As a linux server user we are, probably, always interacting with the computer using a shell. But what is a shell? In this post we will discuss the following: What a shell is. How to see available shells. How to change your login shell. How to see your login shell. How to change your current…
Pre-requisites Root access to your server or have access to an account that has sudo powers on your servers – Instructions here to see how to give a linux user sudo powers. Setup Login as a non-priveleged user (non-root). Let’s make a directory that only root can enter: [ahmed@amayem ~]$ sudo mkdir test [ahmed@amayem ~]$…
The Situation I wanted to run my ghost blog using supervisord. I decided to install supervisord by using yum. The result was pretty bad as it turned out that the version that I installed was waaayyyy behind, which caused so many problems. To install it properly check out these instructions. This is an account of…
Pre-requisites Root access to your server or have access to an account that has sudo powers on your servers – Instructions here. nodejs and npm installed – Instructions here. ghost installed and a ghost user made to run ghost – Instructions here. What is supervisor From the official supervisor page, Supervisor is a client/server system…
vi text editor is a command line text editor. Most computer users these days have become accustomed to the graphical user interfaces available and may be uncomfortable with vi. However, when setting up a server it would do us well to get comfortable with it. As a system admin one of the most common uses…