In this article, I will show how to check which directories and files are the largest. We will use 3 linux commands…..du , ls and sort. First lets do an example from your /home directory. Lets find out which directory is biggest # du -Sm | sort -n after executing this command you will see directory listing with sizes like: 2 ./oshrt/src/cs 3 ./oshrt/sbin 4 ./ekg/src 5 ./oshrt/src/oshrtd 10 . In the first column you will see the directory size in megabytes, second column is directory name. The last entry only has a “.”. This represents the total size of all the files in all the directories where you executed Read more »

Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox have annouced that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will act as executive producers for Halo The Movie. Halo the movie will be based on the famous Xbox game of course. The best thing is that Halo movie will be produced in Wellington, New Zeland on servers running open-source Linux operating system. Weta Digital uses more than 1k dual-processor IBM Blade servers running Fedora Linux from Red Hat. Funny isn’t it? Read more »

Syslog is a log daemon on linux systems, it logs all activities like kernel messages, connection messages, mail messages etc.. Syslog default configuration writes all logs from daemons to (in most cases) /var/log/ . If you go to that directory in your linux system you will see couple of log files like messages, secure etc… Now lets try to make it more handy :) open /etc/syslog.conf file with your favorite text editor , and put the following line at the end: # Log everything on tty12 *.* /dev/tty12 * Remember to use TABs not spaces between *.* and /dev/tty12 , syslog doesynt like spaces * Save it, and then restart Read more »

Without making any big waves about it, Novell has released the latest version of its flagship linux distribution SuSe 10. This is the first SuSe linux released under the Novell OpenSuSe community model which was launched in early August. SuSe linux is designed to be cutting-edge for all the enthusiasts out there, while providing easy to use interfaces (KDE and GNOME) for less experienced users. The new version of SuSe contains over 1500 open-source linux applications which can be optionally installed (including latest FireFox and Opera web browsers and OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release candidate). Retail version suggested price is $59. Read more »

One week before final release of Ubuntu 5.10 Linux distribution, the Ubuntu team released latest Release Candidate (RC). Ubuntu 5.10RC includes the installation CDs, live CDs, and DVDs for three architectures. To download Ubuntu 5.10RC go to: US: http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.10/ EU: http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/ UK: http://releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/ and the rest: http://releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/ The final version of Ubuntu 5.10 will be available on October 13th. Read more »

This is my first post at ForeverGeek , so please be gentle :) Surfing over the internet I found an interesting article on How to become a Hacker. I will not comment on it … another way to tell people what to do to become a hacker (should be Chacker instead of Hacker i think..hehe). Erm, and of course someone should tell to the author what Cracker means… Q: How can I get the password for someone else’s account? A: This is cracking. Go away, idiot. Yea, sure …. cracking …IMHO its still hacking If you want to read this paper, click here Read more »