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This is the steps I took to upgrade a running Fedora Core 7 installation to Core 8 using yum from the command line. Please note that live upgrades are not recommended by the Fedora Project. Make a list of the systems current packages for later reference: rpm -qa –qf ‘%{NAME}\n’ | sort | uniq > […]
This is the code to make an alias IP address on network interface ethX where X is a number to indicate the device we are attaching the IP. ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 up Your machine will now answer on ping requests 192.168.0.30. You can see the result by running the command ifconfig eth0:1 Result […]
This is an alternative way of limiting the SSH access to only SFTP explained in my How to restrict users to SFTP only instead of SSH post.Edit your /etc/sshd_config file and change your settings like thisMatch User usernameAllowTcpForwarding noX11Forwarding noForceCommand /usr/libexec/sftp-server -l INFO Replace username with the user name you would limit the SSH access […]
If you use the –queryformat argument with rpm it is possible to query RPMs for different architectures installed# rpm -qa –queryformat %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH}\\n | grep dbus-glib | sortResultdbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.5-i386dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.5-x86_64This can also be used in one of my previous posts: Remove duplicate packages when querying the rpm database.
This bash script converts videos like AVI-files to the 3gp format used on newer cell phones like Nokia N95. To use it you should have the libamr_nb and libamr_nw flags available to ffmpeg.< /p> ffmpeg -formats |grep amrFFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: –prefix=/usr –libdir=/usr/lib –shlibdir=/usr/lib –mandir=/usr/share/man –enable-static –enable-shared –cc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc […]