Useful listing of days in a month to populate directories or run scripts for backing up getting the correct dates of days in a month and year. YEAR=2020 MONTH=2 for DAY in $(DAYS=`cal $MONTH $YEAR | awk ‘NF {DAYS = $NF}; END {print DAYS}’` && seq -f ‘%02G’ $DAYS) ;do DATE=”$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY” echo $DATE…
Year: 2018
SYSTEMD – controls
Starting with Ubuntu 15.04, Upstart will be deprecated in favor of Systemd. With Systemd to manage the services we can do the following: systemctl start SERVICE – Use it to start a service. Does not persist after reboot systemctl stop SERVICE – Use it to stop a service. Does not persist after reboot systemctl restart…
Fixing keyboard in ubuntu
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration nJoy 😉
Simple amazing tool to understand what file access is happening to trouble shoot heavy disk usage Linux
fatrace reports file access events from all running processes. $ sudo apt-get install fatrace nJoy 😉
Automatically passing ssh password in scripts especially to ESX where passwordless ssh is hard
First you need to install sshpass. Ubuntu/Debian: apt-get install sshpass Fedora/CentOS: yum install sshpass Arch: pacman -S sshpass Example: sshpass -p “YOUR_PASSWORD” ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no YOUR_USERNAME@SOME_SITE.COM Custom port example: sshpass -p “YOUR_PASSWORD” ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no YOUR_USERNAME@SOME_SITE.COM:2400 from : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12202587/automatically-enter-ssh-password-with-script This works better for me though for sshfs: echo $mypassword | sshfs -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@host mountpoint -o workaround=rename…
fail to mount ntfs in BSD
[root@ftp /mnt/test]# ntfs-3g /dev/da10s1 /mnt/test fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory kldload fuse That’s a missing module needs loading. nJoy 😉
lsblk in freenas bsd
geom disk list nJoy 😉
Resizing a disk once the volume has grown on host in a VM (Ubuntu)
The disk will not automatically resize on many platforms once more disk space was made available. Particularly in Ubuntu 16.04 Rescanning the device for size maps : echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/2\:0\:0\:0/device/rescan Then standard procedures to grow the fs apply. nJoy 😉
Longevity and stability of sshfs
Just worth noting I had many arguments with other sysadmins and bosses over the stability and validity of sshfs as a shortcut to creating a bridge for transferring files for backup or adhoc moves The following is the result of an rsync from one sshfs mount to another (from ESXi servers I only had…
Using ngrok with React based websites
The problem : When we have a react.js based site (hosted on port 8000) and ngrok it for development purposes we get Invalid Host Header The fix is to override the header on reflection: ngrok http 8000 -host-header=”localhost:8000″ That’s it 😉 nJoy