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I've been using the linux command line for enabling or disabling an ethernet interface for so long now, I'm having trouble remembering the difference on Mac OS X. Linux is handled as follows: sudo…
Networking stopped working for my Ubuntu VirtualBox Server (running on Mac OS X) and it couldn't seem to get it working again. Tried running: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart only to get errors…
If you already have a key file with a passphrase that Apache uses for SSL, you can prevent Apache from prompting for the passphrase when you reboot or stop and start Apache. You can do so by…
Generate a key on your local machine ssh-keygen -t dsa or ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 hit enter at the prompts and specifying a strong password Copy the key to a remote machine cat .ssh/id_dsa.pub…
Create an Archive $ tar -cvf mydocs.tar mydocs/ $ gzip mydocs.tar or in one step... $ tar -zcvf mydocs.tgz mydocs/ Extract an Archive $ tar -zxvf mydocs.tar.gz Add to an Archive $ tar -rvf mydocs.tar…
I'm always forgetting linux commands that I rarely use but know I've executed in the past. So, this post is to give me a central location for those pesky commands, so I never have to bang my head…
