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Grep whole directory recursively by file extension only

2015-08-27
by Gábor Hargitai
1 min read

Using grep to scan thru a whole directory recursively is done with: grep -R 'string' dir/ In addition, you can also tell grep to only scan files that have a certain extension (or pattern, for that matter): grep -R 'string'...

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  • Debian
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu

Crontab / User cron file location in Ubuntu

2015-08-27
by Gábor Hargitai
1 min read

Usually you shouldn’t edit these by hand, but given the off-chance you’d want to, cd yourself all the way to: /var/spool/cron/crontabs If per chance you’d play it by the book, editing would be done by issuing...

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Find and Block Abusive IP Addresses on Ubuntu Server

2015-05-31
by Gábor Hargitai
2 min read

The Issue Your server has an extremely high workload in comparison to the usual CPU load, it generally feels less- or even unresponsive and if you have any intrusion detection configured, then it is sending alerts of failed login...

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  • Linux
  • Ubuntu

Transmission on Ubuntu Server 14.04 with Flexget – Python error fix included!

2015-01-26
by Gábor Hargitai
1 min read

First, let’s install Transmission and set up some directories – issue these commands (remember to substitute user with your desired username that runs transmission) sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo...

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  • Debian
  • Ubuntu

Ubuntu Command Line – How To Connect To Wi-Fi WPA/WPA2

2014-12-30
by Gábor Hargitai
2 min read

  First and foremost, you will need to have wpa-supplicant installed, otherwise it won’t work. Ubuntu does installs this be default, but to be on the safe side you can install the required package with this...

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  • Debian
  • Ubuntu

Problem with libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2013-04-15
by Gábor Hargitai
1 min read

Ever encountered the following unpleasant error message under Debian or Ubuntu?   error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory   Fret not, as...

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  • Ubuntu

VNC from the Login Screen: accessing the actual Ubuntu X Display shown on the monitor

2013-02-13
by Gábor Hargitai
1 min read

Issue the following command with elevated rights or as root: apt-get install x11vnc   Create the file /etc/init/x11vnc.conf with your favourite text editor and write this into it: start on login-session-start script x11vnc...

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  • Linux
  • Ubuntu

ProFTPd error in Ubuntu 12.04 – solution!

2013-02-13
by Gábor Hargitai
1 min read

By default, the installed package refused to start, because of missing files. So I had to do the following to resolve the missing links:   First, create a symbolic link to the already existing file:  ln -s...

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Android SDK Error under Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” 64-bit – AVD Emulator Failed to load libGL.so

2012-07-23
by Gábor Hargitai
2 min read
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Doing some Android bloodshedding with the good ol’ Tux gives an undescribable feel in elaborating your carefully crafted lines of code…so does an error message which pops it’s head up if you’ve recently...

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  • Debian
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  • Ubuntu

Remove unused kernel header files in Ubuntu

2012-07-23
by Gábor Hargitai
1 min read

Straightforward, constant updating is the key to have a fresh and bleeding edge Ubuntu system. However, for those of you who are strapped for disk space – for instance if you are hosting multiple operating systems on one...

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