by admin | May 13, 2017 | Administration, Linux
[:en]Scenario You have some webservers or mailservers in your LAN which you want to work with the Let’s Encrypt SSL service. It provides the creation of free SSL certificates which are known by most browsers. The only drawback is, they are valid for only 90...
by admin | Apr 29, 2017 | Administration, Linux, MySQL
[:en] Upgrading Ubuntu from v14 to 16 LTS can lead to MySQL server issues (MySQL is upgraded from v5.6 to 5.7 during the upgrade process). E.g. if you use deprecated variables in /etc/mysql/my.cnf, MySQL server will fail to start after the upgrade is finished....
by admin | Mar 2, 2017 | Administration, Entertainment, Home Automation, Linux
[:en]Amazon’s Echo Dot is a great way to control your smart home via voice. If you are already using a visualization tool like OpenHAB for your smart home, it’s quite easy to get it running. Because every smart home installation is configured very...
by admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Administration, Linux
[:en]If you have, for whatever reason, destroyed your local /etc/apt/sources.list file which Ubuntu uses for packages updates, here is a useful site which can regenerate it: https://repogen.simplylinux.ch/ My recommendation is to enter country release (get it with...
by admin | Nov 16, 2016 | Administration, Linux
[:en]There are many applications for implementing central email archiving features for Exchange servers, which is obligatory in some countries. Unfortunately, most of them can become quite expensive with growing user counts. But there is one free and open source...
by admin | Nov 3, 2016 | Linux
[:en]If you use a Debian or Ubuntu client system to access a Windows Samba share (CIFS), this works quite easily, basically. //nas/myshare /mnt/myshare cifs auto,_netdev,username=xx,password=yy,domain=zz 0 0 But what happens if the server is not always available? I...
