building kernels and booting ppc linux with yaboot
don’t forget that ppc linux systems use /usr/src/linux/vmlinux to boot. don’t forget to run ybin -v after editing /etc/yaboot.conf. »
sending mail from a file
cat email.txt | sendmail <recipient>@<domain> the email.txt file should contain just the headers, not the smtp conversation. a nice change »
cleaning up rsynced ntfs mount windows data backups
find . -name 'Thumbs.d*' -print0 | xargs -0 -p rm Clean up old windows thumbnails on migrated windows data. Also takes care of Thumbs.db:encryptable: »
raid monitoring
watch -n 15 cat /proc/mdstat monitors the status of a software raid (md) device in linux, refreshing every 15 seconds. »
linux kernel 2.4 series build system targets
Kernel 2.4 series build system targets: make menuconfig config kernel options make clean clean previous options make dep make dependencies make modules make modules make »