mussh - Multihost SSH wrapper

2010-05-25 1 min read bash Fedora Linux

Description: Mussh is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/shell_script" title="Shell script" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script">shell script that allows you to execute a command or script over ssh on multiple hosts with one command. When possible mussh will use <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ssh-agent" title="Ssh-agent" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-agent">ssh-agent and RSA/DSA keys to minimize the need to enter your password more than once. It is a utility for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/system_administrator" title="System administrator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator">system administrators maintaining more than one hosts. Continue reading

The power of find command in Linux – advanced.

2010-05-24 2 min read Linux

Generally whoever uses Linux, would know about the find command. Find the man page <a href="http://amit.themafia.info/phpMan.php?parameter=find&mode=man" target="_blank">here. There are also lots of blogs, tutorials and other articles on find command on the web, so why write another one. Because it’s worth every word spent on it 🙂 find is a very powerful command, let’s see how (options for find command from man page and usage): –depth — Process each directory’s contents before the directory itself. Continue reading

Inotify Example - Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example

2010-05-24 1 min read C Programs Learning Linux

<a href="http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/inotify-c-program-example/">Inotify Example: Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/inotify" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify" title="Inotify" rel="wikipedia">inotify utility is an effective tool to monitor and notify <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/file_system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system" title="File system" rel="wikipedia">filesystem changes. You can specify a list of files and directories that needs to be monitored by inotify. This <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000023d0f" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library" title="Library" rel="wikipedia">library is used by various other programs. For example, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cpan" href="http://www.cpan.org/" title="CPAN" rel="homepage">CPAN module Linux::Inotify is developed based on this library. Continue reading

Working with FTP Directories.

2010-05-19 1 min read Linux

If you have to manage some ftp site, I can understand you pain in managing the site with FTP. Specially if you are managing a site where you need to edit the files. Without shelling out some decent amount of money you will not get decent editor which can help you edit the files directly over ftp. So today I spent my time looking for a good solution and UREKA I found it. Continue reading

Disk identification by UUID in Fedora.

2010-05-19 2 min read Gnome Linux

Yesterday I managed to delete my complete /usr directory and thus had to re-install my OS but I learned something new yesterday which I didn’t know earlier or actually never bothered to find out.br /br /All the partitions are mounted by udev using the UUID or label now. Finding the label of setting the label is easy but that was not the case with UUID (at least till you dont know how to do it). Continue reading

How to write a Linux virus – well or a trojan.

2010-05-18 2 min read Fedora Linux

<a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229" target="_blank">How to write a Linux virus and the folloup thereof <a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6236" target="_blank">Follow up: How to write a Linux virus Thats quite a lot of discussion and an interesting one too. I too liked the point that the authour is trying to make, that is Linux too is not completely safe. I would rather like to put it as not ”Fool Proof”. But no one is fool. Its just the matter of time when you do something foolish. Continue reading

Linux EBook

2010-05-18 1 min read Linux

My own book.. Though not too good but might be useful. <a class="aligncenter" title="Ebook" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/LinuxBook.pdf.bz2">Free Ebook Leave a comment or send a mail to wordpress@amit-agarwal.co.in to get the password

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