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OpenIndiana 2019.10 Released
OpenIndiana I'm hardly getting any chance to work on Sun/Oracle hardware and Solaris anymore, but still like tracking the releases. OpenIndiana is a free Solaris implementation based on the Illumos...
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Check Config Before Restarting SSH Daemon
Super quick advice today, but one of them pearls of experience that now and then saves your day. Learn how to check and confirm your recent changes to SSH daemon config file (/etc/ssh/sshd_config)...
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Black Friday Deals
Unix Tutorial It's Black Friday, meaning there's lots of great deals online – hardware, software and hosting. Here's just a few things I really liked: Online.net (where I rent a few dedicated hosts)...
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Linux Kernel 5.4
This past Sunday saw the announcement of Linux Kernel 5.4, this release brings a number of significant improvements. I think it will be cool to try the following: new virtiofs filesystem – a FUSE...
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Unix Tutorial Digest – December 1st, 2019
Unix Tutorial Digest: monthly digest of Unix/Linux topics November 2019 has been rather slow here on the blog – lots of projects at work ahead of the usual change freezes and upcoming holiday season....
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Sort Files by Size with ls
Sorting ls output by file size I love reading man pages for even the most basic Unix commands like ls, because there's always something interesting to learn. Today I discovered that it's possible to...
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more or less
Unix Tutorial I'm working hard to finish off the Basic Unix Commands section of this website – want to have every command there documented before I start recording videos about them. more and less are...
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How To: List Kernel Modules in macOS
macOS has a very flexible and striving kernel modules ecosystem. There are so many granularities for integrating with OS kernel that modules are called extensions. Many third party software packages...
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List Kernel Extensions with kextfind
kextfind in macOS I'm traveling on business today and tomorrow, so will mostly be working and blogging from my MacBook Pro – hence possibly a few macOS posts in the row. Today I'm taking a closer look...
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Kali Linux 2019.4
Kali 2019.2 – Placeholder Didn't realise but Kali Linux rolled the last update for this year, Kali Linux 2019.4: Notable improvements: Default desktop environment is Xfce (with new theme)Linux Kernel...
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Live Chat on Unix Tutorial
Unix Tutorial Chat Want to try an experiment for a few weeks – added a live chat box on Unix Tutorial, so if I'm online you can ask me a question. Feel free to ask anything and I'll do my best to help...
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Get Last Field with awk
awk with $NF New Live Chat at Unix Tutorial feature I launched over the weekend is great! Even a few hours I'm online each moring and each evening are giving me plenty of opportunities to meet...
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How To Confirm Symlink Destination
Showing symlink destination Back to basics day: a very simple tip on working with one of the most useful things available in Unix and Linux filesystems: symbolic links (symlinks). How Symlinks Look in...
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Ubuntu – Static IP
I'm finishing up the VM based Ubuntu 19.10 setup and decided to make a few screenshots to test new workflow. Instead of random topic, I documented the task of configuring Ubuntu to use static IP...
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VirtualBox 6.1 Released
VirtualBox 6.1 Has it been a year since VirtualBox 6.0 release already? Time flew! This week brought us the first major release of the VirtualBox 6.x family, with lots of improvements – traditionally...
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neofetch in Debian Linux
neofetch on a physical server with Debian Linux When it comes to reporting basic OS information in one terminal screen for easy screenshot, I've been using screenFetch most of the time. Turns out,...
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Protecting Directories with Sticky Bit
sticky bit on /tmp/try directory One of the least used and usually forgotten features in Linux/Unix filesystems, sticky bit is a great way to manage regular user access to a shared directory. What is...
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How To Change Mac Hostname with scutil
Changing hostname with scutil in macOS Standard command like hostname will still work in macOS, but perhaps it's best to use the native way of updating system information on your Mac? scutil command...
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Install Jekyll 4 in macOS
Jekyll 4 This is a fairly straightforward procedure, I just want to capture it here for my own future use. Install Ruby Version 2.4.0 or Better Your macOS comes with Ruby pre-installed, but...
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Show Next Few Lines with grep
Showing next few lines with grep Now and then I have to find some information in text files – logs, config files, etc. with a unique enough approach: I have a hostname or parameter name to search by,...
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