Linux shell menu (TUI – Text User Interface), using pdmenu samples and examples available here:https://gitlab.com/majorbob/sys-menu Start by installing pdmenu (apt install pdmenu, or dpkg -i pdmenu.deb).Then download and expand the zip file, copy folders to appropriate locations (as expanded).Make /usr/bin/menu executable. Type menu to start the menu.

mtftar is a utility that can read data stored in BKF files generated with Windows NTBackup program. The original source is: https://github.com/geocar/mtftar However, on Debian 9 in 2018, this code currently produces errors such as: MTF error out of order mtftar (files before directory saw 4 while expecting limit of 0)This does not look like a tar … Continue reading Read bkf files in Linux →

This article is about the following Linux packages: xset – the user preference command-line tool for X11, controlling screen blanking and monitor power management, light-locker – the package for password locking screens, where lightdm is the desktop manager. light-locker-settings – the GUI configuration tool for light-locker xscreensaver – the popular screen saver program light-locker-settings is a … Continue reading Light locker settings →

The Eaton NV 800H connects via USB cable. Using lsusb it identifies as: 0665:5161 Cypress Semiconductor USB to Serial To monitor this UPS using the NUT package in Linux, use the following configurations: /etc/nut/nut.conf: MODE=standalone /etc/nut/ups.conf: [myups]        driver = nutdrv_qx        default.battery.voltage.low = 11.2        default.battery.voltage.high = 13.7        port = auto        desc = “My UPS” /etc/nut/upsd.users: [upsmon]        password  = … Continue reading Eaton NV 800H with NUT UPS Monitor →

Udev is problematic when trying to mount USB devices – it works first time, but fails for re-insertions (Debian 9 Stretch, running in KVM, with ntfs-3g USB drive passed through).  Instead create a script to monitor: apt-get install udisks2 #nano /usr/local/bin/myautomounter #!/bin/shpathtoname() { udevadm info -p /sys/”$1″ | awk -v FS== ‘/DEVNAME/#39;}stdbuf -oL — udevadm … Continue reading Service to automount USB devices with udisks2 →