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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 start Docker API in CentOS 6

February 15, 2018 Leave a comment

Add the following lines to the /etc/sysconfig/docker file and restart the docker

other_args="-H tcp://0.0.0.0:4243 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock"

Restart Docker

service docker restart

Now check the docker API using the following command

curl host:4243/info

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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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How to enable access to a S3 object in a secure way ?

December 5, 2017 1 Comment

By default all the objects in an AWS bucket are private. Sometimes we may come across the requirement to share an object (file) present in s3 to others and don’t want to share aws access credentials.

In these scenarios, AWS provides a simple way to provide access by generating a timebound signed URLs using the access credentials. These URLs will be active only for the specified time period and the access will be revoked after that time period. I came across a similar requirement and the solution is shared below.

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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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