Recently I updated my Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 to Ubuntu 13.04 when I noticed that the message of the day (MOTD) displaying in my console was telling me that an update was available and to Run ‘do-release-upgrade’ It seems the cause of this was /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-motd which is called by /etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade which checks for the existence of the release-upgrade-motd file. Removing this with rm /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available […]
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If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? – John Wooden I’m back again with a little tip, simple and quick to do to keep your Ubuntu Server’s time in sync, best of all there is no need to install an NTP client as Ubuntu comes […]
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.” – Kurt Cobain Sitting here playing around with some cli I wanted to know how much memory my VGA card was using so to find out I did the […]
I have been using Ubuntu Server to host many of my projects here at home; everything from my media servers, testing systems and web/blog site. I have install the VMware tools in the past and ran into issues or just found them to break. At best I just need the minimal the tools offer, and this […]
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Enable root in Ubunut
Annoyed with using sudo, and su -i to elevate yourself to root to do things. I was so I just typed sudo passwd and set a new password and now I can log-on as root. Cool Huh?
I have been wanting to do this for the longest time. And for the first time I got it working with the simplest of ways. This is what I did, and what you can do. Place your CD or USB into computer and start booting it. Press F6 and then put “toram” (no quotes) into the […]