http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:20:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/midnightcommander-set-vi-as-default-editor-viewer.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/midnightcommander-set-vi-as-default-editor-viewer.html#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:01:50 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=3361 Midnight Commander (mc) is an user-friendly text-based file manager UI for Unix. Using mc, you can browse the filesystem easily and manipulate the files and directories quickly. You will not miss the standard command line prompt, which is also available within the mc itself. If you are new to mc, Midnight Commander (mc) Guide: Powerful Text based File Manager for Unix article will give you a quick jumpstart. In this article, let us review how to solve couple of common annoyance about viewing a file in mc.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/midnightcommander-set-vi-as-default-editor-viewer.html/feed 5 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/interesting-stuff-aug-8-2008.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/interesting-stuff-aug-8-2008.html#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:34:49 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2601 => Cisco 7200 Simulator for Linux. If you decided to study for the Cisco certification, this tool may come handy. Howtoforge has detailed tutorial on setting up a Cisco lab on Linux system. Dynagen is a front-end for use with the Dynamips Cisco router emulator. It uses an INI-like configuration file to provision Dynamips emulator networks. It takes care of specifying the right port adapters, generating and matching up those pesky NIO descriptors, specifying bridges, frame-relay, ATM switches, etc. It also provides a management CLI for listing devices, suspending and reloading instances, determining and managing idle-pc values, performing packet captures, etc.

=> You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linux's many screencasting applications. These programs are perfect for creating demonstrations for blogs and tutorials, and for illustrating projects with more than just still images.

=> Postfix Daily Quota reportA shell script hack to create daily quota report for a Posfix mail server including file system usage of each e-mail account.

=> The developers of Firefox have unveiled an experimental project, Snowl, designed to gather all your inbound communications, whether they're in the form of email, RSS, Twitter, or social network updates.

=> IBM has marked its 10 years of participation in Linux and open source with an open source code contribution focused on supercomputing. The software is available immediately from a software repository run by the University of Illinois's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

=> Regular nixcraft contributed Ramesh has published simple 6 steps to secure home wireless router / network

=> LinuxLeak is a new daily destination for all your Linux and Open Source news headlines, updated every 15 minutes.

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http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-root-user-check-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-root-user-check-script.html/feed 10 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/block-spamming-scanning-with-iptables.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/block-spamming-scanning-with-iptables.html#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:54:35 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/block-spamming-scanning-with-iptables.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/block-spamming-scanning-with-iptables.html/feed 12 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:09:00 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-rotate-backup-shell-script.html/feed 5 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/testing-unix-linux-system-validity.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/testing-unix-linux-system-validity.html#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:49:24 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/testing-unix-linux-system-validity.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/testing-unix-linux-system-validity.html/feed 2 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-add-mp3-multimedia-support-to-fedoralinux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-add-mp3-multimedia-support-to-fedoralinux.html#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:19:19 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-add-mp3-multimedia-support-to-fedoralinux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-add-mp3-multimedia-support-to-fedoralinux.html/feed 2 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-script-pearls.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-script-pearls.html#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:18:43 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-script-pearls.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-script-pearls.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-bash-ksh-find-return-length-of-string.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-bash-ksh-find-return-length-of-string.html#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:31:40 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-bash-ksh-find-return-length-of-string.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-bash-ksh-find-return-length-of-string.html/feed 9 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/domain-check-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/domain-check-script.html#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:39:45 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/domain-check-script.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/domain-check-script.html/feed 39 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/distributed-administration-using-ssh.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/distributed-administration-using-ssh.html#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:50:54 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/distributed-administration-using-ssh.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/distributed-administration-using-ssh.html/feed 6 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/display-file-or-file-system-status.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/display-file-or-file-system-status.html#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:58:40 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/display-file-or-file-system-status.html File size => File type => Inode number => UID/GID => File access , modify and creation time etc. stat command [...]]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/display-file-or-file-system-status.html/feed 11 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/controlling-the-duration-of-scheduled-jobs.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/controlling-the-duration-of-scheduled-jobs.html#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:33:13 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/controlling-the-duration-of-scheduled-jobs.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/controlling-the-duration-of-scheduled-jobs.html/feed 1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nixcraft-faq-roundup-18.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nixcraft-faq-roundup-18.html#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 19:19:27 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nixcraft-faq-roundup-18.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nixcraft-faq-roundup-18.html/feed 0 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http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nixcraft-faq-roundup-11.html#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:22:09 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nixcraft-faq-roundup-11.html Shell command or script to write simple output on screen under Linux and UNIX => Delete a log files in Linux or UNIX => VSFTPD limit the number of simultaneous vsftpd connections for a single IP address => Gnome Desktop Keyboard Shortcut Keys => Disable Advanced power management (APM) on Linux => Locate files [...]]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nixcraft-faq-roundup-11.html/feed 0