Linux Mini How-Tos

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Linux Mini How-Tos

This started as a small collection of troubleshooting and configuration topics, but has grown considerably. I hope to organise it better one day.

Even so: Here you will find miscellaneous instruction guides for short Linux administration tasks that don't fit into topics elsewhere. There are a few links to other sites where I found an article that was especially clear, insightful, or innovative on a topic.

Administration Automatically clean old temporary files
Preventing accidental Ctrl+Alt+Del reboots
Remote TAR Backups
Init Fixes
Using a file for swap space
BASH and other CLI topics apropos or whatis command
Interactive editing of a string in BASH
Shell One-Liners, Scripts, and Tips
Handy BASH function library
Make a colour BASH prompt
BASH History and other helpful settings
BASH math and formatting
Testing if a script is interactive
TMUX, Screen, DVTM
Screen formatting in scripts: ANSI/VT100 Terminal Control Escape Sequences
Keyboard Layout Mapping
Nested read: keyboard input while reading a file
Prevent terminal screen from clearing at log-in
Search LibreOffice ODT files
Disks and Filesystems NFS auto-mount with systemd
Partitioning
Scanning for New or Changed Drives
Update e2fsprogs in a rescue system
KDE Keeping KDE 3.5
KDE 3.5 Troubleshooting
LVM Creating a new logical volume
Increasing the size of a logical volume
Shrink a File System or Logical Volume
Placing root on a logical volume
Using LVM Snapshots
Desktop and Laptop
Software Notes
Booting from USB
Canon MF642C colour laser printer
Date and other locale settings
Evolution key bindings
Firefox security and privacy
Fix BibleTime text display in Ubuntu
Fonts
Linux on Laptops
HeidiSQL in WINE
HTTPS redirection and how to stop it
Sublime Text Editor 3
Trinity Desktop in Gentoo
MariaDB and MySQL MariaDB Troubleshooting
Putting the Host Name in the MySQL/MariaDB prompt
Change MariaDB/MySQL grants
Database Import with Progress Graph
Gathering DB statistics
Networking Network Device Naming
TUN & TAP notes
Performance Topics relating to overall non-application-specific performance
Bandwidth Testers
RAID Linux software RAID
Remote access Remote log-in shows Message Of The Day (motd)
X11 forwarding
RPM Making an RPM that contains only text files
Security Encrypt/Decrypt a file
Idle Log-out
Verify Package Signatures
Blocking Zoom trackers
SSH Android SSH issues
Close a frozen SSH session
Subversion Moving a Subversion repository
Change Subversion file classification
Subversion Troubleshooting
Making Subversion remember passwords
Troubleshooting File will not execute
Single-user mode for system repair
/etc/issue file does not display at log-in
Video Determining supported Framebuffer video modes
Combine a slide with audio using ffmpeg
FFMPEG notes
OpenShot videos are silent
VIM VIM Notes
VMware VSphere Shared Storage

External References

BASH: Advanced BASH Scripting Guide (Linux Doc Project)

BASH: A terrific collection of BASH How-To's from many people (wooledge.org)

CLI maths: Floating point math and passing parameters to functions (Linux Journal)

LVM: List of LVM potential drawbacks (serverfault.com)

Unicode: Unicode charts (unicode.org)

Antiquated Material

Historical material that is no longer relevant in current Linux builds.