Tag Archive | "Debian"
Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian
I Recently found the 'system sound' tab in gnome-sound-property grayed out my work around to this was to install the freedesktop sound theme. Firstly remove gnome-audio Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds Install some needed packages Grab the source for freedesktop sound theme from git.debian.org Unpack and apply some small [...]
Continue reading...Howto Add time And Date To Your Bash History
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
This comes in very handy if your trying to track back when you had last run something. To enable it just simply add export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S " to your .bashrc file Then reload your .bashrc Now when you run history you should get a output similar to the one below Some other bash history [...]
Continue reading...Setting up a FTP Server on debian
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Install vsftpd Edit the file /etc/vsftpd.conf and make the following changes: Change Yes to No in the following line Uncomment the following lines by removing the # Finally restart the vsftpd You and any of your users should now be able to FTP the server
Continue reading...Disabling IPV6 on Debian
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
If you don't use ivp6 for anything and your ISP doesn't support it theres not much of a need to have it enabled. To disable it we need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases By default you will have the following line Replace it with the following You can now remove all the ipv6 stuff from /etc/hosts and [...]
Continue reading...Creating aliases in bash
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Are you tired off typing out full commands? if so aliases can save you time. They allow you to shorten long commands down into one word. To add a alias edit ~/.bashrc Then come to the bottom of that file and add your aliases like this: Then Reload your .bashrc file and your aliases should [...]
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Friday, September 25, 2009
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