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. Install the delel for some of the packages that you will need: Continue reading

Set gnome-shell to start in fallback mode without GUI.

2012-01-26 1 min read Fedora Gnome
If you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where the shell does not come up. What to do in that case. You can set the shell to start in fallback mode, where there are more chances that it will come up. Alas, but you don’t have a shell or desktop session to do that. Continue reading

Color disk usage on Fedora

2012-01-21 1 min read Fedora
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 install cdu And then you can use “cdu” to view the disk usage in all beautiful colors with the command: cdu and the output looks like this: [][2]cdu screenshot Related articles Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora. Continue reading

conky script used to monitor server status remotely.

2012-01-12 2 min read bash Fedora
[][1]Image via Wikipedia 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 petty and the scripts and applications were quite heavy. So, I thought why not conky :). So, with some quick work on conky script, I was able to get what I wanted and here it is for all of you. Continue reading

Consistent ethernet device names in Verne

2011-12-13 1 min read Fedora
[][1]Image via Wikipedia Fedora now supports consistent device names across the network with bios device names for the ethernet devices. If you upgraded your earlier version of Fedora then you may need to go to root access to get this working. Here is what you need to do: sudo yum install biosdevice After installing this you would need to remove the file : /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and reboot. Related articles Fedora 16: A GNOME lover’s paradise (go. Continue reading

rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011-12-07 2 min read Fedora
Lets first install the rpmorphan package: 1 <td> <div class="bash codecolorer"> &nbsp;<span class="kw2">sudo</span> <span class="kw2">yum install</span> rpmorphan </div> </td> </tr> </table> and here is the description of the package: rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[1] packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, and shows you a list of these packages. It intends to be clone of deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages. It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example: Continue reading

Linux hardware details.

2011-11-28 3 min read bash Learning Linux
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. #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: linux_hw.sh # # USAGE: ./linux_hw.sh # # DESCRIPTION: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/solaris/get-the-processor-type-on-solaris/ # # OPTIONS: --- # REQUIREMENTS: --- # BUGS: --- # NOTES: --- # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com # COMPANY: Roamware India Pvt Ltd # CREATED: 09/13/2011 03:57:34 PM IST # Last modified: Sun Oct 30, 2011 04:59PM # REVISION: --- #=============================================================================== function linux_hw_CPU { typeset num=0 typeset name=" Continue reading
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