How to launch Duniter, the Libre Money node daemon, at startup as a service using its own user.

If you don’t know about Duniter and Libre Money, you should absolutely have a look at it, as it is a revolutionary system to free ourselves from the current (corrupt) banking system. It is far more revolutionary and liberating than Bitcoin or any other alternative currency. This is not a currency you adopt because you […]

Configuring mirror drives with mdadm

Warning: use at your own risk! This works on my configs (Ubuntu 14.04, 16 and 18) but might be different for yours. If you’re not 100% familiar with mdadm, grub and filesystems/partition tables, I would strongly advise you to do some testing on virtual machines before actually applying any of this to your running system. […]

Using screen in linux

Screen is a very interesting utility that enables to persist a session when connecting from a terminal. To make a parallel, it’s the console version of vnc. Start a new screen session: screen -S <session_name> Detach from the session but leave it running: [Ctrl]-A D End a session: [Ctrl]-D You can also start a session […]