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Today we had a problem related with a number of files in a directory. We needed to find directories with a biggest number of files / directo...

If you have in your hostd.log something like this: Nov 07 21:19:12.648: Worker#23| Caught signal 6 -- tid 31543 this can be related with upd...

Well, I'm not a hardware guru, but from my experience I figured out the following: Dell Servers + QLogic HBA + IBM Storage = troubles...

If you got a " Network Connection Closed Unexpectedly " error while using svn+ssh (here is a nice HOWTO ) then you should comment ...

Here is a simple script that will show you a number of file handles (open files) used by each process on your Linux system: ps -e|grep -v TT...

Apart of modifying /etc/redhat-release to "redhat-4", there are a couple of packages that you will need to install in order to ma...

If you use mc while connected to some linux server and you need to select some files - use Ctrl+T

Maybe this is just CentOS 5.1 related issue, but...   For those of you who will install MailScanner - just a small tip to avoid problems. Sp...

When you need to create a reverse tunnel with SSH, just use the following:   ssh -R PORT_ON_REMOTE_SERVER :localhost:P ORT_ON_LOCAL_SERVER ...

After installing new Linux or Unix system I like to edit /etc/profile or $HOME/.bash_profile and add following lines:   alias vi="vim...

Just a sample of how you can reboot or shutdown linux without issuing reboot command, so called hard reboot. That means that system will jus...