It’s hard to beat the SYSSTAT / kSAR combo for easy and quick setup of monitoring servers and in this tutorial you will see how it’s done.... Read More

Most of the most commonly used and useful Linux commands needs a file as input, in the shell this can be circumvented by for instance a line like this: echo “hej” | md5sum.... Read More

If you’ve read the article about my email server setup you quickly realize that adding a new email account is quite onerous, a combination of adding records to tables in a MySQL database and creating folders on the harddrive. This can easily be automated with for instance PHP and I’ll show you how below.... Read More

Update: The below tutorials seem to lack the proper apt-get line, well here it is: sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d postfix-mysql... Read More

I just had to format and mount a second HD in a Ubuntu system.... Read More

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Above is probably one of the most complicated crontabs I’ve ended up with.... Read More

After a lot of hair pulling and swearing I just managed to open up a new port (8090) on a Ubuntu server for the first time. The IPTables HowTo is a good document but below I have condensed the pertinent information you need if you just want to open up a port.... Read More

I recently bought a Samsung Syncmaster. As opposed to the last time I tried to setup my second screen in a vertical position it worked this time. The Samsung screen has the same viewing angle and picture quality when positioned vertically as it has when positioned default horizontally.... Read More

So my server crashed for the third time in a short time period the other day. Hopefully it won’t happen again.... Read More

My VizReader server has crashed 3 times in roughly as many weeks now and I have no idea why, nothing unusual shows up in the logs.... Read More