Linux Shtuff

tar -tvzf tarfile.tar.gz non gzip file: tar -tfv tarfile.tar

If you don’t want to use a user interface to change the effect of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace in any flavour of Ubuntu you can follow these steps: 1) Install the “dontzap” package sudo apt-get install dontzap 2) Open Terminal or Konsole and type: sudo dontzap –enable or sudo dontzap –disable Where “disable” means that Ctrl+Alt+Backspace restarts the…

Ever notice how the public RBL databases aren’t enough? spamcop and spamhaus are great, but there are spammers still getting through. Did you ever want to do it yourself? This procedure explains how to run your own RBL DNS Blacklist. It uses a mysql table to store the IP address you want to blacklist and…

Compile an Ubuntu 9.04 Kernel The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to set up a kernel that is highly tuned for your CPU, in this case a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading for a workstation. Caution: If you do something wrong..it happens…be sure to reboot and select an alternative kernel. You should…

I have been asked how does one enter the fruitful land of Linux, well, in a nutshell here it is; 1. Download you favorite iso image from Distrowatch.com. 2. Burn the iso file to a CD using your favorite CD burning software. Remember to burn the .iso using the “Burn image to CD” option or…

28 Coolest Firefox About:Config Tricks

  I was working on some sysadmin tasks on a freshly installed server, and I found out the crontab editor was not what I expected it to be. I really like vi (or vim) for command line editing, so I wanted ‘crontab -e’ to use vim instead of something else. To make that happen, I…

export PS1=’C:${PWD//\//\\\}>’