Category: Linux

  • pfSense book available to everyone

    pfSense book available to everyone

    Today, Netgate made the pfSense book available for everyone for free. In the past this was a privelage to Gold-subscribers only. The book contains the complete documentation, made by Netgate with help from community supporters. This book is available in PDF and ePub version. View the news artical brought by Netgate at: https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfSense-book-available-to-everyone.html Interesting? Looking…

  • PfSense on Zotac Zbox CI327

    Some helpfull notes when installing pfSense on your Zotac Zbox CI327. Install from usb stick Preparing the drive Download pfsense image Write image to drive Known problems you can run in to. CI327 has Realtek NIC’s. For the best performance, you need to tweak some settings in the Gui: system/advance/network… CHECK Disable hardware checksum offload…

  • Installation of Autodesk Eagle 9.0.1 in Ubuntu

  • Configure proxmox email notification

    Configure proxmox email notification

    Follow the steps below to configure the Proxmox email notification. Install the authentication library: apt-get install libsasl2-modules If Gmail has 2FA enabled, go to App Passwords and generate a new password just for Proxmox Create a password file: nano /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd Insert your login details: smtp.gmail.com youremail@gmail.com:yourpassword Save the password file Create a database from the…

  • Proxmox ZFS Failed To Import Pool ‘rpool’

    boot into emergency mode (in the grub menu, hit “e”, and add ” emergency” to the end of the line starting with “linux”, then press ctrl+x) if needed, manually import your rpool in the initramfs prompt like you did in your first post (“zpool import -N rpool” followed by “exit”) enter your root password when…

  • ZFS cheat sheet

    Pool Related Commands # zpool create datapool c0t0d0 Create a basic pool named datapool # zpool create -f datapool c0t0d0 Force the creation of a pool # zpool create -m /data datapool c0t0d0 Create a pool with a different mount point than the default. # zpool create datapool raidz c3t0d0 c3t1d0 c3t2d0 Create RAID-Z vdev…

  • Proxmox – Change VM ID

    Change VMID from 100 to 302 Stop/Shutdown a VM. Login using SSH to Proxmox Machine or using Shell menu in Web Interface. Rename image directory name and image filename. root@PROXMOX01:/# cd /dev/pve root@PROXMOX01:/dev/pve# ls root swap vm-100-disk-1 root@PROXMOX01:/dev/pve# mv vm-100-disk-1 vm-302-disk-1 root@PROXMOX01:/dev/pve# ls vm-302-disk-1.qcow2

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Chrome browser in Ubuntu

    Chrome browser in Ubuntu

    Follow the instruction for installation: Add Key: wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add – Set repository: sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list’ Install package: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable