Recently I installed the latest Kali Linux on my old Asus Eee PC Netbook and was met with a blinking cursor _ after install. After hitting Alt+F1 and dropping into a terminal I ran all the updates I could and did a reboot with no change to the
DE …
OS: OpenSuse Tumbleweed
Here are the steps to get libcouchbase installed on OpenSuse:
sudo zypper in libev-devel cmake openssl-devel
git clone https://github.com/couchbase/libcouchbase.git
cd libcouchbase
mkdir build
../cmake/configure
make
cmake
sudo make install
It is the end of the year and the time I use to upgrade my Lenovo P50 to the latest OpenSUSE Leap version. I do it this time of year because I expect to have some issue that I will need to work through after the upgrade and since this …
A few years ago I had an issue where I needed a DynamicDNS service or some sort. I didnt want to pay for it and got the thought in my head to just write my own script that suited my need. The things it needed to do was check if …
Recently I was asked the question what are the needed Linux partitions and what are they for? With that I thought it would be a good post because this is something that is very overlooked since distro installs have become so simple most people just go with the defaults, but …
If you want to see the exit status of a Linux shell command in bash use the variable
$?
This will return the exit status of the last command.
Now this will only give you the right most exit code if you are piping a command.
~> ls | sort
the last command …
OS: nix
Require: LVM, the power of root
Skill Level:* Intermediate
Here is how to move a logical volume into a new volume group in LVM using vgsplit
Lets say you want to change the volume group settings for some of your logical volumes or you just want the logical …
OS: Kali Linux
Skill Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Linux CLI, Basic Networking Concepts, PostgresSQL
Metasploit is the closet thing to push button security and penetration testing one can find. It is by far the most popular security testing framework. Metasploit has thousands of modules and is growing daily with a very …
Make a Bootable Flash Drive from an ISO file in Linux
OS: nix based systems
Skill Level: Beginner
Prerequisites:* Terminal, The Power of Root
There are a few ways of creating a bootable USB drive. This is my preference. Using dd is quick, easy and available on all *nix systems …
Last post (Getting Started With Docker) I ended off with saying I would come back and show how to set up a mongodb docker image. If you go to https://registry.hub.docker.com/ on the first page you can find the official mongodb docker image. This is not that …