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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 16 December 2015

In order to avoid logging in as the root user, we have the sudo command to allow us to run commands as the root user, thus allowing us accomplish admin tasks, with our own, non-root users. Most of the time, the sudo command will prompt you for your password, just to make sure. While this is typically just fine, it annoys the heck out of me. In this article, we will cover editing the sudoers file, and getting rid of the password prompt.

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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 25 November 2015

Whenever I have a customer complain about CPU usage, the first thing I check is the 'top' command. This is one of the closer commands to Windws' Process Explorer. This will easily show you which process is taking all the CPU Usage. Sometimes though, it isn't a specific process that is taking up the CPU, it's... something else.

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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 09 December 2015

One of the wonderful things about Linux is that you can mount folders hosted on remote servers, and use and access them just like they were local folders. While there are a bunch of different protocols to access those remote folders, by far one of the most common is SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block (SMB), one version of which was also known as Common Internet File System (CIFS) ). In this article, we will go over mounting a password protected SMBV/CIFS share, not just once you've got things going, but automatically at boot time.

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Written by Jon Moore

Published: 18 November 2015

Every now and again, I come across some kind of connectivity issue relating to misconfigured MTUs somewhere along the connection path. This can manifest itself through any number of symptoms. A common problem I have seen is with VPN connectivity to Checkpoint; all other basic connectivity tests are successful, but the VPN still won't connect. So once you figure that the issue may be relating to MTUs, how do you go about testing that?