This guide explains how to configure Ubuntu so that you can send email from the command line using mailx with your Gmail account for delivery. This updates a guide I originally posted on the ubuntu forums for mailx, which is part of the current Ubuntu repositories (versions 7 and 8). To use nail, [...]
This will be the first of two posts showing you how to configure the more recent versions of Ubuntu to send email from the command line as simply as humanly possible using your Gmail account for delivery. These instructions were originally posted on my old blog and on the Ubuntu forums site.
This guide covers [...]
I have a server running Ubuntu. Log rotation never worked on it for some reason. The log files were getting pretty hairy so I wanted to delete or rotate them. Specifically, to be safe, I wanted to rotate then delete them.
You’d think this is one of those things Google (by way of the ubuntuforums) would [...]