Linux Tips
Networking
Check out the 'dhcping' command to perform a quick DHCP request. http://www.mavetju.org/unix/general.php
- Use 'diffmon' to nightly email changes in system config files to a mailing list of administrators, to keep them abreast of what each other are doing to the system.
- 'divine' and 'intuitively' can figure out network configurations from listening to ARP requests.
Firewall
- prolong masqueraded firewall connections:
- /sbin/ipfwadm -S -M secs secs secs
nslookup
- set type=a (gives A record)
- www.host.com
- set type=ns (gives nameservers)
- www.host.com
- server my.name.server.com (sets default nameserver)
- ls
- ls 216.39.157.in-addr.arpa
- set type=mx (mailserver record)
- set type=txt
Administration
Have a look at 'webmin' - http://www.webmin.com/screens.html
SuSE
- Get updates from
- Turn off splash screens:
YaST -> System -> Boot Loader Configuration -> Edit Configuration Files
Put splash=0 into kernel params
Links
see /LinuxTunes - iTunes Server
see /LinuxFireWire - External Firewire Drives
see /ViaEpia - Installing Debian GNU/Linux on VIA EPIA