I was looking at creating a simple alias to enable to send a mail out to everybody. My first thought was to set an alias in /etc/aliases but that didn’t work as the email is was not recognized by postfix. I use ISPconfig, the latest version of which is supposed to support mailman. Hence I thought to …
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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 *
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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’ …
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