I don’t know about “Ubuntu”, but in Linux generally, “iptables” isn’t a service – it’s a command to manipulate the netfilter kernel firewall. You can “disable” (or stop) the firewall by setting the default policies on all standard chains to “ACCEPT”, and flushing the rules. iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P … Read more
For the JRE, something like this should do the trick: JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f /usr/bin/java | sed “s:bin/java::”)
I usually do release upgrades over VPN, so I’ve tried this a few times. Whenever it updates my openvpn package I lose connection, so I reconnect afterwards. do-release-upgrade starts a backup SSH session on port 1022 and a backup screen session. If you do not have screen installed this will NOT be available. You can … Read more
Apparently, the current method to auto-start Docker containers (from Docker 1.2) is to use restart policies. This will control how Docker should handle starting of the container upon startup and re-starting of the container when it exits. I’ve used the ‘always’ option so far, and can confirm that it makes Docker auto-start the container at … Read more
Simple and easy solution: just specify the unwanted packages with an extra – after each of them. Example without the – switch: root@debian:~# apt-get install bsd-mailx Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following extra packages will be installed: exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 […] Example using the switch to … Read more
Aptitude can help you when you initially install the package: aptitude install “zlib1g-dev&M” Or, after your have installed the package: aptitude markauto “zlib1g” Edit: If you do not have aptitude, you can use apt-mark auto zlib1g-dev
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.user/43587 suggests this one-liner: openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile CHAINED.pem | openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -text -noout It indeed worked for me, but I don’t understand the details so can’t say if there are any caveats. updated june 22: for openssl 1.1.1 and higher: a single-command answer can be found here serverfault.com/a/1079893 (openssl storeutl -noout -text -certs … Read more
You can do a couple of things for avoiding this. Setting the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable to noninteractive and using -y flag. For example: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -yq install [packagename] If you need to install it via sudo, use: sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -yq install [packagename]
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You want to use backtick not regular tick: If that doesn’t work you could also use $() for command interpolation: