I got into maintenance mode on this a while ago, I don’t have any notes on how I did it, I may have pulled the harddrive and modified it from a different system. Or maybe it was just a factory reset. So At this point I’ve connected via serial to the device and have a shell.
Getting backtrack5 to do anything besides blackscreen and kernel panic on this system has been a challenge. It appears I have two graphics cards? an Intel 915 and a Nvidia 330M I think this was confusing it somehow, it would start up looking graphical but then go black shortly...
Saw this posted by Tenbits on /r/linux on reddit.
Seem a couple people both via email and on IRC have this problem: < robo> hi: on a vm guest running centos .. it shows that / is filled up to 100%. However, if I do a du on / it only shows about half is used. Any suggestions?...
We recently made a large change to mail routing at work, I was trying to look at the mail logs but being able to discern useful information from streaming logs at any company of reasonable size can be difficult. Borrowed an Idea from here: http://blog.crythias.com/2008/04/awk-colorizer-for-tail.html and came up with...
First of all, what is screen? According to the website, “Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.”. Basically screen lets you run multiple shells that aren’t tied to your active connection. You can disconnect and they stay alive, you...
A while ago I migrated my email from local hosting to a remote hosted solution. All of my new mail went fine but the old mail was left sitting in a Maildir on my home server. To solved this dilemma I wrote a python script to move it for...