Submitted by Ron on Mon, 2015/04/27 - 03:07
For this project, the goal is to update a remote Ubuntu 10.04 system running good ol' Gnome 2.x (of course) to Ubuntu 14.04 with Mate desktop (a fork of Gnome 2.x) instead of Unity.
The command "do-release-upgrade" will be the method, with some PPAs added at the end to bring in the Mate desktop on to the system.
A slight complication is that there are limitations on the free space on the root partition.
Further more, the host is about 5,000 km away and owned by someone without technical experience or much sysadmin ability to fix anything that goes wrong.
All access on the eventual target will be via ssh through a VPN which auto-connects back to this host, so we'll do this work via ssh to the VM.
Submitted by Ron on Thu, 2012/02/02 - 13:11
Encountering the following error message when logging in to Ubuntu (or another Linux)?
Could not update ICEauthority file /home/user-name/.ICEauthority
I had that on my Mom's machine, and it drove us nuts. I tried every trick I could find on the Internet and a bunch more of my own.
Finally found the solution, and it was embarrassingly simple... No auto-login is allowed if you have an encrypted home folder. Makes sense, but if you forget it's encrypted and want a quicker login, you're in for trouble.
Submitted by Ron on Sat, 2011/11/26 - 00:01
Fail2Ban is a brilliant piece of IDS (Intrusion Detection Software) that I've got a crush on.
I've developed a couple "jails" -- rules for banning IP addresses.
First, a couple thoughts, tricks, and tips:
Submitted by Ron on Mon, 2011/11/14 - 10:01
It's rather annoying that with Ubuntu GNU/Linux and Gnome desktop manager using Compiz special effects, a screenshot of only a window excludes the window border. That's now fixed!
Submitted by Ron on Wed, 2009/03/18 - 23:59
A collection of How-Tos, software scripts, etc. mostly designed to be useful on GNU / Linux systems & servers.
Sorely neglected, but I'm trying to improve on it. I keep my doc's elsewhere and this publicly accessible and nicely formatted version seems to never get updated. For shame, I know.
