Ubuntu

Homebrew has become pretty much the standard on macOS, but these days you can install Homebrew on Linux too. On Debian and RedHat you can manage packages with apt or dnf (yum), but Homebrew makes it easier to install and update programs that are not in those packages and are not published as a repository. For example, tools I use often such as Hugo, Docker’s docker-compose, and lazydocker have to be downloaded from the official site and swapped out every time there is an update, but this can now be simplified to something like brew update hugo, just as on macOS. [Read More]

Running on debian10(Buster), I had placed a backup script (backup.sh) under /etc/cron.weekly/, but apparently it was not running. Of course I had given it execute permission, and I had confirmed it works when run manually. Checking my other machines, it turned out that it works without any problem on CentOS while none of them run on Debian. Looking into it, according to run-parts(8), it seems that extensions containing a dot, such as .sh or .pl, do not run [Read More]