Adding a user to subversion on Ubuntu

On Ununtu the password file is located at /etc/subversion/passwd To add a user to this file so subverison can reference it you can use the following command. htpasswd passwd newusername to create a new passwd file or overwrite a current one use the command htpasswd -c passwd newusername You can verify if a password is […]

  • by John
  • Comments Off on Adding a user to subversion on Ubuntu
  • Linux

Setting up SSL on Mysql Server

First we need to create the SSL Certificates. I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 and MySQL 5.6 which do not like the certificates to be created as anyting other than sha1 and the original RSA. Use the following commands to create the certificates in the correct format. # Generate a CA key and certificate with SHA1 digest […]

  • by John
  • Comments Off on Setting up SSL on Mysql Server
  • MySQL

7Zip 9.04 compression times

Using a 547Mb MySQL backup file I observed the following compression times for the respective compression settings. 1 > 30.18 Mb in 22s 2 > 30.18 Mb in 23s 3 > 29.12 Mb in 26s 4 > 29.12 Mb in 26s 5 > 22.03 Mb in 4m10s 6 > 22.03 Mb 7 > 19.51 Mb […]

Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address

If the Ubuntu Server installer has set your server to use DHCP, you will want to change it to a static IP address so that people can actually use it. Changing this setting without a GUI will require some text editing, but that’s classic linux, right? Let’s open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. I’m going to […]

Resuming a screen session on linux

Resuming a screen session If you are in a screen session on a linux computer, you can detach your session by typing Ctrl+a then d (detach). All your screens remain active and can later be resumed. You do this by typing screen -r. If there is only one session to be resumed, it will be resumed […]

  • by John
  • Comments Off on Resuming a screen session on linux
  • Linux