Sometime back I had posted a article on Tora on Fedora. But that was a while back and things have progressed and we already have Fedora 16 (aka Verne).
So, awhile back I installed Tora on my Fedora 16 and here are the steps to do so:
First get the Tora sources from sourceforge.net . Download the source tar file and extract the same.
Continue readingIf you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where the shell does not come up. What to do in that case. You can set the shell to start in fallback mode, where there are more chances that it will come up.
Alas, but you don’t have a shell or desktop session to do that. Simple, start the gnome-shell and before it is killed, do this:
Continue readingFor this tip, you would need to setup the rpm-shere repository. You can get the information here. Once you have done that you need to install the cdu package with the following command:
sudo yum install cdu
And then you can use “cdu” to view the disk usage in all beautiful colors with the command:
cdu
and the output looks like this:
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Here is one repository that you can add to your Fedora to give it a few more hundred packages:
cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rpm-sphere.repo <<EOF [rpm-sphere] name=RPM Sphere baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/ gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/repodata/repomd.xml.key enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 EOF
][1]I was looking for something to monitor few details on the server. I thought about quite a lot of applications, some open source and some scripts developed in house. But my requirements were quite petty and the scripts and applications were quite heavy. So, I thought why not conky :).
So, with some quick work on conky script, I was able to get what I wanted and here it is for all of you.
Continue readingIf you are into virtualization, then you must have heard about Qemu. And if you are on windows then this is a must:
http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm
If you work regularly on a Solaris or systems which do not have the “-r” (recursive grep) for grep, then you know what a lifesaver this command can be.
Here is one from command line fu:
find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n", FILENAME, NR, $0; }' {} \;
The benefit of using awk here is that you can print the line number also 🙂
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