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I have need of a VPN connection to get back home for some basic connectivity and work. And while it works just great, I need to a bit of CLI work to add a route prior to manually connecting the VPN. I figured a script would be the perfect solution to automate this. And given the simplicity of this, I figured this script would be quick and easy, and easily made to be "portable" for use in just about any similar situation. In the end, the script works great, but wasn't without it's challenges.
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the dd command certainly has it varied uses, and is a vary well used (and loved AND hated) command. My only one gripe about the command, is that there is no status indicator; nothing to tell how you how far along you are, how much is left, or if the command is even still working. Well, there is a way to get a progress bar... Read on for how.
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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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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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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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