today's howtos
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How to Set Up a Cron Job That Only Runs on Weekdays
For most organizations, you only work on weekdays – Monday through Friday. In such a case, some tasks should only execute on weekdays and not on weekends. It could be a task like sending emails, checking attendance, or creating backups. Whatever the task, there is a way to automate it to only execute at a specific time every day on weekdays. To achieve that, you should use the Linux cron utility. If you have no idea how to use the crontab to schedule some tasks that only run on weekdays, read on to find out.
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How to Add a Path Permanently in Linux
This Linux tutorial explains how to add a path permanently in Linux. It is optimized for both users who are looking for a fast practical answer and for users who are looking for understanding both global and user environment variables.
The tips provided in this article include two methods to add the persistent PATH for both specific and all users, being useful for every Linux distribution.
The first two sections of the content go straight to the point, describing the steps to add a path permanently. After which, you can find a short explanation on environment variables.
All instructions explained in this article contain screenshots, making it easy to understand and execute the examples.
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My first course, available now: Zorin OS – Linux for the rest of us
After a long period of research, writing, reading, rewriting, rereading, and testing, I am proud to share with you that my first course, with the title “Zorin OS – Linux for the rest of us”, is available from today.
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mps0: IOC Fault 0x40007e23, Resetting
Here I am, sitting on a beach, writing a blog post, and sipping a cool adult beverage. Reading email.
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Creating a wireguard connection between my home and colo – failed attempt
For years I’ve run the dev, test, and stage nodes for FreshPorts off servers in my basement. This meant that those hostnames have always pointed at my home IP address. I’d like to change that.
Why? Nobody needs to know my home IP address. It’s a static IP, and keeping a hostname pointed there is not difficult, but sometimes it does mess up, if only briefly.
What will I do instead?
I will use a server in a colo. The hostnames will point at that server. Let’s call it my portal. I will configure Nginx on the portal to relay to my home servers. The connection between the portal and my basement will be maintained by the server at home and Wireguard will be involved.
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How To Install Discord on Linux Mint 21 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Discord on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Discord is a free all-in-one messaging, voice, and video client that’s available on your computer and phone. This platform is used to create communities and teams and enables smooth interaction between them. This app was originally developed for gamers to chat meanwhile playing games.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of a Discord on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).