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Recently I’ve published an article about “DynDNS and ddclient: access your Linux from anywhere“, and some people commented that the services on DynDNS are not free anymore, so this is an alternative by Adam Buchanan first published on his interesting blog — This has nothing to do with search engine marketing, but everything to do with […]

I use ssh connections to manage remote servers it’s one of the main task in my work, so over time I’ve learnt some tricks to speed up the connection phase of the ssh protocol, so in this article I’ll show you how to: Configure ssh to use ipv4 only Configure ssh to use a particular […]

Sometime it happen that the command df and the command du report different results such as: df -h /tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vzfs 16G 12G 4G 75% /tmpdf -h /tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vzfs 16G 12G 4G 75% /tmp While a du command show somethign different such […]

Sometimes it’s useful to write a bash script that do something like “Do this job, if it’s still running after XX second kill it”, how to implement this in a normal bash environment ? Nothing simpler: Use the timeout shell command to achieve this. From its info page: timeout runs the given COMMAND and kills […]

While installing a new computer (soon a post on my new arch-linux laptop) I’ve re-discovered a command that I don’t use frequently, but that can be really useful : lsblk lsblk lists information about all or the specified block devices. The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem to gather information. The command prints all block […]