Alpine boot menu
This article is an update to my Alpine Boot Switcher article. Contents: Preparing boot device ...
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File system encryption in Alpine Linux
This is similar to my previous article Encrypting Filesystem in Void Linux but for Alpine Linux The point of this recipe is to create a encrypted file sytem so that when the disc is disposed, it does not need to be securely erased. This is particularly important for SSD devices ...
Local Startup
This is a method to control start-up of applications in a Linux Desktop session that are run by a local default configuration, but can also be overriden by the user. This is unlike the /etc/xdg/autostart which is mostly under the control of the distro packager. Aslo unlike the /etc/X11/profile.d directory, this runs inside the Desktop Session. /etc/X11/profile.d gets started before the Desktop session is available. ...
Global hotkeys
To make it easier to switch desktop environment I am using a Desktop Environment independant hot keys configuration using xbindkeys. This lets me use the same keybindings on different Window managers and Desktop Environments. This code can be found in github. Included are the follwoing: ...
Munin-tweaks
Small recipes to tweak munin configurations. Overriding critical and warning levels In the node configuration enter: plugin.field_name.critical value plugin.field_name.warning value The plugin name can be found by clicking in the graph with the value ...
Raspberry Pi emulation with Qemu
The idea here is that we use a Desktop PC for developing/debugging Raspberry Pi set-ups using qemu for emulating Rasperrby Pi. qemu currently supports the following configurations: Raspberry Pi Zero and 1A+ (armhf) Raspberry Pi 2B (armv7) ...
QNAP Snapshots
I wrote a small tool to access QNAP snapshots from the Linux command line. Pre-requistes: Snapshots have to be enabled You need a /share/netcfg containing the file: ...
Home Assistant RFXCOM Integration
RFXCOM RFXtrx This integration is to control RFXtrx devices. I am using to control Somfy blinds and KlikAanKlikUit remotes. Add integration: RFXCOM RFXtrx ...
Home Assistant Behind Reverse Proxy
To set-up a reverse proxy I took the following steps: configure DNS get Letsencrypt certificates Configure NGINX Configure Home Assistant to trust the proxy ...
Home Assistant HTTP Based Authentication Backend
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. ...
Moving to Home Assistant
I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out. For this I am using the following parts: ...
voidlinux virtualization
This recipe is for setting virtualization on a voidlinux desktop. Use this setup script to set things up on void linux. Connecting to libvirtd Note that virsh and virt-manager commands connect to different libvirtd sessions by defauult. virsh defaults to qemu:///session while virt-manager to qemu:///system. ...
My tale of IPv6 blues
My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service. They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable. Would be better ...
Linux HDMI hotplug
Now in 2024 this is usually no longer needed. A more current solution is: https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr The point of this article is to document I workaround that I came ...
PulseAudio hints and tricks
PulseAudio is nowadays the default sound system in many Linux distributions. It lets you do a number of useful things. PulseAudio comes with a handy command line utility pacmd to do a number of things. pacmd commands ...
nginx's auth_request_module howto
This article tries to supplement the nginx documentations regarding the auth_request module and how to configure it. In my opinion, that documentation is a bit incomplete. What is the nginx's auth_request module The documentation for this module says, it implements client ...
using cachefiles on an Linux NFS share
If you often mount and access a remote NFS share on your system, you will probably want to know how to improve NFS file access performance. One possibility is using file caching. In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables file caching for network file systems such as NFS. FS-Cache is built into the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and higher. ...
CyberWorld 2017.1
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Writing Safe Shell scripts
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. Don't The simplest step is to avoid using shell at all. Many higher-level languages are both easier to write the code in in the first place, and avoid some of the issues that shell ...
Windows administration from the command line
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. Here is a list of admin tools with their .msc file names. domain.msc: AD Domains and Trusts ...