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Change the boring motd when login to my server
Whenever I ssh to my server, I get this boring standard Ubuntu message…. and in addition, my prompt is not as colorful as I want it to be…. To get rid of the latter problem, I just changed a line in my ~/.bashrc file: force_color_prompt=yes;; (I hade to uncomment it) To fix the first problem, [...]
Server-conky on Desktop
After having experimented with VNC and no luck on this (I still do not have X on the server – at least, no running desktop), I finally managed to at least have a conky on the server that displays on my client. Here’s how I did it: First, I had to emerge conky on the [...]
Portage updates and configuring system tools
Goal for today is two things: First, adjust portage to our needs (i. e. tweak some of make.conf); and then, get syslog-ng and vixie cron up and running. For make.conf, main thing is to add ELOG settings. It’s basically two lines. So, here is now the full /etc/make.conf, including the already promised USE flags: CHOST=”i686-pc-linux-gnu” [...]
Update the server and install important tools
The server can now boot. The next step is a simple update of everything – but before that, we create /etc/portage/package.use with this line: sys-libs/glibc userlocales After that, the next step is to install vi and to adapt the EDITOR variable in rc.conf. Then, using visudo, make sure that the normal user can sudo. Then, [...]
