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openSUSE 12.x: disabling smbd CUPS warnings when you have Samba but not...
As Dave mentioned a couple of years ago in an article smbd_unable_to_connect_to_cups_server, even if you have printing disabled in Samba, you can get errors in /var/log/messages like these± May 5...
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Linux: mounting of a FAT16/FAT32 USB flash drive
A while ago, I had to transfer a couple of files from a Linux machine where I did have console access, but no proper network access. This was the sequence to get it connected and copy a directory to...
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Unix/Linux ln command, I always forget of the left part is the file or link...
Like forgetting about the tar syntax, I usually forget which is the left parameter in an ln command (the file or link? it is the file!) Thanks cybercriti.biz: There are two types of links symbolic...
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list date with seconds from ls command – Dev Shed
Thanks DevShed: ls -l –time-style=full-iso Emits full ISO 8601 time stamps and it works on: SuSE Linux Mac OS X Cygwin –jeroen via: list date with seconds from ls command – Dev Shed.Filed under: *nix,...
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X-mas present: Beyond Compare v4 beta for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
I’ve been wanting this a very long time, so I’m going to install it Right Now ™ (: Right before X-Mas, Scooter Software did the ANN: Beyond Compare 4.0 beta available on Windows, Linux, and OS X:...
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rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client (open source, runs on X, hosted on...
Very interesting, especially since rdesktop.org works with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 as well, and is stable on x64. It provides three tools: rdesktop, rdpproxy and seamlessrdp. Researching...
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Oops: Sendmail ok on 127.0.0.1 but not ip address
When configuring a fresh SUSE machine, I forgot one tiny detail resulting in Sendmail ok on 127.0.0.1 but not ip address. Solution: Please change in /etc/sysconfig/mail from SMTPD_LISTEN_REMOTE="no" to...
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*nix networking – lsof: How to tell what process has a specific port open on...
I usually used netstat with some grep filter for this, but Brandon Titus showed at StackOverflow that the lsof command is much easier to use: lsof command should be able to do this just fine. Just use...
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praliases: the reverse of makemap generates an aliases text file out of...
In case you want to inspect any of your aliases.db files, use praliases: the reverse of makemap to get an aliases text file. Plus you don’t have to remember the makemap options. Use the -f option to...
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How to Keep Alive SSH Sessions (getting rid of the “Write failed: Broken pipe”)
Getting rid of the dreaded “Write failed: Broken pipe”. Note the difference of ServerAliveInterval/ServerAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval/ClientAliveCountMax. For Mac, Linux and CygWin: To enable...
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terminal emulator – What is making my cursor ‘randomly’ disappear? (via: Unix...
Annoying issue when suddenly the cursor on your OpenSUSE terminal session is gone, but the fix is simple run `reset`: it’s possible that your TTY has been mangled by some other program you’ve run. Try...
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When yast2 in another session didn’t fully terminate…
Sometimes you get this when starting yast2: System management is locked by the application with pid #### (@@@@@@). Close this application before trying again. This means another yast2 process with pid...
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Sendmail: Redirecting domain based mail to multiple addresses: virtusertable...
When doing virtual sendmail hosting, in the domain based virtusertable file, you setup a domain based alias to point to a local alias: foo.and.bar@example.org foo.and.bar In the local aliases file,...
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openSUSE 12.x: today the same system would not plain “reboot” either (was: “A...
A long time ago I wrote about openSUSE 12.x: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown the system properly.” « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff. Well, today, for the very first time, a plain...
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idank/explainshell: explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their...
This is brilliant for learning *nix shell programming: explainshell.com – match command-line arguments to their help text explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) capable of parsing man pages,...
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nmap finger printing: Usage and Examples
Just append -O and -v to a command-line: nmap -O -v ip-address Note you need administrative privileges for this on Mac OS X, so there you run it like this: sudo nmap -O -v ip-address For more info...
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Interesting Linux incoming mail setup using EXIM and Procmail (via: Kristian...
Very interesting: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – user-ordner@domain.de- Eine Anleitung für Exim-Benutzer …. Will try that when I build my next Linux based mail server. Edit: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+...
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OpenSUSE 12.2: Install package lesspipe and using it from bash
lesspipe is a great tool: lesspipe.sh is an input filter for the pager less as described in less‘s man page. The script allows you to view files with binary content, compressed files, archives and...
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Reference card for Linux performance and analysis tools (via: Antony Peel –...
Brilliant reference card for Linux performance and analysis tools. Click on the below image to enlarge. Tools covered in the card: blktrace dstat dtrace free iostat iotop ip mpstat netstat nicstat perf...
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How to copy a file with I/O errors? (via: Not a complete failure » Blog Archive)
Blast from the past, and happy I found back the original blog that pointed me to this: Not a complete failure » Blog Archive » How to copy a file with I/O errors?. A long while ago, I helped out a...
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