Archive for the ‘Linux’ tag
How to tell if a linux server is 64 or 32 bit:
uname -m
i386 or i686 then it is 32 bit
x86_64 is 64bit
Thanks to Linux Forums for the answer.
How to determine the disk size of a Linux box
fdisk -l | grep Disk
How to find a directory in Linux/UNIX
find / -name directoryname -type d
A cool, government guide to hardening your systems…
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/index.cfm?MenuID=scg10.3.1
How to tell if a package is installed on an RPM distro…
rpm -qa | grep -i <package>
How to rdesktop over ssh
Run “ssh -L 3389:[target machine]:3389 user@serverip” on local machine.
I want to learn more about public and private encrypted keys…
Here’s a website that seems pretty cool…
http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto-3.html#GPG-Minihowto-KPAdministration
There is a great website on reading man pages:
http://polishlinux.org/console/the-art-of-using-manuals/
Flyback is a “Time Machine” clone
http://code.google.com/p/flyback/
How to back up databases, via CLI
http://www.unixcities.com/mysql/mysqldump.html
This is a good article to give a head start.