Turning on the headless server remotely

Now that the server is all set up for WakeOnLan as in this post and we have the IP address and MAC addresses of the headless server all written down, I can now use a programme to send the “magic network packets” to switch on the machine.

Setting up the system up for Wake On LAN (WOL)

My motherboard has on on-board NIC that supports wakeonlan so I thought I would make use of it as at the moment the bedroom the server box is in is being used and I need to switch the server box off at night.

Ubuntu server log monitoring via email without the need of a mail server (SendEmail)

Found a handy Tutorial on unbuntuforums on how to set up a server to email logs without the need of a mail server. It uses a couple of programmes called Sendemail and logwatch .

I had to make a few changes to the guide to make it work on my server system. For some reason the logwatch TXT file was not being written and cron was not running the bash file correctly.  So I have rewritten the guide below.

Transmission Installation/Configuration on Ubuntu Server

I needed to grab a new ISO of Ubuntu via BitTorrent and I had issues with Deluge (See this Post) So I thought I’d have a look at Transmission as I used it on my Ubuntu desktop with no issues.

Update to Natty 11.04 & Webmin

After updating my home server to the latest Ubuntu release (Natty / 11.04) I found almost everything worked properly apart from  Webmin refused to let me login. After some investigation, I found that my normal user was deleted. I reset the password via SSH using an included script.

Here’s the command:

$ sudo /usr/share/webmin/changepass.pl  /etc/webmin root new_password

Then, logging in as root user to Webmin I could configure my normal user.