Author: troy

Install qTox on Fedora

SOLVED It took a while to find that qTox has an AppImage. https://github.com/qTox/qTox/releases By now you figured out that one cannot install qTox on Fedora35 any other way. If you are like me, I thought one could install via dnf. Wrong. There are lots of misleading posts – all very old. Its just not easy to find this solution in...

YACY for Beginners

You may be like me, and understand that Yacy is the only pure, incorruptible privacy solution for search. P2P is the only way to go if you really want private search. All the other methods are either; corruptible (like DuckDuckGo – what a shame), or cannot assure your privacy 100%. So with that in mind, one would really like to...

How To Configure YaCy

YaCy with abundant resources is stable, but not everyone has unlimited resources. This is the beginners guide to configuring YaCy as I have done it. If you are an experienced user or a JAVA developer, this is probably not what you are looking for. This guide is meant for those who have just installed YaCy and want to get a...

How To Debug YaCy

This is the beginners guide to debugging YaCy as I have experienced it. This guide is meant for those who have just installed YaCy and need a little help. YaCy NOOBS may not even be able to find the right question to ask in the forum. So I will try to fill that gap here; YaCy seems to be running,...

YaCy Crashes

I should officially call this page /about-yacy but (SEO) I know when I wanted to know more about YaCy it was because it kept crashing. So you’ve found yourself here for the same reason this page exists. I hope I can make it easier for a beginner, given that I am probably more ordinary, especially compared to the developers. Since...

Debian 10 Disable Tracker

This works. There are a lot of examples out there that don’t work. I found that an additional edit (bottom) made all the difference. These are the typical changes you’ll find online. https://gist.github.com/vancluever/d34b41eb77e6d077887c But here is the change that made all the difference for me. Edit all the tracker files and change X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled to False. re. sudo vi /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

nftables Beginner Examples

The first things you need to do and the commands that you need. Save and Translate your iptables rule into nftables rules when migrating from iptables to nftables are: Save iptables rules to text file iptables-save -c > iptables-saved-backup.txt Translate iptables rules to nftables text file iptables-restore-translate -f iptables-saved-backup.txt > ruleset.nft Active nftables rules nft -f ruleset.nft NOTE You should...

How To Create A Blank Root For Apache Virtual Host?

If you don’t want Apache to serve the first Virtual Host when you get a request for the server IP. (because that is what is supposed to happen). If someone or somebot is attempting to see what is at the ip address, you can serve a blank page instead as follows: vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf Insert this VirtualHost at the top of...

Php 7.3 How to Upgrade Debian Linux 9

This is not as simple as even the most popular blogs explain. sudo apt update sudo apt -y install software-properties-common dirmngr apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg echo “deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php7.3.list sudo apt update sudo apt -y install php7.3 php7.3-cli php7.3-fpm php7.3-json php7.3-pdo php7.3-mysql php7.3-zip php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-curl php7.3-xml php7.3-bcmath php7.3-json sudo...

Responsive iframe WordPress

div class=”iframe-container” iframe src=”” allowfullscreen /iframe /div .iframe-container { overflow: hidden; padding-top: 56.25%; position: relative; } .iframe-container iframe { border: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; } /* 4×3 Aspect Ratio */ .iframe-container-4×3 { padding-top: 75%; }

Mysql Isolate One Table to Restore from Backup

In order to restore only one table from a mysql database backup file, you want to isolate the single table to another sql file. Use SED on the shell command line: sed -n -e '/– Table structure for table `onetable`/,/– Table structure/p' backup.sql > onetable.sql You will want to DROP the table from the database. From the mysql command line:...

Systemd ssh Reverse Tunnel on Debian 9 Stretch

I have used rc.local for years to setup an ssh reverse tunnel on boot under Debian up until Stretch. Now like many others I imagine, I’ve had to convert to systemd. I read everything I could about the choice for deprecating rc.local for systemd. I can say that systemd may be powerful, but systemd’s complexity entails a huge learning-curve for...

How To Manage Fail2ban Using Perl Script On Remote Servers and A Control Mysql Database

Earlier I posted how to use a text file created by a script to similarly manage the rogue IPs that Fail2ban bans. The problem with using scripts and crontab is that it is not reporting in real-time. The method here works in real-time because Fail2ban reports directly to the MySQL on the control server. On each remote you’ll want to...