Linux - How-Tos
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Contents
Maintenance
User Management
Networking
Automatically mounting directories on an as-needed basis... See Autofs
Services
FTP
How To Set Up Your FTP Server In Linux
Restart a service
sudo service FOOBAR restart
or
sudo systemctl restart FOOBAR.service
Where "FOOBAR" is the name of the service you want to restart...
Hardware Information
- 16 commands to check hardware information on Linux
- 10 Useful Commands to Collect System and Hardware Information in Linux
- How to Check Hardware Information on Linux Using Command Line
determine details about an install
Find out Distro Name:
cat /etc/issue
Using TimeShift
Software Updates & versions NOT from the repositories
- HexChat
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:overcoder/hexchatsudo apt-get update
how to format USB Flash Disk using terminal
- First, you have to find out which device (/dev/sd??) your USB stick is. Therefore look at the output of
sudo fdisk -l
or
lsblk
- After that unmount the device/partition (if necessary) by running
sudo umount /dev/sd??
Make sure you replaced ?? with the correct device/partition name from the previous output.
- To format The partition as FAT32 use
mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/sd??
Again replace ?? with your respective letters.
Be careful that if you enter the wrong device name, you might also accidentally format your hard disk!
Dealing with Serial Ports
How to connect to a terminal to Serial-USB
How To Check and Use Serial Ports Under Linux
ESP-8266, Ubuntu, and 74880 baud
Finding the serial ports:
dmesg | grep tty
Make a Linux machine respond to a serial port:
sudo /sbin/agetty ttyS0
Make a Linux machine talk to a serial port:
sudo screen /dev/ttyS0 38400
or
sudo minicom --device /dev/ttyS0
Dealing with File Formats
- Converting .dmg to .iso file
- Open and convert CHM documents
- How to Open, Extract and Create RAR Files in Linux
