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Text with a grey background will vary between users and systems.

Text in a Courier/Serif-type font is to be typed at a terminal/command prompt.

Text inside [square brackets] is optional to the command and can be ignored or changed.

"example.net" is a fictitious domain.


Remote/automated installation

/techsup/kickstart/ Kickstart for Fedora and RedHat Linux

/techsup/ris/ Remote Installation Service: RIS for Windows


Linux

Oracle, Windows, Linux (bash) and OSX commands.

Linux quick reference (pdf format). Thanks to Jialong He.

ifcfg syntax

vi reference

VNC reference: part I, part II

SSL on Apache

LVM howto

How to implement "security = domain" on a Samba server


GUI/X

To start the GUI:

init 5

To stop the GUI:

init 3

To restart the GUI (from within):

Press <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Backspace>

To set whether the GUI starts at system start-up:

Redhat/Fedora

vi /etc/inittab

Debian/Ubuntu


DVD/CD writing

To make the .iso image:

mkisofs -J -R -r -V cdname -iso-level 3 -joliet-long -o isoname.iso /path/

To detect the writer device:

cdrecord -scanbus

To write the .iso image to the disk choose one of:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc isoname.iso

cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -eject driveropts=burnfree -v isoname.iso

dvdrecord dev=0,0,0 -eject driveropts=burnfree -v -[tao|dao] isoname.iso

growisofs -dvd-compat -use-the-force-luke=tty -Z /dev/hdc isoname.iso


Port tunneling

Linux

To connect to CHARLIE on port C from port A on the local computer using bravo@BRAVO as a gateway:

e.g. Bob Smith is sitting at homepc wanting to connect to http://intranet using gateway.example.net as a gateway:

Windows/PuTTY

To connect to CHARLIE on port C from port A on the local computer using bravo@BRAVO as a gateway:
e.g. Bob Smith is sitting at homepc wanting to connect to http://intranet using gateway.example.net

Start PuTTY and connect to the gateway using ssh, e.g. gateway.example.net

Configure the tunnel:

Check that the connection is working:


Mount an smb/cifs share

mount -t smbfs -o [ro|rw,][uid=0,][dmask=700,]username=windowsusername[/windowsdomain] //windowscomputer/sharename /pathonlinuxcomputer/

apt-get install smblient smbfs
mount -t cifs -o [ro|rw,][uid=500,][gid=500,]username=windowsusername[,domain=windowsdomain] //windowscomputer/sharename /pathonlinuxcomputer/


Various

Add options to autofs/automount:

Add OPTIONS="-O sec=sys" to /etc/init.d/autofs

To connect via COM1:

cu -l /dev/cua0 -s 9600

Find syntax

find /usr/share/bugzilla/ -name Group* -print

Synchronise files:

rsync -avz -e ssh sourcepath/ remoteuser@destinationremotehost:remotepath

Copy directories maintaining all file properties:

( cd source && tar -cvf - ./ ) | ( cd destination && tar -xvf - )

View directory sizes:

du -hsx *

View a process

strace -p process

Change the default editor:

[[ -x /usr/bin/vim.basic ]] && update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim.basic

Set the time

date --set "2009-08-20 15:35"


Equivalent Linux/Windows commands

Linux

Windows

Release the DHCP address dhclient -r ipconfig /release
Renew the DHCP address dhclient ipconfig /renew
Get netbios information on a host nmblookup -A hostname nbtstat -a hostname
Mount/map an smb/cifs share See above net use X:
\\windowscomputer\sharename
/user:[windowsdomain\]windowsusername
Mount a CD image mount -o loop -t iso9660 isoname.iso /path/
See which smb shares are available smbclient -U username -L windowscomputer net view windowscomputer
See which nfs shares are available showmount -e unixcomputer

Windows

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HTML

mailto: syntax

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HTMLify

PHP syntax checker

Special characters

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