Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

How to log vllm debug output to a file

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Ahmed Tawfik

Just a couple of environment variables and arguments, simply do the following: export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUGexport VLLM_DEBUG_LOG_API_SERVER_RESPONSE=TRUE vllm serve \–enable-log-requests \–enable-log-outputs 2>&1 | tee vllm_server.log That’s it, Enjoy! Source:

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How to install Headless LM Studio on Linux

Posted on May 14, 2026 by Ahmed Tawfik

Simply run curl -fsSL https://lmstudio.ai/install.sh | bash After you install, don’t forget to source your .bashrc file via source .bashrc so that you can run the lms command. To bring it up, run lms daemon up After it’s up, you … Continue reading →

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How to Configure Tavily MCP Server in LM Studio

Posted on May 14, 2026 by Ahmed Tawfik

I needed to add a web search functionality to my models in LM Studio, so I simply had to add the Tavily MCP Server configuration to LM studio, along with my API key of course. You simply click on Edit … Continue reading →

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Count JSON objects in a file using jq

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Ahmed Tawfik

Simply run: For example: Will return 2! That’s it, Enjoy! Sources:

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Enable debug mode for Ollama on Linux/mac

Posted on February 24, 2026 by Ahmed Tawfik

Simply run it as follows: Note: You might want to export another variable to show the ollama serve command where the models are saved in case you receive a 404 about model not available, this happened to me for some … Continue reading →

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