Category Archives: Ubuntu

How I fixed my contact form

When I switched to PHP 7.4 I forgot to specify sendmail_path parameter in php.ini and my contact form stopped working. Today I found sendmail_path parameter in PHP 7.0:

cd /etc/php
find . -name "php.ini"
./7.0/fpm/php.ini
./7.0/cgi/php.ini
./7.0/cli/php.ini
./7.4/fpm/php.ini
./7.4/cli/php.ini
grep sendmail ./7.0/fpm/php.ini
sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f *****@yandex.ru -i"
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Converting WAV files with Sox

Source file:

soxi short-borrowed-old.wav
Input File     : 'short-borrowed-old.wav' (flac)
Channels       : 2
Sample Rate    : 44100
Precision      : 16-bit
Duration       : 00:00:00.60 = 26460 samples = 45 CDDA sectors
File Size      : 54.0k
Bit Rate       : 720k
Sample Encoding: 16-bit FLAC
Comment        : 'Comment=Processed by SoX'
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Switching to PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04

Some WordPress plugins stopped working with PHP 7.0 on my Ubuntu 16.04 server and I switched to PHP 7.4 with the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jczaplicki/xenial-php74-temp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.4 php7.4-fpm php7.4-cli php7.4-mysql php7.4-dom php7.4-mbstring -y
service php7.4-fpm status
cd /etc/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d
sudo mv www.conf www.conf.dist
sudo mv ../../../7.0/fpm/pool.d/devnote.conf .
sudo service php7.0-fpm reload
sudo service php7.4-fpm reload
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“Server certificate verification failed” error with command line Git client

Some guy described the same situation about 10 years ago on stackoverflow.com and there was another discussion about 7 years ago.

First I did:

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone https://git.developernote.com/examples.git
Cloning into 'examples'...
* Couldn't find host git.developernote.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
*   Trying 139.162.243.103...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to git.developernote.com (139.162.243.103) port 443 (#0)
* found 129 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* found 387 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* SSL connection using TLS1.2 / ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none
* stopped the pause stream!
* Closing connection 0
fatal: unable to access 'https://git.developernote.com/examples.git/': server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none
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Compiling Awl on Ubuntu 18 and 20 with GCC 11

Below I provided the instruction on how to build Awl on Ubuntu 18 and 20.

On Ubuntu 18 you do an extra step to install CMake version >= 3.12:

wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc 2>/dev/null | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ bionic main'
sudo apt update

Then do the following steps on both Ubuntu 18 and 20:

sudo apt install cmake
cmake --version
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Error reading file: No space left on device

I had a large SQLite file C:\Users\D-Ef\AppData\Local\TradeClient\realtime.db that I was unable to copy to another disk. I tried:

split -n 10 -d -u realtime.db /mnt/d/db/rt
dd bs=65536 if=realtime.db of=/mnt/d/db/rt

in WSL, but got ‘error reading ‘realtime.db’: No space left on device’ with all the commands.

Finally I reduced page file size restarted my machine and copied the file in a usual way.

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Installing Jabber Messaging Service on Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt install ejabberd
ufw allow to any port 5280 proto tcp
ufw allow to any port 5222 proto tcp
ufw allow to any port 5269 proto tcp
ufw allow to any port 7777 proto tcp
sudo nano /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.yml
##
## hosts: Domains served by ejabberd.
## You can define one or several, for example:
## hosts:
##   - "example.net"
##   - "example.com"
##   - "example.org"
##
hosts:
  - "developernote.com"

...

###.   ====================
###'   ACCESS CONTROL LISTS
acl:
  ##
  ## The 'admin' ACL grants administrative privileges to XMPP accounts.
  ## You can put here as many accounts as you want.
  ##
  admin:
     user:
         - "admin": "developernote.com"
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A proper Ubuntu 18.04 installation for running Ethereum node

Create a Hyper-V machine with a disk that is large enough:

And install Ubuntu 18.04.

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Installing Oracle Database 19.3 in a Docker container on Ubuntu Server 18.04

First I installed Ubuntu Server 18.04 as a Hyper-V machine on Windows 10.

While creating the virtual machine I selected Generation 1, because Generation 2 resulted in some strange effects.

Then I created a separate user with sudo permission:

sudo useradd -d /home/singh -m --shell "/bin/bash" singh
sudo passwd singh
sudo usermod -aG sudo singh
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Binding Docker container ports to the host on Ubuntu 18.04 inside Hyper-V on Windows 10

The binding did not work for me until I switched from Internal Virtual Switch to External Virtual Switch and while switching I were getting the following error:

[Window Title]
Virtual Switch Manager for MY-MACHINE

[Main Instruction]
Error applying Virtual Switch Properties changes

[Content]
Failed while adding virtual Ethernet switch connections.

[Expanded Information]
External Ethernet adapter 'Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller' is already bound to the Microsoft Virtual Switch protocol.

until I switched Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch off on my network adapter properties page (after I created External Virtual Switch it switched on back):

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