A little bit of wisdom
In the console enter: In my gnuplot (bash) scripts I have: export GDFONTPATH=”/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/” export GNUPLOT_FONTPATH=”/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/” Other methods: export GDFONTPATH=”/your/font/directory/fonts/” before you start gnuplot. The fonts should be in the folder “/fonts”. To make this persistent across reboots, and to set the paths for fonts in postscript terminal, add lines similar to the ones below to […]
To change the default editor at the system level: sudo update-alternatives –config editor and then follow the onscreen prompts. If your editor isn’t on the list, do this first: update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/vim 10
Adding routes in Linux Setting a route in Linux or Unix is just a matter of utilizing the route command. To make routing modifications you have to be running as root or use sudo for super user privileges. This article will show you how to use "route add" and "route del" to add and remove […]
Linux software RAID – quick howto. Basic steps: 1) create partitions using cfdisk or fdisk (set them to MSDOS type with parted beforehand if required) 2) Change partition type to Linux Raid autodetect 3) Create RAID 4) Format RAID devices Show partitions with ‘fdisk -l’ Device Boot Start […]
I was trying to mount a CIFS / SAMBA share on Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy). I wasn’t being prompted for a password, I would simply get: mount -t cifs -o user=admin //10.1.1.10/BLAH remote/ mount: block device //10.1.1.10/BLAH is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: cannot mount block device //10.1.1.10/BLAH read-only I needed to install “cifs-utils” apt-get install […]
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