Oct 13 2009
Arrows aren’t used in ksh as a default. To enable command history like in Bash, add the following lines in the .profile or .kshrc file: # Switch to Emacs mode # Only Emacs mode lets you make use of arrow keys set -o emacs # Go back in command history (up arrow) alias __A=’^P’ # [...]
Dec 21 2008
Here’s a package managers basic commands quick reminder/comparative for (in this order) – Linux Debian/Ubuntu, – Linux Redhat/Suse and – Solaris/OpenSolaris. rpm and dpkg are basic package managers while yum (rpm) and apt-get/aptitude (dpkg) manage dependancies and (online) repositories. # List ALL installed packages dpkg –list rpm -qa | grep rpm pkginfo [...]
Nov 07 2008
Need more swap but not more disk space to create a partition? Add a temporary swap file. Solaris [root@solaris]# mkfile 1024m /export/tmpswap [root@solaris]# swap -a /export/tmpswap [root@solaris]# swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 55,65 8 4160824 4160824 /export/tmpswap - 8 2097144 2097144 Linux [root@linux]# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmpswap bs=1024 count=10240 [root@linux]# 10240+0 [...]