Starting Ensim Pro For Linux SSL Tunnel [FAILED]

At work, I was unable to access my Ensim control panel (on RHEL4); the browser kept timing out. So I thought I’d restart it to see if that would fix it. I did the usual: /etc/init.d/epld restart And got this error Stopping Ensim Pro For Linux Control Panel [ OK...

Your Linux Boot Disk Full?

While trying to run a YUM update on a CentOS server today, I got an error message about my /boot partition being full. I ran a df -h and sure enough, there was only 100k left. (My standard install uses 100MB for the boot partition.) Here’s what I did to fix it....

Speed Up Mail.app

Mail.app seems to get slower and slower. Plus it crashes at least once a week. As I started looking around the web to find a solution I ran across this post from Tim Gaden at his blog: http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/ He describes...

Using Linux Tail to Trim Your Files

This tip is for my friend Scarb. For years I’ve used the Linux command “tail -f” for watching logs… but only recently did I discover its versatility for extracting parts of files. Need to grab only the last 25 lines of a file? tail -n 25...