Articles tagged linux

• 27.2.2026 sailfish os, systemd, linux

  Hosts-based Ad Blocking on Sailfish OS

  To be found here (it’s high time I moved this to its own repository).PrimerAfter installation the script runs immediately, and then updates every week (configurable).
• 27.2.2026 2022-05-01 sailfish os, systemd, ssh, security, linux

  Making sshd more secure on Sailfish OS

  This article deals with making SSH access more secure on your SFOS phone, after initial SSH setup.Please read the chapter SSH on SFOS first.All Linux users & admins highly …
• 26.2.2026 sailfish os, linux, media

  Sailfish OS - Install yt-dlp

  This article has a parent article. It contains some preliminaries to the topics here. Also this article might be helpful.yt-dlp1 is an extremely vesatile utility that can download …
• 19.2.2026 linux, debian

  Initramfs: mount encrypted partitions non-interactively

  During installation of Debian stable I opted to encrypt everything.This includes GRUB asking for a password to unlock itself & the / partition during early boot.Then I get asked again …
• 30.6.2025 sailfish os, linux

  Add shell customisations for all users

  To add shell customisations for all users, add a file to /etc/profile.d - I named it zzz.sh in the hope it will be sourced last and override some …
• 30.6.2025 linux, sailfish os

  Sudo on Sailfish OS

  Use devel-su one last time for the following steps:And add the line[If you prefer to use nano for editing, set the EDITOR environment variable accordingly.]
• 22.6.2025 server, linux

  How to run multiple commands on a remote server via SSH

  SSH automatically opens a shell on the host. It is easy to run a simple command and get the output and its return value. But what if your command contains …
• 9.6.2025 16.2.2016 linux, download

  Scraping the internet with wget

  This will download all playlists for all soma.fm radio stations into the current folder, omiting low-quality 32 and 24kbit/s stations. Should work with other sites containing playlists.If …
• 24.5.2025 server, linux

  Goodbye Pico, hello Pelican

  I think my server got hacked. I’ll never know 100%, but after a reboot it would not accept the hard drive decryption password anymore. I know it’s an …
• 18.4.2025 linux

  Create a secondary User

  I’m not much of a gamer, but I like to play some of the old games that usually come with a distro’s repositories. They often don’t respect …