Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Where it is the crontab file in Ubuntu?

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/{user account}

Example


Where it is the crontab file of the luizcgjr account?
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/luizcgjr

How to print the first and last parts of a file in Linux

First part
  1. Open terminal
  2. Type

    head -n {n} {file}
{n} is the number of lines to return
{file} name of the file

Last part
  1. Open terminal
  2. Type

    tail -n {n} {file}
{n} is the number of lines to return
{file} name of the file

Example

Print the first 10 lines of the blogger.log file
head -n 10 blogger.log

Print the last 10 lines of the blogger.log file
tail -n 10 blogger.log

Source: http://linux.die.net/man/1/head
http://linux.die.net/man/1/tail

How to fix e-mail client error: Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: Please log in via your web browser: https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure)


  1. Go to https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
  2. In Access for less secure apps, check Turn on 
  3. Go to https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
  4. Click Continue

Friday, February 5, 2016

How to reinstall a package in Ubuntu


  1. Open terminal
  2. Type

    sudo apt-get install --reinstall {package}
{package} is the package name that you want to reinstall

Example

I want to reinstall firefox
sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox