Month: September 2017

  • How To Use Systemctl to Manage Systemd Services and Units

    All credits to: @ Digitalocean.com Justin Ellingwood   Introduction Systemd is an init system and system manager that is widely becoming the new standard for Linux machines. While there are considerable opinions about whether systemd is an improvement over the traditional SysV init systems it is replacing, the majority of distributions plan to adopt it or…

  • TK102 GPS tracker configuration

    TK102 GPS tracker configuration

    We are going to use a KPN prepaid SIM card. The pin code is removed using a cell phone and mobile internet is activated. We will transfer the data via GPRS connection to a GPS server called Traccar. The server is free downloadable for any platform. Make sure the battery of the GPS is well…

  • Ubuntu error: A job is running for dev-mapper-cryptswap1.device

    (Thanks to: Ubuntuhak ) If you notice that booting Ubuntu takes a long time and you see the following error message on the booting screen after pressing ‘ESC’, A job is running for dev-mapper-cryptswap1.device (50s / 1m30s) This is caused by the system looking for an encrypted swap partition, however most likely you have not…