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-  * **sysadmin-notes**  
-  * **Jonathan Haack** 
-  * **Haack's Networking** 
-  * **netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com**  
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-A dumping ground for basic gnulinux sysadmin and other miscellaneous notes 
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--Text Editors- 
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-Change the default text editor, terminal, web browser, in Debian 
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-  exo-preferred-applications 
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-Some systems are not kind with exo, so ... 
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-  xdg-mime default caja.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search 
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-Set caja or other file managers to manage desktop 
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-  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false 
-  gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true 
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--motd- 
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-Create the following to make a message of the day that will be appended to the dynamic message of the day. 
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-  sudo nano /etc/motd 
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-Is motd printing twice, comment out motd statis in pam setting 
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-  /etc/pam.d/sshd 
-  #session    optional     pam_motd.so noupdate 
-  (actually it is the line above this, leave this active) 
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-Print motd with every shell log in ... 
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-  nano ~/.bashrc 
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-Navigate to the end of the file, and add 
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-  cat /etc/motd 
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--Firefox- 
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-To install the latest firefox on Debian and make it default, do the following.  The link below may not always work, so replace when updated. 
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-  sudo mkdir -p /opt/firefox 
-  sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/firefox 
-  cd ~/Downloads && wget -O FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US" 
-  tar xjf FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 -C /opt/firefox/ 
-  sudo mv /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_orig 
-  sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr 
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-To restore firefox-esr that comes with Debian. 
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-  unlink /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr 
-  mv /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_orig /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr 
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--optical ripping- 
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-  cdrecord -pad -dao -data blag-140k-i686.iso 
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--pam garbage- 
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-  sudo nano /etc/pam.d/common-password 
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-Prevent Log in - create file 
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-  /etc/nologin 
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--old reminders- 
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-remove old and offending keyring from gnome, make new directory for new one 
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-  sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/keyrings 
-  mkdir ~/.local/share/keyrings 
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-start or stop network manager (or other services) 
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-  systemctl <start/stop/restart> networkmanager.service 
-  /etc/init.d/network-manager <start/stop/restart> 
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-verify dhcp client working for interface eno1 
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-  dhclient -v eno1 
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-add subnet to interface eno1 
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-  ip address add 192.1##.1##.2/24 dev eno1 
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-interface tool w/ eno1 example 
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-  ethtool eno1   
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-interface with switch using screen 
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-  screen /dev/ttyUSB0/ 19200 
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-calculate subnet automatically 
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-  subnetcalc 
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-proxying web traffic through remote server  
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-  ssh -D <port#> <user>@<domain.com> 
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-get block ID of drives 
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-  blkid 
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-nmap to scan devices on lan 
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-  nmap -sP 10.##.##.0/24 
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-find utils example 
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-  find . -iname "name"  
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--ngrok- 
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-ngrok notes; private http(s) tunnels 
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-  ./ngrok http 80 
-  wget https://[ngrok tunnel]/id_rsa.pub 
-  cat ~/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 
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-query hosts on the lan 
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-  avahi-browse -tl _workstation._tcp 
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-Debian print system configuration to stdout; use root 
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-  cat /proc/cpuinfo && lspci | grep -i vga && uname -a && lsb_release -a 
-  lsb_release -a 
-  lspci 
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-Debian repo management 
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-  cd /etc/apt 
-  nano sources.lsit 
-  [main contrib non-free] 
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--sftp basics- 
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-  cd ~/Downloads 
-  sftp user@host.com:/path/to/sftp/directory/of/choice/ 
-  > put /path/to/file.txt  
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--build app from source- 
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-tar -xf <source_filename> 
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-Navigate to the directory that tar unarchived the files to.  Then, within that directory, execute: 
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-  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local 
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-  make 
-  sudo make install clean 
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--using vi to scrape unnecessary text strings away from openwrt packages that need updating 
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-  :1,$s/ .*// 
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--passing traffic through wifi radio to another interface on host- 
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-  sudo su -c "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlp2s0 -j MASQUERADE" 
-  sudo su -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" 
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-  set a static ip using ip a a x.x.x.x. dev blah 
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-  set static on wndr wan 
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--exim delete all messages- 
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-  exim -bp <print message ids> 
-  exim -Mrm <message id> 
-  exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash 
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--verifying TLS with swaks on exim4 relay setup 
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-  swaks -a -tls -q HELO -s smtp.haacksnetworking.com:587 -au test -ap '<>' 
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--mysql password- 
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-  nano /etc/mysql/debian.cnf  
-  sudo mysql -u debian-sys-maint   
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