Find what version of Linux
To find what flavor of Linux you’re using:
cat /etc/*-release
To find the version, use:
uname -a
To find what flavor of Linux you’re using:
cat /etc/*-release
To find the version, use:
uname -a
This doesn’t work perfectly, but I often use it to start tracking down disk hogs:
To return the 10 largest items in a given directory:
du -cksh * |sort -rn |head -11
Some times it’s helpful to view all
du -cksh * |sort -rn
If someone has a better approach, please comment.
Looking for a log to show you failed login attempts to your Linux machine? Look in:
/var/log/btmp
You can access it by running:
/usr/bin/lastb
It’s similiar to the wtmp log of user login/logouts and the utmp log showing who is currently logged in.
I install RHEL on all my production machines and CentOS on all my test/development boxes. Installing the GUI is helpful for configuration, but you sure don’t want to run them that way all the time. So after everything is installed, configured and tested, I make the following change:
nano /etc/inittab
Change
id:5:initdefault:
To
id:3:initdefault:
Save the file and reboot the machine. When you want to launch a GUI, just run:
startx
nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Should look something like this
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=172.16.0.255
HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
IPADDR=172.16.0.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=172.16.0.0
ONBOOT=yes
Duplicate that and open the new file
cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
Change device name, set new IP, remove reference to hardware
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=172.16.0.255
IPADDR=172.16.0.3
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=172.16.0.0
ONBOOT=yes