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My Review of Arch
After my minimal install of Arch, I was greeted by a terminal console upon booting the kernel. With 5,013 packages in the 32 bit stable repositories (compare tha…
Jumping on the Arch Bandwagon
Well, after avoiding it for a few years, I have decided to install the Arch GNU/Linux distribution on my Acer C710. At first glance, it was nice to just install the necessary packages and have a working system within 20 minutes. The downside to having everything up and running in 20 minutes is that I did not install the base packages that come with…
Expect with expect
Wouldn't it be nice to program a script that expects a certain line of text then sends a predetermined string? How about copy your ssh id to 40 different RPi units without typing the command for every one? Expect is that sort of program we all have been dreaming about. Just look at this script:
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The Arrow Law
When I first started out with Linux, I was having trouble understanding the basic commands such as ln, andrewmv, scp, rsync, etc. What got me with those commands was the SOURCE and DEST options until I figured out the arrow law.
A typical rsync command looks like this:
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Installing fonts on Windows using Puppet
I was recently tasked to install a group of fonts on windows systems. In order to do it the Internet way, you have to:
- Install the font on a system
- Export the registry file
- Create a GPO
- Place the font in an accessible location (domain readable)
- Make sure the GPO has the .reg and the font file install…
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Installing TeamViewer over SSH
The recommended way to install TeamViewer is from a desktop environment using a package manager such as Synaptic, Yum, or apt-get. Sometimes you find yourself in a circumstance when ssh is the only way you have access to your server. This tutorial will help you get it installed on Ubuntu Server 14.04.2.
As a reminder, TeamViewer is free for …
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Setting the I/O scheduler for a single disk on Fedora
You can set your IO scheduler on-the-fly by echoing the scheduler you want into /sys/block/{DEVICE-NAME}/queue/scheduler. This setting, however, does not persist across system reboots. The legacy method is to place this command in /etc/rc.local or by placing an elevator variable in grub.cfg.
Beginning w…
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Send Aliases over SSH connections
Bash reads aliases from a file only; however, this file does not have to reside on the server you are connecting to. With OpenSSH, we have to ability to send environment variables that the server allows.
On Debian/Ubuntu systems, the default accept environment variables are:
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Kodi Shutdown Script
I am currently using 14.2 of Kodi on my home media center. In order to save money and energy, our rule of thumb is to keep the media center powered off during the night. At first thought, it would make sense to use Kodi's built-in sleep function; however, it gets too mundane to open the setting option every time you want to watch something…
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About
Andrew Wippler's Sketchpad is where I express my interests. I love Jesus, my family, and technology. My current interests are: (in no particular order)
- Nicole and my 4 children
- Linux
- Fedora
- Internet Safety
- Amazon Web Services (AWS - same initials as this website :) )
- Coding…
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