List all installed RPMs by size
rpm -q -a –qf “%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n” | sort -k1,1n
Category Archives: Work
ipv6 is starting to see some actual usage
brandon-mbpro:~ brandon$ host more.net more.net has address 198.209.253.10 more.net has IPv6 address 2610:e0:1:50:198:209:253:168 more.net mail is handled by 5 smtp.more.net. MARK – this is the 1st time I have seen a hostname resolve to an ipv6 address out in the Continue reading ipv6 is starting to see some actual usage
ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –
I had read about the transparent compression that zfs offers. I wanted to verify it so I did, and sent my results off. As we all know no experiment is valid unless verifiable. I wanted be sure that the transparent Continue reading ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –
Stateless Linux How To:
Stateless Linux sounds like a great idea for those of us that have many systems with similar configurations to manage. If you have never heard of the idea RTFM. I have stateless linux almost working here at my house. Here Continue reading Stateless Linux How To:
Who needs an ipkvm?
I figured out how to remotely power cycle the two poweredge 850’s I have remotely. I used dells ipmitool rpms and a little help from the internet. 1. Install the rpms 2. load the needed modules modprobe ipmi_si modprobe ipmi_devintf Continue reading Who needs an ipkvm?
I made a liboggz installer for OS 10.5
Here. This includes the oggzrip utility. Maybe later I’ll give instructions for compiling things you intend to turn into packages. If I feel like it that is; biatches.
Go splunk yourself.
Splunk is google for logfiles. Even the free license is all I would ever need with syslog configured properly on each server.
Remember to look into latencytop
It seems like a quick way to diagnose system performance problems. Link.
Remember to use iperf
To measure bandwidth between two points. Link.
How to make a backup + perform a search and replace on multiple files.
Using perl of coarse. It took me a second to get this to work; but its pretty easy: perl -pi.bak -e ‘s/string1/string2/g’