How to mount a Linux formatted external drive in Windows Services for Linux on Windows 11.

I plugged my old Ubuntu HDD into an external housing and I needed to mount it in Windows Services for Linux on Windows 11. This is not too hard at all. Firstly run this Powershell one-liner to find the drive you are looking to mount. The WDC WD10 drive is the one I wished to … Read more

get information about running processes using Systemd.

The sudo systemctl status command will show a tree view of all running processes on your Linux machine. This is quite comprehensive and very useful output. Here is a sample. 4.4 Mon Mar 04 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ sudo systemctl status ● Yog-Sothoth State: running Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 0 units Since: Mon 2019-03-04 18:52:58 AEDT; … Read more

Get information about running services with systemd on Ubuntu 17.10.

This is an easy way to get information about running services on your Ubuntu machine. I am after user services, so I am using systemctl to get this information. This is very easy. Get information about a certain service. jason@kaio:~$ systemctl status –user pulseaudio ● pulseaudio.service – Sound Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: … Read more

How to get information about your Linux services with systemd.

The systemd init system may be used to get information about your running services. Here I am getting information about the openvpn service. jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ systemctl -a status openvpn.service ● openvpn.service – LSB: Openvpn VPN service Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/openvpn) Active: active (running) since Mon 2015-04-13 14:57:18 AEST; 5h 2min ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) CGroup: /system.slice/openvpn.service └─1719 /usr/sbin/openvpn … Read more

Amazon web services. The perfect alternative to a locally hosted server solution.

Amazon Web Services is the perfect solution for hosting a server outside your organization. This allows you to create a cloud hosted database server that takes the strain off your local server infrastructure using Microsoft SQL server 2012 or a Linux based solution in a cloud hosted server instance. There is a free trial that … Read more