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Creating a .pem File for SSL Certificate

Some applications require you to provide SSL in .pem file format. This can be easily created your own by combining SSL cerifcate provided by your SSL provider. Open a text file, paste content of your SSL certificate in following order.


Managing Software with yum on Linux

Python Script to update yum yum stuck forever Yum Error Fatal error, run database recovery Auto update CentOS 6 server with yum yum is command used to install software on RHEL, CentOS and Fedora Servers. To install software, use command


List all UDP Connections

To list all UDP connections, run Example Scan All UDP Ports To scan all UDP ports using nmap, use


Server Reboot Failed with Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out

When trying to restart any service on a CentOS server, i get error Failed to list units: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out Server won’t even reboot, here is what i get when i try reboot or restart a service. problem


Yum Error Fatal error, run database recovery

When i run yum update on a server, i get error To fix this, you need to delete yum db files (__db.001, __db.002 and __db.003) from /var/lib/rpm folder. Run yum clean and update. Now yum will work.


How to change language in Linux Terminal

To change language on linux terminal to English, run or Here i run a command on linux server with German language After running export LC_ALL=C, all command result will be displayed in English. You can verify the language settings with


hash – refresh path environment variable.

hash -r command is used to refresh path environment variable in linux systems. On FreeBSD, the command is rehash. I have a file create-vm in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin folders. This i actually copied by accident, now i run create-vm


Install Python 3 from Source

To install python 3 from source, download latest python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ Install it with To check python version See Python


Hide Users On Ubuntu Login Screen

To hide a user from showing up in Ubuntu Login screen, edit file Find line Add the user you want to hide on this line. On my PC, following user shows up on login screen This is a user created


Installing Microsoft Azure CLI on Ubuntu 16.04

Microsoft Azure CLI is a command line tool to manage and deploy Azure Cloud. To install Azure CLI on ubuntu, run This will add the Azure repository, now we need to trust the GPG key provided by microsoft with command