Praveen AS
Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023
Enabling VIM copy and paste on Debian 12 (Book Worm)
how to enable mouse copy on debian 12 bookworm in all modes.
Praveen AS
Monday, Mar 20, 2023
Oracle Linux 8 Extending Root Partition.
I faced hard time today to increase the size of Root partition in oracle linux 8 LVM on VMware. Just thought of extending it for future reference.
Praveen AS
Saturday, Sep 9, 2017
Debian Stretch 9 issue with vim: copy and paste
In Debian Stetch 9 there is a new behaviour in vim, the copy and paste with the mouse is unusual
Praveen AS
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Autostart Seafile client on login in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I was having some experiments to setup a file sync system of my own in order to replace Dropbox.
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2015
Problem with script not running automatically in /etc/network/if-up.d/
I was testing a new instance of Debian Jessie with a new cloud provider scaleway and was struggling to find the issue why one of the bash script is not running on the startup
Praveen AS
Monday, Feb 23, 2015
Discourse Multisite Install
I faced a hard time configuring multi sites on Discourse. Standalone install was fine and straight forward. Here are some important points from my trials.
Praveen AS
Sunday, Jan 11, 2015
Default site for name based virtual host on NGINX
I was looking for option to load a particular site for a domain name pointed to a IP on NGINX. Following option did the trick.
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014
SElinux permission issue for Laravel 5 on NGINX with PHP-FPM on Fedora 21
Finally looking at the NGINX log , i found there is some permission issues and SElinux is the culprit.
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014
Fedora 21 – Login Screen Loop
I was testing Fedora 21 alpha and in process of setting the development environment. But today morning I ended up in a login screen loop which drove me crazy!
Praveen AS
Thursday, Aug 7, 2014
Ubuntu – Customise login screen to avoid unwanted Users
I was searching for an option to hide unwanted system and web users from login screen of Ubuntu and came across this one.
Praveen AS
Saturday, Nov 2, 2013
Enabling Flash on Firefox – Ubuntu
In case the automatic installation of Firefox plugin fails, you can use the following Manual steps:
Praveen AS
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Debian 7
I did a fresh install of Debian 7 ( Wheezy) on the box running this blog.. seems nice little more performance and bit less memory usage.
Praveen AS
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Amazon s3 backup using s3cmd 1.1.0 beta2 on Ubuntu
Advantage of using s3cmd 1.1.0 beta2 is that it supports multi part upload which is must to upload files larger than 5 GB.
Praveen AS
Saturday, Feb 2, 2013
Fedora18 on Virtual Box
I tried to install Fedora 18 64 bit on my Virtual Box running on 64 bit windows 8 every time it failed with errors..
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
Issue with ssh-copy-id command to server runnning on different SSH port
It took me some time to trace out the issue.. may be it will help someone..
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
scp from a remote server running on non default ssh port
I was trying scp command to copy a file from another server running on a port other than default one..
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Apr 27, 2011
Ubuntu – Implementation of the USB 2.0 controller not found! after upgrading to virtual box 4.0.6
I got a strange error message when I tried starting Ubuntu after upgrading to latest virtual box 4.0.6..
Praveen AS
Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011
Debain – current kerberos password?
Today I came across a strange issue on my server running Debian Squeeze, when I added a new user and tried to change the password for this user using
Praveen AS
Monday, Mar 21, 2011
How to change Time Zone in Debian / Ubuntu ?
To change time zone in Debian / Ubuntu Linux is very easy.. than going for primitive methods.. just use the following command and reboot your machine.
Praveen AS
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011
Switched to Debian
I have rebuild my server using debain squeeze, it is a wonderful & stable distribution.
Praveen AS
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011
Securing my Debian Box
Here are few steps which I have followed to secure my Linux boxes
Praveen AS
Monday, Oct 26, 2009
Fedora 11 Update
updated my fedora installation to fedora 11. But for some reasons, wireless is not working..need to check
