Databases, Systems & Networks

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Both Debian and Ubuntu Linux provides a number of package management tools. This article summaries package management command along with it usage and examples for you.

• apt-get : APT is acronym for Advanced Package Tool. It supports installing packages over internet using ftp or http protocols. You can also upgrade all packages in a single operations, which makes it even more attractive.
• dpkg : Debian packaging tool which can be use to install, query, uninstall packages.

Gui tools: You can also try GUI based or high level interface to the Debian GNU/Linux package system. Following list summaries them:

• aptitude: It is a text-based interface to the Debian GNU/Linux package system.
• synaptic: GUI front end for APT

Red hat Linux package names generally end in .rpm, similarly Debian package names end in .deb, for example:

apache_1.3.31-6_i386.deb

Where,

1. apache : Package name
2. 1.3.31-6 : Version number
3. i386 : Hardware Platform on which this package will run (i386 == intel x86 based system)
4. .deb : Extension that suggest it is a Debian package

Remember, whenever I refer .deb file it signifies complete file name, and whenever I refer package name it must be first part of .deb file. For example, when I refer to a package sudo it means sudo only and not the .deb file i.e. sudo_1.6.7p5-2_i386.deb. You can find out debian package name with the following command:

apt-cache search {package-name}
apt-cache search apache

Finally, most of the actions listed in this post are written with the assumption that they will be executed by the root user running the bash or any other modern shell. Lire la suite…

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I setup a web-server. I need to grant a user ssh access but I do not trust users. How can I limit user session to a specific directory such as /home/httpd/$USERNAME? How do I set up a ssh chroort jail on a Linux operating systems?

You can interactive shell with special root directory on a Linux or Unix-like systems. You can set the pathname (such as /home/httpd/foo) of a directory to chroot to after authentication. All components of the pathname must be root owned directories that are not writable by any other user or group. After the chroot, sshd changes the working directory to the user’s home directory.

Say hello to ChrootDirectory directive

From the sshd_config man page:

The ChrootDirectory must contain the necessary files and directo ries to support the user’s session. For an interactive session this requires at least a shell, typically sh(1), and basic /dev nodes such as null(4), zero(4), stdin(4), stdout(4), stderr(4), arandom(4) and tty(4) devices. For file transfer sessions using « sftp », no additional configuration of the environment is necessary if the in-process sftp server is used, though sessions which use logging do require /dev/log inside the chroot directory.

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How to execute script on the last day of a month on Linux or Unix bash shell? How do I run a disk usage or custom reporting shell/perl/python script on the last day of a month on a Linux or Unix-like systems?

You need to use the date command to find out whether tomorrow is the first day of the next month. If it is true, you can run your script.

Say hello to TZ variable

TZ is time zone environment variable on Linux or Unix-like systems. The TZ environment variable tells functions such as the ctime(3) family and programs like date what the time zone and daylight saving rule is. For example, Greenwich Mean Time can be defined as follows:

TZ='GMT'

You can set TZ as follows to get tomorrow from the current date (+%d):
TZ=GMT-24 date +%d

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I’m running a process to complete backup and covert images in Mac OS X laptop. I do not wish to disable sleep manually from my OS X power options (Energy Saver). How do I temporarily prevent a Mac from sleeping while my process is still active in Mac OS X Unix operating systems? How can I prevent the system from sleeping temporarily from the command prompt?

You can use the caffeinate command. This command creates assertions to alter system sleep behavior. If no assertion flags are specified, caffeinate creates an assertion to prevent idle sleep.

Another option is to use the pmset command to manipulate power management settings.

Syntax

The syntax is:

caffeinate
caffeinate [options]
caffeinate [options] command

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Le URL rewriting (permaliens) sous WordPress nécessite pour la version 2.4 de Apache des paramètres différents de ceux utilisés pour Apache 2.2.

La configuration des fichiers:

• monsite.com.conf
• .htaccess

de votre site Wordpress est spécifique lors du passage à Apache 2.4.

Si vous choisissez /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/, il faut préciser le chemin complet dans la configuration du site (monsite.com.conf):

En effet, il faut activer:

 <Directory /var/www/dbsysnet/>
 Require all granted
 Options -Indexes
 AllowOverride All
 </Directory>

en n’oubliant surtout pas Require all granted et surtout le « / » à la fin du chemin vers le dossier racine.

Sinon tous les permaliens amèneront à une page « Not found » et même pas celle que vous avez défini pour les erreurs 404 dans votre .htaccess.

Voilà. Ça m’a pris plus de deux heures (si Julien n’avait pas été là, on aurait retrouvé mon cadavre au bout d’une branche…).