systemadm – simpler way to manage the service files for systemd

2012-04-17 1 min read Fedora

Once the systemd unit and service files have come into being, understanding of the system services have changed a little bit and it might require some time to understand the cli tools for managing these services and units. That being the case, systemadm comes to rescue. This is a simple tool which :

Graphical front-end for systemd.

For installation :

sudo yum install systemd-gtk

And here’s a screenshot::

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uptimed – keep track of your system uptime.

2012-04-02 1 min read Fedora

Uptimed is an up time record daemon keeping track of the highest
up times the system ever had.

Uptimed has the ability to inform you of records and milestones
though syslog and e-mail, and comes with a console front end to
parse the records, which can also easily be used to show your
records on your Web page

Installation :

sudo yum install uptimed

Once installed, you will have to first create the boot id with this command:

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Check out all the colors on you X window system.

2012-02-24 1 min read Fedora

If you ever wondered what combination of some colors would look like but did not really feel like setting them in your xterm just to check them out. Or if you wanted to know about all the colors on you X window system then you can install this utility called xcolorsel.

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xcolorsel

You will need to setup the rpm-shere repo for this.

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Get yourself som new themes for vim

2012-02-15 1 min read Vim Tips

Well, you would already have some themes for your vim, by default. And if you did not like them then you would have added some of your own too (downloaded from vim.org). But, those are something, that you might not still like and want to make some changes.

Here’s, a new way to do it. Just go to the link mentioned below and click on Generate Dark or Generate Light. You can generate as many as you like and once you like the theme, simply click on vim in the bottom and download 🙂 BTW, you can generate textmate and Emacs theme as well.

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Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm

2012-02-09 1 min read Database Fedora
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Image via Wikipedia

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"

But if you like the hard way out, then you can always try this.

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tora on Fedora 16 for mysql and Oracle.

2012-02-06 1 min read Database Fedora

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 and here are the steps to do so:

First get the Tora sources from sourceforge.net . Download the source tar file and extract the same.

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