Mounting /proc with hidepid under Ubuntu
On most Linux systems, anyone can see everyone else’s processes, running commands, and so on. This can be achieved by simply issuing a ps ax or similar. The same applies …
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Ubuntu and Zimbra upgrade night session
Music: Great White, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Pink Floyd, Five Finger Deathpunch, Mötley Crüe, AC/DC, Rammstein Drink coffee, 3L Open 4-6 SSH sessions Do Ubuntu from 16 > 18 > 20 …
Ubuntu 20.04, Nginx, Redmine, Ruby, and Passenger-Phusion confusion
Redmine, Ruby, Passenger-Phusion, and Nginx makes for an extremely confusing situation with dependencies, installation “instructions”, and “mismatching” package versions. Redmine wants Ruby x, your Linux distribution has Ruby y, Passenger-Phusion …
Where did my Emacs color-theme go in Ubuntu 20.04.LTS?!
Having recently upgraded a small VPS from Ubuntu 18.04.LTS to Ubuntu 20.04.LTS, I ran into a little snag with Emacs and its color-theme (from the emacs-goodies-el package). After some digging, …
pdftk and php-pdftk on Ubuntu 18.04 without using snap
During a product launch I recently came across an “interesting” issue involving pdftk (and php-pdftk). Some of the developers had made assumptions (ever heard that one before?) about the operating …