# https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/ # http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ The Alert Icon is part of the up2date application, which enables you to easily install system updates. You may use any of the following formats to specify a package in a yum operation: name, name.architecture, name-version, […]
Linux
RedHat & CentOS
Change hostname hostnamectl set-hostname redhat7.localdomain hostnamectl status Change in /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=redhat7.localdomain Change in /etc/hosts (otherwise Oracle won’t start -> when using Oracle …) 127.0.0.1 redhat7 redhat7.localdomain reboot Static ip setup [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=172.16.148.2 HOSTNAME=redhat7.localdomain [root@localhost ~]# cat […]
Mount DAV directory
# see http://linux.die.net/man/5/davfs2.conf # see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mandoc_char&sektion=7&apropos=0&manpath=NetBSD%2B6.0 -> for cq character # see http://passwordsgenerator.net/ # edit /etc/updatedb.conf: # PRUNEFS=”… davfs davfs2″ adrhcbImpl() { # sudo mkdir -p /mnt/adrhc # sudo chmod g+rw /mnt/adrhc # sudo chmod u+s /sbin/mount.davfs # sudo usermod […]
Uninstalling login/window managers
Login/window manager information dpkg -l | grep -i kde > kde.txt dpkg -l | grep -i plasma > plasma.txt dpkg -l | grep -i gnome > gnome.txt dpkg -l | grep -i xfce > xfce.txt dpkg -l | grep -i […]
Ubuntu and Windows domain
wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/likewise-open/likewise-open_6.1.0.406-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libglade2/libglade2-0_2.6.4-2_amd64.deb wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/likewise-open/likewise-open-gui_6.1.0.406-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i 1.likewise-open_6.1.0.406-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i 2.libglade2-0_2.6.4-2_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i 3.likewise-open-gui_6.1.0.406-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb sudo domainjoin-gui sudo domainjoin-cli query sudo dpkg -l likewise* sudo dpkg –purge likewise-open-gui sudo dpkg –purge libglade2-0 sudo dpkg –purge likewise-open sudo […]
How to create a debian package
method 1 see also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=910717 supposing anything-sync-daemon-5.76 contains all package’s files Than simply create anything-sync-daemon-5.76/DEBIAN/control file with a similar content: Package: anything-sync-daemon Version: 5.76 Section: Utilities Priority: optional Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Gigi Kent <gigi77@yahoo.com> Description: anything sync daemon then run […]
Compiling anything sync daemon
Environment variables NEW_BUILD_NAME=anything-sync-daemon NEW_BUILD_VER=5.76 NEW_BUILD_NAME_AND_VER=$NEW_BUILD_NAME-$NEW_BUILD_VER ls -l /tmp/$NEW_BUILD_NAME-* ls -l ~/ubuntu_packages/*/$NEW_BUILD_NAME-* NEW_BUILD_NR=0 # rm -r $HOME/temp/$NEW_BUILD_NAME_AND_VER Download and unpack cd $HOME/compile wget http://repo-ck.com/source/anything-sync-daemon/anything-sync-daemon-5.76.tar.xz tar xpvf anything-sync-daemon-5.76.tar.xz Compilation cd $HOME/compile/anything-sync-daemon-5.76 with systemd use export DESTDIR=$HOME/temp/$NEW_BUILD_NAME_AND_VER;make V=1 install-systemd-all with upstart use export […]
Make ubuntu or applications run faster
See also https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/optimisation Check ubuntu startup times systemd-analyze blame /etc/fstab http://www.lgqyc.com/move-tmp-to-ram/ http://jsmylinux.no-ip.org/performance/improving-performance/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/173094/how-can-i-use-ram-storage-for-the-tmp-directory-and-how-to-set-a-maximum-amount http://www.digitalinternals.com/unix/linux-io-performance-tuning-noatime-nodiratime-relatime/388/ mount | grep -P “^tmpfs.+/(tmp|var/run)” sudo du -sh /tmp /var/tmp; du -sh /********/apps/tmp /********/apps/var/run /run/user/`id -u` /tmp/tomcat 2>/dev/null tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,relatime,mode=1777,size=4G 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp […]
IBM WebSphere 6.1 on Ubuntu
Install 1. install java 1.5 from oracle 2. start WAS install: cd /********/Downloads/was.cd.6100.trial.base.linux.ia32/WAS/ /********/apps/opt/java/jdk1.5.0_22/bin/java -jar setup.jar 3. WAS install window should start … Configuration export JAVA_HOME=/********/apps/opt/java/jdk1.5.0_22 export PATH=”/********/apps/opt/java/jdk1.5.0_22/bin:$PATH” cd /********/apps/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/bin mv /********/apps/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/java /********/apps/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/java1 ln -s $JAVA_HOME/bin/java /********/apps/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/java ./manageprofiles.sh help -> […]
Ubuntu 16.04 XRDP (remote desktop)
installation Consider ubuntu xrdp error problem connecting 5910 solution: tightvncserver MUST be installed before xrdp!!! sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get install tightvncserver sudo apt-get install xrdp sudo usermod -aG xrdp adr configure XRDP (option 1) cat ~/.xsession echo ‘xfce4-session’ […]
Handling video in Linux
video exif tool sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl display video’s rotation exif exiftool -Rotation 20151024_132350.mp4 rotate the exif metadata only ffmpeg -i 20151024_132350.mp4 -metadata:s:v rotate=”0″ -vf “hflip,vflip” -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -acodec copy 20151024_132350b.mp4 resize to 720p ffmpeg -i IMG_0001.MOV -vf […]
VMWare
ERROR1 VMWare says something like “vmware kernel module updater …” and requires pressing Install button then nothing happens. ERROR2 After some Ubuntu updates the vmware network adapters are gone. SOLUTION sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all
fan speed control/monitor
Install the lm-sensors Install lm-sensors and fancontrol Install fancontrol packages. # Configure lm-sensors; respond with yes for everything below (will modify /etc/modules): sudo sensors-detect # Monitoring programs won’t work until the needed modules are # loaded. You may want to […]
/var/mail && thunderbird
See http://askubuntu.com/questions/1916/how-can-i-access-system-mail-in-var-mail-via-thunderbird. Create the account Thunderbird -> Edit -> Account settings -> Account Action -> Add Another Account -> Unix Mailspool (Movemail) Your Name: adr (mailspool) Email Address: adr@localhost Browse your mails Open Thunderbird then press Get Messages button; you […]
nagios3
# change user & password in passwd-file specified by /etc/nagios3/apache2.conf # change nagiosadmin to the user chosen sed -i s/”nagiosadmin”/”adr”/ /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg # Edit the disk.cfg file located in /etc/nagios-plugins/config and add the arguments # -A -i ‘.gvfs’ # at the […]