Tag Archive for 'Linux'
If you do man nano, you’ll see there’s a /etc/nanorc config file. Edit this to comment out #set historylog.
This will prevent sudo nano commands from creating the root users .nano_history in your home directory, which nano can’t read when called by your user account. After commenting it out, then delete it with sudo rm .nano_history.
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When I browsed my shared folders on the Lacie Ethernet Disk I noticed that I didn’t have any write access in Ubuntu, even though I explicitly gave read/write access to the NAS users. As I was never asked for a password I was quickly able to conclude that I had to provide username and password (more)
In the last few months I haven’t found much time to listen to music, but I decided this needs to change and I should finally dust off my old music library. About two years ago I signed up for last.fm, the social music network that makes it easy to discover new music and connect with (more)
Ubuntu seemed to work perfectly on the Gateway T-6345u laptop model…until I plugged my headphones in and found that no sound was coming out of them. I tried a second pair and could make sure there was nothing wrong with the headphones. When I plugged them in while something was playing, I noticed that there (more)
I‘ve been experimenting with SSH the secure shell lately and wanted to write a little about it. When I needed to access a remote computer I used to use SSH as a simple replacement for telnet providing an encrypted channel and supporting public-key based authentication instead of plain clear-text passwords. For example:
ssh gerrit@example.com
ssh example.com -l (more)
If your router doesn’t have a build-in feature to update dynamic DNS records you will have to use a software client that runs on one of your computers. The Linux tool ddclient already comes packaged in the Ubuntu repository and very easy to install. See also DynDNS’ knowledge base artcicle.
apt-get install ddclient
nano /etc/ddclient.conf
/etc/ddclient.conf:
daemon=600 (more)
