Using Command Line.
I am using /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in Ubutnu 14.04, which has below lines written in it.
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "60"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection
And it is working fine in Ubuntu 14.04 but not working in Ubuntu 16.04.
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Month: December 2017
Install Conky
Displaying System Details On Your Desktop With Conky System Monitor On Ubuntu:
apt-get install conky
conky -C > > ~/.conkyrc
conky
Setup VNC Server (x11vnc) on Linux Mint 18
This tutorial was adapted from self.
1. Remove the default Vino server:
sudo apt-get -y remove vino
2. Install x11vnc:
sudo apt-get -y install x11vnc Read More
Using curator to delete older elasticsearch indices
We use ELK stack heavily in our production systems for log aggregation and monitoring.
Our daily log size generated is aroudn 100GB. Since, we do not intend to keep the log files in ELK for more than a month, it becomes important that we delete those indices to free up disk space.
Fortunately, Logstash creates a new index every day by default. Read More