For those that are annoy by the security message whenever you browse into a self-signed certificate site, the only way to do this is to import the certificate into your computer so that next time when you browse to the same site it won’t prompt you with the security question. Browser Error Certificate Error: There [...]
To change a file’s owner or a group, you will need to use the ‘chown‘ command. Here are some examples: To change a single file owner, type in ‘chown newowner yourfile‘ To change a single file and group name, type in ‘chown newowner:newgroup yourfile‘ To change a directory, type in ‘chown -R newowner yourdirectory‘ * [...]
Today, I was messing around with the installation of phpMyAdmin. I used the normal ‘apt-get’ command for the installation. To my surprise, it didn’t work. The installation installed fine, but when I opened up my browser and try to access the phpMyAdmin page, it gave me a ‘page not found’ error. I searched online and [...]
Well today, I was trying to do a simple test with Ubuntu. .. that is trying to print the output of the ‘ps -aux‘ command. It wasn’t that bad. The way to do this is to pipe it into the ‘LPR’ that is your printer. e.g. ps -aux | lpr This will send the output [...]
1. Edit the ‘.profile’ file inside your home directory (e.g. /home/yourname ). You can use vi or pico to edit the file. My personal favorite is pico. Easiler to navigate. e.g. pico /home/yourname/.profile 2. Add your alias commands to the end of the file e.g. alias dir=”ls -al | more” 3. Save the file 4. [...]
So, you want to be able to remotely connect into your ubuntu server? you can. One way to do this is to enable the SSH service on the server. The most common ssh out there is OpenSSH. So the following instruction is for enabling the OpenSSH in Ubuntu. 1. Login to your server 2. Type [...]
First, you would need to click on the ‘Install VMWare Tools’ in VMware. Now, go to the Ubuntu machine and extra the VMwareTools-*.tar.gz file to a temp directory. Open up the terminal windows in Ubuntu (Application->Accessories->Terminal) and change to the directory where you extracted the vmware tools files. Type in the following command: sudo ./vmware-install.pl [...]
Here’s a nice find I found on the web which have list out most of the useful Solaris commands. Click link to download pdf
To find a file in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux, you can use the ‘Find‘ command. Exampel: find / -name apache.* -print This will search the whole system for any filename with apache and print the output to the screen. Other arguments for the Find command: -user username <– this will search files owned by an [...]
Okay, today I ran into this problem with a client’s Blackberry device. Whenever he sync his Blackberry to Desktop Manager he will see the same confirm calendar edit items. I spent two hours trying to figure out why this is happening and it turns out that on those calendar items, one of the attendee’s email [...]
