Linux, programming and more
Storing and archiving of invoices can be very tiring.
From each contract I receive for each month a PDF.
During a year 12 pdfs from jan. – dec. * amount of contracts = hundreds of PDFs.
Yeap solution is to merging multiple pdf files into one:) [Read more…]
I think this is the only one solution to find out how long linux process already run:
1 | ps -p 3064 -o etime= |
Working on websites on Mac can be sometimes very annoying. You are writing some piece of code and you need to transfer it every time via FTP or SFTP to a linux web server.
SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a solution to avoid this transfer layer of your develop work. By default SSHFS is not availible in Mac OS X but it can be installed
To be a able to use SSHFS it is required to [Read more…]
I came across this Apple specific DNS cache situation this morning.
I changed a DNS record for my GIT-server and was trying to access it again, the DNS was still showing the old IP-Address. After some attempts to clear Linux DNS cache with “rndc flush” I recognized that dns is was cached by my Mac.
Mac OS X keeps a local cache of successful resolved DNS queries for a time defined by the DNS server.
To clean DNS Cache in Mac OS X versions 10.7 and 10.8, run this command from your Terminal:
1 | sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder |
After some days of my vacation, my Fedora workstation was not able to boot. I stuck in the grub rescue shell, something was wrong with my MBR-recoord. There was a wrong UUID.
As I tried to update grub (command update-grub) – I stuck again – command not found! This is a Debian/Ubuntu specific command and is not available here.
This is a update-grub in Fedora way:
1 | grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg |
And finally the MBR installation:
1 | grub2-install --recheck --no-floppy /dev/sda |