Tag Archives: Linux

Free X server for Windows

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Sigurd

I recently found XMing, a free X server for Windows, providing a useful alternative to VNC for accessing remote Ubuntu desktops. Instructions here.

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Preserving UTF-8 filenames from Windows to Linux

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Sigurd

On occasion I access (Ubuntu) Linux servers from Windows using Putty and WinSCP. In order to preserve UTF-8 filenames, some snakeoil is required.

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Setting up SCP/SFTP chroot access to Ubuntu/x64 server

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Sigurd

scponly provides a mechanism to enable secure file-access to a server, with marked improvement over FTP. scponly can be setup in a) normal mode, whereby the user can see the whole of the file-system of the server, or b) in … Continue reading →

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Dell shipping PCs with Linux

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Sigurd

I spotted on Ubuntu‘s news-section that Dell finally have commenced shipping products (1 desktop, 1 notebook) with Ubuntu. Available in UK, Germany and France. Excellent!

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Feisty (2.6.20-16-generic kernel) boot failure

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Sigurd

In applying the latest Feisty Fawn updates to one of my laptops I ran into a problem with the bootup hanging shortly after starting. The usual snakeoil of ‘acpi=off pci=noacpi’ appended to the boot command line failed to make any … Continue reading →

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Cluster monitoring and control

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Sigurd

I recently setup a cluster of Linux compute servers, and found myself looking for instrumentation to monitor & control the servers. The following open-source packages give excellent insight and access to the state of the cluster: Ganglia – server stats, … Continue reading →

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Useful Linux sysadm articles

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Sigurd

Linux-mag has a very useful set of ‘guru’ articles for newly-hatched sysadm’s.

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Linux file-systems

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Sigurd

I am happiest with the overall compromises and performance of XFS for my data, used in combination with ext3 on the /boot and root partitions. The XFS partitions hold either /var or /home (or both), depending on what purpose the … Continue reading →

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Email virtual domain hosting using Postfix, MySQL and PHP

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Sigurd

My present SMTP/IMAP setup uses a combination of flat-file configuration with MySQL user parameters. I recently found a web-based domain administration tool; Postfix.Admin. With this tool, you get 3 levels of management abstraction: server, domain and user. Reference: Virtual Users … Continue reading →

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Bluetooth on an OpenWrt router

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Sigurd

I run OpenWrt on my Asus WL-500gx router, which is my principal defense against the Internet wilderness. In addition to the main OpenWRT site, MacSat’s site contains useful information on configuration.

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