Setting the Date and Time in Linux
Run the date command to make sure you have the correct time:
[root@server /root]# date
Thu Sep 20 11:00:06 CDT 2001
[root@server /root]#
If your timezone is correct but the date and/or time needs updating, the following commands will update the date and time. The second command is needed in order to push the date and time into the [...]
Howto: Backup and restore your system!
Hi, and welcome to the successful backing-up and restoring of a Linux system!
Most of you have probably used Windows before you started using Ubuntu. During that time you might have needed to backup and restore your system. For Windows you would need proprietary software for which you would have to reboot your machine and boot [...]
PAM unable to dlopen
/var/log/auth.log is getting littered
On my server my /var/log/auth.log was filled with lines like this
PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so)
PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Putty and mc – annoying â character
Look in PuTTY options, you need to change the character encoding.
Ubuntu uses UTF-8 and PuTTY’s default is ISO-99xx_something (or Latin-1).
