To find out whether the pc you are working on is actually a 32 or 64 bit machine you have to give the following terminal command: uname -m If it displays i386 or i686 then it is 32 bit. x86_64 is a 64 bit machine.
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Changing date format in Thunderbird
Create a small bash file vi ~/thunder and cut and paste the following in it. #!/bin/sh export LC_TIME=en_GB exec /usr/bin/thunderbird "$@ Then make the file executable and edit the launcher chmod 774 ~/thunder gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop and …
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I was surprised that apache didn’t work out of the box. Thanks to DoomDeathMetal (what a name!) this was easily solved: rm -rf /etc/httpd yum -y reinstall httpd systemctl start httpd.service
Read more →Backup script
I use rsync for all my backup scripts. It is fast and easy. #!/bin/bash LOGFILE=/var/log/backup.log EMAILID=Alfred Tuinman@xyz.com NASDISK=192.168.x.x:/volume1/backup/myserver # the NAS station ARGMNTS="-rptgoDLKve ssh --delete-excluded --safe-links …
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You have to add the repository to be able to get plugins for mp3 yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm Then ad the actual plugin yum …
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