I couldn’t have much free time this year, but I quickly stopped by the Solution Linux show of Paris, La Defense. It was the first time for me.
Category Archives: System
Hostname issue with Postfix Webmin module
I usually avoid using Webmin, but I had to set it up for a company I worked for.
The guys there were not familiar with Linux and they needed an interface to keep configuring the Postfix server I settled (with Spamassassin as an antispam and Amavis as content filtering).
I had to face a problem while I was trying to get the Postfix Webmin module working.
OpenVPN and DNS on a linux client
I got a weired issue with Linux clients while it worked fine with Windows machines. For some reason, the /etc/resolv.conf did not get updated. I found out a workaround thanks to this page. Of course, your server configuration file must contain (if 192.168.1.1 is your DNS server):
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"
Blocking the version of a package
You want to apt-get update / upgrade your system but you don’t want the package xxx to be updated ?
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Slow performance in VMWARE using Ubuntu ?
WMWare does not really work out of the box on Ubuntu.
There is an issue concerning the ACPI, which makes the guest machine so slow that it is barely usable.
Getting colors in the terminal
I took several pieces of bash configuration from the net and use them as follow to be more productive with my terminal. A must have setting !