
When you run any command as root, using sudo, the password is remembered for 15 minutes by default. If you want to change the time that the password is cached, open the terminal (as root) and run: [precode]nano /etc/sudoers [/precode] Search…
From all the different VPS providers I have tried I’ve most often only used the default mirrors that are installed when the VPS is provisioned which sometimes is not the closest one. You can and update this to the geographically…
In later versions of debian-based systems there’s a command named “apt-file”, it is used to determine which installation package a certain file can be found in. This can for example be used when something is missing when you compile from…
One of my favourite quickstart scripts is Minstall, a helpful script to use on your freshly installed VPS. With Minstall you can remove unnecessary services and install commonly used services, it will let you start with a low-mem using VPS. The readme…