I use nfs quite a lot. It allows local access to remote files i.e. the remote folder is mounted locally so you can access the remote files locally. Often overlooked, make sure the proper NFS RPC-based services are enabled for portmap (not required for nfs4). Issue the following command as root: …
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Support Net Neutrality
Internet neutrality is a big deal. It enables you, or anyone else, to complete at a true level playing field with large corporations. Please do support Net neutrality Early last year Mark Zuckerberg had pushed to break net neutrality in India. It failed! Read here more about Facebook’s biggest …
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If you run a cron job and you would like to only see the errors reported use cronic on Centos or chrronic on Ubuntu. The latter comes with the package moreutils apt-get install moreutils
Read more →Search for a text string within files
At times you see that a particular image or so is not found when loading a web page and you are at a loss where the call came from. At least I had that today when I noticed that a menu image was called. The command to search for that is actually really straight forward: grep -rnw 'directory' -e …
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