If you have a web server it is not necessary to have a FTP server but have users SFTP. The problem next arises is to restrict users to their respective www directories and below are the steps to restrict users. #Create a group for SFTP $groupadd sftpwww #Create a user $useradd john9 #Add user to … [Read more…]
If you need to quickly generate a quick monthly calendar from the command line, just type in cal [number of the month] [year] Man Page for “CAL” DESCRIPTION cal displays a simple calendar. If no arguments are specified, the current month is displayed. OPTIONS -1, –one Display single month output. (This is … [Read more…]
Set Up / Install sudo apt-get install nginx Create a New Directory under /var/www/html sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/MyDomain.com/ Create a New INDEX.html under /var/www/html sudo vi /var/www/html/MyDomain.com/index.html Create the default INDEX.html page <html> <head> <title>www.MyDomain.com</title> </head> <body> <h1>This is your first virtual host</h1> </body> </html> Create the New Virtual Host File sudo cp … [Read more…]
You would have typed in [root@server ~ ]# history and got a list of commands typed in at the command prompt. Here is a way to get the time, date of history command. $ HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%d/%m/%y %T “ OR $ echo ‘export HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%d/%m/%y %T “‘ >> ~/.bash_profile Where, %d – Day %m – Month … [Read more…]
Switched on my computer and it gave me an CMOS battery error. Though windows run on CMOS error but linux is a little different. In Linux the system crashes. I have tried fsck, it says everything is okay but almost any other commands ends up in error messages such as 1. Locked 2. **ERROR**: This … [Read more…]
Lately I upgraded Ubuntu from 10.10 to 11.04. It was great with a nice login background. After logging in, I found the graphics was an issue. Either the driver or the laptop was not supportive. The Laptop config is a 64 BIT, 4 GB RAM, ATI 9488 card. Finally logged in with Ubuntu Classic, which … [Read more…]
