Let’s find out the name of the package using the awesome eix command, and install that package. ~ # eix usbguard * sys-apps/usbguard Available versions: ~0.7.6-r1 ~0.7.8 {bash-completion dbus ldap policykit static-libs systemd} Homepage: https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard Description: Daemon protecting your computer against BadUSB ~ # emerge --ask sys-apps/usbguard These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/usbguard" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-apps/usbguard-0.7.8::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) - sys-apps/usbguard-0.7.6-r1::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. It looks like we need to unmask usbguard. ...

Last year, I already wrote a blog post about the same topic: Configure Encrypted Storage With LUKS, and I had used fdisk to create a disk partition. In this post, I’ll use parted to achieve the same thing. I’m going to perform this operation on a server called servera on a disk device /dev/vdb. First, let’s verify that vdb is available and has no partition: [root@servera ~]# parted -l ... Error: /dev/vdb: unrecognised disk label Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk) Disk /dev/vdb: 1074MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: unknown Disk Flags: Use parted to create a partition on vdb using the whole disk. ...

Gentoo provides a package called app-admin/ansible for Ansible. To install it, just run: ❯ sudo emerge --ask app-admin/ansible Note that unlike Ansible package on CentOS/Fedora, there is no default ansible.cfg provided with the Gentoo Ansible package. ❯ ansible --version ansible 2.9.9 config file = None configured module search path = ['/home/kenno/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible executable location = /usr/lib/python-exec/python3.7/ansible python version = 3.7.7 (default, May 9 2020, 19:52:18) [GCC 9.2.0] Reference: ...

I have a 2TB drive, when connecting to my Fedora workstation, it’s mounted using the UUID of the partition as the following: # mount | grep sde1 /dev/sde1 on /run/media/kenno/f59ffb93-5a92-4af9-a9b5-19ca3bb8aa37 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,uhelper=udisks2) I think it’ll look nicer if it’s mounted with a shorter name, e.g. ‘Podcast’. The filesystem for this drive is ext4. To create a label on the ext4 filesystem, we can use a program called e2label. The exact command is e2label device [ volume-label ] according to the man page. ...

I’ve switched to use DWM, Dynamic Windows Manager, from GNOME on my laptop since the beginning of this month. So far I really enjoyed it. Here are some commands I needed to know since I have an external screen connected ot this machine. To change the focus to previous/next screen: Mod1 + , Mod1 + . To move applications from a screen to another, just add Shift key: Mod1 + Shift + , Mod1 + Shift + . References: ...