If you can ssh to a remote server using your public key, but want rsync to be executed as a different user, you can achieve it like this: On the remote host add an entry in /etc/sudoers which looks like this (replace the username accordingly): user1 ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync * This will allow your user account […]
2 simple commands with their output, to check wether you work on a VM or physical machine: root@testing:~# dmidecode -s system-manufacturer VMware, Inc. root@testing:~# dmesg |grep -i hypervisor [ 0.000000] Hypervisor detected: VMware
To install PHP 5.6 on Wheezy, you can add this repo: echo "deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56 all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotdeb.list echo "deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56 all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotdeb.list Add the key: wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg -O- |apt-key add – And install PHP: apt-get update apt-get install php5-cli php5-fpm ….. (or whatever package you might need)
All Dell DRACs come with a default account set up as root / calvin which may be a security risk! Having Drac5 or Drac6 and racadm installed on one of your servers, you can display your current admin account with this command: racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -i 2 When you've made sure that this is […]
On Debian there's a tool that finds out which is the fastest/nearest mirror and creates a sources.list file for you: netselect-apt The installation: apt-get update apt-get install netselect-apt To find the fastest/nearest mirror: netselect-apt Backup your old sources.list: mv /etc/apt/sources.list{,.bak} Replace it with the new one: cp sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list Update and install your packages: apt-get […]
Screen – if not already installed on your linux distribution – can be installed on Debian-like systems juste like this: apt-get install screen To start simply type: screen or if you want to give your session a name: screen -S test1 This will start a new screen in your terminal. CTRL-D will stop and exit […]
You've ever wondered if there's not a nice command line tool to parse json input? There is. Mac Users can install jq using brew in a terminal: brew install jq For Debian users, have a look here: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/jq For all other OS'es (Linux, Windows, Solaris) have a look here: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/ If your JSON code is valid, this will output […]
I had to work with Virtualmin a little bit and I've been looking around how to create additional admins. It's actually quite easy: useradd newuser passwd newuser Your /etc/passwd should contain something like this now: newuser:x:1549:1549::/home/newuser:/bin/sh The trick is now just to add the new user to /etc/sudoers: newuser ALL=(ALL) ALL Having done this you […]
Login to your QNAP Web Interface, go to your App Center and install these 2 apps: – Optware IPKG– git Then login to your NAS using SSH and run the following commands: ssh admin@your-ip /opt/bin/ipkg update /opt/bin/ipkg install git This will install the needed git packages onto your NAS. Basically that's it. But you may […]
To install PHP 5.5 on Wheezy, you can add this repo: echo "deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotdeb.list echo "deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotdeb.list Add the key: wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg -O- |apt-key add – And install PHP: apt-get update apt-get install php5-cli php5-fpm ….. (or whatever package you might need)