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Sheeeeezus I'm a geek. I don't even get half this stuff, but I still lap it up. Especially like the Church of Digital Grepping. Probably because I'm just learning about grep, and the whole premise also involves some highly entertaining smartarse posturing. Made me grin anyway.

A beautiful vindication for Open Source......

The Red Hat 8.0 network management utility in X is called neat - just in case you wanted to set it up as a docked app in Window Maker :)

How to set the time in Linux. Includes howtos on synching the hardware and O/S clocks in both directions.
Basically date MMddhhmmyyyy - note that hh is 24-hour clock, MM=month, dd=day, hh=hours, mm=minutes, yyyy=year.
The simple tasks are still new to me :)

To recursively delete files & folders, use rm -r directory. This will delete the directory and all its contents......

Following on from the notes about tar (Jan 22nd, 2003), I thought I'd best make a note on creating tar files.
I actually needed this for another *nix this morning, but it's relevant to Linux. Basically, I couldn't remember the snytax :) for creating a tar archive of a directory tree.
The command is
tar cvf nameoffile.tar nameofdirectory
, where c=compress, v=verbose, f=file.
I found the information on the very useful compressing howto at OzEtechnology.

So, my old PC was a Red Hat server. It was dual-booting Windows 2000, because some things I have to do unfortunately still require windoze.
A mate then gives me a PC that was being scrapped. It's an old PII 333 - not much cop, but enough for my windoze requirements. I therefore don't need to use up 4GB of my Linux server disk with dual-boot any more. So I look into my options, and here's what I've just managed to achieve :)
Within Red Hat Linux, run parted and delete the windoze partitions (this is fine, as those partitions aren't mounted under Linux).
Next, reboot server and find it won't boot (my active partition is gone), so run up the win95 version of fdisk from an old boot floppy (because I haven't learned the Linux version yet) and mark the /boot partition as active - verify that Linux boots again: it does :).
Finally boot from the Red Hat CDROM and boot in rescue mode (just type linux rescue at the CDROM boot prompt). Do NOT mount your partitions - you can't resize them if they are mounted.
Finally, use parted again, and resize the / partition (which is physically adjacent to the available space on the platter) to include the extra space.
Reboot the server as normal, and hey presto - additional 4GB on / partition.
I love Linux - you need third party products to do this kind of thing in microsoft world!

mod_dav: a DAV module for Apache - want to play with this.....