The Bourne Again Shell script presented in this article demonstrates techniques related to capturing and logging output (standard output and standard error stream) of a script into a log file while also delivering it to the regular output destinations (for example the terminal or whatever the caller has chosen to redirect to). If you are […]
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Make a Bourne Again Shell Script Log its Output to a File
23. November 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung.
Determine IPv4 Addresses of a Libvirt Qemu-KVM Domain
1. Juli 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Technik.
In the VM, on Redhat-likes, make sure that the Qemu guest agent is installed: dnf install qemu-guest-agent On Debian-likes, execute: apt install qemu-guest-agent For Microsoft Windows guests, there are some tutorials on the web, see for example [1]. On the HV, execute: virsh qemu-agent-command –domain myvm \ ‚{„execute“:“guest-network-get-interfaces“}‘ | \ jq -r ‚ [.return[] | […]
Find Files by Size given in Bytes
20. August 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Programmierung.
Some examples: Find files in current directory that have a size of 400 bytes or more: sfind -min 400 Find files in /etc that have a size of 50 kilobytes (1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes) or more: sfind -dir /etc -min 50k Find files in /var with size between 100 and 500 megabytes, suppress warnings, […]
Print XDG Desktop Definition for Application
3. November 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux.
Update Nov 3 2024: There is an update to this article that provides this script as commandline utility. There is also a Git repository. For an application given by „application name“ or „executable name“, output the corresponding .desktop file, if any: #!/bin/sh IFS=“:“ xdg_data_dirs=${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share:/usr/share} search=$1 for i in $xdg_data_dirs ; do a=“$i/applications“ [ -d $a […]
Pi-KVM Hat v3
20. August 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Technik.
Ich freue mich, zu den Glücklichen zu gehören, die den Pi-KVM Hat v3 mit passendem Stahlgehäuse ergattert haben (https://pikvm.org/). Das Warten hat sich gelohnt.
CentOS/8 Stream on libvirt/KVM with Kickstart and virt-install
22. Januar 2023 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Technik.
This article describes using Kickstart to automate the CentOS installer and virt-install to automate the creation of a VM. The following setup is assumed: There is a libvirt hypervisor called virthost. ssh to virthost as „root“ is possible.
Interactive nftables Ruleset Editor
11. Januar 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Technik.
I wrote a simple shell tool to interactively edit the current nftables ruleset using a terminal-based text editor (respecting environment variable EDITOR and defaulting to vim). For testing purposes, it can optionally revert the changes after a timeout specified in seconds (option –timeout SECONDS, requires systemd-run).
GRE Setup for Bacula on a Mobile Client
9. November 2024 in Administration, GNU/Linux, Technik.
The way Bacula works is: A backup client runs a TCP server process bacula-fd, waiting for a backup server process bacula-dir to connect and perform backup and restore jobs. There is a simple authentication mechanism, where bacula-dir presents a shared secret to bacula-fd to be granted access. Opening the bacula-fd TCP server on an exposed […]