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Commands by kruspemsv

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ps -eo pid,lstart,cmd
2013-06-17 12:52:53
User: kruspemsv
Functions: ps
Tags: PID
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Discover the process start time

That is useful to discover the start time of process older than 1 day.

You can also run:

ls -ld /proc/PID

That's returning the creation date of the proc files from the process. Some users reported that this way might show you a wrong date since any other process like cron, for example, could change this date.

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tar cvzf - /folder/ | ssh root@192.168.0.1 "dd of=/dest/folder/file.tar.gz"
2012-07-13 17:54:51
User: kruspemsv
Functions: ssh tar
Tags: ssh tar ssh tunnel
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Tunneling commands over SSH

You can ran this also with cat for example:

tar zcvf - /folder/ | ssh root@192.168.0.1 "cat > /dest/folder/file.tar.gz"

Or even run other command's:

tcpdump | ssh root@10.0.0.1 "cat > /tmp/tcpdump.log"
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