Tips & Clues

Just a liitle trick I needed to do to get my webmin access enabled in the vhost on Proxmox: iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT ...

Some key cmds that I had to use to get the networking operational on the proxmox server: root@proxmax:/etc/network# vzctl set 103 --ipadd 192.168.3.88 --save This will poke a new IP address into the config for the container. The "/etc/network/interfaces" files that results will look like this: root@XXX4 /etc/network# less interfaces # This configuration file is auto-generated. #...

By default, the bash history does not keep tabs on the time of day that a given command was run. But it is really as simple as defining ONE environment variable: "HISTTIMEFORMAT" This from "Linux by Example": HISTTIMEFORMAT takes format string of strftime. Check out the strftime manual to choose and construct the timestamp that suit your taste. My favorite is "%F %T ". export HISTTIMEFORMAT...

This is a cool little grep search to pull any IPs from a text file: grep -Eo '([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}' file_with_ips_in_it.txt | sort | uniq...

This command will give you all of the known info regarding the processor(s) under linux: # less /proc/cpuinfo...

To stop the GUI:Code: The easist way is to open a terminal and execute these commands: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop And then ctrl+alt+backspace to end your current session To restart the GUI: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start ...

Those out there that use(ed) Outlook Express should know that there is no such thing in Windows 7. Also true in Vista, where "Windows Mail" was released. Yet another major change for Windows 7: the new (free) email client is called "Windows Live Mail" and the most annoying new "Feature" is the missing menus. To see the old menu you are looking for; hit the "ALT" key by itself. Then, th...

A cool thing to do if you find yourself doing something LOTs of times: Edit your ".bashrc" (in your home directory) and create your personalised script as follows: wch() { sudo chmod 774 $1 $2 $3 $4; sudo chown www-data.www-data $1 $2 $3 $4; } Then you can execute the command "wch" with parameters to execute the commands you want. Very cool......

See "Joe's" comment here: http://drupal.org/node/139915 Go to [Content management] > [Content types] > [Manage fields] and make sure yiour image field is LIGHTER than [body] eg -2 this will force the image above your teaser but not yet inline then go to modules > system > defaults.css and add .field-type-image img { float: right; margin-left: 1em; border: 0px solid red; } Note:...

A featured story on drupal.org: Case Study of OpenTheMagazine.com In the story, we get a fantastic closeup view of the drupal modules used and the reasoning behind their use. For a young Drupal developer/user, it is a very useful article. The "Heroes" of the site were considered to be Views 2, CCK, & for search, Apache SOLR. The list below of other drupal modules used by the site is excerpt...