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 PC clock.
[root@server /root]# date 092011082001 Thu Sep 20 11:08:00 CDT 2001 [root@server /root]# hwclock --utc --systohc [root@server /root]#
So you’ve been using linux for awhile now, and it’s time to install another hard drive for some more storage? Maybe it’s finally time to wipe out a Window’s or NTFS partition.
In any event, I wrote this post so you would have a little help through this step. I’m going to assume that you already know how to install a hard drive. I’m also going to assume that you knew how to make it a master or slave, you’ve checked to make sure that it shows up in bios, and that it was intalled properly. It also assumes you’ve already formatted your drive in linux ext3 format, using a tool like gParted, or something similar. Read more →
/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] Read more →
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).
