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: ...
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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. ...
flatpak
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. Snap vs Flatpak ...
Linux Icons
A quick note on how to add icons to menus in a Linux desktop. Create the icon image in: /usr/share/pixmaps. png and svg (and maybe others) are supported. 24x24 seems to be a good size for menus. ...
Enable syslog with void
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: ...
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 ...
Replacing emacs...
So after over 30 years of using GNU emacs I have switched to a more modern options. So I am using: Geany: For use in a Window environment (both X11 and MSWIN) micro: For command line use ...
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 ...
Using XScreenSaver Hacks with mate-screensaver
Here we explain how to use XScreenSaver EXCELLENT screensaver hack collection with the MATE screensaver applet. Install xscreensaver and mate-screensaver On my linux distribution this creates the following directories: ...
Co-existing GLIBC binaries with Void-Linux MUSL edition
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 set-up: ...
Docker on Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux Quick installation See wiki For Alpine Linux > 3.8 Un-comment community repo from /etc/apk/repositories apk add docker rc-update add docker boot ...
Alpine on OTC
These are just random thoughts nothing really was implemented. Alpine Linux image preparation: jq and other deps to /apks/x86_64 ...
3 Open Source Password Managers
Keep your data and accounts safe by using a secure open source password manager to store unique, complex passwords. Maintaining complex, unique passwords for each site and service you use is among the most common pieces of advice that security professionals provide to the public every year. Yet no matter how many times it is said, it seems like a week doesn't ...
How to encrypt linux partitions with LUKS
There are plenty of reasons why people would need to encrypt a partition. Whether they're rooted it in privacy, security, or confidentiality, setting up a basic encrypted partition on a Linux system is fairly easy. This is especially true when using LUKS, since its functionality is built directly into the kernel. Installing Cryptsetup ...
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. ...
Rollback with YUM History Command
From 2daygeek.com Server patching is one of the important task of Linux system administrator to make the system more stable and better performance. All the vendors used to release security/vulnerabilities patches very often, the affected package must be updated in order to limit any potential security risks. Yum (Yellowdog Update Modified) is RPM Package Management utility for CentOS and Red Hat systems, Yum history command allows administrator to rollback the system to a previous state but due to some limitations, rollbacks do not work in all situations, or The yum command may simply do nothing, or it may remove packages you do not expect. I advise you to take a full system backup prior to performing any update/upgrade is always recommended, and yum history is NOT meant to replace systems backups. This will help you to restore the system to previous state at any point of time. n some cases, the hosted applications might not work properly or through some error due to recent patch updates (It could be some library incompatibility or package upgrade), what will be the solution in this case? Get in touch with App Dev team and figure it out an issue creating library' and packages then do the rollback with help of yum history command. ...
Centos Install notes
Set-up local.repo yum installs: nfs-utils autofs @x11 @xfce ...
Telegram
Telegram is a messenger designed to overcome the limitations of other messengers like WhatsApp or similar ones. It is different and better than other messengers on more than one level. A few of the important features that make it stand out among other messengers are: ...