Archive for November, 2008
XEN uses /dev/ttyS0 for it’s own internal console, which is a neat way to manage the XEN server and access the console from another machine. But, this also means that you won’t be able to use the computer / server’s serial port to access for instance a network switch or serial UPS from Linux. If [...]
I often need to find out what’s using up a lot of space in a user’s folder, or on a backup server. The easiest way is to use Linux’s “du” or Disk Usage command. The following command will show you the sizes of the different folders, and will only display it on that level – [...]
I was looking for a way to rename a Logical Volume on a Linux system, and found the following website useful. Unfortunately my attempt to rename a LVM based Linux installation failed miserably, and it never booted. So, I’ll have to retry it sometime later again. Share and Enjoy:
Often times it’s necessary to change the permissions on many files & folders recursively – i.e. change the permisssions on every file & folder. Todo so, login to your Server via SSH, and run the following commands as root. 1 2 3 find /home/username/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find /home/username/public_html/ -type [...]
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