Some technical stuff around Linux
Vim is very powerful tool. With it’s plugins, support for external programming languages and a vast community, you can do almost anything in it. But learning Vim is a slow process. Here I will try to put some knowledge that Read More
Recently I bought a new mother board. It’s Asus Strix Z270F with Intel I219-V ethernet controler. I was sadly surprised that stock Linux driver refuses to work with it. Here is how I dealt with this. Spotting problem Of course, Read More
From time to time there is simply no plugin that you need or you can’t find it. In such case you should consider writing one is an easy task, really. I will show how to write a simple plugin in Read More
Recently I had a need to monitor how many TCP connections a single process keeps open. I use Nagios as a monitoring software. After spending some time looking for such plugin I decided to write my own. Here it is, Read More
My friend, Windows user and programmer asked me lately to help him start with Linux. Normally I don’t get involved into such activities as, almost certainly, they end up in flame war and complaints for Linux systems. But this guy Read More
Introduction Although it is possible to resize your partition on-line, be aware that you should always have a backup when operating with your data. As one of my colleague was saying: There are two kinds of people: those who do Read More
Lately I stamped upon some pages describing how to set up a swap on Linux machines. I was very surprised that still so many sources suggests to create a swap space equal to 2, 3 or even 4 times the Read More
% ls -l /tmp/path/to/widely/accessible/file.txt ls: cannot access /tmp/path/to/widely/accessible/file.txt: Permission denied Yes! This happens from time to time. And now you need to check where the problem lies. It’s not a rocket science, you have to go up a path (or Read More
Apache can serve more than one page per apache instance. One way of doing it is to create virtual hosts based on domain name. Http server simply serves different context based on domain that was used to access it. For Read More
Needs I just installed a WordPress on CentOS 7. So I thought I will write down all steps just in case I or someone “out there” will need that in the future. So, let’s make it work. Mysql database Most Read More