Archive for February, 2008

“screen” simple yet powerful!

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Check out some of the example to use simple but powerful tools screen in your linux.

SHFS — “Mount ANY dir from ANY host in a SECURE way”

# shfs is a very nice way to circumvent the insecurities of nfs. It can mount a remote directory on your local machine, just as one would do with nfs (shfsmount and shfsumount understand the same syntax as the normal nfs mount and umount commands, but in stead of sending the files in the clear, [...]

grep tips..!

grep is powerful tools in Linux. It searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named, or if a single hyphen-minus (-) is given as file name) for lines containing a match to the given PATTERN. By default, grep prints the matching lines. Here are some of [...]

Using diff and patch

The diff and patch utilites can be intimidating to the newcomer, but they are not all that difficult to use, even for the non-programmer. If you are at all familiar with makefiles, you might find yourself frequently wanting to patch a file, either to correct an error that you’ve found or to add something that [...]

Patching many Ways!

This very short document is a slightly lengthened version of an email that wrote in 2003 on the subject of patches, The article was originally published in this site.

Resize the Xen Image

File based Images are sometimes used as a quick method to getting a DomU guest Xen up and running. LVM is the production method allowing for simple resizing. File based Images however, can be increased in size.