To get a full list RPM name, like the RPM file name use the Query Format option (–qf or –queryformat). This is useful in comparing 2 systems, seeing 32 bit and 64 bit packages and finding the RPMs. This lists…
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Increasing Linux Ring Buffer Size
This doesn’t work on all drivers, but on the bnx2x and other it does. In particular, if you are seeing packet drops this can help. Use ethtool –g <interface> to see the buffer settings. # ethtool -g eth0 Ring…
Mapping SCSI Disks
Identify scsi disk Paths – Mapping Devices [root@rhel6 ~]# for i in sdb sdc sdd sde; do printf “%s %s\n” “$i” ; “$(scsi_id –page=0x83 –whitelisted –device=/dev/$i)”;
linux udev
udev Rules – udev supplies the system software with device events, manages permissions of device nodes and may create additional symlinks in the /dev directory, or renames network interfaces. • udev rules are executed in numeric order –10-* rules are…
Seeing Linux Hardware
lsdev lsdev, lsusb, lspci cat /proc/devices cat /proc/scsci/scsi ls -lah /proc/kcore cat /proc/kcore ‘cat /proc/interrupts’ for which device is using which interrupt, also try ‘fdisk -l /dev/?d?’ for hard drive info, the ls /dev’
Creating a YUM Repo
Install the create repo package # yum install createrepo Make a directory for your repo mkdir -p /local/mrepo/RedHat5_X64_09_2014 Copy your rpms in to the new directory cp -p *.rpm /local/mrepo/RedHat5_X64_09_2014 Run the createrepo command to make the repo. createrepo /local/mrepo/RedHat5_X64_09_2014…
CSS Tags
# = id . = class = tag like span, p, h1, h2, … Can combine and class like h1.bold
Working with files names that have spaces and special characters
Sometimes you need to work with multiple files that have spaces in their names. To do this you can backslash the special characters (\) or put quotes around their names..If you use filename completion, it should backslash the characters for…
Finding deleted logs
Often people will delete log files that are still open. Sometimes it is necessary to look at the logs that have been deleted. It takes a little investigation, but can done. The first thing to do is to…
Listing SSL cipher/protocols on remote host
To get a list of ciphers use nmap: nmap –script ssl-cert,ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 www.example.com Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-05-12 12:11 CDT Nmap scan report for www.example.com (10.10.10.10) Host is up (0.021s latency).%MCEPASTEBIN% PORT STATE SERVICE 443/tcp open…