OS doesn’t find en_US.UTF-8

test :

perl -e exit

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

 

Paste the following or add to server bash.rc :

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_TYPE=en_US.UTF-8

nJoy ๐Ÿ˜‰

Clear Linux Cache

1.ย Clear PageCache only.

# sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2.ย Clear dentries and inodes.

# sync; echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

3.ย Clear PageCache, dentries and inodes.

# sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 

nJoy ๐Ÿ˜‰

Install latest influxdb on Ubuntu


curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
source /etc/lsb-release
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb
sudo service influxdb start

nJoy ๐Ÿ˜‰

 

Cool chkconfig replacement for Ubuntu

Hi,

 

Ubuntu does not carry chkconfig any more ..

besides the standard

update-rc.d apache2 defaults

or

update-rc.d apache2 remove

There is a cool tool called : sysv-rc-conf.

This tool can be installed using :

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

On its own the command opens a cool ncurses interface like this :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It can Also be used in scripts as :

sysv-rc-conf atd <on or off> and --levels;

man sysv-rc-conf

Will give you some love..

nJoy ๐Ÿ˜‰

 

 

Reboot required Ubuntu

To find out what triggered this use :

more /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs

nJoy ๐Ÿ˜‰

converting webm to mp3s ffmpeg

for FILE in *.webm; do
    echo -e "Processing file '\e[32m$FILE\e[0m'";
    ffmpeg -i "${FILE}" -vn -ab 128k -ar 44100 -y "${FILE%.webm}.mp3";
done;

nJoy ๐Ÿ˜‰

Snapshot backup using cp -al and rsync

This script requires genuine cp -al capable gnu and rsync commands together with a hardlink capable FS + OS.

 

 

#!/bin/bash

[ $# -ne 2 ] && echo "Incorrect usage : $0 <source path> <target path>" && exit 128 ;

SOURCEFOLDER=$1
TARGETFOLDER=$2

SF_LEN=${#SOURCEFOLDER}-1
TF_LEN=${#TARGETFOLDER}-1

#echo "Last character in source folder is ${SOURCEFOLDER:SF_LEN}"
if [ "${SOURCEFOLDER:SF_LEN}" != "/" ] ; then
   echo "Adding trailing slash"
  SOURCEFOLDER=$SOURCEFOLDER"/"
fi



#echo "Last character in target folder is ${TARGETFOLDER:TF_LEN}"
if [ "${TARGETFOLDER:TF_LEN}" != "/" ] ; then
   echo "Adding trailing slash"
  TARGETFOLDER=$TARGETFOLDER"/"
fi



echo $SOURCEFOLDER
echo $TARGETFOLDER

LOCKFILE=/tmp/`echo $0 $SOURCEFOLDER $TARGETFOLDER | sed "s/[^[:alnum:]]/_/g"`.lck
echo "Lockfile : $LOCKFILE"



[ ! -d $SOURCEFOLDER ] && echo "Source does not exist !! $SOURCEFOLDER exitting with error" && exit 1;

TIMESTAMP=$(date --utc +%Y%m%d%H%M )
#echo $TIMESTAMP



if [ ! -d $TARGETFOLDER ]; then 

mkdir $TARGETFOLDER

rsync -av --delete  $SOURCEFOLDER $TARGETFOLDER/$TIMESTAMP/

else 

[ -d $TARGETFOLDER/$TIMESTAMP/ ] && echo "Folder already there !! Leaving.. " && exit 0;  

 LASTBACKUP=$(ls $TARGETFOLDER | sort -rn | head -1)
 echo "Link copying $TARGETFOLDER/$LASTBACKUP to $TARGETFOLDER/$TIMESTAMP/"
 cp -al $TARGETFOLDER/$LASTBACKUP $TARGETFOLDER/$TIMESTAMP/
 rsync -av $SOURCEFOLDER $TARGETFOLDER/$TIMESTAMP/

fi

echo " OK !! Done"