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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: January 2012
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Friday, January 6, 2012. Remote consoles allow a sys admin to control a server in the machine room from a remote location e.g. from their desk rather than from within the chilly machine room. Setting up a remote console requires an IP address on the private network. Configuring Your System to Use an iDRAC6 (Dell). Run the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility:. Turn on or restart your system. When prompted during POST. Use the arrow keys to select LAN Parameters and press. It is p...
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: Using Find to Delete Files
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Using Find to Delete Files. All files older than 5 days. Find /path/to/files* -mtime 5 -exec rm {} ;. Log files (-type f) older than six months in sub directories. Find /path/to/files/ -mtime 180 -type f -maxdepth 2 -exec rm -rf {} ;. Older than six months. To a directory level of 2. Posted by Techno Peasant. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Using Find to Delete Files. Diary of a Network HO.
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: February 2011
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Thursday, February 10, 2011. Determine Which Directory is Hogging the most Disk Space. Cd into the mount point directory for the given file system. Determine space usage for the subdirectories within the mount point directory:. Du -sm * sort -nr head. If the mount point directory contains subdirectories named as dot files, the "*" pattern won't include them. Ls -lst - block-size=1M lists files in the directory in:. See Using Find to Delete Files. Posted by Techno Peasant.
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: January 2011
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Using Find to Delete Files. All files older than 5 days. Find /path/to/files* -mtime 5 -exec rm {} ;. Log files (-type f) older than six months in sub directories. Find /path/to/files/ -mtime 180 -type f -maxdepth 2 -exec rm -rf {} ;. Older than six months. To a directory level of 2. Posted by Techno Peasant. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Using Find to Delete Files. Diary of a Network HO. Picture Window template. Template images by Dizzo.
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: Renaming a volume group that your root partition is sitting on ....
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Renaming a volume group that your root partition is sitting on . This week's self inflicted issue was renaming a volume group which had the root partition running on it. My system is running RHEL 5.5. A few twists and turns were made. I would imagine that the lvrename steps could occur after the vgrename. But, I decided to document what worked for me and here it is:. Rename Logical Volumes and Volume Groups. Filename Type Size Used Priority. A she...
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: September 2009
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Friday, September 11, 2009. Top 5 things You Don't Want to See on a Sys Admin's Desktop. 5 Your username at the top of a "Block these Accounts" List. 4 The Book "Learn Linux in 24 Hours". 3 opened to "Hour 1". 2 List of "Top 10 things to do when you hate your job". 1 Your username at the top of a "Most Visited Pages" chart. Posted by Techno Peasant. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Top 5 things You Dont Want to See on a Sys Admin. Diary of a Network HO.
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: Determine Which Directory is Hogging the most Disk Space
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Thursday, February 10, 2011. Determine Which Directory is Hogging the most Disk Space. Cd into the mount point directory for the given file system. Determine space usage for the subdirectories within the mount point directory:. Du -sm * sort -nr head. If the mount point directory contains subdirectories named as dot files, the "*" pattern won't include them. Ls -lst - block-size=1M lists files in the directory in:. See Using Find to Delete Files. Posted by Techno Peasant.
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: May 2010
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Thursday, May 27, 2010. Gmail Spell Checker Awesomeness. I just realised that the gmail spell checker allows you to check spellings in a myriad of languages. Google is so clever they even made it exceptionally easy to post this link:. Posted by Techno Peasant. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Renaming a volume group that your root partition is sitting on . Rename Logical Volumes and Volume Groups. Filename Type Size Used Priority. Rename the logical volumes:. Turn swap back on:.
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant: Remote Console
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Confessions of a Techno Peasant. Friday, January 6, 2012. Remote consoles allow a sys admin to control a server in the machine room from a remote location e.g. from their desk rather than from within the chilly machine room. Setting up a remote console requires an IP address on the private network. Configuring Your System to Use an iDRAC6 (Dell). Run the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility:. Turn on or restart your system. When prompted during POST. Use the arrow keys to select LAN Parameters and press. It is p...
