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I recently came across this problem. I have a Centos 5 server that I tried to update using yumex. I selected the updates I wanted and tried to apply the updates. Yumex started to process but would hang before any of them were installed.I tried to install one update at a time to see if […]
Here is one that I hope someone finds useful.I recently was installing VMWare ESXi server on a Dell Optiplex GX280. Upon install I was getting an error about an invalid option in Bios and that I needed to Disable “limit CPUID value” or “Support Legacy NT4 OS” in the BIOS. My Dell system did not […]
If you have tried Klok on Linux, you may have noticed that most for the drag and drop functions didn’t work. It turns out that, there were some issues in the air runtime that prevented this from working correctly. I have been told the the AIR 1.5.1 runtime for Linux fixes this issue. I have […]
This article will hopefully help someone using a Linux server with dual network cards.I have an HP DL380 server that on a nightly basis copies large amounts of data across my network to a backup server. The copy was averaging over 8 hours to complete. To increase my network throughput I was able to install […]
This one may be a bit simple but it may help someone remember the syntax.This command will mount an NFS share in linux to an exisiting empty folder called /mountpoint. mount servername:/nfs-exported-sharename /mountpoint The servername is the server’s name. Note this can be the UNC name (server.domain.com). The nfs-exported-sharename is the NFS share that has […]
Here is a small command line util that I have used many times. It will show a list of open files on a linux system. I have used this command to check for things like open ftp connections, large file copies and even database files open. To get a list of open files on the […]
It seems that most of my linux command posts are more popular than the others so I have decided to put a list together of some of the most popular linux command line posts. Please post a comment if you would like me to add something. How to view Swap Information on Linux Gathering Linux […]
This has come up a few times and I thought I would share it. If you need to find files in a directory over 60 days old /usr/bin/find /directory/to/look/in -atime +60 This has come in hand to periodically delete log files. To take it one step further try this one. /usr/bin/find /directory/to/look/in -atime +60 -exec […]
These steps will create an additional swap partition on your system. 1. Create swap partition (This example uses IDE 2nd drive (/dev/hdb), 2nd partition). Use n command and make partition. Change ID to 82 by using t command.At a command prompt type fdisk /dev/hdb 2. Make swap space using mkswap. At a command prompt type […]
The below script may come in handy for someone that needs to pull files for whatever reason to a separate location for processing. I realize that this is not the only method to do this but this has been working for me for years. I use the script to pull IIS log files from an […]