Now that I have setup my first pre-production FreePBX Box, whats next? FreePBX is an awesome community driven Business Phone System. With its easy to use GUI (graphical user interface) that controls Asterisk (the telephony engine software) this is one of most popular open source telephony engine software out today. To get started on your own system, […]
I know there is one person out there that may not know this, so I will share. You you ask, how does one log into a remote Linux (UNIX) system using SSH. Well the answer is simple. If you are on a Linux (UNIX) system, open your terminal and use the following command: ssh userid@server-ip (1.2.3.4) […]
So you are now the new Linux user and during the install you set a password, but now you have a need to change it. If you run a headless sever (no desktop) you may be interested in this little bit of info. You can use the passwd command to change your password, and, […]
For a friend of a friend… Add the Following to the php.ini File You may increase the file size limits by modifying the upload size. Use our friend find and edit the following (nano): ./etc/php5/cli/php.ini ./etc/php5/apache2/php.ini Then look for the following (in nano “W” is our friend) memory_limit = 128M upload_max_filesize = 2M post_max_size = […]
To remove all but the first of a number of duplicate files in a subfolder on Linux, use: yes 1|fdupes -rd <folder> Fdupes Examples 1) fdupes -r ./stuff > dupes.txt Then, deleting the duplicates was as easy as checking dupes.txt and deleting the offending directories. fdupes also can prompt you to delete the duplicates […]
Wondering how much disk i/o is taking place on my linux server (Ubuntu). I decided it was time to install some tools to help me out. Here is what i am using: iostat iostat makes a snapshot of each available physical volume, and shows the current reads and writes of the volumes. dstat dstat is […]