers running Debian 8. All …
Using Shared Resources from your Linux workstation in your RemoteDesktop (RDP) environment and Windows Server
If you, like me, are using Ubuntu – or similar – for your daily stuff and need to connect to a Windows Server by using RemoteDesktop (RDP) / TerminalServer, you …
rsyslogd eats CPU on OpenVZ
All of a sudden, rsyslogd on an Ubuntu installation running under OpenVZ is using 100% CPU. One alternative is to replace rsyslogd for syslog-ng, but if you want to “fix” …
Locating older version of MySQL 4, MySQL 5, source code, binaries, rpm, etc.
Quite some time ago, we needed to move a customer’s MySQL 4 server from one location to another. In the process, we figured we’d update the server to use some …