Uptime , SLA’s, and the Nines
Uptime Uptime is the amount of time a server has been in continuous proper operation without needing a reboot. When I was working a nine to five and managing datacenters,…
AIDE – Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment HowTo – Ubuntu Linux
AIDE is an advanced intrusion detection environment software which monitors changes in your files and/or filesystem/s. AIDE let’s you know if a file has been accessed, changed, or modified (atime,…
New Chat System @ Zettabytes.Org – Minnit Chat Integration
We have been testing some various chat sub-systems, clients, servers as well as WordPress native chat sub-systems and have settled on one for the moment for our https://azure.zettabytes.org blog and…
Installing PHP on Ubuntu 20.04
You’re going to like this one. So do you just want the damn command so you can move on without having to read more than this sentence? M’Kay, here ya…
Apache 2 on Ubuntu 20.04 + 30 Second SSL Configuration
The version of Ubuntu that I use is 20.04 LTS however most of these instructions will pertain to just about all Ubuntu Linux versions. Yes, there are thousands of these…
Installing MySQL on Ubuntu Linux 20.04
So you wanna install MySQL server on your Ubuntu Linux 20.04 box right? No problem, another super duper easy install: apt install mysql-server That will install the latest version in…
Installed Ubuntu 20.04 on My 2011 MacBook Pro8,2 – Ubuntu ONLY, NO OSX – Tested, Complete
Reprinted from https://linux.linuxconnector.com, another one of my sites. One of the computers I have on my desk is an older MacBook Pro. To be specific, it’s a 2011 MacBook Pro…
cowsay and lolcat – more Ubuntu shell commands
If you read my article about fortune, I mention cowsay and lolcat towards the end of that article. I decided to write another article that expands on cowsay and lolcat…
fortune – Unix/Linux Shell Goody
"You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!" -- Bloom County (fortune) fortune is a little program that I install on just about every single Unix/Linux box I administrate. It’s…
Linux shell commands I use daily
In day to day administration we as system administrators have literally thousands of commands to choose from to keep our servers running in tip top condition. I’ve seen top 10…