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Virtualbox

I did try to in vain install vmware so I changed to virtualbox. There I got the following error: “Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your windows install disk and restart the computer. 2. Choose your language …

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Cron working but not executing?

I was struggling to understand why cron, which was running ok, was not executing my file in /etc/cron.hourly/hourly.backup while if I would run this script by hand it was working file! The reason is that cron doesn’t like a dot in a filename (at least in Ubuntu)

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Logging

It is handy to have cron log to /var/log/cron.log. You can change this setting in sudo vim /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf You will need to restart the services sudo service rsyslog restart sudo service cron restart

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ntsysv in Ubuntu

I always thought this was such a handy utility. In Ubuntu there is something similar to check if services are set to start at boot up. apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

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