Converting phpBB2 to phpBB3

phpBB is my favorite bulletin board system. After 4 years running on phpBB2, I tried to convert my board to phpBB3 RC7 (this is the latest ...Read more »

Use of --parents flag in mkdir and cp

Occasionally, you want to create a directory structure several levels deep. For example, /home/peter/status/2007/november. Your first attemp...Read more »

sudo hacks: making cd and redirection work

Suppose you want to run a command that requires root privileges. Conventional wisdom says don't login as root. Instead, login as a non...Read more »

How to Look Up a Process

You can look up a process in many ways. Often, you have the name of a daemon, command, or a program, and you want to know its process ID. ...Read more »

apt-get: dynamic MMAP out of room

Recently after upgrading wine and a few other packages, apt-get threw errors like these: Reading package lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran...Read more »

How to Scroll the Command Window

How many times have you been annoyed by the command output spanning over the length of the window? If the window is in the X-Window environ...Read more »

Get into the right groups

In Linux, belonging to the right group gives you permission to use restricted-access resources. When you create a new user, by default, $ u...Read more »

Tail multiple files

In an earlier post , I discussed 2 commands for continuously displaying the contents of a file: tail -f and less. I mentioned that with le...Read more »

Keeping Command History across Multiple Sessions

The bash shell maintains a history of the commands you entered. You can re-execute a command by recalling it from the history, without havi...Read more »

RSS Reader ku saat ini

Setelah hampir setahun menggunakan layanan Google Reader sebagai RSS reader dari situs-situs favorit saya, mulai kemaren saya menggantinya ...Read more »

Log watching using tail or less

Log files typically grow in size, with the latest contents appended to the end of the log. I often need to watch a log file in live action,...Read more »