Fix Ubuntu Server Name Resolution when Pi-Hole is Installed
When installing a Pi-Hole on an Ubuntu server I found that once install the Ubuntu server itself was no longer able to resolve DNS.
Prevent automatic change of audio device – Ubuntu
If you are using HDMI or DisplayPort for audio, the devices regularly seem to switch back to in-built audio all by themselves. This can be due to the HDMI device becoming unavailable when the monitor turns itself off, causing PulseAudio to choose a different device. This causes a problem as PulseAudio does not automatically go back to the originally selected device once the HDMI device has returned. This is very frustrating as it means constantly having to re-selected the prefered…
Debian 7 “Wheezy” LTS Updates
Debian 7 “Wheezy” Is managed by the LTS (Long Term Support) team. Who are responsible for security updates on wheezy until May 2018. To continue to receive updates you will need to update your sources.list. vi /etc/apt/sources.list Add the following to your sources.list file deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free…
Pushbullet: How to Send a message from Bash
With this simple one line of code it is possible to send a message to your Pushbullet account from the Linux terminal. This is great if you want your BASH script to message you when a specific task completes or fails. All that is required is a Pushbullet token that you can obtain from the settings within your PushBullet Account. This can be found here https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings Now paste the code to your terminal replacing the pushbullettoken with your own token and changing…
Fedora 22: Setting a static IP address
This is a quick tutorial on how to set a static IP address using the terminal within Fedora 22. Disable Network Manager 1. First stop and disable the gnome network manager from running on boot. systemctl stop NetworkManager.service systemctl disable NetworkManager.service 2. Now start and enable the network service to run on boot. systemctl restart network.service systemctl enable network.service Set the Static Address 1. Check which interface(s) you want to set as static. [[email protected] ~]# ifconfig em1: flags=4163 mtu 1500…
Fedora 21: Setting a static IP address
This is a quick tutorial on how to set a static IP address using the terminal within Fedora 21. Disable Network Manager 1. First stop and disable the gnome network manager from running on boot. systemctl stop NetworkManager.service systemctl disable NetworkManager.service 2. Now start and enable the network service to run on boot. systemctl restart network.service systemctl enable network.service Set the Static Address 1. Check which interface(s) you want to set as static. [[email protected] ~]# ifconfig em1: flags=4163 mtu 1500…
Delta RPMs disabled
If you get the following message the using yum you are missing the deltarpm package. Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed. Delta RPM packages contain the difference between an old and a new version of an RPM package. This means the whole new RPM does not have to be downloaded saving bandwidth. To use delta RPMs install the deltarpm package yum install deltarpm
SSH Login Without Password Setup Script
About This is a simple script to allow you to easily setup RSA keys and upload the public key to a remote host for SSH login without requiring a password. This can also be used to add an extra layer of security to your server by using RSA keys and a password. Features Setup SSH login without a password using RSA keys Setup SSH login with a password and using RSA keys Description I found I kept forgetting how to…
Garrys Mod Linux server GLIBC_2.15 fix
Problem Facepunch Studio have released an update for Garrys Mod server that may cause the following error. Failed to open dedicated_srv.so (/lib/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15′ not found (required by bin/dedicated_srv.so)) or Failed to open dedicated_srv.so (/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15′ not found (required by bin/dedicated_srv.so)) Facepunch have needed to update Garry’s Mod to use GLIBC_2.15. because of this you will have the issue if GLIBC is older than GLIBC_2.15. This effects the following distros: CentOS 6 Debian 7 Ubuntu 12.10 or lower To…
Parallels Plesk Panel Maillog location Linux
When trying to find the email logs on my Plesk server I struggled to find them at first. Parallels Plesk Panel maillog is in a non standard location compared to you standard Linux system. On most Linux systems you will find the mail log in /var/log. However Plesk Panel stores the logs in usr/local/psa/var/log. If you want to see the servers mail log use the following command. tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog I recommend creating a symbolic link to plesk logs within…