My Ubuntu laptop's screen brightness resets everytime after reboot. I have found a way to make the brightness adjustment 'stay permantly': 1) Adjust the brightness to the level that I like, then run 'cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness '. The command will return the brightness level in a integer value. Mine is 12. 2) Add the line 'echo 12 … Continue reading Screen brightness reset in Ubuntu
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Fortinet SSL VPN Client in Ubuntu
It is intereting that the Fortinet SSL VPN client works fine in my Windows machine, but does not work in my Ubuntu laptop. I have found the reason is that a few routes are missed in the routing table. To make it work, I wrote a script to manually add those routes after VPN is … Continue reading Fortinet SSL VPN Client in Ubuntu
Auto Configure Proxy in Ubuntu
It is painful to turn the proxy on and off in my Ubuntu laptop between office and home. As a lazy guy, I would like to make it automatic. Easy life now 🙂 1) Create 3 scripts named proxy_on, proxy_off and check_proxy under /usr/local/bin. #!/bin/bash #proxy_on gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host 'proxy.company.local' gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port … Continue reading Auto Configure Proxy in Ubuntu
Check ESX Plugin for Nagios
Check ESX is a plugin developed by op5 to primarily be used with op5 Monitor, but can also be used in Nagios installations, to monitor VMware ESX and vSphere servers. You can monitor either a single ESX(i)/vSphere server or a VMware VirtualCenter/vCenter Server and individual virtual machines. If you have a VMware cluster you should … Continue reading Check ESX Plugin for Nagios
Install WordPress on CentOS 6.3
Steps of installing WordPress on CentOS 6.3 minimal installation. 1) Install prerequisite packages. [root@CentOS ~]# yum -y install php php-mysql mysql* wget unzip 2) Download the latest version of WordPress. [root@CentOS ~]# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip [root@CentOS ~]# unzip latest.zip [root@CentOS ~]# mv wordpress/ /var/www/html/ 3) Configure mysql database server. [root@CentOS ~]# service mysqld start [root@CentOS ~]# … Continue reading Install WordPress on CentOS 6.3
