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Rsync Time-Machine Backup For Linux

Rsync is a Linux command-line tool that allows one to transfer files either to or from a remote host (but not bet

Creating a Swap File Versus Swap Partition in Linux

When setting up a Linux distro using an installer in your favorite hypervisor of choice, you'll need

Non-GUI Terminal in Linux

The terminal that you normally access in a Linux distro is called the Pseudo-Terminal.

Allowing SSH Into Two Separate Ports, One For LAN and One For WAN

Is it possible to configure a server such that one can ssh into that server internally on a LAN while being able to ssh into the network interface that communicates on the WAN out to the Internet? How do we handle this? Do we just open port 22 for ssh for both LAN and WAN and call it a day? Is this going to pose a security risk by allowing port 22 traffic from the WAN internally to our LAN? Can we even do this? The answer to this question is, YES! How can we take care of this without posing an unnecessary risk on our server? The answer to this second question is simple.

AV Linux MX Edition System Setup & Product Review

I have been using AV Linux MX Edition 21.1 as my daily driver now for almost a year. This Linux distribution, originating from Canada sports the xfce desktop environment. AV Linux MX Edition is based on Debian Linux as well as MX Linux from which it gets part of its name. 

Linux From Scratch Presentation by Pat Barnes

We were pleased to present a member of the WNCLUG-Asheville, Pat Barnes, who gave

Converting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Vanilla Gnome3 DE

By default, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is developed with a highly customized Gnome3 desktop which looks very much like the original Unity desktop. Many people, including myself, do not like the look and feel of this desktop even though it is based on the Gnome3 desktop environment. I am assuming that you are familiar with both Linux, the Linux Terminal, and have used Ubuntu Linux in the past. If you don’t meet these prerequisites, then you may find some of the steps in this conversion process to be a little confusing.

Designating Hot Spares in Your ZFS Storage Pool

There is a feature built into ZFS called the “hotspares” feature which allows a sysadmin to identify those drives available as spares which can be swapped out in the event of a drive failure in a storage pool. If an appropriate flag is set in the feature, the “hot spare” drive can even be swapped automatically to replace the failed drive. Or, alternatively, a spare drive can be swapped manually if the sysadmin detects a failing drive that is reported as irreparable. 

Hot spares can be designated in the ZFS storage pool in two separate ways: 

Aliases to Speed and Accuracy

Linux bash aliases are like personal shorthand we can use in a Linux terminal. Aliases let us create abbreviations of a few characters to represent an entire Linux command, or even several of them. Think of bash aliases as command line macros for Linux.

For instance, here’s an alias to print a sorted list of shell environmental variables:

Linux Kernel 16.1-rc8 Is Now Available

Linux 6.1 release candidate 8, which is anticipated to be the final release candidate, was announced by Linus Torvalds.