CentOS 6 and MiniDLNA
I’ve got a small home server made from a half-broken laptop nobody wanted any more. The screen was’t working, but otherwise the machine was fine, so I took it, shipped Centos 6 on it and it’s been serving as a …
Author: Vratislav Hutsky
Subdirectory Checkout with git sparse-checkout
It’s very convenient, even necessary, to use a version control system, e.g. CVS or Git. One can go back in history and easily trace the changes (especially) when something goes wrong. Git, being a distributed system, can be used to …
Mount a disk image containing LVM
If you have an image with standard partitions, you can mount any partition as a loopback device using the offset given by fdisk: user@machine:/home/user# fdisk -l disk.img Disk disk.img: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total …
Observium and SNMPv3
Some tasks you find yourself doing only once in a while, so they never stick in your memory for too long. Adding a new device to Observium (a great monitoring tool), and that device being off the premises, so it’s …
Broken MATE panel
Following an upgrade in Debian Jessie/testing, I was left with no panels at all after logging into the MATE desktop. Running dpkg -s mate-desktop, I saw that MATE had been changed to 1.8 from the previous 1.6 version. My first …
Git – show all files modified between two commits
It’s always best to commit your work only once it’s done. Sometimes the changes span over days or weeks and this is where stashing comes useful. Sometimes, however, I start work at the office and then I want to go …
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Delete huge amount of files in a directory
I had this peculiar problem – one of my virtual hosts had a custom tmp directory where sessions were stored and not deleted for a long time. When I found out, the number of files in there already posed a …
Conky and MATE problem
I found this lovely Conky script that I wanted to use for my MATE desktop. conky -c .conky/conkyrc_orange However, it wouldn’t start automatically after logging in, see: user@machine:~$ cat .config/autostart/conky.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=conky -c /home/user/.conky/conkyrc_orange Hidden=false X-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true Name[en_US]=conky Name=conky …
Daggerfall
…some 18 years later.