Author: Eric Ma

Eric is a systems guy. Eric is interested in building high-performance and scalable distributed systems and related technologies. The views or opinions expressed here are solely Eric's own and do not necessarily represent those of any third parties.

How to make the rpcbind.service auto start in systemd on Linux?

The command systemctl enable rpcbind.service seems not work. The rpcbind.service does not start after rebooting. How to make/force the rpcbind.service auto start in systemd on Linux? You an force the rpcbind.service to start by making it be “wanted” by the target such as multi-user: # systemctl add-wants multi-user rpcbind.service This will force rpcbind.service to start.

How to test whether PATH has a specific directory in it in Bash on Linux?

How to test whether PATH has a specific directory in it in Bash on Linux? For example, how to test whether /usr/local/mytool/bin is in $PATH? Directories in the $PATH variable are separated by :. So you can use a regular expression to test whether the $PATH contains a directory. The code for your specific example…

How to get file extension in JavaScript?

How to get file extension from a file name in JavaScript? For examples, For “file.txt”, I want to get “txt”. For “file2.multi.ext.fileext”, I want to get “fileext”. This JavaScript function works well for me. function getExt(filename) { var idx = filename.lastIndexOf(‘.’); // handle cases like, .htaccess, filename return (idx < 1) ? “” : filename.substr(idx…

How to get a user’s home directory from the username in a variables in Bash?

In Bash, ~username gives the username user’s home. However, this does not work for situations where username is in a variable such as ~$user How to get the home directory from the user name in a variable in Bash? You can use this Bash script snippet: userhome=$(eval echo ~$user) Here, $user get evaluated to its…

Linux boots failed with “sulogin: can not open password database” while the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files look fine

Linux boots failed with “sulogin: can not open password database” while the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files look fine. How to fix this? The OS is Fedora 22. You may try this trick Step 1: boot Linux with rw init=/bin/bash following this tutorial. Step 2: after Linux booted, disable SELinux following this tutorial. Reboot. If it…