Category Archives: Linux Stuff

Very simply, I wanted an easy way to list out the sizes of directories and all of the contents of those directories recursively. df will show the total disk usage ls -l will show you sizes of items in a folder. The answer is to use the following: du -h… Continue reading →

NOTE: 5-20-2014 – I have switched from the PS3 MediaServer to Universal Media Server. I find it to be better than the PS3, easier to setup and maintain, and transcodes better. Please see my page on how to setup UMS in Ubuntu. I will leave this PS3 setup page here,… Continue reading →

I had several directories of files on a NAS host that shared the directories using a ‘windows’ style SMB share. I wanted an Ubuntu server to mount these shares with read/write access. I want the mount to be done automatically at bootup. The NAS is already sharing these folders and… Continue reading →

In this post I will cover. 1) Setting up a syslog server to log messages from local and remote sources. 2) Setup a GUI front end showing syslog items. I’ve done this on both Ubuntu Server 10.04 and 12.04. First we need to get some items loaded. We will load… Continue reading →

Now that I have a working Sickbeard installation and the media is being collected, the next step was to setup notifications so that I know when a download has completed. Sickbeard has support for “Notify my Android” so I decided to give it a shot. I’m posting the setup here… Continue reading →

The goal here is to setup an automated system that check for new episodes of TV shows, download the episodes automatically, copy them to a central media PC, and rename them as needed. Disclaimer:  This info is for educational purposes only.   Don’t pirate stuff, kids. Newsgroups can be used to… Continue reading →

My Home DVR system seems to be built on a Busybox Linux install with the DVR running from that OS.   The issue with my DVR is that the consumer/home dvr devices for under $500 seem to have issues with remote viewing.   I have a system that works well enough… Continue reading →

After a setup of Bind and DHCP, this section will let the DNS zone dynamically update when new DHCP clients get an IP lease. Reference the previous posts at Install DHCP Services on Ubuntu 10.04 Installing DNS Services on Ubuntu Server 1)      Backup the Zone files   cp /etc/bind/zones/* /var/lib/bind/ 2)     … Continue reading →

The goal here is simply to install DHCP Services so that the Ubuntu host will allocate IP addresses to clients on the network.   Using this method allows more control over DHCP options handed out to the clients over most consumer based routers.  I’ve done this on both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS… Continue reading →