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Kill All Processes

Administrator — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:30:19 +0000

To quickly kill all processes with a spefic name or username

The Following will kill -9 any running instance of postfix

ps -ef | grep postfix | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

Diff two remote file systems

Administrator — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:30:57 +0000

If you have two remote file systems and you want to compare the new with the old and just copy the changes, you can generate that list with the below command:

diff <(/usr/bin/ssh user1@192.168.122.1 'ls /opt/tibcosvc/tibco/tpcl/5.6/lib/') <(/usr/bin/ssh user2@192.168.122.1 'ls /tmp/') | grep -i ">" | sed 's/> //g'

Note: You need ssh keys

TAR Hidden Files

Administrator — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:43:38 +0000

TAR Hidden Files

The idea is to TAR a folder/directory not just a list of files

To tar all files in current directory:

tar -cfvz backup.tgz * does not include hidden dot files,

but

tar -cfvz backup.tgz .

does

Source: http://www.elidickinson.com/node/13

How to install Cinnamon on Fedora 16

Administrator — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:16:32 +0000

Since the release of Gnome 3.x and KDE 4.x many users decided that is is not wort it to use the current desktops any more.
Cinnamon aims to breach that gap and make Linux a pleasure to use

As ROOT:

curl http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-cinnamon.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cinnamon.repo
yum install cinnamon gconf-editor

Now logout. Select a new GDM session (cinnamon) and log back in. Your desktop should now look like this: