After upgrading to Xubuntu 16.04 (a slightly better flavor of Ubuntu I think), I noticed that my Conky was looking odd. After some research, I found out that they have changed their parameters for some of the settings. Here is a modern config for Seamod which many have come to love over the years. Of…
This is a script I have developed to back up my hosting environment, and it actually consists of two. One to be started by cron, and then it starts the other. This allows for a modular setup between your environments (apache/nginx/etc). The scripts: backup.sh #!/bin/bash # Web Host Backup # Cron Version # Jim McKibben…
This is the SSH part where you connect to the remote system and send a local port back to you: ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 -p altsshport user@domain.com What can you do with this? You can run a service on your remote system like this: x11vnc -display :0 -localhost On newer Xubuntu systems, you might have to…
Below I will post some useful Linux Bash or *ash similar command code. Some of these will seem trivial to those that know and to the rest, will hopefully be future cheat sheet material. Commands: [ctrl]-r = search bash history for entered string [ctrl]-k = delete all characters to the end of the line [ctrl]-u…
Guess I’ll name this post last, the title alone of this topic is topical to say the least. With the advent of a whistle blower telling the world about an action that in a loose way we the people passed. We’ll get back to that part about how we the people gets misrepresented here and…
