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upstart failing to manage mysqld on Ubuntu 10.04
Installed Ubuntu 10.04 from ISO onto a blank virtual box machine. All worked well for a while, until I recently did an aptitude safe-upgrade. The next time I booted the system, mysql failed to start...
View ArticleGoogle calendar in Mozilla Thunderbird on Ubuntu 11.10
Via the Ubuntu Software Centre: Search for thunderbird Click on the search result “Thunderbird Email” and then on the “More Info” button Enable at least the “Calendar Extension for Thunderbird – Google...
View ArticleSymfony 1.4 Doctrine 1.2 MS SQL Server
Web server: Linux (Ubuntu on my dev setup), Apache, PHP 5.3, Symfony 1.4, Doctrine 1.2. Database server: Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, MS SQL Server Trying to get Symfony to talk to the database...
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PPTP tunnels and if-up.d
Current project requires a couple of VPN tunnels to be set up. An IPsec and a PPTP. The IPsec will wait for another day, the PPTP is set up and ready to go. One thing that wasn’t quite right with the...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 LTS on Bytemark VM
If, like me, you can’t wait for Ubuntu 12.04.1 to be released, you can force an upgrade of your favourite OS OS. sudo apt-get update; sudo do-release-upgrade -d If you are going from the previous LTS...
View ArticleChroot SFTP home dir
Example user ‘iain’ sudo mkdir -p /chroot/iain/home/iain sudo useradd -M -d /home/iain iain sudo passwd iain sudo chwon iain: /chroot/iain/home/iain sudo nano -w /etc/ssh/sshd_config # At the end of...
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Multi-screen with Ubuntu Unity
This tweet has to have been the most popular thing I have ever said. At time of posting it has gained 80 retweets, 25 favourites and many replies/questions. Work recently bought me a new workstation,...
View ArticleVagrant: sudo access and the hostsupdater plugin
Bringing up a vagrant machine is as easy as vagrant up. If you’re a web developer, it would be nice if it were to add the private network IP address to /etc/hosts of the host machine. Thus giving you...
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Setting up an On-Premise instance of Amon
NewRelic no longer offers server monitoring for free accounts, so what are the alternatives when you’re on a skin-flint budget? There are lots, but I’m not going to review any of them. Instead, I’ve...
View ArticleUnable to install sass gem on CentOS 6.9 with Ruby 2.4
Something changed recently, preventing a VM from fully provisioning. Tracking it down was a bit of a PiTA. OS: CentOS 6.9 Ruby: 2.4 – installed from source with the gearlingguy.ruby ansible role Gems...
View Articleapt-upgrade
I used to use a 2 command 1 liner to update my system: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade That was easy enough to type out now and then. But over time it grew to include removing...
View ArticleEmbiggen .desktop loaded applications on Ubuntu
I keep forgetting the steps required for this, so thought I should write them up in one easy to remember blog post for myself. My desktop set-up consists of 2 x 1080 and 1 x 4k display. Making sure...
View ArticleSkype forgetting login details on Ubuntu
TLDR; Install gnome-keyring If you are not using the default install of Ubuntu, you might not be using Gnome. This is the case for flavours such as: Kubuntu (KDE Plsama), Lubuntu (LXQt), Xubuntu...
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