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Linux

Ubuntu whatprovides equivalent

On RHEL/CentOS systems, I am used to being able to use the whatprovides command to find what package contains a specific binary. On Ubuntu the best equivalent I have found is the apt-file command. This […]

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Linux

NFS Server on Ubuntu 18.04

First, as root, install nfs-kernel-server: By default NFS version 2 is disabled. This is probably fine but if you do need to enable it, edit /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server and add: And then restart the service: Confirm with: […]

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AWS

aws-inventory

Here I am trying out a tool called aws-inventory that attempts to discover created resources within an AWS account. See the aws-inventory homepage for more information. First use the distributions package manager to install Tkinter: […]

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Ubuntu

Install netdata on Ubuntu 16.04

Unfortunately there is not currently a .DEB installation file so we must install it manually. Update the package index and install the required and recommended packages for netdata. Clone the Netdata repository. Then install Netdata […]

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6.7

Installing vCLI on Linux

This relates to VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.7.0-8156551 which you will need to down load from the VMware website here. In both examples below, you will need to first download this file and copy it to the device you […]