Linux General – Vassox

Disabling Ubuntu Suspend / Power Management Features from the Command Line

October 20, 2019

In some configurations, Ubuntu power conservation options are enabled by default. For server machines this is something that can make the machine unavailable and…

Upgrading to Ubuntu 19.10

October 18, 2019

Another version of Ubuntu is here, at the time of writing it’s 19.10 “Disco Dingo” but these steps apply to former and (near) future…

iSCSI Mounting Targets from a Linux Client

October 6, 2019

I recently added a QNAP TS-221 to my network for additional storage and for resiliency using RAID 1. This is an older, cheaper, two…

Disabling DNSMASQ via Network Manager on Ubuntu 16.04+

October 2, 2019

If you are unable to resolve local dns names from an Ubuntu machine hosting a bind DNS server – it is likely that dnsmasq…

Using Rsync to Mirror Directories to a Remote Host

September 29, 2019

Like robocopy, rsync will not overwrite existing files unless otherwise instructed – making it suitable for mirroring changed files only. From an bash console…