2 tools for creating packages
2 tools for creating RPMs, DEBs, etc easily: fpm & checkinstall
Archive of posts tagged linux
qicinga
qicinga – a short python script I’ve written to display Icinga Service Statuses (Statii?) at the commandline.
Linux tools I never knew about #1: lsblk
lsblk displays all block devices as a tree, eg: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 886.5G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 878.9G 0 part /home ├─sda3 8:3 0 19.5G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part └─sda5 8:5 0 78.1G 0 part …
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OpenSSH Tip: Check Syntax Errors before Restarting Server
sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -t via OpenSSH Tip: Check Syntax Errors before Restarting Server.
Highlight your source code in the console
Your editor supports source code highlighting, so why not the console? Actually it can with source-highlighter via Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Adding Color to the Console: Code Syntax Highlighting with less and source-highlight. I’ve just created a shell alias like alias shl=”/usr/bin/source-highlight -fesc -oSTDOUT -i ” though
Mosh: the mobile shell
The #1 reason you should replace ssh with mosh, if your environment permits: “With Mosh, you can put your laptop to sleep and wake it up later, keeping your connection intact. If your Internet connection drops, Mosh will warn you — but the connection resumes when network service comes back.” via Mosh: the mobile shell.
Conspy – remote control of Linux virtual consoles
Conspy allows a possibly remote user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it. It works with Linux and FreeBSD, as far as I know.It is rather like VNC, but where VNC takes control of a GUI conspy takes control of a text mode virtual console. Unlike VNC, …
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Ansible playbook to configure tt-rss on EC2 instance
As Google are ditching Reader, you might want to move to a self-hosted tt-rss install instead. If you’ve already set up an EC2 instance with ansible, just follow this playbook.
Unity Reboot Launcher To Quickly Reboot In A Different OS Updated For Ubuntu 12.10 And 13.04 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
Unity Reboot is a custom Unity launcher that can be used to quickly reboot into a different OS / Linux distribution, useful for those who dual boot or triple boot or… it should work with any number of operating systems, including Windows, various Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora, etc.. This isn’t just for Unity …
Gnome 3 Tweaks and Extensions | 1N73RNET
Change touchpad delay after typing This has been super annoying because the default delay for the touchpad is 2 seconds! Here’s how to set it to whatever delay you want.First, turn off the “disable touchpad when typing setting” in your system settings and then open a terminal and enter the following command. syndaemon -d -K …
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