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Andrew Fletcher
It is really simple to switch users in Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution using the terminal, iTerm2 or your go to shell program. All you need to do is to know the username and its account password and you can switch users with su command: su another_usernameYou’ll be asked to enter the password of the user you want to switch to.   List all the users on Linux Let’s say you want to create a sudo user in Linux. Probably, the very first thing to know is how to know what users are in my...
Andrew Fletcher
Wanting to create a new repository on GitHub, add in a few of the available...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm writing these steps primarily for myself as a reference.  However, if...
Andrew Fletcher
Regular expressions (regex) are extremely useful in extracting information from...
Andrew Fletcher
Whilst updating nodejs and npm on a Centos 6 or 7 server running Apache, I...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I had an error with a domain smtp server not recognising port 587.  To begin to test what was happening I wanted to get some key information about the server.  My tool of choice was the dig command.  Using the dig command: dig codebales.comUnderstanding a DNS look up results from Terminal using the dig command.  This command causes dig to look up the A record for the domain name codebales.com or whatever you enter. To do this dig starts by...
Andrew Fletcher
I had an issue where logging in from the app disconnected.  The error that...
Andrew Fletcher
As a process I apply patches locally first, then using git upload the update(s)...
Andrew Fletcher
Overview To update ejabberd you need to remove it, then re-install with the...
Andrew Fletcher
The starting point is to read through and follow the notes outlined on the...
Andrew Fletcher
To add Erlang repository that also includes the public key for verifying signed package, use the following shell commands: wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpmInstall Erland yum install erlangCheck that Erland has been installed enter the command (case sensitive) erlIf the Erland package has been successfully installed terminal will be output something like Erlang/OTP 21 [erts-10.3.2] [source] [64-bit]...
Andrew Fletcher
Adding a pem file to secure ejabbered on the server for chat connection. Getting...
Andrew Fletcher
To access the ejabberd log files, I found them located at the following...