January 21, 2009
by Ketan Patel
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On a production server, if you have two hard disk and do not want to spend extra $50 each month, then you could use rsync to backup the data from your main disk to the second disk. It’s very easy … Continue reading
November 5, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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I was looking around to find a good source which would allow me to control the background of the eclipse. I like black background with white text as foreground. Doing so in eclipse is not straightforward. My System setup is: … Continue reading
November 3, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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To generate a patch for your modified code. All you have to do is generate a diff between original and modified source files using the following command and save the output to the patch file. diff -rup /home/ketan/unmodified_source.c /home/ketan/modified_source.c > … Continue reading
October 23, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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Till now I have been using ‘ldd’ for checking out the dependencies for a linux executable. But recently I discovered, ‘readelf’. It is really amazing utility and comes in very handy when you are analyzing a utility intended for a … Continue reading
September 30, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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I keep on forgetting this command, so I put it here to remember it forever. To add a user ‘ketan’ to the group ‘admin’, do the following gpasswd -a ketan admin Such a simple and each to use command!!!
September 29, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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This post will help you create a new SVN repository and it assumes you have the SVN installed & configured on your computer/server. To create the repository for first time, issue the following command svnadmin create –fs-type fsfs /var/www/subversion/kpsolution Then … Continue reading
September 29, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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Recently on one of our new servers, we had an issue where the mysql daemon had halted on bus error. We couldn’t stop the mysql daemon using /etc/init.d/mysqld stop Then I looked at the error-log file for mysql in /var/log/mysql-error.log … Continue reading
June 3, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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Here, I would show you how to create a simple linux driver that does nothing! This just a demo to show you how to compile, install and remove the device driver. Before we get started, you need to make sure … Continue reading
May 14, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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If you are ever stuck in situation where you want to remove all the comments regardless of what they are in a source file. Here’s a small command that you can issue in VIM. It is for pattern search and … Continue reading
August 23, 2007
by Ketan Patel
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If you ever felt the need of flushing the sendmail queue then this post will be handy to you. How to flush sendmail queue under linux sendmail mailq command in linux how to flush mail queue in sendmail under linux … Continue reading