RPM
For Red Hat and related distros you can use rpm (Red Hat package manager) for managing software installation.
You can see what is installed with
rpm -qa
To see what files are installed for a particular package, use
rpm -ql package-name
To see what files will be installed for a particular rpm file, use
rpm -qlp filename
System time
If you need to change the system time, you should make sure you update the hardware clock as well as Linux's:
date -s 11:00 hwclock --systohc
Creating a floppy disk image
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk1.img bs=1440k count=1
Finding big files
This finds all files bigger than 10Mb and displays their size in k, sorted by size:
find / -size +10000k -printf "%b %p\n" |sort -g
DNS lookup
To check the mail server for a domain, use:
nslookup -type=MX michaelhinds.com
3c59x change speed
To go down to 10Mb with the 3c59x driver, do:
ifconfig eth0 down rmmod 3c59x insmod 3c59x options=1 ifconfig eth0 up <ip address>
It's the same with the 3c90x, but instead of "options" use "media_select"
Files modified in last 8 days
find . -mtime -8
Creation time
Don't know if you can check a file's creation time:
UNIX and UNIX like OS`s (and POSIX implementing OS`s, for that matter)
don`t keep an absolute file creation time. They keep a change time
(file metadata -- "stat information" -- has changed), a modification
time (file contents have changed), and an access time (a read operation
has occurred on the file).
However, if the stat information (ctime) hasn't changed since creation (quite possible) that should give you the creation time. So, you could use this:
ls -lt --time=ctime
xinetd
RH7 uses xinetd instead of inetd. To open up a new box, edit /etc/xinetd.d/telnet. Make sure disable=no.
Edit /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd. Make sure disable=no.
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart