Cisco VPN on ubuntu
The work place VPN moved to Cisco VPN and kindly provides linux users with following parameters Connection Type: IPSEC Hostname: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Groupname: TheLocalGroup Group Secret: SecrectPass Use your username and […]
Category Archives: Admin
firewall, servers etc
Delete duplicate messages in evolution and mutt
Mutt This nice fix was found here Simple steps: add following lines in your ~/.muttrc set sort=threads #set sort=reverse-date set auto_tag=yes set duplicate_threads = yes set move = yes macro […]
identify origin of a linux process
when a set of processes of the same command are running. Sometime you need to kill a particular one because of wrong parametesr used. The first task is identify the […]
cut in Linux (nice but don’t cut your finger)
cut command- Divide a file into several parts Syntax: cut [OPTION]… [FILE]… Description: Prints selected parts of lines (of a text file), or, in other words, removes certain sections of […]
add swap file
Swap space is the area on a hard disk as a part of the Virtual Memory of your machine. Swap space temporarily holds inactive memory pages. Swap space is used […]
Password pretected files in Linux
In windows, zip can compresses, encrypts (password-protect) files. The same can be done in Linux, (even more) for eamples tar cvpf Pics.tar Pictures/ gpg -c -o Pics.tar.gpg Pics.tar or in […]
Restore Evolution from cache folder
Assume you have you evolution cache folder backed up and restore to its default dir eg .local/share/evolution. to restore the mail and settings gconftool-2 –unload .local/share/evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml gconftool-2 –load .local/share/evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml that’s […]
Find duplicate files in linux
fdupes and fslint are good tools. Both use md5 hash or/and size to compare files and then identify duplicates. fdupes is commendline too, fslint has nice user GUI. My personal […]
Bring back missing functionality in GNOME 3.0
The new features of gnome 3 in fedora 15 is very annoying. Here are some nice tips to fix most illness. Bring Desktop back (most useful one) yum install gnome-tweak-tool […]
Some experiences with Ubuntu 10.10
I am a long time Fedora fan. Last week, I couldn’t resist dire to try Ubuntu 10.10. After installed a desktop using Ubuntu live CD. It’s a relatively easy ride, […]
