In a recent turn of events I’ve been asked to setup a proof of concept (POC) UNIX desktop environment for a work location. Below I will work through some of the process. First I chose to start with Fedora KDE Spin available at https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/ as the users will be coming from a Windows world KDE…
If/When you run into a situation where you can not access repos due to SSL below should help.
If you’ve ran into a road block and need to reset the database and everything makes the profile manager work the scripts below will help. I have had to do this personally after removing a device from profile manager and tried to add it again. NOTE: You will need to reinput all the server information….
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The code below will assist you in creating one or more Raspberry Pi ad block service DNS servers. Equipment List: 2 (suggested but you can do it with one) Raspberry Pi Microcomputers Raspberry Pi 3B+ (or better) are recommended (look at CanaKit (http://amzn.to/2vxgLLD)) 1 USB Keyboard and USB Mouse 1 Device to test the configuration…
If you recently updated or recently installed a Red Hat server and get a message like this when trying to run yum the below will help. Reference: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3134931
If you setup your Raspberry Pi using the NOOBs installer you likely have various apps that you don’t want to keep. This script below will remove many of the preinstalled applications. wolfram-engine bluej geany greenfoot nodered nuscratch scratch sonic-pi libreoffice claws-mail claws-mail-i18n minecraft-pi pygame If you are running as a server you may also want…
When nothing else seemed to work this helped me to get rid of all the duplicates from failed yum updates. After trying the above I still had some duplicates on a different server but the ‘Remove Duplicates’ script below seemed to work fine for me. NOTE: I was looking at having to rebuild one of…
Need help with what a strong password is? Strong password recommendations are as follows: Must contain 14 or more characters Must contain upper and lower case letters Must contain a number or special character (e.g. !@#$%^) Must NOT be the same as your previous 12 passwords Must NOT be similar to your username Must NOT…
If you simply want uptime formatted this small script will help. Uptime by itself will display similar to: 20:25:48 up 3 days, 8:14, 1 user, load average: 2.07, 2.17, 2.35 Formatted using the code above will display similar to: 3 days, 8 hours, 15 minutes.