Linux on Jose Castrillo

Linux on Business

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Why Linux 🐧? the question isn’t why Linux ? the real question is why not ? did you try it?

Linux is widely regarded as the best option for development, DevOps, hybrid cloud solutions, and even as a desktop for home and office environments due to its open-source nature, robust ecosystem, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. Its flexibility allows seamless integration across diverse platforms, from small IoT devices to large-scale cloud infrastructures, making it the backbone of modern technology stacks.

🎨 Customize Your Terminal Shell with Oh My Bash

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to dynamically switch themes in Oh My Bash based on your environment and directory.

👨‍💻 Tunning your Devbox shell

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Using Oh-My-Bash with Jetify Devbox: A Step-by-Step Guide

If you’re a developer working with Jetify Devbox, you might have noticed that its shell environment doesn’t always play nicely with Oh-My-Bash. By following these steps, you can customize and personalize your themes and PS1 prompt to create a more enjoyable and productive shell experience.

Step 1: Install Oh-My-Bash

First, you need to install Oh-My-Bash. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:

Automation a Nextcloud as a Podman Container

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking to upgrade my Nextcloud service also switching to another alternative rather than docker, hence I used podman and buildah in my solution.

From the rockylinux.org I found a nice post where it describes how to build and provisioning by using buildah and podman, it works pretty good and I added a tool in order to run it faster, called taskfile.

Requirements:

Podman
Buildah
Taskfile

Install taskfile
Clone my project
From the project you can see the task defined:

version: "3"

tasks:
  up-db:
    dir: "db/mariadb"
    preconditions:
      - test -f db-init.sh
    cmds:
      - bash db-init.sh

  create-app:
    dir: "app"
    preconditions:
      - test -f run.sh
    cmds:
      - mkdir nc nc/nextcloud nc/apps nc/config nc/data
      - task: up-db
      - bash run.sh

  build_base:
    dir: "db/base"
    preconditions:
      - test -f build.sh
    cmds:
      - bash build.sh

  build_tools:
    dir: "db/db-tools"
    preconditions:
      - test -f build.sh
    cmds:
      - bash build.sh

  build_maria:
    dir: "db/mariadb"
    preconditions:
      - test -f build.sh
    cmds:
      - bash build.sh

  build_db:
    cmds:
      - task: build_base
      - task: build_tools
      - task: build_maria

  up-app:
    cmds:
      - podman container start nextcloud

Main task to build and run nextcloud:

Como configurar un router neutro

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

📣 Actualizado 02/2024

Continuando con mi post anterior explico como realizar una conexion directa con tu propio router, en mi caso tengo un router gl.inet; puedes usar otro router que disponga la configuración de VLAN.

Dependiendo de tu proveedor de servicio, necesitamos ir a la siguiente pagina y busca tu VLAN, Leer con atencion las notas dejadas en la pagina!. En mi caso tengo Orange aunque a en mi zona llega por NEBA.

How to switch 3053 to 53 on Gl.inet

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

For those who has a Gl.inet router featured with Adguard on it, you should being facing a issue at Adguard when it activated at first time, from clients list the only client listed is “localhost”, the reason it’s due dnsmasq is runing on port 53 in the other hand adguard by default on port 3053, in order to solve it you have to switch them. This entry is a forward post by the workaround explained by chao-chao from gl-inet-forum I did it and it’s working from my side, below is a little summary of the steps I did:

setup auto mount smb v1.0

Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In any case you still having a device that works with smb v1.0 you can use the following way in order to mount it on your Fedora host:

Path: /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/smb-setup.sh

#!/bin/sh -e
# Script to dispatch NetworkManager events
# more over: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16848021/linux-networkmanagers-etc-networkmanager-dispatcher-d-test-script-does-not
# Runs ifupdown scripts when NetworkManager fiddles with interfaces.
# See NetworkManager(8) for further documentation of the dispatcher events.

INF="$1" # your current interface name such as eth0, wlp4s0 and so on
STA="$2" # status such as UP or DOWN

# Send message to /var/log/messages
logger -s "$0 called for interface named $INF with $STA ..."

if [ "$INF" == "eno1" ]
then
mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0,username=admin,password=Tr3x_1986,uid=1000,gid=1000,forceuid,forcegid //10.34.1.1/1fea-6abb /home/jose/homedisk
fi

more info:

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

RAID

RAID is a technology that is used to increase the performance and/or reliability of data storage. The abbreviation stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. A RAID system consists of two or more drives working in parallel. These disks can be hard discs, but there is a trend to also use the technology for SSD (solid state drives). There are different RAID levels, each optimized for a specific situation. These are not standardized by an industry group or standardization committee.

How to install /e/OS in Gigaset GS290 from GNU/Linux

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I created this post as aim to collaborate with the project and help those how are bought a Gigaset GS290 to test this great /e/ OS degoogle fork, and have been failed by using easy installer, but first I will let clearly that these steps are the steps I followed in order to set up the /e/ OS in my Gigaset.

Requirement-system:

GNU/Linux OS (in my case Fedora).**
ADB & Fastboot library latest.**
/e/OS build**
boot.img**
recovery.img**
Basic knowledge in terminal & command line.
Sudo

Requirement-smartphone:

/prometheus/data/chunks_head/ troubleshoot

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I will share a little workaround in order to re-establish Prometheus service back in the game.

Origin of issue:

I’ve had an issue with my local network at home by the ISP provider, I had have shut down my RaspberryPi and other devices.

Then when I could solved the issue and all my devices were up and running I checked up my services and I found that Prometheus got stuck by a “mmap: invalid argument” message.

Setup monitoring system [Grafana+Prometheus] in RaspberryPi (Part1)

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

On this post I will explain how I set up a Grafana + Prometheus into a RaspberryPi with Raspbian.

Here it’s a little design where explains how it is the implementation I did:

🔵 Server: RaspberryPi 3B+

Services to install(server side):
1. Grafana
2. Prometheus (Metric collector and database)
3. Node Exporter (collector worker)

🟢 Clients: Raspberrypi Zero Fedora Workstation Debian VPS

Services to install(client side):
1. Node Exporter (collector worker).

🔵 Lets start from the server side.

Format & Mount an usb drive in GNU/Linux [terminal]

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Format and Mount usb drive in GNU/Linux

Tools/commands:

lsblk
parted
df
fdisk
mkfs
wipefs

check if which blcok devices used by usb (sd) [df -h, lsblk] eg:

$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 7.2 GiB, 7736072192 bytes, 15109516 sectors
Disk model: DataTraveler 3.0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Monitoring with Cockpit

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

On this post we are going to talk about cockpit how to monitoring and manage your GNU/Linux infrastructure. Based on the official description, Cockpit project is pretty easy to use, install and integrate, you can manage and add servers by ssh credentials to your dashboard, showing logs, monitoring containers(podman/docker), services running, disk usage, etc.

I’ve using it around 1 year, the only thing I cannot see it’s an alert tool or event trigger, maybe for the next release; is developed by RH team and open source, it’s already integrated in some of the GNU/Linux distribution ( RH, debian, ubuntu, fedora, etc).

Open a Nextcloud's DB through a ssh connection

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The following post explains how to open and connect your Nextcloud’s DB (MariaDB) by a ssh tunnel.

Field description:

Server side(GNULinux):
- Nextcloud: running on Docker-compose engine.
- OS: Debian with Docker compose installed.
- Database: MariaDB.
Localhost side(GNULinux):
- OS: Fedora.
- CLient: Dbeader 7.2.5

Further information you can go to my docker compose Statement here.

Edit your docker-compose.yml and add the “ports” key into the statement.

$ nano docker-compose.yml
  ports:
    - 5555:3306

port: 5555 –> Host.
port: 3306 –> Container.

From the above the port “5555” it was used as example.

Nextcloud bot as Notification System

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Following the last post, where I shared how to use Telegram’s bot; on this post I’m going to explain how implement it by Chat Nextcloud API. This post is useful for those have a Nexctcloud deployment running at home/cloud.

Assuming you have already Nextcloud up and running, we can create the new user, that we are gonna use it as “BOT” we will need the chat room token and the “BOT” credentials.

Telegram Bot as Notification System

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

From one older post “Create a job using crontab” I used into my script the service exim4/ssmtp as mail server using gmail, but as we’re trying to walk away of Google’s jaw, I switched my notification engine to Telegram by an API service(bot)… almost it’s a step forward ! :)

Requirement:

Bot (Telegram)
Web Browser
Terminal(script)

I will assume you have already set up your Bot on Telegram with BotFather

When you have already created your Bot you can check by the API through a web browser

OpenVPN usando Raspberry Pi3 + Noip

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Requisitos:

RaspberryPi –> https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/
OpenVPN –> https://pivpn.io/
Cuenta abierta –> https://www.noip.com/
Una IP Estatica en tu Raspberry –> Router manual
Router con capacidad de tunel VPN —> IPsec, PPTP, L2TP.
Public IP —> https://www.whatismyip.net/

Pasos:

1. Crear DNS Record A en Noip

Apunta tu IP publica
Abre tu sesion con tus credenciales en Noip
Dentro del Dashboard ve al apartado “Dynamic DNS > Create Hostname” rellena:
- hostname, ejemplo: test
- Domain, ejemplo: ddns.net
- IPv4 address: Tu IP publica
- Click en Crear

Setup Podman service in Silverblue by Systemd

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Into my Devops learning path 👨‍💻 I decided to deploy a monitoring centre into my workstation where I could be able to watch my containers, resources, logs, etc and continue improving my knowledge, in my case I’m using Silverblue developed by Fedora so in here it’s a little bit different the setup; as monitoring tool I choose Cockpit for its great integration and support.

Workstation: Silverblue 🖥️
Container engine: Podman ⚙️
Monitoring tool(app/service):Cockpit 📦

I splinted out the instructions in 4 simple parts:

How to set your Domain name in Linux

Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Resume to set a domain name in Linux

concepts:

FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)

eg:

hostname = server1 // FQDN = server1.example.com

1. First add FQDN to your hostname in /etc/hosts file.

# cat /etc/hosts
10.120.68.23 server1.example.com server1

confirm the FQDN issue the following command:

# hostname -f
server1.example.com

2.1. Configure domain name (Red Hat RHEL, Fedora and CentOS)

From these path add the parameters needs

vi /etc/sysconfig/network
DOMAINNAME=<domainname>

vi /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.domainname = <domainname>

2.2. figure domain name ( Ubuntu, Debian)

#vi /etc/hostname
server1

Then restart the service:

Add your app into the Gnome Desktop Menu

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been looking for a encryptation app open source, to encrypt my files into Cloud with a touch of off-online control, and I found this nice app called Cryptomator. I downloaded the extension .Appimage, so the following instruction I will explain is how to set the .appimage into the app menu in Gnome.

Download the Cryptomator by the link above.
Set the permission below:

#chmod a+x cryptomator-1.4.15-x86_64.AppImage

The try to execute the file by a shell terminal or just double click on it ( to confirm it was downloaded fined)

How to create a docker-compose.service

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Here are the steps I made to set a service into my Fedora server to start/stop my Docker-compose (Wikijs)

Why I decided to use a docker-compose into a Linux VM machine? —> for make it more stable, faster,portable, isolated, etc.

First I stared using Docker for Windows and it was a little bit unstable and not quite easy to handled, so when I switched to Docker compose into a Fedora VM and in that point it was a huge different(I do not recommend to use Docker in Windows); I use a Vmware hypervisor ( in the office we use it ).

Create a .zip using 7z by cmd in Windows

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

After to install the 7z in our windows workstation/server then we need to create our evironment variables to call the function from the cmd [1].

Then the command below will guide you to zip a simple file:

7z a -r [myzip] [example.txt]

[myzip] - the zip name file
[example.txt] file used for the example

To zip a folder

7z a [myzip] [folder]

Docu based thx to the information seen from: [1] GlobalEnviroment

Closing opened ports on Linux (Fedora 29)

Sun, 05 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Using the Nmap to list our opened port in our machine, how described the official website: Nmap “..is an utility for network discovery and security auditing..”

Regarding CUPS from the official website: “is an open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for macOSÂ® and other UNIXÂ®-like operating systems. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) to support printing to local and network printers.”

By default we have the cups service running in the system’s startup we could check out issue the following commands:

Output IPCONFIG report to HTML by PowerShell

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

$file = "C:\Users\jcr\a.html"
$ipconfig=ipconfig /all |%{"$_<br/>"}

$body=@"
<html>
    <head>
    <title>Network Report</title>
    </head>
<body>
    <h1>IPConfig /All</h1>
    <pre>$ipconfig</pre>
</body>
</html>
"@
$body | Out-File $file
. $file

Setup Grafana in Raspbian (Raspberrypi)

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The below post is a simple explanation I did time ago, if you want further info and better explanation about how to setup a monitoring system into your Raspberripy please go to here.

Raspbian version:9.8

$ uname -r
4.14.98-v7+
$ uname -m
armv7l

Version installed on my RasPi: Grafana v6.0.2 (3f4c2e7)

Download Grafana package for your correct Raspi ARM
$sudo dpkg -i grafana_6.1.3_armhf.deb
$systemctl start grafana-server
$systemctl status grafana-server
then you will see from the status propmt the address=0.0.0.0:3000

msg="HTTP Server Listen" logger=http.server address=0.0.0.0:3000

To check the site is working go through localhost:3000

Create a job using crontab

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

To automate tasks or create some monitoring job we can use the older and efficient tool the “CronJob”.

For our example, I’ve created a simple script to detect the cache memory and clean it if raise to a condition then send a notification by mail.

Library used:

exim4 (mail server) or ssmtp (mail server). Both uses the same “mail” command.

Script:

# grab the buff/cache memory
mem="$(free -m | grep 'Mem:' | awk '{print $6}')"

if  (( $mem > 350 ))
then
echo 'wooo is more than 250M'
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
echo 'cache dropped'
echo "Memory buff/cache cleaned last value:" $mem | mail -s "cache_memory" target_mail@local.com
else
echo 'be cool man, memory lower'
fi

script path: /user/Documents/script/memory