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root shell auditing and syslog entry for all commands of shell

2009-10-08 2 min read Fedora Linux

A lot of times there is a need to log all the messages and the output of the shell to the file or syslog. Sometimes I need that for some user too. script command can be used to do this but then sometimes you cannot tell the user the session is logged or you can ask the user to run this command and it should be automatically done. And sometimes there is a need put the output in the syslog so that the root user has more control and also mail for syslog is sufficient to be analyzed rather than looking for other files. Finally I found this :

Get list of git repositories from command line.

2009-10-04 3 min read Linux

Earlier I had posted a small blog on teamgit. The problem still is that you have to manually go to the git.kernel.org page and get the list of the repo’s that you can download. How about a command line to get the same. Here’s one:

wget -O – http://git.kernel.org |grep ”class=.list.” |grep -v title|awk -F’>’ '{print $3}’|sed ’s/<\/a//’

Output will be like this:<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/linux-2.6-hacks.git

<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/preempt-test.git

<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/schedtop.git

<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/glommer/linux-2.6-x86-pvops.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/bti.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/ddk.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/lkn.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usbutils.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usbview.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gud/chunkfs-tools.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gud/chunkfs.git <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/gud/fuse-chunkfs.git <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/linux-2.6-hacks.git

Play video in Fedora.

2009-10-03 3 min read Linux

Found <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28153">here.<div class="smallfont">

How to multimedia xmms, rythmbox, mplayer, video, etc.

Lack of multimedia in fedora is one of my major complaints. This is intended for our newbies that have problems setup multimedia for mp3 music and dvd playback. Some commands are for fedora core 3, 4 and 5.

UPDATE: I started using <a href="http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">mplayer. Make sure you download the 6 packages tchung is listing. This is my personal <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53335" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">yum installation of mplayer which can be compare to windows media player. Totem will also meet your needs.

Change user, assume environment, stay in current dir

2009-10-03 1 min read Linux

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Change user, assume environment, stay in current dir $ su — user I’ve used this a number of times troubleshooting user permissions. Instead of just ’su – user’ you can throw another hyphen and stay in the original directory.

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<dot>vimrc file for vim users

2009-10-01 7 min read Linux Vim Tips

Example vimrc file below:

let g:VIM_CUSTOM = ”/home/amitag/.vim_custom/”

” Don’t use vi compatibility; I want all the new features in Vim

set nocompatible

” Version 6.0-specific stuff

if version >= 600

syntax enable

filetype on

filetype plugin on

filetype indent on

else

syntax on

endif

set showfulltag ” Get function usage help automatically

set showcmd ” Show current vim command in status bar

set showmatch ” Show matching parentheses/brackets

set showmode ” Show current vim mode

Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)

2009-10-01 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

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<font SIZE="6"><a HREF="http://www.debianhelp.org/node/15823">Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO)

This tutorial shows how you can <a HREF="http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-boot.kernel.org-bko">boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. BKO allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora. BKO provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy.

phpMyEdit – Mysql table viewer, editor and php code generator.

2009-10-01 1 min read Database Linux

As a developer, whenever you want to write the php code to get the data from the MySQL database, sometimes it becomes tiresome and time taking. And what if you had to do it dynamically. Well I have not generated the code dynamically using <a href="http://www.phpmyedit.org/">phpMyEdit, but I believe that should be pretty much doable.

But what you would definately like this open source php code to view, edit and generate php code, saving you some time to concentrate on better and interesting things. The official website has this description:

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