Sometimes if the connection to a device via Minicom is lost, the next time you start Minicom you could see an error: Device /dev/ttyS0 is locked. The name /dev/ttyS0 may be different, depending on your COM port. To avoid this issue you should always shut down Minicom using CTRL+A keys and then the Q key. …
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I started an Ubuntu EC2 the other day hoping to run Ansible on it and was surprised that Python was not installed. A requirement for Ansible to run on target machines is to have a modern version of Python. You can just run sudo apt install python but this is not ideal if you need …
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The grep command means Global Regular Expression Print. This Linux command is one of the most useful commands out there. Below are some basic examples: grep ‘word’ filenamegrep ‘word’ filename1 filename2 filename3grep ‘string1′ string2’ filenamecat filename | grep ‘something’command | grep ‘something’ Next example, you can search for the user ‘tom’ in the Linux passwd …
This is easier than what it seems. Follow the steps below in order. Make sure you know your home public IP. Find this info on your home router/modem or do a search in Google “What’s my ip”. Note this IP address. More coming soon!
df is a Linux command for for reporting file system disk usage on a Linux system. While brewing coffee at home I found the following. How to view disk usage using df command? Simple! Simplest way is just to type df on the command line and you should get the below output: Filesystem …
Hola! Each runlevel has a certain number of services stopped or started, giving the user control over the behavior of the machine. Conventionally, seven runlevels exist, numbered from zero to six. While brewing coffee at home I found the difference between runlevels in Linux. See below. Runlevel Mode Definition 0 Halt Shuts down the system. …
I was asked the other day ‘How does the default Apache virtual host file looks like?’ I was having my Peruvian coffee and decided to place below the default Apache virtual host file in this post for any future reference. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.example.com ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/html ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost> Super …
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While having coffee at home I decided to put this table together regarding Linux File Systems and their differences. Let me know if I’m missing something. Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 Stands for Second Extended file system. Stands for Third Extended file system. Stands for Fourth Extended file system. Introduced in 1993. Introduced in 2001. Introduced in …
Hello, sometimes we need to copy files and we are not sure when to use “/ ” at the end of the path. Copying files rsync while brewing coffee at home this is what I found. Check this useful summary:
The root user is disabled by default in Ubuntu. This does not mean the account was removed. After researching while having amazing coffee from Latin America I found the following… If for some reason, you need to enable the root account, all you need to do is to set a password for the root user. In …
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