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Debian 7 “Wheezy” LTS Updates

Debian 7 “Wheezy” LTS Updates

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Debian 7 “Wheezy” Is managed by the LTS (Long Term Support) team. Who are responsible for security updates on wheezy until May 2018. To continue to receive updates you will need to update your sources.list. vi /etc/apt/sources.list Add the following to your sources.list file deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free…

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Pushbullet: How to Send a message from Bash

Pushbullet: How to Send a message from Bash

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With this simple one line of code it is possible to send a message to your Pushbullet account from the Linux terminal. This is great if you want your BASH script to message you when a specific task completes or fails. All that is required is a Pushbullet token that you can obtain from the settings within your PushBullet Account. This can be found here https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings Now paste the code to your terminal replacing the pushbullettoken with your own token and changing…

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Fedora Bash
Fedora 22: Setting a static IP address

Fedora 22: Setting a static IP address

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This is a quick tutorial on how to set a static IP address using the terminal within Fedora 22. Disable Network Manager 1. First stop and disable the gnome network manager from running on boot. systemctl stop NetworkManager.service systemctl disable NetworkManager.service 2. Now start and enable the network service to run on boot. systemctl restart network.service systemctl enable network.service Set the Static Address 1. Check which interface(s) you want to set as static. [[email protected] ~]# ifconfig em1: flags=4163 mtu 1500…

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Fedora Bash
Fedora 21: Setting a static IP address

Fedora 21: Setting a static IP address

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This is a quick tutorial on how to set a static IP address using the terminal within Fedora 21. Disable Network Manager 1. First stop and disable the gnome network manager from running on boot. systemctl stop NetworkManager.service systemctl disable NetworkManager.service 2. Now start and enable the network service to run on boot. systemctl restart network.service systemctl enable network.service Set the Static Address 1. Check which interface(s) you want to set as static. [[email protected] ~]# ifconfig em1: flags=4163 mtu 1500…

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CentOS Bash
Delta RPMs disabled

Delta RPMs disabled

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If you get the following message the using yum you are missing the deltarpm package. Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed. Delta RPM packages contain the difference between an old and a new version of an RPM package. This means the whole new RPM does not have to be downloaded saving bandwidth. To use delta RPMs install the deltarpm package yum install deltarpm

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SSH Login Without Password Setup Script

SSH Login Without Password Setup Script

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About This is a simple script to allow you to easily setup RSA keys and upload the public key to a remote host for SSH login without requiring a password. This can also be used to add an extra layer of security to your server by using RSA keys and a password. Features Setup SSH login without a password using RSA keys Setup SSH login with a password and using RSA keys Description I found I kept forgetting how to…

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Garrys Mod Linux server GLIBC_2.15 fix

Garrys Mod Linux server GLIBC_2.15 fix

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Problem Facepunch Studio have released an update for Garrys Mod server that may cause the following error. Failed to open dedicated_srv.so (/lib/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15′ not found (required by bin/dedicated_srv.so)) or Failed to open dedicated_srv.so (/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15′ not found (required by bin/dedicated_srv.so)) Facepunch have needed to update Garry’s Mod to use GLIBC_2.15.  because of this you will have the issue if GLIBC is older than GLIBC_2.15. This effects the following distros: CentOS 6 Debian 7 Ubuntu 12.10 or lower To…

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Parallels Plesk Panel Maillog location Linux

Parallels Plesk Panel Maillog location Linux

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When trying to find the email logs on my Plesk server I struggled to find them at first. Parallels Plesk Panel maillog is in a non standard location compared to you standard Linux system. On most Linux systems you will find the mail log in /var/log. However Plesk Panel stores the logs in usr/local/psa/var/log. If you want to see the servers mail log use the following command. tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog I recommend creating a symbolic link to plesk logs within…

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CentOS Bash
CentOS 6: Setting a Static IP address

CentOS 6: Setting a Static IP address

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This is a quick tutorial on how to set a static IP address using the terminal within CentOS 6. Set the Static Address 1. Check which interface(s) you want to set as static. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 4C:72:B9:D1:D3:26 inet addr:192.168.1.58 Bcast:5.135.164.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::4e72:b9ff:fed1:d326/64 Scope:Link inet6 addr: 2001:41d0:8:e77b::1/64 Scope:Global UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:640586231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1476012131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:98117934406 (91.3 GiB) TX bytes:953623859810 (888.1 GiB) Interrupt:20 Memory:fe500000-fe520000…

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SteamCMD
How to Install and Use SteamCMD

How to Install and Use SteamCMD

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This is a brief tutorial on the basics of installation and usage of SteamCMD. Windows 1. Create a folder for SteamCMD. C:/steamcmd 2. Download the SteamCMD (Windows) Update Tool. http://media.steampowered.com/installer/steamcmd.zip 3. Extract the contents of the zip to the folder. Linux 1. Create a user for SteamCMD and login. Note: For security best practice do not run SteamCMD a root. adduser steam su – steam 2. Create a directory for SteamCMD. mkdir /home/steam/steamcmd cd /home/steam/steamcmd 3. Download the SteamCMD (Linux)…

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