Tag: Linux
Ensuring Persistent WiFi on Headless Fedora Linux Devices with Auto-Reconnect
I have an old ASUS A43SV that serves as my 16GB 4-core 8-thread public server, hosting http://news.benyamin.xyz and other services that don’t require high uptime/SLA. This device resides in my bedroom with a WiFi connection and is connected to a VPN with a Public IP. As we know, residential areas sometimes experience electricity or internet…
Fix Fedora WPS Office Linux Error Export PDF
Today I face problem with my libreoffice for propiertary .docx file, where I need to able to edit and export as the same as MS Word able to show. Sadly, I need to reinstall WPS Office in my Fedora work laptop. I face problem when exporting the .docx into pdf, it show message “wps writer…
XArchiver Drag and Drop Fix with Thunar in Fedora 41
Just for reminder, this post is only categorized as note, the work was done by Ingo Brückl himself. I just happy and want to share this to everyone. Archive manager in Linux comes in many type of instance, from lxqt, peazip, file-roller, engrampa, and lastly XArchiver. lxqt archive manager does support the feature of drag…
Building Newer Spotify LPF Package when Newer Package Hasn’t landed Yet in Fedora
LPF (Local Package Factory) is a great tool that really help in repackaging the apps that aren’t allowed to be redistributed as binary directly, and one of the case is closed source application, Spotify. I come across a question that I already have an old version of Spotify client, and I tried to upgrade it…
How to Get Wifi Signal Strength via CLI using nmcli on Fedora or Ubuntu
I have been tinkering with my old ASUS A43SV as my home server that serve several services that I have and host on (news.benyamin.xyz and op.benyamin.xyz). This server use a special layer 2 network emulation with ZeroTier as it’s backend and I’m expose it to the internet (for my personal hoby). The problem is sometimes…
Run Shell Script without sudo and with special bit permission using suid-wrapper
We always remember chmod u+s or special permission bit on an executable means when we run the executable it will run as the owner of the executable (read this). There are a problem with it, it will WORK IF it’s a BINARY EXECUTABLE, NOT SHELL SCRIPT! Then how to make shell script behave the same…
Podman Compose Error when resolve instance hostname in same pod on RHEL 8.8 : Change the network_backend
So, this is another story or experience that I gain when I wrote my last piece of exercise in University Lab. I have subset of running container compose in Internet Server Administration courses, and one of my assistant told me that podman-compose on nginx-golang (one of the container set up from https://github.com/docker/awesome-compose/tree/master/nginx-golang for learning proxy),…
Install Driver Canon IP2870S di Fedora Linux 38
Ini hanya catatan sederhana saja, untuk instalasi Driver Canon IP2870S atau seri IP2800 apapun. Saya catat karena di website Canon resmi untuk IP2870S tidak menyediakan Versi Linux, tapi ada Driver Linux IP2800. Singkatnya download paket tar.gz driver dari Web Canon, untuk Debian bisa di download di https://id.canon/en/support/0100586502 (bonus saja, judulnya fedora). Untuk Fedora bisa download…
DNS in systemd land using resolvectl : Temporary set, get, status, and clear cache
This is a pretty simple post/notes from my experience with DNS on linux using Fedora/EL based or any systemd-resolved based DNS client. With windows, we have ipconfig command to control the cache of the dns also netsh command to control IP. Most of the time, we can clean the cache just using ipconfig /flushdns, but…
FSearch : Everything Voidtools Alternative for Linux
I have been looking for a while, a tools to search files and folders on Linux that is fast and low consumption in CPU like everything from Voidtools in MS Windows. If you wonder what is everything voidtools, you can read it here (you can use google translate for it, as It is written in…