17.07.2010

using of locate, xargs and rm

This is how to quote filenames correctly when using locate, xargs, rm and you have to deal with files/ directory-names which may contain spaces: locate -i file.txt |grep -i '/home/stuff' |xargs -I '{}' rm '{}' And that's how to do it with find: find . -name "*m3u" -print0 | xargs -0 rm  ...

17.07.2010

ssh trust connection for passwordless login

Execute on the machine from where you want to login: local:~# ssh-keygen -t dsa copy the generated public key file to the remote host and add to the athorized_keys file: local:~# scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remote_host:/ local:~# ssh remote_host remote_host:~# touch ...

17.07.2010

Argumentlist too long

chrissie@36252:/opt/steam/cstrike$ mkdir logs2008 chrissie@36252:/opt/steam/cstrike$ mv logs/* logs2008 Argumentlist too long - Here the solution chrissie@36252:/opt/steam/cstrike$ cd logs chrissie@36252:/opt/steam/cstrike$ for i in *; do mv "$i" ../logs2008/; done

17.07.2010

Use imagemagick to convert all images in one directory for web galleries

Use imagemagick to convert all images in one directory for web galleries for i in *jpg; do convert -size 640 "$i" -resize 640 -quality 85 -strip "$i" ; done

17.07.2010

cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

I recently got this error on all CDs which i tried to acces via my cdrom on my lately updated Gentoo System. Solution: comment out all entries concerning cdrom in /etc/fstab: #/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 Now it works with the automounter and gets ...

17.07.2010

Demultiplex/Remultiplex mpeg für das Authoring von DVDs

"ERR: SCR moves backwards, remultiplex input."

17.07.2010

Joomla 1.5

You are testing Joomla 1.5 with legacy mode enabled and want to test some old components for a smooth upgrade to Joomla 1.5. Then you are hitting the following Message: Component Install: "The XML file did not contain an administration element"