How can we help you? A friend of mine called this morning to say that, despite the spamassassin I had installed, he had received almost 2000 spam messages and whether I could help. Not certain how one could receive suddenly so much spam I was somewhat bewildered and took an eager look. The spam …
Read more →Tech
Posts tagged with
Change ownership among users
When an employee leaves you may want to pass on the ownership of his/her files to someone else. To do that simply give the following command: chown -cR --from:olduser newuser:newgroup *
Read more →Samba logging
A staff member came to me to state that his Yahoo account had been hacked from our company account, or so he claimed. This made me look at the samba logs and realise that user logging was not actually implemented while it is relatively easy to do so. This is used on Ubuntu 11.04 but the same should …
Read more →Adding a service permanently
systemctl enable name-of-the-service To use Samba as an example systemctl enable smb.service systemctl enable nmb.service systemctl start smb.service systemctl start nmb.service All that the first command does is create a symlink ln -s ‘/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service’ …
Read more →Tape Backup
To make a tape backup, give the following two commands on the terminal of the Felicity Linux server. The first one rewinds the tape to the beginning and the second one makes the actual backup. Just cut and paste the following two lines, press enter, and leave it for the machine to do the backup. mt …
Read more →