The following will list all the symbolic links pointing to a file within the same directory. find /my/dir -lname my_linked_dir -maxdepth 1 You could search the whole but it could take some time: find / -lname my_linked_dir
HOWTO: Use the find command to list symbolic links to a target Read More »
I have to confess that delegating software installation to Debian and Ubuntu’s apt command is what finally converted me to Linux. I stillhave a bias against .rpms and building from source based on disastrous experiences hunting down obscure .rpms or figuring out why make would not work. If you’re trying out Ubuntu or another Linux
(02:07:13 PM) Oscar: (02:04:26 PM) Mike Shade: lol @ this: (02:04:27 PM) Mike Shade: Sep 10 05:04:55 www sendmail[7421]: l8A94tTP007419: to=<jamseATviagra-mailDOTcom>, ctladdr=<apache@***********> (48/48), delay=00:00:0 0, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=34248, relay=mail.viagra-mail.com. [207.44.136.131], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 421 Too many co ncurrent SMTP connections; please try again later. (02:05:14 PM) Oscar: pls contact your sys-admin if viagra-mail is up for
I needed a simple way to find hard bounces from a mail log yesterday. Usually, you hook up a script to listen for bounced messages at an email address like "list-bounces@example.com". The script receives an email message and parses it to figure out if and why it bounced. I decided to take the opposite approach,
Nokia’s N770 and N800 tablet PCs were developed with a conscious decision to use as much open source software as feasible. This decision had tremendous benefits in cost savings, code quality, flexibilty, and zero licensing costs. You can read the white paper HT: Stephesblog. If we compare the code from open source to the
If you need help with *nix stuff, and who doesn’t, then my friend Mike’s site is worth bookmarking and/or adding to your feed aggregator: Tip o’the Day.
I’ve been revamping my Bolivian soccer blog, which I finally updated and made live tonight. In doing so, I needed to convert the data from ISO-8859-1 (back when I didn’t know better about how to setup a database) to UTF-8. I was fearing the process would be complicated and tedious, involving some script to read
The 3 practical reasons I use linux – the $200-400 i don’t have to give to Microsoft are used to get better hardware, more secure without blaming the user, all the Free software available for it (see the first reason again), and not HAVING to reinstall the OS quarterly. In case that doesn’t convince you,
I’ve been using Subversion heavily lately to keep my live and development sites synchronized and its been a huge productivity booster. I had to move some code over to a lite site for work this evening and it was such a pain, because I had to go through and figure out the files I needed
Under debian, fail2ban’s configuration is in /etc/fail2ban/. In the filter.d directory add the following file and name it apache-modsec.conf. [Definition]# Option: failregex# Notes.: regex to match the password failure messages in the logfile. The# host must be matched by a group named “host”. The tag “<HOST>” can# be used for standard IP/hostname matching.# Values: TEX#failregex