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Thursday, 26 December 2024
Concatenating video files
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For video files that come in part, use ffmpeg to merge them into 1 file Eg: part1.mp4, part2.mp4, part3.mp4 Create a concat file - list.txt ...
Sunday, 17 November 2024
MFA with Google Authenticator
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Set server up so user can log in with an ssh key or Google authenticator (won't need both). If a user doesn't have key access setu...
Sunday, 3 September 2023
Expand a logical volume used inside a VM
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This expands a LV used as a virtual disk inside a virtual machine. First expand the LV on the hypervisor # lvextend -L500g /dev/vg_guests/lv...
Sunday, 8 January 2023
Replacing A Failed Disk in a software Raid 1 array
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2 Disk array, /dev/sda & /dev/sdc where /dev/sdc has failed. Mark disk as failed # mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdc1 Remove d...
Sunday, 25 April 2021
Non-root access to system logs
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Access to some system logs in /var/log is restricted to root only. Here's a handy way to grant access read-only access to all system...
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