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Friday, September 17, 2010

Repeating a series of commands in bash

Wow, this was really cool... captured from a thread on reddit..

I learnt something handy in BASH recently - operate-and-get-next (Ctrl-o). If you type:
  $ echo one
  one
  $ echo two
  two
  $ echo three
  three
Then up-arrow back to 'echo one'. Then press Ctrl-o instead of enter it will execute the command and display the following one in your history ('echo two' in this case).Very handy for replaying a series of commands.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Simplify LDAP with Fedora's 389 Directory Server

If you've ever had to deal with LDAP, you know it is not an easy beast to master. In fact, the command line tools for LDAP alone would keep many users from even attempting to learn how to take advantage of this powerful tool. If you look, you'll find several tools that make the job of managing LDAP data easier. One of the best is the 389 Directory Server for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 389 is extremely powerful and offers a simple to use GUI for all aspects of user, group, and server management.
 Read more here:
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/360800-manage-your-ldap-data-with-389-directory-server#

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Systemd and Fedora 14

Systemd and Fedora 14: "LWN.net: 'Systemd, an alternative to Upstart or System V init, has made big strides since it was announced at the end of April. It has been packaged for Fedora and openSUSE, and for users of Fedora Rawhide, it gets installed as the default.'"