today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2023

• Share folder between Windows 11 guest and Fedora 38 host (KVM Hypervisor) using virtiofs

  Web Cockpit Console on Fedora 38 was used to manage Win11 KVM Guest

• How To Install Elasticsearch on Fedora 38

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Elasticsearch on Fedora 38. For those of you who didn’t know, Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine built on top of the Apache Lucene library.

• Michael Ablassmeier: updating to bookworm

  Just updated to bookworm. Only thing that gave me headaches was OpenVPN refusing to accept the password/username combination specified via “auth-user-pass” option..

  Mystery was solved by adding “providers legacy default” to the configuration file used.

• SQL Queries to Change Domain Name for WordPress Site

  There are times when you might need to change the WordPress URL in your website's database. This could be due to moving your site to a new domain, changing your domain's structure, or fixing a broken site after an update.

• Getting Started with Linux: Tips for Complete Beginners

  Linux is an open-source operating system that has gained significant popularity in recent years.

• How to Secure Linux Systems Effectively Using YubiKey

  You're not alone if you worry about the ever-increasing threat of hacking. While authentication prompts and 2FA are sufficient to ward off most would-be hackers, thousands of breaches still succeed every day.

  One of the most commonly touted solutions to the authentication issue is YubiKey. But what is YubiKey, and how does hardware authentication work? Can you secure your Linux PC with YubiKey?

• Waiting for things to happen on Linux

  There are always things to wait for on a Linux system—upgrades to complete, processes to finish, coworkers to log in and help resolve problems, status reports to be ready.

  Fortunately, you don’t have to sit twiddling your thumbs. Instead, you can get Linux to do the waiting and let you know when the work is done. You can do this with a script or you can use the wait command, a bash built-in that watches for processes running in the background to complete.