Performing an internet speedtest is an interesting way to measure how fast your internet connection is. It may give you insights into your internet connection quality, or you may want to know if you get what you pay for. I wrote my own internet speedtest, but a more popular alternative is speedtest.net. However, you may Continue reading →
SSH
Secure Shell is a protocol to connect to a server. Superior to Telnet because of its increased security.
Raspberry Pi via SSH login error ‘WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!’
I recently bought a Raspberry Pi (model 4B with 2GB of RAM memory) to play a bit with HomeBridge and to also expand my knowledge on (basic) scripting and Linux in general. After re-installing the Raspbian image on my Raspberry Pi, I tried to remotely connect to the Pi with SSH again via Terminal on Continue reading →
Restart HomeBridge via SSH
Restarting HomeBridge can be sometimes handy when in testing mode. Here is the command to restart HomeBridge (to be used via SSH for example on your Linux system): The command will give no output, but HB should now be restarted. Restart HomeBridge via SSH was last modified: August 18th, 2019 by Thomas
Guide: Update HomeBridge plugins
If you previously have been installing HomeBridge (let’s say, on a Raspberry Pi), you know it’s a neat little piece of software. Thanks to HB, many non-smart or non-HomeKit enabled devices can be controlled via your iPhone or iPad using the Home app. A community of developers has created HomeBridge – HomeKit support for the Continue reading →
Linux SSH update issue: Errno 12 and Errno 256 error message
Today I tried to update my Linux operating system via SSH using the command sudo yum update (sudo apt-get update may be working too, depending on the Linux distrubtion). Most updates worked fine, except for one, where I received this error: http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/centos/6/updates/x86_64/Packages/libssh2-1.4.2-3.el6_10.1.i686.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/centos/6/updates/x86_64/Packages/libssh2-1.4.2-3.el6_10.1.i686.rpm: (28, ‘Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec Continue reading →
Read messages from “You have new mail in /var/mail/root”
When logging into your Ubuntu server, you might be greeted with the message You have new mail in /var/mail/root. But how do you read that mail and how did it get there? It means that you have installed sendmail on Ubuntu (or any other flavour of Linux) and you received one or more messages in your inbox. Continue reading →
DirectAdmin: “Error Loading ssl_cipher”
When I could no longer connect to my server on port 2222, I knew something was up with Direct Admin. I received the error Stopping Direct Admin Failed. I checked the error logs and the error was as follows; There appears to be something wrong with loading the ssl cipher for the Direct Admin service. Continue reading →
Solve: “Stopping DirectAdmin: [FAILED]”
When you have made changes to the Direct Admin or you simply have to restart the DirectAdmin service, you can restart the DirectAdmin service manually. In my case, I was no longer able to connect to my server (by default, the server is accessible by going to serverip:2222 in your browser). Use one of these Continue reading →
Test your VPS server speed
A VPS can be bought for a cheap price these days and many hosting providers have various plans to choose from, ranging from a few hundred MB of RAM and a single core CPU, to virtual private servers with lots of RAM and speedy Gigabit connections. Mostly, a Linux server doesn’t need that much resources Continue reading →