Logwatch for Linux Systems.

2010-06-02 2 min read Fedora Linux

On my personal <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/client" title="Client (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29">desktop at home, I like to see the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/statistics" title="Statistics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics">statistics at least once a day, for what was installed, what was run with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudo" title="Sudo" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sudo.ws/">sudo and other such details like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kernel" title="Kernel (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computing%29">kernel errors.

Running this monotonously every day is quite boring, so comes to rescue is logwatch. I have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/installation" title="Installation (computer programs)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_%28computer_programs%29">installation so I will talk about the location with respect to that so for your distribution it might be a little different.

vim – get names of the scripts and the details from the command line

2010-05-19 1 min read Learning Linux Vim Tips

For the below commands either you can set the two variables in bold and then run the scripts or change the following in the commands and run the scripts.

If you have html2text installed then you can use this:

wget -o /dev/null -O $script_id_file ’http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=’$script_id |html2text

If you dont have html2text installed then you can use:

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Easier Reinstalls

2010-05-10 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

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Easier Reinstalls

I typically reinstall my computer operating system every six months. The reasons for this are that it cleans out the system and reinstalls require me to be in front of the computer for a total of about ten minutes so it’s painless. Notice I said ”in front of the computer”, the system does all of the work for me with some specially crafted bash scripts.

vim search multiple files

2010-03-25 1 min read Linux Vim Tips

Searching some pattern in multiple files is something that is required very often. There are multiple ways to do it, like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006b66ec6" title="Ack (command-line utility)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ack_%28command-line_utility%29">ack, find and so on so forth. But if your editor already has the capability to do that, then why leave your favourite vi and go to shell. I will point you to some scripts and some wiki pages on how to do this 🙂

What is my ip?

2010-03-14 1 min read Bash

$ alias whatismyip="wget -q -O - <a href="http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp"">http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp" The preferred way for scripts (and easier to parse)

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Mount and unmount/umount images(iso/img) from nautilus (Fixed not mounting in Fedora)

2010-03-09 2 min read Fedora GNOME

Get the Nautilus Script <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/moiso?content=84301" target="_blank">here. So what is required is that you have the necessary permission to run mount and umount as normal user with sudo command. If you are using gksu or gnomesu then you can change this in the script that you will get. Once you have got the script then you can run the installer for the script that comes in the package.

If you are running this is Fedora then you would need to make one more change other than the ones done by the installer, which is to allow sudo from non tty devices. Since this will be running from the nautilus so the script will not have any tty device and hence you would need to comment the following in the /etc/sudoers file:

Nifty Things to Do with GIMP

2009-12-26 1 min read Linux Photo

Nifty Things to Do with GIMP Some of us are probably addicted to capturing moments in pictures. I can understand why. It’s one of those things that help us go back to the good old days, so to speak. It’s also something that creates a ‘time machine’ for us because those pictures show us what things looked like, not just remind us of the feeling but give us the atmosphere all over again.