Tag: linux

optimize your binary file size with strip command

Strip command strips the symbols form object file.

strip /path/to/binaryfile

strip -s /path/to/binaryfile

# on strip debug symbols

strip --strip-debug example

To view all symbols in binary(readelf)

readelf -s /path/to/binaryfile

nm command:

nm /path/to/binaryfile

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stop(kill -SIGSTOP) current running process and start(kill -SIGCONT) into another terminal – linux

We can use screen, tmux, nohup command to run process in background.

But, what we can do if we already run the process and we want to send it to background.

We can use kill signal to achieve this.

kill -SIGSTOP PID 
kill -SIGCONT PID

SIGSTOP = pause the process
SIGCONT = continue the process

Here is example.

sleep-loop.sh

while(true)
do
echo "running loop...$(date +%s)"
sleep 5
done

You can close the 1st terminal after starting in running the SIGCONT in another terminal AND you can also close the 2nd second terminal as well as it’s running in backgroud.(kind of nohup)

Other method using jobs command

  1. Press CTRL + Z to Pause the current process
  2. bg = to send job to background
  3. disown %1

disow will remove form job queue and run in background so that we can close the terminal

More – https://stackoverflow.com/questions/625409/how-do-i-put-an-already-running-process-under-nohup

xargs understanding – linux

xargs pass the output(stdout) of first command to second command as argument. 

ls | xargs rm -f

This will remove all file listed by ls command

  • To understand properly what xargs is doing. use -p flag. It’s like dry-run.
[root@lp-k8control-1 xargs]# ls
test  test2  test3
[root@lp-k8control-1 xargs]# ls | xargs -p rm -f
rm -f test test2 test3 ?...

flag -n1 = one at a time

[root@lp-k8control-1 xargs]# ls | xargs -p -n1 rm -f
rm -f test ?...

flag -I % = run multiple command

[root@lp-k8control-1 xargs]# ls | xargs -p -n1 -I % /bin/bash -c 'ls %; ll %  '
/bin/bash -c ls test; ll test   ?...y
test

More : https://flaviocopes.com/linux-command-xargs/

32 GB SD card issue

One of the issue that i face with my raspberry pi 4 SD card. I removed it when it was in the pi case. Which broke the SD card chip in half internally.

Lesson : Always remove the SD carefully.

broke my 32 GB SD card while removing from Pi. I tried formatting with fdisk, mkfs.ext4 and Windows but none of them worked.

I have attached screenshot of fdisk /dev/sda where I have created 1 partition but when i try to delete the same it’s giving error No partition is defined yet!

https://i.stack.imgur.com/rRVNJ.png

Here is the lsblk output:

root@lp-arm-1:~# lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0         7:0    0 88.1M  1 loop /snap/core/11803
loop1         7:1    0 48.9M  1 loop /snap/core18/2127
loop2         7:2    0   49M  1 loop /snap/core18/2248
loop3         7:3    0 57.4M  1 loop /snap/core20/1171
loop4         7:4    0 88.1M  1 loop /snap/core/11996
loop5         7:5    0 60.4M  1 loop /snap/lxd/21544
loop6         7:6    0 28.2M  1 loop /snap/snapd/13269
loop7         7:7    0 57.4M  1 loop /snap/core20/1084
loop8         7:8    0   62M  1 loop /snap/lxd/21032
loop9         7:9    0 28.2M  1 loop /snap/snapd/13643
sda           8:0    1 30.6M  0 disk
mmcblk0     179:0    0 59.7G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0  256M  0 part /boot/firmware
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0 59.4G  0 part /

Note: mmcblk0 is another working SD card

When try to format it with widows OS.

windows

AD integration with linux ssh login and sudo access

ad_join.sh

#!/bin/bash

#check if already joined to domain

if [[ $(realm list) != "" ]]
then
echo "This server is already joined to domain."
realm list | head -n 1
exit
fi

function update_sssd_config() {
    sed -i 's/use_fully_qualified_names = True/use_fully_qualified_names = False/g' /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
    sed -i 's|/home/%u@%d|/home/%u|g' /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
    systemctl restart sssd
}

function restrict_ssh_access_group() {
    if [[ $(cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep -o "updated_by_ad_join") != "updated_by_ad_join" ]]
    then
    echo "###############updated_by_ad_join.sh###############" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
    echo "AllowGroups root ssh-access-group" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
    systemctl restart sshd
    fi
}

function sudo_access_level_group() {
    if [[ $(cat /etc/sudoers | grep -o "updated_by_ad_join") != "updated_by_ad_join" ]]
    then
    echo "###############updated_by_ad_join.sh###############" >> /etc/sudoers
    echo "Cmnd_Alias SUDO_ACCESS_LEVEL1 = /usr/bin/ls, /usr/bin/cat " >> /etc/sudoers
    echo "Cmnd_Alias SUDO_ACCESS_LEVEL2 = /usr/bin/vi, /usr/bin/nano " >> /etc/sudoers

    echo "%sudo-group-level1 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SUDO_ACCESS_LEVEL1"  >> /etc/sudoers
    echo "%sudo-group-level2 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SUDO_ACCESS_LEVEL2"  >> /etc/sudoers
    echo "%sudo-group-full-access ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL"  >> /etc/sudoers
    fi
}

#check os 
if [[ $(cat /etc/os-release | egrep "centos|redhat|fedora|rhel|oracle|rocky") != "" ]]
then
yum install sssd realmd oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir adcli samba-common samba-common-tools krb5-workstation openldap-clients  -y
realm join -vvv --user=administrator ad.example.com

#call function
update_sssd_config

restrict_ssh_access_group

sudo_access_level_group

fi

Add ubuntu WSL 2 in Visual code

  • Set default wls to ubuntu
wsl -l
wsl --set-default Ubuntu
wsl --set-default-version 2
  • change from wsl1 to wsl2
wsl -l -v 
wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2
  • chmod is not working?

create /etc/wsl.conf

[automount]
options = "metadata"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46610256/chmod-wsl-bash-doesnt-work