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Raspberry Pi 3 and Ubuntu Mate – A Good Match

June 6, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Raspberry Pi 3, released to the public on February 2016, is a quad core SOC that includes 1GB of RAM. This computer from the Raspberry Foundation, along with its version 2 sibling, can run Ubuntu Mate. The Pi 3 has on board bluetooth and wireless features that enhance headless installations. Installing Ubunut Mate is a simple matter of downloading the image file from the developer and “burning” it to a MicroSD card. There are a number of methods, but I…

Raspberry Pi 3, Ubuntu Mate, and Webmin

June 1, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

The Webmin utility is helpful when running headless. It is an excellent safety net when other services, such as ssh or xrdp are unavailable. Installing it on the Raspberry Pi 3 under Ubuntu Mate is done using these commands from a terminal window. sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl —> libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.801_all.deb sudo dpkg –install webmin_1.801_all.deb Please note, the code above refers to the version available during this writing. Please check the developers website for…

Setting up Webalizer log file analysis

May 28, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction Webmin has a module for Webalizer that will report web usage on the linux system. Most often, the install of Webmin will already have a working module of Webalizer. However, there are times when the log files may change location or are become available after Webmin was setup. In this topic, we will cover how to process web log files stored on a local host as well as web logs from a remote host. Once processed, we will then…