OCS inventory agent in Ubuntu
Once you have installed the OCS Inventory server, you will need to install the agent portion of the solution on individual workstations. The way to do it in Ubuntu (or Debian or Mint) $ sudo apt-get install ocsinventory-agent You will be asked to choose whether you would like to install the ocsinventory-agent as either ‘local’ [...]
Putting a software inventory management system in place
Test installing the OCS NG inventory management system right now. The bullet points on the home page of OCS NG website is quite catchy. Do you know all the devices connected to your IT network? – [Yes, but the list needed to kept up to date manually, using the fixed assets inventory report] Do you [...]
Forgot the Linux root password
A bit of disclaimer—use the information in this guide at your own risk, the information in this guide should only be used to recover passwords from machines to which you have legitimate access. your screen might look something like this picture, if you have GRUB What you need to do is to boot in single [...]
How to tell which Ubuntu version you have
If you’re revisiting some old servers you’ve played around before, or maybe installed and forgot about it, you may not remember the exact distribution name. Sure you can uname -a then get the kernel version from there then google it up which distro has that kernel version; or just use $ lsb_release -a lsb_release is [...]
What to do with your netbook
Now that the novelty is over and you’re not quite sure if the 7″ eee is still useful for daily use, or that 10″ MSI Wind is really up to the task, what do you do with them? You can sell them or let them gather dust in attic or you can use them for [...]
Simple Ubuntu server setup
An Ubuntu server installation can vary widely depending on what you want to accomplish. Our goal is a base installation just enough for the server to boot a multi user environment and allow for remote login via ssh. On versions and hardware requirements Ubuntu 9.04 is the current version, at the time of this writing. [...]
Older Posts »