Commands by 0disse0

The following command finds all the files not modified in the last 5 days under /protocollo/paflow directory and creates an archive files under /var/dump-protocollo in the format of ddmmyyyy_archive.tar

Please be careful while executing the following command as you don?t want

to delete the files by mistake. The best practice is to execute the same

command with ls ?l to make sure you know which files will get deleted when

you execute the command with rm.

No comment... it's easy! Using the VBoxManage list and the switch 'hdds' or 'dvds' you can show the list of hard disks and DVD registered on the system.

No comment: it's easy!

If you want to know what OS are supported on "guest" machines on the Sun VirtualBox server.

where "cicciobox" is the name of your virtual machine in a Sun VirtualBox server

How to show the system properties of a Sun VirtualBox server

ethtool is used for querying settings of an ethernet device and changing them. In this example I setup 100 Mb/s full duplex on my Linux Box

the command is obvious, I know, but maybe not everyone knows that using the parameter "-l" you can limit the use of bandwidth command scp.

In this example fetch all files from the directory zutaniddu and I copy them locally using only 10 Kbs

edit the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file and try to work whit this:

-A INPUT -i (interface) -m mac (mac address) -j ACCEPT/DROP

Instead, install apt-get install secure-delete and you can use:

-- srm to delete file and directory on hard disk

-- smem to delete file in RAM

-- sfill to delete "free space" on hard disk

-- sswap to delete all data from swap

Check the ssh_config file and set the variable:

StrictHostKeyChecking no

When need to pack the ZODB...

A dear friend of mine asked me how do I copy a DVD to your hard drive? If you want to make a copy of the ISO image that was burned to a CD or DVD, insert that medium into your CD/DVD drive and (assuming /dev/cdrom is associated with your computer?s CD drive) type the following command

This command clone the first partition of the primary master IDE drive to the second partition

of the primary slave IDE drive (!!! back up all data before trying anything like this !!!)

When you need to add another tty device that can automatically start at boot time

To highlight the difference between screen updates

If you need to keep an eye on a command whose output is changing, use the watch command. For example, to keep an eye on your load average

If you launch gnome-terminal manually, you can start with three open tabs

For example: check the APT security keys to make sure the Google digital signature was imported correctly

You can view the man pages from section five by passing the section number as an argument to the man command