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Jun 21, 2013
Monitoring Filesystem Events with incron on RHEL 6
Have you ever wanted to know when a file is changed or accessed by the system or user? There is a program that does just that task called Inotify cron (incron). Incron is for monitoring filesystem activity. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods incron... read more
Jun 18, 2013
Useful RPM and YUM Commands
RPM and YUM commands are used daily by RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Administrators and sometimes having a few more tricks up you sleeve for getting information from the command line are always handy to have. Listed in this post are 14 useful commands for RPM and YUM. 1. Getting rpm to display architecture This one is a pretty simple tip, and very useful especially for people using x86_64 systems. Just one line in... read more
Jun 6, 2013
How To Install Bluefish 2.2.4 on Fedora 18
Bluefish is a great Web Development IDE for Linux / Windows and Mac OSX. Having the latest and greatest on Fedora 18 is always a plus and sadly in the repositories it is at 2.2.3 and not 2.2.4, but great news we can take care of that in short order. If you have installed Fedora’s supplied Bluefish you will need to uninstall it. $ sudo rpm -e bluefish bluefish-shared-data Now let’s download the... read more
Jun 3, 2013
Using the Raspberry Pi as a NAS
Here we have another great use for the Raspberry Pi as a NAS server for your LAN. In this post we’ll be using a Thermaltake BlacX USB SATA attached to the Pi with a 1 TB drive with ntfs shared to the Windows and MAC systems for access. Install ntfs support $ sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g Create the mount directory and mount it $ sudo mkdir /media/ext Mount as ntfs as user id pi $sudo mount -t auto... read more
May 30, 2013
How to Install Tiny Tiny RSS on Fedora 18
If you are an avid reader of RSS feeds then you are aware of Google Reader and Google’s decision to remove the service, leaving users scrambling for a replacement. One such solution is a standalone system so you do not have to rely on a service that may go away. With Linux there are many open sourced options available. One such option is Tiny Tiny RSS which runs using the standard LAMP stack on your... read more
