Category Archives: Ubuntu
Tuning Ubuntu mdadm RAID5/6
If you are using mdadm RAID 5 or 6 with Ubuntu, you might notice that the performance is not all uber all the time. Reason for this is that the default tuning settings for Ubuntu is set to rather motdest … Continue reading
Ubuntu: apt-get update gives 404 Not Found error
If you recieve “404 Not found” during a apt-get update / apt-get upgrade, the problem can be one of two things: 1) Your Ubuntu installation is no longer supported. You can check this by comparing the output of the command: … Continue reading
pwrstat: Daemon service is not found.
When trying to use the pwrstat program you may get the error message “Daemon service is not found”. Here is a simple check list to follow in order to fix it: 1) Make sure that pwrstatd is running 2) Open … Continue reading
sh: phpize: not found
When using pecl, or something else that require phpize, you may get a warning saying that phpize is not found, even when you have PHP installed on your server. In order to use phpize you need to install the PHP … Continue reading
Howto: Increase disk space in a mdadm raid
I currently have a Ubuntu Linux server running two mdadm RAID`s. One of the RAID sets is set up using 6 x 500 GB SATA drives. Now i have purchased 6 x 1500 GB SATA drives that will replace the … Continue reading
Locate duplicate files under Ubuntu (And some ranting)
Edit: Post updated due to obvious user error Looking for a program to find dublicate files? Then fdupe saves the day! root@bais:/home/samba/raid0# apt-cache search fdupe fdupes – identifies duplicate files within given directories By the way, how come the apt … Continue reading
Getting Groupwise to work on Ubuntu 64bit (9.04)
Just a quick post on what i did to get Groupwise up and running on Ubuntu 64bit: 1) Installed a 32bit virtual Ubuntu machine, and converted the Groupwise installer to a .deb package with “alien -c filename”. 2) Moved the … Continue reading