Adding XRDPto an Ubuntu install

So we have an ESXi with a few VMs on it, one of which is an Ubuntu 14.04 hosting a few web aplications.

I’m fed up of using the vSphere client to connect and control the box, in a wee small window. So time to remedy that!

Time for xRDP to allow me to control the same as any other server via MSTSC.

House Keeping the SQL Dumps

As written in my previous post, the backups had became unwieldy and needed to be archived.

So i added another script to the CronTab to run at 00:01 on the 1st of every month.

I had wanted to do a bit of math to make it see what jobs were created last month and go from there, but that wasn’t so easy.

Using the find command i used any thing greater than 31 days as a catch all and hoped for the best…