by Ron | Aug 13, 2008 | Linux
To find what flavor of Linux you’re using: cat /etc/*-release To find the version, use: uname -a
by Ron | Aug 1, 2008 | Linux
This doesn’t work perfectly, but I often use it to start tracking down disk hogs: To return the 10 largest items in a given directory: du -cksh * |sort -rn |head -11 Some times it’s helpful to view all du -cksh * |sort -rn If someone has a better approach,...
by Ron | Aug 1, 2008 | Linux, Uncategorized
Looking for a log to show you failed login attempts to your Linux machine? Look in: /var/log/btmp You can access it by running: /usr/bin/lastb It’s similiar to the wtmp log of user login/logouts and the utmp log showing who is currently logged...
by Ron | Jul 7, 2008 | Linux
I install RHEL on all my production machines and CentOS on all my test/development boxes. Installing the GUI is helpful for configuration, but you sure don’t want to run them that way all the time. So after everything is installed, configured and tested, I make...
by Ron | Jul 5, 2008 | Linux, Uncategorized
nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Should look something like this DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=172.16.0.255 HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 IPADDR=172.16.0.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.0 ONBOOT=yes Duplicate that and open the new file cp...
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