Rebuilding the font cache

Posted by on September 21, 2007 1 comment | This post has 887 views.

If you install a new font in linux, you need to rebuild the fonts cache:
sudo fc-cache -f -v

How-To create a MySQL database and set privileges to a user

Posted by on September 19, 2007 No comments | This post has 664 views.

MySQL is a widely spread SQL database management system mainly used on LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) projects.
In order to be able to use a database, one needs to create: a new database, give access permission to the database server to a […] Continue Reading…

HOWTO: Create a FTP server with user access (proftpd)

Posted by on September 19, 2007 1 comment | This post has 6,256 views.

A. The GUI way (for beginners only)

For those who are new to linux and don’t want to use a FTP server without GUI, or just for those who don’t use often their FTP server and wish to set it
quickly […] Continue Reading…

Prevent X.Org from Starting in Ubuntu

Posted by on September 19, 2007 No comments | This post has 657 views.

Prevent X.Org from Starting in Ubuntu

If you’ve got an Ubuntu machine that you initially installed with Ubuntu Desktop, but would like to run as a server, you can just disable the graphical
environment from starting up in order to save […] Continue Reading…

Enable cupsys Web Admin Interface

Posted by on July 2, 2007 No comments | This post has 723 views.

Enabling cupsys Web Admin Interface

If you are trying to get your printing system going, and search for tips and docs on the web, you will find most of the documentation referring to http://localhost:631 as your cupsys administration interface. However, […] Continue Reading…

Adding a startup script to be run at bootup

Posted by on June 25, 2007 No comments | This post has 739 views.

So you have a script of your own that you want to run at bootup, each time
you boot up. This will tell you how to do that.
Write a script. put it in the /etc/init.d/ directory.
Lets say you called it […] Continue Reading…