Linux

ssh reverse tunning..

2013/02/14

If you want to access some local resources like the release website from the remote server when you are connecting to the remoter server using ssh over VPN, then possibly reverse ssh tunnelling is the …

dnsmasq – use with Network Manager.

2013/01/28

 Well if you have not heard about dnsmasq: […] Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. …

Disable a few cores when you want to save power.

2012/12/28

If you have a lot of CPU power and working on battery. If you do not need that much of power and would like to rather save some battery power by disabling some cpus then you can use the below script. …

Battery performance improvement with powertop and using xidel.

2012/12/24

For those of you, who have not heard about powertop, it is a tool to monitor the power consumption on your system. It has a tab which shows the tuneable parameters. Doing the changes suggested in …

quick bash script for datewise backup of directory

2012/12/12

I was working on something and the data was very critical and needed backup. I wrote a bash script to back up the data every 5 hours with cron and bash script. Thought I will share that with you. Here …

Shortcut to run current command with sudo in bash

2012/09/20

For me, I mostly forget to add “sudo” to the command until the time I am actually supposed to run it. Also sometimes, on some systems, bash completion does not work as expected with “sudo”. With these …

Ubuntu – Really force remove a package.

2012/09/17

I was trying to remove a package on one of the Ubuntu installations the other day and was not able to do so. I tried google and tried all the options mentioned in various forums like “-f”, purge, …

snmpd -verify if the mibs are loaded.

2012/09/10

If you are setting up the snmpd server and have added your own mibs and do not really know if the mibs are loaded or not then simply go to the directory: /var/lib/net-snmp/mib-indexes This can save …

Music players on Linux – the poor mans random song player.

2012/07/20

If you have more applications running on your system then your system can handle them then you know what I mean when I say that the Music Players take a lot of CPU. Otherwise harmless, but when you …

Ignore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.

2012/07/07

CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂

convert word document to html

2012/06/27

First install the required package: sudo yum install wv Description: […] And here is the list of the programs that this utility provides: /usr/bin/wvAbw /usr/bin/wvCleanLatex /usr/bin/wvConvert …

symlinks -delete all invalid soft links in Linux/Fedora

2012/06/12

First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed : sudo yum install symlinks and here is the description: […] and the help for the same: […] symlinks: scan/change symbolic links – …


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