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.

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.

find /home/username/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /home/username/public_html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

The first line will change all folders (the “d” specifies directory) to mode 755
The second line will change all files to mode 644.

Running a Linux file server, without it being a Domain Controller on a Windows network has it’s own set of “pit falls” One of the most annoying problems, is that of mapped network shares, and not being able to automatically logging in once Windows has rebooted.

So, currently a Windows user needs to manually login to the mapped network drive everytime Windows was shutdown, or rebooted.

Here’s a quick a dirty trick to automatically log the user in, without them having todo anything themselves.

Right click on the “Windows Menu”, and click on “Explore” - this will explore you to the C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Start Menu. Now double click on Programs > Startup. Click on File > New > Text Document, and create a file called shares. Now, double click on this file to edit it in NotePad, and add the following:

@echo off
net use x: \\{server}\{share1} /USER:{username} {password} /persistent:yes
net use y: \\{server}\{share2} /USER:{username} {password} /persistent:yes
net use z: \\{server}\{share3} /USER:{username} {password} /persistent:yes
exit

P.S. Replace the following items with your own values:
{server} = the server, or computer which has the shares, for example \\computer or \\dean or \\pete
{share} = the share on the server, for exampe \music or \games or \data
{username} = the username for the share
{password} = the password for the share.

NOTE: If there’s no username, but just a password, you can ommit the /USER:{username} part

I was looking for a way to properly monitor XEN VPS’s traffic, when I found this site: http://wikicompany.org/fs//system_management.html#traffic_accounting

It has a long list Linux system management scripts

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