hotplugging SATA harddisks in Linux
7
Apr
That’s just a few records on my personal experience regarding the hot-swapping/hot-plugging capabilities of SATA…
Tag Archives: Linux
find changes in config files (debian/ubuntu)
11
Feb
want to know which files in /etc have been changed on your debian-like Linux system? one part can be done with the package debsums, which compares the md5sums delivered with a debian-package with those of the current files: $ sudo … Read More »
sed magic, including explanation
5
Feb
sed one-liners explained, this one is outstanding: Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution stumbled upon this while trying to paginate text with (gnu) sed, aka reformatting text to a given line width. … Read More »
NFS on a symbian-phone?
25
Jan
see koeniglich.de/p3nfs.html
create deb-packages from perl-modules
21
Jan
see CPAN-Module für Ubuntu (german)
MySQL backup user
20
Jan
to create a user for doing automated backups of a MySQL installation that doesn’t have more than the necessary privileges, use the following statement: GRANT RELOAD, SELECT, LOCK TABLES ON . TO ‘backup’@‘localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘some_reasonable_password’;
clean up frozen mails in exim queue
18
Jan
for mail in $(sudo mailq | grep frozen | cut -c 11-26) ; do sudo exim4 -Mrm $mail done extend or adjust the grep-pattern as required by your situation…
building arm-binaries on debian/ubuntu with qemu-chroot
11
Jan
required packages: qemu-arm-static see: binfmt sudo debootstrap —foreign —verbose \ —variant=buildd —arch arm \ lenny `pwd`/lenny_arm \ http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/
Apache and WebDAV properties (mod_dav)
11
Jan
Ever got messages like this in your Apache logfiles, wondering why setting properties via a client on your (otherwise working) WebDAV is failing? Could not open the property database. [500, #205] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open property … Read More »
vimagic: identifying and treating non-printable or other strange characters
4
Jan
reset vim’s internal representation of what printable characters are, then find all non-printable chars except “TAB” (note that “I” means literally pressing the TAB-key): :set isprint= /[[:print:]^I] UPDATE: a nicer way to achieve this is to activate search-highlighting and then … Read More »