Author: Vahid

After configuring Ubuntu to use LDAP ssh login become too slow

This is a common symptom of mis behaviour of systemd-logind. I couldn’t still find-out what is really happening underneath of this service but if you experience such issues you can try to restart the service using following command

sudo service systemd-logind restart

and make sure to run this code on the console not just by using ssh.

If anyone knows more about underlying components of systemd-logind please give me some more information about it.

How to install maven on Ubuntu manually with any specific version

For installing Maven on Ubuntu you have two ways  the easy way and the manual method. The easy way is just execute following command :

sudo apt-get install maven

Or if you use Ubuntu 16+ you can use following command too :

sudo apt install maven

Just remember you need to have root privileges.

The manual way

If you want to have the latest version of Maven on your Ubuntu go to the Maven website and download the latest binary package then you can extract it in /opt/  using command :

tar xvf apache-maven-3.5.2-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/

make sure you have set your JAVA_HOME if you don’t know how you can read this post

then open up your /etc/environment add following to your path

PATH=_YOUR_OLD_PATH:/opt/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin/

quit from your editor then type

source /etc/environment

to test if maven is installed type

mvn -v

 

How to traceroute a particular IP and Port?

There are sometimes that you want to trace an IP/Host based on a particular port to check if the port is open or not here is how you can do that :

traceroute -T -p 25 yoursite.com

Breakdown :

  • -T indicates to use TCP instead of UDP
  • -p checks specific port

How to install JDK on Ubuntu

Installing Java JDK is easy and straightforward in Windows and OSX but not in Ubuntu. Here is how I am installing JDK on Ubuntu.
Download the latest JDK package from Oracle website. If you don’t know which file to choose you ought to select .tar.gz files whether 32bit or 64bit depends on your requirements.
after download the right package you need to extract it using following command you can extract it :

tar xvf jdk-8u161-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt/

Note : In this example I am using JDK version 8 revision 161

The /opt directory is where I chose to extract my JDK.

After extracting my JDK it is time to let Ubuntu know where to look after the Java Development Kit and Java Run Time.

Suppose you want to install your java and javac and javaws executable files in /usr/bin directory :

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/java 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/javac 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /opt/jdk1.8.0_161/bin/javaws 1

After executing update-alternatives its time to set JAVA_HOME. Open /etc/environment file and add following lines to it :

JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.8.0_161/"
export JAVE_HOME

Then type

source /etc/environment

now in command line if you type

java -version

you will see the result.

What does $? mean in linux?

The $? is called exit code of an application used to run. As an example type following commands in console:
top
then press CTRL-Z and then type:
echo $?
You will see 147 as the answer. Return values more than 128 usually means signal and you have to do the calculation by subtracting 128 from the returned result. In this case you will get 19 which means SIGSTOP

You can read about linux signals using :

man 7 signal