If you need to run a process that will take a lot of cpu resources and has to run for a long time, it is nice to run it using the program nice. In a nutshell, nice will run your process but allow it to be bumped by more important processes. For example if you …
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What is listening on your system — Linux Tip #3
Netstat is used to find out about network connections on a unix box. If you pass in -lintp you will get a listing of what processes are in a listening state on your machine and what interfaces they are listening on. # netstat -luntp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign …
Kororaa live CD Mirror
I have the Kororaa live CD iso now hosted on my dropbox. Can’t wait to try it out on my systems. Newsforge Article Other Mirrors
Need to find a process? — Linux Tip #2
If you are ever wanting to quickly find a process on your system ps aux | grep 'process-name' will output some information for you about all the processes named ‘process-name’ Example: eric@raptor:~$ ps aux | grep 'gaim' eric 16112 0.1 2.4 50484 38652 ? S Mar04 10:04 gaim where 16112 is the Process ID, 0.1 …
Want an email reminder? — Linux Tip #1
If you want to be reminded of something you have to do at a certain time, use the at command at 11am at> mail me -s "Time to leave" -m "Meeting in the office" This will send ‘me’ and email at 11am to remind me about the meeting. at 7am at> xmessage "You have a …