Onur Güzel

Category: Linux

  • Supervisord: Restarting and Reloading

    Supervisord is a great daemon for managing application processes. However it does not have a reload option, and restart works different than we get used to. These command makes the following effects. Restart supervisor service without making configuration changes available. It stops, and re-starts all managed applications. Restart application without making configuration changes available. It…

  • How to Run Flask Applications with Nginx Using Gunicorn

    We have recently bought a VPS for İTÜ24, the online newsletter of Istanbul Technical University. The server is running on Ubuntu Server 12.04 operating system. Due to limited memory resources and performance concerns, we preferred to setup nginx as web server. Our server will serve several web pages and applications developed in various programming languages,…

  • Changing PDF Metadata under Linux

    If you are using e-book readers, changing meta information in PDF files might be useful. The PDF Toolkit has powerful capabilities that includes updating PDF metadata. Even though pdftk is a command line application and does not have editing feature, updating is a really simple process. All you have to do is, extract current metadata…

  • Resetting Your Linux Password

    If you cannot remember your password on a Linux operating system, you can simply reset it within minutes. Here is how to do: The only thing you need is a bootable Linux Live CD or USB thumb drive. You will also need “sudo” command to achieve this, make sure you have root privileges on your…

  • İTÜ Laboratuvarlarında Dropbox Kurulumu

    Dropbox, dosyalarınızı internet üzerinde barındırarak her yerden erişmenizi sağlayan harika bir bulut depolama hizmeti. İnternet tarayıcısı üzerinden dosya yüklemeniz ve yüklediğiniz dosyalara erişebilmeniz mümkün olmasına rağmen, bazı durumlarda bu seçenek kullanışsız bir işkenceye dönüşebiliyor. Dropbox’ın istemci yazılımı, belirlediğiniz klasör içinde yaptığınız her değişikliği otomatik olarak ve anında internete gönderiyor. Bu yazılımı İTÜ’deki öğrenci bilgisayar laboratuvarlarındaki…

  • Compaq Armada 110 Running Linux

    My roommate has an old computer that belongs to one of his relatives: Compaq Armada 110. It’s operating system was, Windows ME and since he is going to return it after few months we are not supposed to change it. However, he is in love with Linux, and it is really hard to find proper…