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Setup SSH for Accessing Remote Server Without Password

On the Remote Server Logged in As User or as root but in users home sudo mkdir ~/.ssh sudo chmod 700 ~/.ssh && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/* On you local (desktop) assuming you have already created your GPG Keys cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@example.com 'cat – >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Revert Ubuntu Desktop Unity to Gnome

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnome-shell reboot choose Gnome at login sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool Use your browser to access Gnome Extensions Read more about Gnome3 on Ubuntu 12.04 here. Very well written and thorough. Gnome3 Youtube Channel

Install Virtualbox on Debian 7

I have had some problems getting backups (of VMs) to run on new Debian Desktop installations. Best practice seems to be as follows: sudo apt-get install dkms Use the latest from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add – sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3

Debian 7 Restart Network

Im using Debian Wheezy (7) desktop with DHCP. I had problems switching from wired to wireless and back, etc. I found that following other instructions did not work. The network will go down no problem;

How To Solve Swappiness (Apache) Problem

Swappiness is a Linux kernel parameter that controls the relative weight given to swapping out runtime memory, as opposed to dropping pages from the system page cache. Swappiness can be set to values between 0 and 100 inclusive. A low value causes the kernel to avoid swapping, a higher value causes the kernel to try to use swap space. The…

Start Reverse Tunnel on boot using autossh for Debian 7

As usual, most of the how-to guides out there are too brief (I’m guilty) or apply to other distros: This works on Linux Debian 7 all-around, and this is a complete how to. It works. You just have to follow a very long thread. No A.D.D. here! We will create a Persistent Reverse SSH Tunnel between 2 machines using autossh….

Drupal Install Modules and Themes using SSH

If you don’t want to install Drush and don’t want to use FTP (I like a secure server) Install Drupal modules via SSH on Ubuntu Server (12.04 LTS) Assumptions: You have/are… Unix command line proficient Rsync capable Apache2/Ubuntu directories (other flavors of Linux may vary) Download module or theme to desktop Unzip file to an empty directory Upload module or…

Fix Magento Missing Images In Checkout Cart

When moving a magento instance to a new server, it seems the product cache exhibits some very strange behavior making a fix to the new server almost impossible after the fact. That means the problem is an imprecise backup and transfer process. The problem seems to be a result of a mismatch between the database and some files (cache).

Joomla Install Extensions Manually Using Rsync/SSH

I’m very surprised how few solutions (How To Guides) there are out there for this issue. If you don’t use FTP to upload to your server (for security reasons), here’s how to install extension in Joomla using SSH(Rsync). That tells me the Joomla community is largely OK with FTP and getting hacked because of it. (there are certainly no shortage…