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Using screen in Linux to save your bacon

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on February 28, 2010

Tonight I’m being plagued by dropped ssh connections. 2 minutes of work, them bam everything goes away. I’ve seen screen used in the past, but never had to use its power until tonight. Ask any seasoned sysadmin and they’ll tell you that screen has saved their bacon many times, and... [Read More]

SYSSTAT: SAR/IOSTAT

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on February 25, 2010

The pidstat command is used to monitor processes and threads currently being managed by the Linux kernel. It can also monitor the children of those processes and threads. [Read More]

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Quick SCP

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on February 25, 2010

Logged into source host [Read More]

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Linux

SCP / SSH recipes

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on February 3, 2010

Find to copy files into single directory

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on January 20, 2010

Makes copy of subset of dir/ and below with files that match the criteria. It keeps the nested directory structure. Uses [Read More]

Updated find to list script

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on January 20, 2010

This is an update to the earlier script. [Read More]

Search lister

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on December 30, 2009

This little script needs a lot of help But it will recurse down through the current directory and create a listing of files, their folders, sizes, and modification dates and times. it was written to run on Windows under Cygwin. [Read More]

Linux/UNIX/Cygwin find command

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on December 30, 2009

How to set a static IP in Ubuntu from the shell

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on December 4, 2008

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Remastersys Notes

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on September 27, 2008

My latest project is to turn my favorite Linux desktop configurations into stand alone distributions that I can run as LiveCDs or install anywhere. [Read More]