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Disable Sleep mode in CentOS7/RHEL7 laptop on lid close

May 30, 2018 Leave a comment

The following tip will help you to disable the powersaving or sleep mode behavior of your CentOS or RHEL laptop or desktop. If GUI is present, the following steps will help.

Applications => Utilities => Tweak Tool => Shell => Don't suspend on lid close => ON

But if GUI is not installed, then the only option is to disable this from the commandline. It is very easy, don’t worry. Who cares about the GUI in Linux. ? 🙂 (I love the black screen)

Open /etc/systemd/logind.conf, then make edit in the following configuration. By default, the value of this config will be suspend

HandleLidSwitch=ignore

man logind.conf will provide the complete details about this configuration file. Hope this tip helps.

 

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Disable auto restart policy of docker container

April 18, 2018 Leave a comment

If a docker container is started with –restart=always, then the container will not allow you to stop it.  We can change this behavior by modifying the restart policy. Refer the docker  official documentation for more info

For example

docker run -d --restart=always -p 80:80 -it nginx

To modify this behavior, try the following command.

docker update --restart=no your-container

Another option that allows us to stop the container manually is

docker update --restart=unless-stopped your-container

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How to verify whether a private key matches with the SSL certificate ?

January 23, 2018 Leave a comment

This is a very common question that comes to our mind while setting up SSL in our applications. How to verify whether the key matches with the SSL certificate ?

A very easy way to verify that is given below.

We need to compare the modulus of the certificate against the modulus of the private key.

Execute the below command to get the modulus of a certificate.

openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in mycertificate.crt | openssl md5

This will generate the modulus something like e091f305089662689d62126d49910031 

Execute the below command to get the modulus of a private key.

openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in mykey.key | openssl md5

This will generate the modulus of the private key. You should get the key modulus as same as certificate modulus above. i.e e091f305089662689d62126d49910031

If both the modulus are same, we can say that the certificate and the key are matching.

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Common dependencies to install PyCrypto package in CentOS/RHEL

November 15, 2017 Leave a comment

The installation of pycrypto package may fail with errors like

“error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH”

“RuntimeError: autoconf error”

“fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory”

” #include “Python.h”
^
compilation terminated.
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1″

The solution for this issue is to install the following dependent packages.

yum install gcc

yum install gcc-c++

yum install python-devel

pip install pycrypto

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How to check the Java architecture from command line ?

August 30, 2017 Leave a comment

To check the Java architecture whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit, the following commands will be helpful.

Execute the following commands in the command line and check the results

java -d32 -version

java -d64 -version

If any of the above command is giving an error message similar to “Error: This Java instance does not support a xx-bit JVM.” If it is not supporting 32 bit, then we can say it is a 64 bit Java. If it is not supporting 64 bit, we can say it is a 32-bit Java. The screenshot of the same is attached below.

java_screen.PNG

Hope this will help .. 🙂

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Get public and private IP address of an EC2 instance from the command line

July 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Sometimes we may get requirements to identify the public ip address of an ec2 instance from the command line. There are various ways to perform this operation.

  1. Using AWS CLI
  2. Using a simple REST call
aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids  --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].PublicIpAddress' --output text

If we are on the same EC2 host, we can obtain the details of the EC2 instance using the instance metadata service.

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/


ami-id
ami-launch-index
ami-manifest-path
block-device-mapping/
hostname
iam/
instance-action
instance-id
instance-type
local-hostname
local-ipv4
mac
metrics/
network/
placement/
profile
public-hostname
public-ipv4
public-keys/
reservation-id
security-groups
services/

Using this, for getting the private IP, the command will be

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4

For getting the public IP, the command will be

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4

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(13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied

May 22, 2017 Leave a comment

I was getting the error “(13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied” after deploying a static website in Apache webserver.

Solution:

Apache could not access those directories because of the SELinux security settings. Execute the below command

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t  

 

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Python code to list all the running EC2 instances across all regions in an AWS account

March 9, 2017 12 Comments

This code snippet will help you to get the list of all running EC2 instances across all regions in an AWS account. I have used python boto3 package for developing the code. This code will dynamically pick up all the aws ec2 regions. So the code will work perfectly without any modification even if a new region gets added to the AWS.

Note: Only the basic api calls just to list the instance details are mentioned in this program . Proper coding convention is not followed . 🙂

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Recovering a corrupted EC2 instance

April 5, 2016 Leave a comment

Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular cloud service providers. I am a customer of Amazon. I like the services provided by Amazon very much. Compared to other cloud service providers AWS is simple, secure and advanced. I use EC2 machines for my project related activities as well as my personal experiments. Since I mostly work on open source software, 99.99 % of my EC2 instances are Linux instances. The only way to access these instances is through ssh. I use putty as the ssh client. If something happens to the ssh server, we will not be able to access the server. Sometimes the ssh server crashes due to overload. This can be resolved by rebooting the instance.

Sometimes because of wrong configs in the sshd config file, the ssh server may stop. The ssh server will not start until we make that file proper and restart the service. But for making these changes we have to access the machine.

By default we don’t have direct root login into the machine. We usually login to one user which is a sudo user and using sudo privileges, we access the root. If something happens to the sudoers file or if some wrong entry made in sudoers file, the root access will be revoked.

These are some of the commonly occurred situations where users loose access or super user privilege in the ec2 machine. Most of the users terminate and leave the instance in this situation.

If the instance is an EBS backed instance, we don’t have to terminate and leave the machines in this kind of situations. We can recover these instances. It is simple and can be done in few steps. If the instance is with ephemeral storage, we cannot do anything, because shutting down will clear all the data in the instance.

  1. Start a new instance in the same availability zone as that of the EBS of the broken machine. Micro or nano instance type is fine. If you already have an instance, no need of this instance.
  2. Stop the broken machine. Note down the mount locations
  3. Detach the EBS from the instance.
  4. Attach the EBS to the second EC2 instance (The newly launched one)
  5. Mount the EBS to some directory in the second EC2 instance.
  6. Navigate through the files and directories and make the required changes.
  7. Unmount the EBS
  8. Detach the EBS from the second instance
  9. Attach the EBS to the first instance
  10. Use the same mount location as that of the orginal
  11. Start the instance.

This should fix the problem.

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Increasing the inodes in the disk

February 26, 2016 Leave a comment

I faced an issue while storing large number of small files in the disk. In my linux machine, I was unable to store data because the inodes were getting filled before the storage reaches its maximum limit. This issue was annoying me and wasted a lot of storage. This happened to me several times. Initially I just did a temporary workaround for this issue by clearing old files. But since it became a frequent problem for me, I searched for the solution for this and finally I figured out a work around. The workaround is by choosing a different type of file system while formatting the disk. I found an option to specify the number of inodes while formatting the disk, but I am not sure about the optimal number of inodes that I can specify. I saw some threads in some forums regarding the issues related to improper number of inodes.

/etc/mke2fs.conf file contains various file types with the various inode ratio. The lower the inode ratio, the more you can create files in your file system.

The syntax is given below

mkfs.ext4 -T usage-type /dev/something

The usage type which gives more number of inodes in news. I used news usage-type for my requirement. This gives more inodes as compared to ext4. After doing this, mount the drive and type df -i. This will give the inodes in the new disk.

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