The make tool in Linux is used to build and compile programs from source files. The utility takes instructions for compilation from the makefile. In some Linux distributions, the make command is not installed by default (for example, in Linux CentOS 8), so when you run the build command, you will see an error:
Category: Ubuntu
Proxy servers (such as the Squid proxy) are often used in corporate networks to provide access to the Internet for internal devices. In order for your internal Ubuntu/Debian hosts to be able to install and update deb packages from external repositories, you need to configure the proxy settings for the APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) package manager. This article describes how to configure proxy connection settings for APT.
In this article, we’ll show you how to set the timezone from the Ubuntu command line.
If you are deploying a Linux virtual machine on a Hyper-V host, you must install Linux Integration Services (LIS) in the guest operating system. Hyper-V Linux Integration Services allow the guest OS to interact with the host: send its state to the hypervisor, perform backups via VSS, correctly reboot and shutdown the Linux guest. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to install Hyper-V Linux Integration Services on popular Linux distros – CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu.
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You can use the built-in network recycle bin to automatically save all files deleted by a user on the Samba file server on Linux. For this, the vfs_recycle (Virtual File System) module is used.
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On Linux, you can use the cups-pdf package to implement a virtual PDF printer. What is a PDF printer? This is a virtual device that is added to the system as a regular printer and when a document is sent for printing, it generates a PDF file from it.
On Linux, a history of recent console commands is stored in the .bash_history file. You can view the contents of this file with any text editor or with the command:
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In this article, we will look at how to install a Zabbix Agent on Linux, connect it to a Zabbix server, and configure data encryption using PSK.
I most often use the following command to find out the version of Linux on the host:
# lsb_release –a
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In this article, we’ll look at how to create a VPN connection from the Linux terminal console and connect to a remote VPN server from the command line. Consider how to create L2TP, PPTP, OpenVPN, and SSTP VPN connections on Linux.
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