Archive for February, 2007

Some notes on Linux

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Proc info: cat /proc/cpuinfo

Directory size: du

Free disk space: df

Test drive speed: hdparm -t -T

Change password: passwd (as root)

Delete anonymous mysql users: DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User = ‘’; (as root)
Change mysql root password: SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@'localhost’ = PASSWORD(’password’); (as root)

FTP commands to get multiple files: mget / mput
Use prompt n to turn off confirmations

Info about a package: rpm -q -i

Download packages: RPMFind, Fedora.

Install php-5.2: Download the latest version of glibc, then rpm -i –force –nodeps it and all other dependent modules.

[I write this mostly for my own notes, but it might be useful for others as well]

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