amit agarwal

Convert string to hex.

2012/04/13

If you want to use snoop or tcpdump with advanced search in the packet, then you would need to convert the string to hex string. For this, either you can use a web search and find some web application …

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Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm

2012/02/09

Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner: rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm" …

tora on Fedora 16 for mysql and Oracle.

2012/02/06

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 …

Color disk usage on Fedora

2012/01/21

For 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 …

Benchmarking the system/CPU performance

2012/01/15

Have you ever wanted to have a quick check on your CPU performance. I know that lot of people will say that this is not the right way to do this, but here is something that you can use to check the …

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conky script used to monitor server status remotely.

2012/01/12

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 …

Backup of files in the directory.

2011/12/01

I was working on some scripts and the changes that I was making in the scripts was very dynamic, which I did want to keep backing up in the version control system. But for the peace of my mind, I …

Linux hardware details.

2011/11/28

Here is one of the scripts that I found on the net while searching for something … Note the URL for the script in the Description.

Add ssh key to remote host

2011/11/15

Image via Wikipedia […] If you are working on recent versions of the *nix OS like Fedora or Ubuntu then you would know about the commad ssh-copy-id. But if you land up using one of the older …

Creating a chroot environment – the script.

2011/09/23

Here is the script, very simple and effective 🙂 #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: mkchroot.sh # # USAGE: ./mkchroot.sh # # …

Faster blog with stats removed

2011/06/18

I was thinking of removing the statpress plugin for quite some time now, but did not have a good alternative. Today finally I managed to do this as I had few hours to spare. Now that this is done, you …

Try all colors in xterm with script before setting the color

2011/03/18

If you are looking for testing the colors on how they would look like in the xterm before you set the color then here is a small script for you. […] <td> <div class="text …


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