How tinstall aria2 on CentOS 7? aria2 is a great tool for downloading files from the Internet. The software package for aria2 is proved in EPEL. To install aria2, first, enable EPEL following instructions here. Then, install aria2 by # yum install aira2
Sometimes, we may want to know the specific benchmark can cause what kind of VM exits. 1, Install perf. 2, # perf kvm stat record -a ^C 3, # perf kvm stat report This will report your VM exit numbers and what kind of operation lead to VM exit. You may need to compare many…
sshfs is a nice tool. But it seems there is no support to it in a newly installed CentOS 7 Linux system: Not installed by default: # sshfs -bash: sshfs: command not found Seems not available from the repositories # yum install sshfs -y Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Repodata is over 2 weeks old. Install yum-cron?…
For my case, I need to bypass one intermediate server so that I can connect to the remote server with vnc. For example, there are two servers (s1, s2) except my local PC and I have to login to s1 so that I can login s2 from my local PC. However, now, I need to…
When we create VMs in KVM, we may don’t know the IP addresses because they are automatically assigned by DHCP. So we want to get them in VMM so that can login by SSH. Do the commands as follows. $ virsh domiflist hvm1 Interface Type Source Model MAC ——————————————————- vnet0 network default virtio 52:54:00:1c:36:cd $…
Firefox on CentOS7 does not have Flash enabled by default. How to install Flash Player plugin on CentOS 7? You may follow this tutorials to build a freshwrapper based flash plugin for Firefox on CentOS 7. If you don’t want to build it by yourself, you may download the pre-built .so from from this repository.
My Ubuntu boots to GUI mode by default. How to make Ubuntu Linux boot to text mode? If you are using Ubuntu older than 16 such as Ubuntu 14.04: Edit /etc/default/grub Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=… to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”text”. Backup your old grub config`$ sudo cp -n /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak-date +%s ` Update grub$ sudo update-grub If you are using…
If we want to change the tick time for Linux Kernel, we need to change CONFIG_HZ parameter in Linux Kernel. Do we have other better ways to change it rather than compiling Linux Kernel. Please ignore the way to add ‘divider=10’ in grub config file because it is limited only for RH/CentOS distros. Zhiqiang, please…
Hello, I have installed Xen4Centos on Centos7, having single NIC card with bridge network and have two VMs on that. In one VM, I want to add two static IP one for webserver and one for mail server. So I have created IP alias in guest VM, it was created but it was not pinging…
I tried to build a project while it reports: # ./autogen.sh Can’t exec “aclocal”: No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory How should I handle this? How to install aclocal? yum install aclocal shows: No package aclocal available. Error: Unable to find a…
I find the rtl8192cu wireless adapter driver on CentOS 7 is quite unstable. After running a while, the connection will disappear. How to make it stable? There is a bug in some hardware where the device never wakes back up. You may try disabling the power management by putting a file 8192cu-disable-power-management.conf under /etc/modprobe.d/: #…
NAS benchmark link: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html For Ubuntu, remember to install gfortran (sudo apt-get install gfortran) and change config/make.def to install NAS benchmark. Other distros are similar.
PARSEC is the most important CPU-bound benchmark for systems. It is huge and hard to install because it needs lots of 3-part libs. PARSEC download link for 3.0 version: http://parsec.cs.princeton.edu/download.htm#parsec I remembered I added the answer yesterday night but I could not see the answer currently. Anyway, let me add the answer again after I…
For local filesystems, root usually has full access (read/write) to directories/files inside of it. But for NFS directory mounted from network, root usually has no permission to write to directories or files within the NFS directory. How to make root act similarly in an NFS directory to the behavior in local directories? The reason that…
Tab widths may be different for different languages. Even with a common language, the tab width settings can be different for different projects. In Vim, are there shortcuts to set tab widths to 2 and 4? To quickly change the tab widths when changing projects. I am afraid no. But you create shortcuts for setting…
I already have PHP and nginx installed and running on my on centOS 6.7. Please guide me, how can install glibc, glibc-common and GD libraries independently on my centOS 6.7 without crashing my system? I am not sure how you installed PHP and nginx. If they are installed from CentOS6.7’s Yum repository, you may install…
When I tried to apply new configuration in /etc/sysctl.conf, I got following message. warning: /etc/sysctl.conf(44): invalid syntax, continuing… Sounds like your changed /etc/sysctl.conf has problem. You may post the content of your /etc/sysctl.conf here to let other have a check. net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 kernel.sysrq = 0 kernel.core_uses_pid = 1…
In Golang, fmt.Println(err) can print out the error err. But how to convert an error to a string explicitely? In Go, the error type is an interface type that has an interface type error interface { Error() string } An error variable represents any value that can describe itself as a string. Ref: https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#error So,…
In Golang, the fmt.Println() is convenient to print to STDOUT. But how to print string to STDERR? In Go os package, “Stdin, Stdout, and Stderr are open Files pointing to the standard input, standard output, and standard error file descriptors.” So, you can use the WriteString function on File on os.Stderr to print string to…
In Golang, how to convert a string to unicode rune array and do the reverse way? Convert string s to a rune array: runes := []rune(s) Convert a rune array runes to string: str := string(runes)