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Screen enable/disable logging in all windows

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:13:30 +0000

If you use screen command a lot then this is something that you will like 🙂

Screen enable/disable loggin in all windows

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      bindkey ^l at "#" log on<br /> <br /> bindkey ^o at "#" log off
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The command when added in screenrc enables logging all open windows by using the C-l (control-l key combination) and disable by C-o . The lines need to be added in separate lines .

Hotmail login from Linux machine using Firefox.

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:10:30 +0000

Today I learnt two things. One is that Hotmail has changed the look of the email on the web. Quite good change. Looks good.

Second is that when loggin in to the hotmail using my Fedora box with Firefox, I was always getting the annoying, you are not on supported browser and saw the fix on <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/hotmail-problems-683894/?posted=1#post3345089" target="_blank">this link. The solution is as simple as changing the ”general.useragent.vendor” for firefox. The way to do this is :

Scripts to create logins from bash command – for creating multiple accounts

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:57:05 +0000

Heres the script:

cat «EOF > login.sh
for i in `cat logins` ; do
login=`echo ”$i”|awk -F”:” '{print $2}’`;
comment=”`echo ”$i”|awk -F”:” '{print $1}’`”;
gr=”`echo ”$i”|awk -F”:” '{print $3}’`”;
echo ”login –» $login –Comment –» $comment –Group –»$gr –”;
echo ”useradd -c ”$comment” -d /export/home/$login -m -g $gr -s /bin/bash $login”
useradd -c ”$comment” -d /export/home/$login -m -g $gr -s /bin/bash $login
done

You would need to create file called logins to store the comment, login name and the group. The group must have already been created. Here is an example of the file:

Option to login with any provider.

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:16:03 +0000

I have enabled the following logins on my site.

Hope you like it that you dont have to remember one more login 🙂