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  1. Ubuntu Live Patch Linode Quick Tip

    Canonical, the commerical arm behind Ubuntu have made the Livepatch Service a few years ago. This allows you to live patch your kernal without rebooting. It works on Linode however it needs some additional configuration. The first thing to do is to change your kernal to Grub2 and reboot your…
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  2. Quick tip - Apticron - Handy hints and tips

    Apticron is a great tool, it will automatically e-mail you an alert if you have outstanding packages that need upgrading on a *nix systems. Some useful tips to customise it are shown below. These variables can be set in /etc/apticron/apticron.conf - The file is well commented. Here…
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  3. ProFTPD - Allow login without shell / SSH Access

    If you use ProFTPD in either traditional FTP mode or in the fairly new SFTP mode (not to be confused with FTPS) then you read a lot that its not possible to grant a user access without giving them Shell access through SSH. This is actually not true and is…
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  4. Adding a swap partition to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

    After trying to upgrade Ghost to the latest version I found NPM (the package manager for node) kept crashing and simply said killed. After much head scratching and a lot of googleing on node in general I narrowed the issue down to not having a swap partition. I have to…
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