By default root user account is disabled for login in Ubuntu. Steps mentioned below will allow you to enable the root user and login as root on the OS. Login to your account and open Terminal sudo passwd root Type
Configure unixODBC for Ubuntu 14.04 using FreeTDS
unixODBC is a great utility for communicating with Microsoft SQL Server. FreeTDS ( http://www.freetds.org ) is a driver supported by unixODBC for communicating with MSSQL. In Ubuntu 14.04 both can be installed using the synaptics package manager, to successfully configure
Compiling & Installing PHP for Ubuntu 14.04
Today we are going to learn about PHP Compilation for Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 and PHP 5.5 came pre-installed with the system but my problem was that I had to make use of ZendOptimizer which supports PHP upto 5.4
Repair Networking in Ubuntu 14.04
In Ubuntu sometimes we need to reset the networking for example after replacing the motherboard. Just erase the file /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state It will reset the network configuration and force ubuntu to reconfigure the network
Manual Network Configuration (Ubuntu)
Network Configuration Ubuntu ships with a number of graphical utilities to configure your network devices. This document is geared toward server administrators and will focus on managing your network on the command line. Ethernet Interfaces Ethernet interfaces are identified by
Uploading File in Ubuntu Recovery Mode
Enter into shell Boot into “Ubuntu (Recovery Mode)” From the recovery menu drop to a root shell. Enter the following command to remount your filesystem as read-write: mount -o remount,rw / Make the required changes to your operating system and
Tasksel – Single line command for complex installation
Task selection utility tasksel is a very nice tool in linux to help you perform task based installations Installation : sudo apt-get install tasksel Execute : # tasksel
Checking out list of Input Devices on X Server
Learnt a new command today to checkout the list of all the installed devices on the Ubuntu xinput list Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic
Touchpad issue in Acer Laptop (Ubuntu 13.04)
Just purchased a new Acer i5 laptop and found its Elantech touchpad not working properly inside Ubuntu. Worked like a charm in Windows though which eliminated any issue with the hardware. On digging more I found that the issue is
Bonding Ethernet Cards in Linux
Providing more than one ethernet card to the network for communication over the server helps in introducing hardware redundancy thereby providing additional layer for protection from downtime of the server. In this tutorial we shall be learning how to bond