Systems Related

VirtualBox notes
Notes on the mail system
Shell Goodies
LDAP Notes
Notes on Puppet,
Notes on Debian, for Redhat/CentOS folks
Moving desktop apps to console usage - lately, I've been having to use ssh for all of my traditionally desktop apps.
For configuration management, I'm trying to learn Puppet.
I've been using Xen lately for virtualization.
LVM can be prodded, when it's refusing to let volumes come online, with "vgchange -a y"
It's worth noting that "cabextract" will remove Windows files from .cab files, and "unshield" will extract files out of InstallShield archives. This comes in handy when attempting to dig Windoze drivers out of vendor install CDs when there are no native Linux drivers for a particular bit of hardware.
Useful commands for probing systems
General Linux Filesystem stuff.
Linux Software RAID related issues.
Setting up a laptop my way
Irritating Changes in Various Distributions
I need to get around to describing the process of lying to Fedora to 'upgrade in place' from one version to the next.
Of Dell Hardware and Linux, basically my experiences in messing with Dell servers.

Email Related

I wrote an Apache Error Log Summarizer on 2/14/11, because I got tired of not knowing how many errors were happening.
FOSWiki Related notes, which is a successor to my TWiki Related notes
Ruby On Rails notes.
"grep -L 'PAGETITLE' *.txt"... enough said. There is also great power here, for finding TWiki pages which are just going to use horrible default titles.

I felt like installing NTOP recently, and there were some things I felt like recording.
Firewalling away the 'L33t Haxx0rz'
Using a Linux box for a router with NAT

Must get around to downloading and installing Synfig. It looks like more or less a freeware successor to Fantavision on the Amiga.
Some notes on getting Aptana working, which touches more upon Java than anything else I've written to date.
"sed -i '/pattern/d' filename"... enough said. There is great power here.
Burning an iso from an OSX mac? Forget the gui crap... use hdiutil burn image.iso
The magic formula to create a patch file for others' consumption, is 'diff -Naur old new', which will create a forward patch.
Linux things I don't know

-- SeanNewton - 07 Jul 2008

Topic revision: r15 - 2014-02-21 - SeanNewton