Introduction Decided to upgrade mint to the latest version Sarah. Very straight forward task thanks to the Mint team. I did end up with conky Seamod looking odd on though on startup. First it was in windowed mode and secondly
Introduction A couple of pretty simple bash commands for finding and changing permissions on all files and directories recursively. Obviously you need to understand what permissions you want in advance so check the man pages and online but for when
Introduction If you’ve got the Sophos UTM up and running in your home network then you may come across this issue at some point. I was using UTM9’s web protection for quite some time and suddenly starting receiving emails to
Introduction If you ever get a problem with networking between 2 distant Isilon clusters then you might get a problem with SyncIQ reports filling up with nonsense. So if you have a lot of jobs you might end up with
Introduction So if you’ve read this and thought, it doesn’t work on FreeBSD then you are right. It doesn’t. Try this instead: You can use this portable find command with something like this. find . -user old-user -exec chown new-user:new-group
Introduction Chown has a nice feature that will allow you to change ownership of files and directories recursively for a single user without even needing to find them. First cd into the root source directory required to change ownership of the
Introduction If you’ve ever needed to use regex to find specific files in a directory then you’ll know how useful it is and how much time it saves. This is for when you need to then rsync those files to
Introduction Output drops are caused by traffic rates exceeding the maximum bandwidth specification of the interface. Solution There are actually only 2 solutions to output drops: Increase the Interface speed Reduce the traffic throughput If you have monitoring in place
Introduction This is the easiest way I’ve found to replace spaces in file names with another character for example underscore. Solution At a bash prompt, use rename: find -name “* *” -type d | rename ‘s/ /_/g’ # do the
Introduction If you’ve ever needed to rename multiple files which had a different file extension then this is what you need Solution Open the terminal. Change directory to the parent directory of folder1 using the cd command. cd /path/to/parent/directory/of/folder1/ Run