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How to: Launch a Process that Persists even if you Disconnect your SSH Terminal I’m not sure if this has happened to you before, but there are times when you have an application you...
How to: Erase a log file in Ubuntu Ever had this huge error log, full of nightmares and bad memories? Well, once you’re done fixing the problems then you’re stuck with megs if not...
Resolved: Reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for {Reverse DNS hostname [IP Address]} failed – POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! If you start looking at the SSH log: “/var/log/auth.log” you might come across a lot of “Reverse mapping checking...
How to: Create a Self Signed Certificate in Ubuntu Many times during the initial phases of a Web Server deployment we are in need of testing secure communications (and its configuration) using a certificate. Unfortunately...
How to: Create directory in /var/run/ at start-up in Ubuntu As you probably have already noticed, the /var/run directory is temporary storage used by your Ubuntu system. It is mapped to your RAM disk...
How to: Make a directory structure in Ubuntu only if the directories do not exist Lately I have been working on start up scripts but because I use temporary storage for some mounts the...
General Commands Manual: mkdir trusty (1) mkdir.1.gz Provided by: coreutils_8.21-1ubuntu5_i386 NAME mkdir – make directories SYNOPSIS mkdir [OPTION]… DIRECTORY… DESCRIPTION Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist. Mandatory arguments to long...
How to: Configure memcache to use a unix socket I have a server which is going to have its own memcached instance installed on itself… so I was thinking using a unix socket instead...
General Commands Manual: dphys-swapfile NAME dphys-swapfile – set up, mount/unmount, and delete an swap file SYNOPSIS dphys-swapfile setup|swapon|swapoff|uninstall DESCRIPTION dphys-swapfile computes the size for an optimal swap file (and resizes an existing swap file...
How to: Configure Swappiness in Ubuntu In one of my previous articles on how to setup virtual memory / swap memory in Ubuntu I covered how to install a swap space for a Windows...
