Linux disk usage statistics
The following are some useful commands to figure out which directory is consuming all of your disk space...
How to reboot a locked up local or remote Linux box
On the odd occasion your Linux box will lock up and won't appear to be working, at this point you go darn I'd love to do a controlled shutdown, here's one way of rebooting your local or remote Linux box...
Command to list only directory names under Linux
Sometimes you need to only only list the directory names under Linux, a simple command for this is...
How to setup a 30 second Cron job
Sometimes you need a cron job at a frequency less than the minimum of 1 minute (60 seconds) that cron allows. One way of achieving this is by...
Find your ethernet driver under Debian
The following is a break down of the various Debian Etch commands that can be used to figure out what ethernet driver you are currently running...
Install vmxnet network driver on your Debian VM
After installing Debian 4 RC2 (Etch) as a VM under VMWare ESX 3.5 it was decided to change the default PCNet32 virtual network driver to the VMWare tools open source vmxnet driver to see if this alleviated a performance response timing issue with some peripheral network servers...
Linux TCP socket guide
For those interested in programming TCP/IP sockets under linux the following links are some solid articles that I have come across on this subject. They cover such topics as blocking and non-blocking TCP sockets, TCP keepalive uses, and some linux socket pitfalls to watch out for...
How to stop those darn Cron emails
How to stop Cron related emails ? The alert emails are generated when cron has trouble runnning a particular script or command...
Debian VM network error SIOCSIFADDR no such device
A common error when moving your debian VMWare virtual machine (VM) or creating another instance on your local machine you will encounter at system restart the "SIOCSIFADDR: no such device" network configuration error...
Finding your Debian and Ubuntu install version
Need to figure out your Debian or Ubuntu install version? What package version am I using? What version of Glib is installed? Here's what to do...
