upstart init daemon

Configuration  

/etc/init.conf

/etc/init/*.conf

User Job

$HOME/.init/

Upstart commands

UbuntuBootupHowto 

upstart cookbook

mount windows share from Ubuntu

Install

sudo apt-get install smbfs

Inspect

smbclient //test-https.blah.net/ipc$ -U id -Wdomain

mount

sudo mount -t cifs //remote_windows/share $ $HOME/windows -o user=uid,dom=office

nmcli without Network Manager GUI

nmcli 

nmcli con down id VPN_CONN_NAME
nmcli con up id VPN_CONN_NAME
nmcli con

automation with nmcli

network-manager restart

sudo service network-manager restart


To automatically connect VPN.

put "nmcli con up id VPN_CONN_NAME" in .profile (upon login)

Set up mongodb and cluster

install mongodb

• install mongodb on ubuntu 11.10

install rock_mongo

• sudo apt-get install php-pear
• install php_mongo extension: sudo pecl install mongo
• configure php_mongo extension: add extension=mongo.so to /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
• download rock_mongo and cp -r to /var/www/vhosts/mongo.admin
• configure dnamasq alias "*admin"now Apache, map a "mongo.admin" to a vhost. 
• (For Replication web admin) cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/vhost_alias.conf
• set up url rewrite
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mongo.dev$
  RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost:28017/_replSet
• sudo service apache2 restart

Managing services with update-rc.d

removing a service
update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

adding a service
update-rc.d apache2 defaults

Install and Configure mod_jk for Apache2

• sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-jk
• sudo vim /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties
• worker.list=worker1,jk-status
• worker.jk-status.type=status
• sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/jk.conf  
• #Everything under root goes to tomcat
• JkMount  /share/* worker1
• JkMount  /share worker1

install lookit ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lookit/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lookit

install LAMP on ubuntu

sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel

Install sproutcore

 Ubuntu 11.10

Step 1 has be done before step 2, otherwise the ruby will complain about "zlib not installed"

apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev
Follow steps in install sproutcore on linux

install sun-jdk 6, 7 on Ubuntu 12.04

http://www.devsniper.com/ubuntu-12-04-install-sun-jdk-6-7/

sudo update-alternatives --config java

sudo update-alternatives --config javac

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javac" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javaws" 1