Category: 🐧 it
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The tools : hardware, OS and environment.
Opening series presenting the tools i use in my daily pro activity as a Linux Sysadmin Hardware: HP elitebook I have recently retired repurposed my previous 15 years old thinkpad as domotic / personal server. Actually using a refurbished HP Elitebook. Not a very good choice. Especially the shiny bright screen on which i can…
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Impress your next date with these neat bash tricks(*)(**)
I use bash with shopt -s histverify on, meaning the command i am pulling out of history won’t be immediately executed. Instead it will be displayed for validation. saved my ass a couple of times when the command i pulled out was definitely not the one i wanted. I am a big shell history user.…
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Post-mortem – failed update
The evening before Yesterday i had planned an on-site intervention, i logged in the server, did a couple sysadmin things, updated the server, crossed fingers and enter the “reboot” command. Of course, the server did not come back online… So the next morning, once onsite i plug a screen on server and instead of a…