If your Macbook gets stuck at the Black Screen of Death (BSOD), you can try this “magical” key combination to attempt to recover. This key combo resets the PRAM and NVRAM on the machine, which store basic things like volume, screen resolution & timezone. Doing this should not cause any loss of your own data […]
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Every once in a while, you may find that the file system you are using is full. Usually this will manifest with a message like: No space left on device When this happens, check if the file system is under Logical Volume Management or LVM. You can do this a number of ways, but a
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We can use the usermod command to add a user to a group. Here I am going to add the user grokman to the group adm: root@myserver:~# sudo usermod -aG adm grokman root@myserver:~# exit Connection to myserver closed. root@myserver:~# ssh myserver Welcome to … root@myserver:~# groups admin adm sudo www-data In Debian / Ubuntu, the
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One way to monitor DB activity in MySQL is to enable logging and then tail the log file. mysql -u root -p You can check the status of logging and get the path of the log file with: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "general_log%"; And then enable logging with: SET GLOBAL general_log = 'ON'; Finally, tail the
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To login to MySQL / MariaDB as the root user, you will need sudoers perms and then you can issue the following command: /home/grokman grokman@li598-26% sudo mysql -u root -p So, it should go something like this:
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In order to list all the configured DB users in a MySQL or MariaDB, you must be logged in as an administrator: /home/grokman grokman@li598-26% sudo mysql -u root -p Then you can issue the command to list all the DB users: select user, Super_priv from mysql.user; So, it should go something like this: Other user
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If you are staring at a lot of files like logs, and trying to look at only stuff that’s changed lately, it can be helpful to filter them out first. One such way is with the find command. Eg, to to list files modified in the last 24 hours: find . -mtime -1 -print
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Welcome to the Grok Shop! If you look at your task manager in Windows 10, you might find some apps running that you didn’t start up yourself. For example, here I’m showing the “YourPhone.exe” app which I’ve never used and definitely did not start myself: So what’s going on, right? In Windows 10, Microsoft introduced
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Don’t you just love a piece of software that has stood the test of time, and averted relegation to the wistful days of yore?? rsync is a perfect example of this. How has rsync achieved this? Well, you see, rsync is awesome! Say you have a folder on a remote machine that you want to
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See Installed Kernels In Debian & Ubuntu, we can see the installed kernels with: % dpkg –list | grep linux-image ii linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 3.16.51-3 amd64 Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs ii linux-image-3.16.0-6-amd64 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 amd64 Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs ii linux-image-4.9.0-11-amd64 4.9.189-3 amd64 Linux 4.9 for 64-bit PCs ii linux-image-amd64 In Fedora / CentOS / RedHat
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