Questions tagged [google-cloud]
For questions relating to the Google Cloud Platform.
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Install Sohpos VPN/Open VPN on GCE ubuntu
I am new to using Linux, and am trying to install the Sophos SSL VPN Client/Open VPN on a Google Compute Engine (GCE) running ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20210224. The instructions I have seen all refer to ...
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Replacing Google Cloud Print in Raspbian based order printer
For the past couple of years, I have been running an automated order printer for packing orders from my webshop.
Until now, I have made the webserver create a PDF of the order contents, and sent that ...
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write a carriage return to a file in cloud shell
I have a file which is havig '\n' at the end of each record of a given file. I would like to have '\r\n' at the end of each record.
I tried below but upon checking on notepad++.. see same line ...
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How to personalize dotfiles on gcp instances
On gcp (google cloud), the first time a user connects (via ssh) to a vm a new home directory is created and dotfiles are populated from /etc/skel. How can I configure things to get user specific ...
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What's wrong with this background command?
In a Google Cloud Debian VM, I'm running the following command on the Bash shell:
python programname.py > output.txt &
I want it to pass its stdout to output.txt and run the program in the ...
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bcache fails to attach local ssd as caching device in google cloud
I'm trying to setup bcache in an instance in google cloud using a raid of local SSDs as caching device but everything fails in the attach phase of the process. For testing purposes I created a new ...
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GCP wget (and curl) fails to download file Error 403
I started using GCP (Google Cloud Platform) recently. I created an Ubuntu VM in Google Cloud Engine, and wanted to download some files from a website via wget.
I am able to download it using a normal ...
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Can't change netmask to other than /32 for a Debian virtual machine created on google cloud platform
I have created two virtual machines in google cloud platform both are on the same VPC 10.164.0.0/20.
One machine is configure with static IP 10.164.0.2, and the other machine is configure with static ...
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GSUTIL search with pattern with filename having blank
I am using below gsutil command to search for files wherein some files having spaces in between file name.
a01_1h_255_ISZSH1_202101220100_0009.csv.bz2
gsutil ls -l "gs://test-bucket/cm_data/...
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gcloud command not found even after I have successfuly installed google-cloud-sdk
apple@apples-MacBook-Pro ~ % brew list
aom fribidi harfbuzz libevent libtool openssl@1.1 rubberband webp
bdw-gc gdbm icu4c ...
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Fastest way to download data from GCS bucket
We have millions of files in some GCS bucket and I normally use GSUTIL to download some files based on some pattern to my local.
gsutil -m cp -R "gs://test-bucket-data-ingest/cm_data/AAA_AN/CM/*/...
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coverting timestamp to epoch seconds and vice versa in PostgresSQL
I can run below queries to get the epoch seconds from date and can covert back them to given date in Google bigquery.
For example:
select unix_seconds(timestamp('2020-12-04 00:00:00')), unix_seconds(...
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formatting the file output with header
I have a shell that writes output to a file as shown below:
#!/bin/bash
file_path='/home/vikrant_singh_rana/gsm_test_bq_file.csv'
count=0
{
read
while IFS=, read -r name local_unit ...
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gcloud setting up zsh alias
I was trying to set up some alias command and function for gcloud.
I have written below function and running it in zsh in mac.
It runs fine when I pass c and i as individual arguments but not when I ...
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Shell causing error in referencing variable in query
I am executing a query in shell to access Google Bigquery table. Cannot figure out what is causing the error.
#!/bin/bash
file_path='/home/vikrant_singh_rana/test_bq_file.csv'
{
read
while ...
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Using multiple alias in a single command
I'm facing problem in using multiple alias in a single line on Mac bash Terminal.
I have setup below alias in my .bash_profile file
alias gc=gcloud
alias cmp=compute
alias ins=instances
alias pdev=&...
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UFW kills SSH access on reboot
I'm trying to block all connectivity except what's required for a SSH server to function using the following commands on a freshly installed ubuntu 18.04 server:
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw default ...
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gcloud command not working with python virtual environment
I am having a Linux server with Centos7 as operating system. I have installed gcloud and it's working fine.
[xyz@innolx20122 ~]$ gcloud version
Google Cloud SDK 308.0.0
alpha 2020.08.28
beta 2020.08....
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Why can I get man pages for section 1, but not for section 2 and section 3 on a google cloud VM?
I'm running Centos7 on a google cloud VM. I've installed man but can get man pages only for section 1 of the manual. Even as root, I can only get man pages for section 1. For example with the section ...
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Using Kubernetes Container as a Custom NAT in Google cloud platform?
GCP used to have a documentation that explained about using Google Compute instance as a custom NAT Device, it is now deprecated and deleted as per the documentation.
Basically it had a list of ...
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How to use eCryptfs under Google Cloud Shell?
I am trying to use ecryptfs under Google Cloud Shell. Google Cloud Shell is a virtual machine running Debian GNU/Linux 9. I installed ecryptfs-utils package using command:
sudo apt install ecryptfs-...
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ssh config to start session with google cloud compute instance using gcloud cli command
I would like to use my ssh config to use a google cloud cli (gcloud) to connect to google compute instances. (This is a follow-on to another question I asked, that had a working solution, but didn't ...
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ssh config to start session with google cloud compute instance
I would like to use my ssh config to use a google cloud compute instance as a jumpbox to connect to another box. However, I am having problems getting a config that will allow me to even connect to ...
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How to force a custom disk encryption on a google cloud compute instance (gcloud)?
Google cloud services (computing instance) offer encryption by default for disk storage, the customer can provide its own key with the feature customer supplied encryption (detailed here also).
How ...
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Can't install helm on Debian (Pop_OS) because of a 404. How can I get around that?
I am running this script from the cloud.google.com doc:
# Create environment variable for correct distribution
export CLOUD_SDK_REPO="cloud-sdk-$(lsb_release -c -s)"
# Add the Cloud SDK distribution ...
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SFTP server with third party user management system?
I understand how to set up SFTP servers on Linux and create users and their passwords manually.
So basically, the users get authenticated as normal Linux users get authenticated through /etc/passwd. ...
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Unable to open VS Code on Ubuntu VM instance on Google Cloud
I am facing a problem when trying to open VS Code on my Virtual machine in Google cloud using VNC viewer.
It's Real VNC,
and I checked that vscode is not running in multiple VNC sessions.
The VM is ...
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Problem when piping stdin to tar
I need to write data (multiple files and directories) from a Google cloud storage bucket onto a Tar archive on my local disk. The directories are multiple TB, so I do not want to create the Tar ...
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How to install Google Cloud completion in NixOS with Oh-My-Zsh?
Oh-my-zsh has a plugin option (plugins = (gcloud, ...)) which allows installing gcloud completions.
When I add "gcloud" to plugins, I expect that the completion will be sourced during shell ...
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With Ansible, is it possible to connect connect to hosts that are behind Cloud IAP (Identity-Aware Proxy) in GCP?
Cloud IAP is a sort of proxy for Google Cloud Platform that lets you connect to compute instances that don't have public IP addresses, without a VPN. You stand up an instance and then you can use the ...
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write mistake bash_profile
I am using GCE, I want to install Scala on Google Cloud Shell, so I first install the brew, however when I added the brew path to bash_profile, I did a mistake.
First of All, I downloaded the brew.
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How to verify my google cloud storage downloads of csv files are successful?
I have created some shell script to put the data into google cloud storage from some source and download that into my local. I am able to do it and the job is also running fine, but my question is, is ...
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Strange difference of disk size
I have a Google Cloud Instance:
When i check the disk space with two different command it show:
df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 11G 3.1G 7.5G 30% /
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Access permissions for google-compute-engine script
I would like to run a python script on compute engine, which uses a Linux-based operating system ("debian-9-stretch-v20180307"). I am using a bash boot script with code as follows:
#! /bin/bash
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Process ownership automatically changes to init process on GCP Ubuntu 18.04LTS
We recently moved our development infrastructure from our own old machines running Ubuntu 12.04 to Google Cloud instances running Ubuntu 18.04.
Developers usually start some screens and run django ...
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Google Compute Engine: ssh with publickey stops working after logout
From google compute engine instance, connected via ssh with web terminal
[gcp-instance] $ ssh-copy-id user@server
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to ...
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Debian 9 stretch-backports signature couldn't be verified [duplicate]
I'm trying to install certbot on my Debian 9 server on Google compute engine VM.
Here's what I have done so far:
To add backports repository, I have edit the sources.list as:
sudo nano /etc/apt/...
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Automating postfix installation
I have been trying to automatically install postfix in a non-interactive way via startup-script on machine boot up.
After a bit of research I found out some suggestion that I could try to install it ...
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Connect to VM through SSH (Google Colab and PuTTY)
I want to connect to a Google Colab computer via SSH because it has really shit text editing abilities, and it likes to hide the characters I type in the interactive shell.
This is code I have on a ...
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Is it important to fix warnings about martian packets in the kernel ring buffer?
These are the outputs I see when I run dmesg
[1373335.656608] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[1373364.891962] device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
[1374537.599978] IPv4: martian source 10.5.0.2 ...
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vsftp user upload files into moved folder outside of allowed folder
Google VM, centos 7, vsftpd server. I have ftpuser, homedir /var/www/html
cat /etc/passwd | grep ftpuser
ftpuser:x:1001:48::/var/www/html:/bin/bash
from root user I have moved folder /var/www/html ...
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Cloud Shell idle cpu usage seems relatively high (3-6%) - where is this usage coming from?
top - 12:10:09 up 2:18, 6 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00
Tasks: 35 total, 1 running, 34 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2.1 us, 1.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 96.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, ...
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Headless OpenGL rendering on Google Compute
I created a GPU instance on Google Compute engine with NVIDIA Tesla K80 attached.
I have installed GPU drivers and CUDA based on this guide.
nvidia-smi check - ok.
nvcc -V check - ok
Now I am ...
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GCP: Debian stuck at setting up dbus
I have been trying to install GUI, i.e. gnome and lxde, into Debian 9 stretch in google cloud computing instance. I have even increased the cpu, ram, harddisk size. However, the installation is always ...
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SELinux setsebool command fails on Google compute engine
I am trying to setup my website (LAMP stack, CentOS 6.9) on Google compute engine. I use PHPMailer to send mails (Registration, Singup, Login, etc.)
I have setup smtp & all that good stuff in G-...
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Openvpn issues with routing and config pushing
I have recently installed an openvpn server on GCP, in a docker container, from https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-openvpn.
The docker-host has packet forwarding enabled.
Now I am struggling with ...
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scp not able to write to a mounted volume, complains it's read-only [closed]
(Note: though I'm asking a different question here, this is essentially to diagnose the same problem I reported in this question on StackOverflow).
I have a Google Cloud Compute Engine virtual ...
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apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name
root@cloudshell:~$ service apache2 start
Starting Apache httpd web server: apache2AH00558: apache2: Could not
reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using
172.17.0.3. Set ...
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Google vm firewall, I have open all port, FTP 425 Can't open data connection
I have a problem with uploading or viewing FTP server.
I am able to Connect to FTP server but I can't upload my file to it
it says error.
230 User S2ubp92XXh logged in from ::ffff:xx.xx6.xx3.xx8.
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“I am alive” for Google Computing Server
What would the best recommendations be to create some sort of "I am alive mechanism" for a google cloud computing instance running linux. I am certain there are many victims who forget to turn off ...
