Linux Hints

Some general Linux hints not specific to server environments:

• Booting from USB Stick made easy - unetbootin
• Debian jessie builds of DKMSed upstream DRBD8 Kernel Module
• Debian-multimedia.org, Debian's medibuntu counterpart
• Ever-raising kernel load caused by DRBD 8.4.6 to 8.4.9-1
• Ever-rising load on Debian jessie + DRBD8 + LXC host pairs
• Finding newest or oldest file in directory tree
• Forced removal of a debian/ubuntu package
• Formatting a storage device for use with all Operating systems
• Getting around apt-get's too strict timestamp checks (and other caching problems)
• Getting around x64 flaws through chroot to a x86 installation
• Getting rid of Tracker on Linux Desktops
• Getting subdirectory sizes including "hidden" dot-directories
• Gnome3-Hints
• GoogleEarth Linux positioning bug solution
• How a sh script finds it's own place
• HowTo force screen backlight off when locking screen, general and Xfce4
• Icinga's Ido2DB restart problem
• KDE konsole 3.5 to 4.1 migration tips
• Linux Rescue System hints
• Linux Server hints
• Memory cleanup hints
• Nagios hints for Ubuntu/Debian (updated for nagios3)
• Optimizing scp and rsync/ssh to use high bandwidth connections
• Re-attachable shell for long-running tasks on remote host: tmux
• rsync hints for heterogenous environments, especially [V]FAT
• RSyslogD and chroots
• Scripting handwork rg. PostgreSQL bug CVE-2017-7547
• Squid cache purging by URL pattern
• SSD usage hints for Linux
• SSHFP records: DNS providing public ssh host keys
• SystemD failure highlights, and evation notes for Debian users
• tcpdump cheat sheet
• Test tool for investigating how java sees a system's environment
• Ubuntu/Debian language and timezone snippets
• Ubuntu hints
• Unusual resolutions with Xorg VESA driver Mini-HowTo
• Using ssh-agent & gpg-agent under Xfce4 utilizing gnome-keyring-daemon
• Workaround for VSFTPd chroot bug in Debian wheezy
• Working around thunderbird+enigmail's agent problems (very obsolete)