![]() Make it hard to guess, but don't forget it youself □ # create a new password for "ubuntu" user. Useradd -d /home/ubuntu -s /bin/bash -m ubuntu # if you get something like "No such file or directory", let's create "ubuntu" user # another rather proper way to check if user exists by username is "id" command: # use 'file' command to indirectly check evidence of "ubuntu" user present by To check if user "ubuntu" is present you can check if /home/ubuntu/ folder is present: Ubuntu box is up and running! Let’s check it’s version:īecause it is the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) release that will be supported by Canonical until April 2023!Ĭhosen 18.04 is the latest LTS so far on this beautiful image: Use this awesome Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison Tool to select good instance type for your needs (allows select rows and compare selected, customizable columns, shows pricing etc.) Search criteria for Amazon cloud provider:Īs for the instance type – for our purposes, t2.large should be more than enough (it has 2 CPU Cores, 8G of RAM, 8G SSD HDD, 9.3 cents/hour (magnetic HDD is also fine, though slower and may be cheaper)). We will use Ubuntu Amazon EC2 AMI Finder – Ubuntu Cloud Images to find empty ubuntu box image. Locate Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 18.04 image and run itįor this exercise let’s use empty Ubuntu box on Amazon EC2 cloud (easy to create/replace do backups/snapshots and does not produce noise in your house ).Īlternatively, you can download Ubuntu ISO and install it on your home/office box. Also, it would be in your interest to upgrade to IBC. I suggest you join the IBC User Group and post your question there. ![]() ![]() See "Important Notice About IBController": IBController has been superseded by IBC: lpha/IBC, so you definitely want to upgrade to actively developed/supported IBC and drop stale IBController. I hope it will save some time for someone,ĭmitry Shevkoplyas IBC vs IBController – which one to choose? If you have any improvements/suggestion, please drop me an email. Please read the original: TWS-API docs and IBC guide to get the fullness of info. This doc is not intended to be “full guide” rather it is a “very short cheat sheet”, which logs the steps to set it all up without much explanation as of “why this or that” and without extra precaution measures (like creating secure folders and such) (and nothing stops us from having more than 2 TWS if only we have access to more accounts, once I run 4 TWSes on one box for couple months:). One TWS will use real IB account and the other will use paper account. We’ll set up 2 instances of TWS running on the same Ubuntu box (18.04LTS) in parallel. – Interactive Broker Offline TWS Latest for Linux (Version 976) This doc describes steps to install the fol lowing components (as of 0): Home-based installation of Ubuntu 18.04 hangs for a minute with message "a start job is running for wait for network to be configured" upon boot. It can be even harmful!īut if you still want to experiment with manual install of the latest Java ![]() Note #2: There’s NO need to install Java (OpenJDK 8). Note #1: Fine tunning ssh config (to automate port forwards) Secure box: paranoia-to-the-max option: client use ssh-tunnel to access TWS APIĪlternative lower level IBC+TWS restart (if you haven't registered them as self-starting services)? Secure box: option #3: Firewall: Only allow local connections Secure box: option #2: By firewall rules: Only allow connections from known IP / range of IPs Install TWS (offline version build 976.2p) Install VNC server to allow remote access to an existing X session Install xvfb – Virtual Framebuffer 'fake' X server Locate Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 18.04 image and run it IBC vs IBController – which one to choose?
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