How To Increase Session Timeout for SSH

From the server side, edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Change, uncomment, or add

ClientAliveInterval 120
ClientAliveCountMax 15

Change the AliveInterval and CountMax as desired.

More info on the AliveIntercal and CountMax.

ClientAliveCountMax Sets the number of client alive messages which may be sent without sshd(8) receiving any messages back from the client. If this threshold is reached while client alive messages are being sent, sshd will disconnect the client, terminating the session. It is important to note that the use of client alive messages is very different from TCPKeepAlive. The client alive messages are sent through the encrypted channel and therefore will not be spoofable. The TCP keepalive option enabled by TCPKeepAlive is spoofable. The client alive mechanism is valuable when the client or server depend on knowing when a connection has become unresponsive.

The default value is 3. If ClientAliveInterval is set to 15, and ClientAliveCountMax is left at the default, unresponsive SSH clients will be disconnected after approximately 45 seconds. Setting a zero

ClientAliveCountMax disables connection termination.ClientAliveInterval Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received from the client, sshd(8) will send a message through the encrypted channel to request a response from the client. The default is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the client.

More information
https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config

Turn 3.5mm Jack on Raspberry Pi Running LineageOS 16

You will need an Android Terminal. You can turn on the default one in the developer settings. Need to turn on developer mode?

You will also need to enable root which can also be done in the Developer settings

Open up the terminal app and run

su
rpi3-audio-jack.sh

More info here

https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi3/LineageOS16.0/

Linux Screen – Create, Connect, Disconnect, Terminate Sessions

Screen is a handy tool that can help you run scripts on servers remotely without having to worry about the session getting terminated. It seems to operate kinda like a virtual console.

Create Screen Session

Create a new session with a specified name

screen -S SessionName

Example output below. Create session named testsession and print screen sessions.

[bob@localhost imapsync]$ screen -S testsession
[bob@localhost imapsync]$ screen -ls
There are screens on:
3313.testsession (Attached)
1 Sockets in /var/run/screen/S-bob.
[bob@localhost imapsync]$

Disconnect from Screen Session

You can disconnect from a screen session by hitting ctrl + a and then ctrl +d

“ctrl + a” then “ctrl + d”

List Screen Sessions

You can list the screen sessions with

screen -ls

Example

[bob@localhost imapsync]$ screen -ls
There are screens on:
3212.testsession (Detached)
2556.xap (Detached)

2 Sockets in /var/run/screen/S-bob.
[bob@localhost imapsync]$

Connect to screen Session

You can reconnect to a screen session with

screen -r testsession 

Terminate Screen Session

To terminate a screen session, connect to that session and then on a clear line hit ctrl + d

Same way as if you were closing a remote ssh connection.

LibreNMS backup script

You should be able to copy and paste the following in a backup.sh file and then execute from cron. Should work out of the box, but you can change the backup directory and the teams.sh path if needed/wanted.

#!/bin/bash

# LibreNMS backup script
# Jan 1, 2019

lDate=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`       # local date + hour minute
dDate=`date +%Y%m%d`            # todays date

# If you have the teams.sh script, you can trigger a backup notification
ALERT="/home/admin/teams.sh -b"

# Directory to backup to
bDir="/backup"
bName="librenms_backup"

# MySQL settings for tar and sqldump
sqlDir="/var/lib/mysql"
sqlDB="librenms"
sqlUN="root"
sqlPW=""
LOG="${bDir}/${lDate}-${bName}.log"

# Directory that contains data
dDir="/opt/librenms"

# tar LibreNMS dir
# tar SQL dir "the whole thing with the innode files
# sql dump of the db for extra redundancy

if [ -d ${bDir} ]; then
echo "backup dir exist, starting to backup"
else
        echo "backup dir not available.  Quiting"
        exit 1
fi

${ALERT} "Starting backup for ${bName} - `date`"

systemctl stop mariadb httpd
# LibreNMS data backup
tar -zcvf ${bDir}/${lDate}-${bName}.tgz ${dDir}
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Tar succesfully backed up ${bDir}"
else
        echo "Tar failed while trying to backup ${dDir}"
        echo " ${lDate} - Tar failed while trying to backup ${dDir}" >> ${LOG}
        ${ALERT} "${lDate} - Tar failed while trying to backup ${dDir}"
fi

# MySQL data backup
tar -zcvf ${bDir}/${lDate}-${bName}-mysql.tgz ${sqlDir}
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Tar succesfully backed up ${sqlDir}"
else
        echo "Tar failed while trying to backup ${sqlDir}"
        echo " ${lDate} - Tar failed while trying to backup ${sqlDir}" >> ${LOG}
        ${ALERT} "${lDate} - Tar failed while trying to backup ${sqlDir}"
fi

systemctl start mariadb httpd
sleep 5

 # SQL dump
mysqldump -u ${sqlUN} -p'4rfvBHU8!' ${sqlDB} > ${bDir}/${lDate}-${bName}.sql
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "MySQL DB dumped"
else
        echo "Ran into error while doing sql dump"
        echo "${lDate} - Ran into error while doing sql dump" >> ${LOG}
        ${ALERT} "${lDate} - Ran into error while doing sql dump"
fi

echo "Removing old backups"
if ( ls ${bDir} | grep -q ${dDate} );then
        find ${bDir}/* -prune -mtime +31 -exec rm {} \;
else
        echo "Looks like there are no backup files!  Aborting!!!"
        ${ALERT} "${lDate} - Error: find failed to find any backup files in backup dir.  Aborting!!!"
fi

${ALERT} "Finished backup for ${bName} - `date`"

Ubuntu expand disk space – Command Line

Warning: Be extremely careful when making changes to partitions and disk as it can lead to broken systems and lost data. Make sure you have a backup.

This scenario is done on a basic Ubuntu install. No fancy LVM stuff going on. If you need that, refer to here

Disk /dev/sda: 64 GiB, 68719476736 bytes, 134217728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x2062ec28
Device     Boot    Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *        2048 65011711 65009664   31G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       65013758 67106815  2093058 1022M  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       65013760 67106815  2093056 1022M 82 Linux swap / Solaris

From the above output of fdisk -l, we see that the disk has 64GiB available, but the primary partition is only 31G. To make the primary partition larger we need to

  • Run fdisk “fdisk /dev/sda”
  • Delete partitions 2 and 5,
  • Delete Partition 1
  • Create Partition 1 again on the same starting boundary
  • Put the end boundary close to the end so we end up with ~62GiB for that partition
  • Recreate sda2, the 1GiB extended partition
  • Write changes to disk
  • Run resize2fs to resize the filesystem

You may need to boot up in recovery to get this command working. Also if you boot up in recovery, you’ll need to remount the root / partition read/write. More info here.

resize2fs /dev/sda1

Helpful Links
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1190213
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1196353

I deleted apt on Ubuntu, now what?

Apparently if you do

apt purge ubuntu*

You’ll end up deleting apt. Which is a bummer, because you can’t install anything else, or fix the problem. But not to worry, the resolution is fairly easy.

You can go download the apt deb from Ubuntu’s website and install it with dpkg.

Go to the following link and find the packages for your Ubuntu version

https://packages.ubuntu.com/

You’ll need to show “All packages” at the bottom of the page.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/allpackages

Download and install ubuntu-keyring, apt-transport-https, and apt packages. Example below

wget security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt_1.6.6ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
wget security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt-transport-https_1.2.29ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
wget mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubuntu-keyring/ubuntu-keyring_2012.05.19_all.deb

Install Packages

sudo dpkg -i ubuntu-keyring_2012.05.19_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i apt-transport-https_1.2.29ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i apt_1.6.6ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb

Run apt and make sure it is all working

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade