Some errors are too good and though you would have seen them couple of times you don’t realize until sometimes it just hits you, like the one below: […] tar: Cowardly refusing to create an …

On Desktop on Gnome using nautilus, now you can resize individual icons. Just right click on the icon to resize and in the menu you will get a resize icon : […] and then you can resize the icon …

Here are some links for bash programming that you may find useful. http://tips-linux.net/en/content/pro-bash-programming http://tips-linux.net/en/content/expert-shell-scripting …

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write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log… each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for. […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;log() { …

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If you are looking for a command to see the disk usage by each of the rpm‘s then you can use this command: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;rpm -q …

One of the things that I never realized that I am missing in Nautilus until they put the feature in was this. When a file is being copied and there is conflict, there should be option to rename the …

Make any command read line enabled (on *nix) […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> rlwrap sqlite3 database.db </div> </td> </tr> Enable readline even …

If you use screen command a lot then this is something that you will like 🙂 Screen enable/disable loggin in all windows […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> bindkey ^l …

Here are some of the links that may be of great help to you if you are having issues with setting up SSL and OpenLDAP. I was having some issues with this setup and these links helped me fix the same. …