I wrote a small tool to access QNAP snapshots from the Linux command line.
Pre-requistes:
/share/netcfg containing the file:read-only with root-squash.This recipe is my version of providing a "large clock" face in the home assistant dashboard.
Enable serving local static files:
www in your config directory.http://homeassistant.local:8123/local/.Place the HTML with your clock in a …
This recipe is to authenticate users using a web server providing Basic HTTP authentication for it users.
This is useful if you want to consolidate users/passwords in a single system. So instead of managing users on Home Assistant you can have all users managed from a central location.
It …
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has:
The case has holes for wall-mounting.
The Geekworm X728 kit is …
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app …
I always had issues remembering how to create releases. So in order to standardise things, I wrote this script:
So whenever I am ready to release I would then just issue the command:
./ghrelease vX.Y.Z
You obviously need git. But also you would need
github-cli.
Your …
This is my op script.
This is stupidly simple script to elevate priviledges in order to manage NFS shares on my QNAP NAS.
The idea is that NFS shares do squash-root so admin access is
disallowed through NFS. This gives a convenient way to issue
root level commands without using …
In void Linux, the default is without logging. Most cases it is OK for desktop use.
If you want to enable syslog service in void, you need to install:
socklog-void
Also to let your user have access to the logs, use:
usermod -aG socklog <your-username>
Because I like to have …
I boot from a USB boot drive using UEFI. Because of the UEFI boot, it just a matter of copying the files from the alpine ISO to a USB thumbdrive VFAT32 partition. Partition may be set to EFI (but this doesn't seem to be required).
Since I would like to …
Here we explain how to use XScreenSaver EXCELLENT screensaver hack collection with the MATE screensaver applet.
xscreensaver and mate-screensaver/usr/libexec/xscreensaver: contains the screensaver hacks executables/usr/libexec/mate-screensaver : contains the mate-screensaver executables/usr/share/applications/screensavers : containes the …I am running void-linux at home with musl as the standard
C library.
While most things work well, there is a number of programs that
do not and must be using glibc counterparts.
To enable this I followed this guide here: Live switching Void Linux from glibc to musl.
To …
I made the switch to void linux. Except for compatibility
issues around glibc, it works quite well. Most compatibility
I have worked around with a combination of Flatpaks, chroots and
namespaces.
The high lights of void linux:
systemd …In 15 minutes, you can develop a virtual reality application and run it in a web browser, on a VR headset, or with Google Daydream. The key is A-Frame, an open source toolkit built by the Mozilla VR Team.
Open this link using Chrome or Firefox on your …
Reference: positon.org
You have 2 systems and you want to set up a secure backup with rsync + SSH of one system to the other.
Very simply, you can use:
backup.example.com# rsync -avz --numeric-ids --delete [email protected]:/path/ /backup/myserver/
To do the backup, you have …
Writing shell scripts leaves a lot of room to make mistakes, in ways that will cause your scripts to break on certain input, or (if some input is untrusted) open up security vulnerabilities. Here are some tips on how to make your shell scripts safer.
The simplest step is …
THIS IS FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. THIS IS OUT-OF-DATE
openshift getenv(USER) from OpenShift php
ssh to {user}@{app-domain} gear snapshot > file
Run gear app
OpenShift migration further notes
Encrypt a file using a supplied password :
$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.txt.enc -k …Windows system administration is very mouse driven and to reach all tools you need to browse through Windows explorer.
If you are like me and prefer to log on a limited privilege account and use Runas to perform admin tasks, you can open these consoles with the .msc file names …
This article goes over how to implement Single-Sign-On on Linux. It goes over the integration around the Kerberos service and the applications, like for example FireFox.
To make sure that this is working, login to your workstation …