Introduction If you ever have the need to understand the usage of the top command to show how loaded a *nix system is, then the best resource I have found is the following great post by Gary Newell. It contains
Understanding top

Introduction If you ever have the need to understand the usage of the top command to show how loaded a *nix system is, then the best resource I have found is the following great post by Gary Newell. It contains
Introduction Some helpful Zabbix operations that always take me an age to find so putting here to make my life easier! Putting hosts into maintainence mode https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.4/manual/maintenance Restart zabbix agent service zabbix-agent restart
Introduction If you are in need of a TFTP for config backups then sometimes the “old school” ways of doing things are still useful. Bear in mind the TFTP protocol incorporates no encryption so be wary about using it across
Introduction If you ever run in to a scenario where you have a VM which won’t boot. You will need to use an install disc to get into rescue mode. Solution Boot your rescue media. Scan for volume groups: #
Introduction First place to start is the docs: https://modwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/develop/user-guides/quick-installation-guide.html Advises to install dev packages for apache and python if not installed. Use the latest version from source rather than using the versions in the repos. Once you’ve built from source,
Introduction Decided to upgrade mint to the latest version Sarah. Very straight forward task thanks to the Mint team. I did end up with conky Seamod looking odd on though on startup. First it was in windowed mode and secondly
Introduction A couple of pretty simple bash commands for finding and changing permissions on all files and directories recursively. Obviously you need to understand what permissions you want in advance so check the man pages and online but for when
Introduction Chown has a nice feature that will allow you to change ownership of files and directories recursively for a single user without even needing to find them. First cd into the root source directory required to change ownership of the
Introduction If you’ve ever needed to use regex to find specific files in a directory then you’ll know how useful it is and how much time it saves. This is for when you need to then rsync those files to
Introduction This is the easiest way I’ve found to replace spaces in file names with another character for example underscore. Solution At a bash prompt, use rename: find -name “* *” -type d | rename ‘s/ /_/g’ # do the