systemctl journals filling up your disk

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Quick one … your system probably uses logrotate to keep a fixed number of logs, and which stops your disk filling up. Trouble is, that systemctl doesn't write logs in the normal way so you can't rely on logrotate any more. Check out your current systemctl log usage with journalctl –disk-usage Wait, whaaaat? Its using … Read more

Roundcube 1.38 add plugin (on Ubuntu 18)

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File locations are a bit all over the shop in this version, so this is how it works out. For reference the actual program files are downloaded to /usr/share/roundcube/ the config happens in /etc/roundcube the web directory is in /var/lib/roundcube, which contains symlinks to the above locations. This is the one you add to your … Read more

Opera for Linux ffmpeg codec hell

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I really don't understand what the full issue is with opera and video codecs, but every few weeks, it will stop playing videos on facebook, twitter and sometimes even youtube. People will surge into the forums to complain and largely be ignored. Here's what I've been able to piece together. 

The problem

The short reason for the problem is that Opera is based on a slightly time delayed version of Chromium. If the version of Chromium that Opera is using and the version of the libffmpeg.so library don't match, then problems ensue. [The bit I can't figure out is why Opera can't match these up. But moving on …]

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