HOWTO articles - General Administration
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Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS
| Page | Description | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| CLI constructs and useful info | The purpose of this article is not to be a CLI tutorial, but rather to be an exposition of common constructs used in shell scripting for efficiently achieving a goal. There are also sections which simply help one understand a certain topic. Constructs rev | cut | rev It is often useful to reverse a string and then use cut. For example, take a Slackware package and get its name: | howtos, software, author htexmexh |
| Free your space | Sometimes you can find yourself in a situation where you are suddenly faced with a message telling you that there’s no more free space on your system. There might be a few things you can do to free some of it. /tmp directory The first reason can be a /tmp directory which doesn’t get cleaned automatically. I create my own temporary files in my home directory so I can safely delete the contents of /tmp every time I shut down the system. You don’t have to do it manually, though. | howtos, software, free, space, author sycamorex |
| How to copy files \ directories \ filesystems via network. | The article describes ways of copying content over network. When upgrading a home server, I copy all the data from the old server to a new system. In the examples below, I work from the new server and both servers are on the same subnet: * New server (IP: 192.168.0.14) * Old server (IP: 192.168.0.1) | howtos, copy, ssh |
| How to search and read Manpages efficiently | Manpages are pages in the online Unix Manual. I hope this Howto can help some of you to use them more effectively, although I'm aware that many of the readers are already familiar with this subject. Searching for a Manpage In order to search for information about anything in the manpages you can use one of the following commands: | howtos, manpages, searching, documentation, information, author markush |
| Install Fonts | AS ROOT: * Copy your font files (.ttf and/or .otf) to their respective directories: /usr/share/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/OTF * Run the following commands, with the directory where you copied the fonts as argument: mkfontdir mkfontscale fc-cache | howtos, software, fonts, truetype, opentype, author arfon |
| KVM and libvirt | With the combination of KVM and libvirt, you have an easy way of creating and managing virtual machines. According to the official homepage, libvirt is: A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It provides management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage; both local and remote. Since libvirt acts as an intermediate between a hypervisor and client applications, you must have a supported hypervisor installed. Examples ar… | howtos, kvm, libvirt, virtualization, virt-manager, qemu, author fdonkers |
| Serial Console | Slackware can be installed on various embedded devices. A lot of those don't have a traditional console, like a monitor and keyboard. Instead, the console is often routed to the serial port. In order to take advantage of this, some post-install configuration is necessary. | howtos, console, serial, embedded, author fdonkers |
| Task Scheduling in Linux | Overview This article discusses some tools used in a Linux system to schedule tasks to run automatically at specified time intervals or at any given point of time in the future. Some task-scheduling daemons used in Linux/UNIX are: * at -- schedule one-time tasks for the future | howtos, task scheduling, needs attention, author vharishankar, author mfillpot |
| Todo Lists in TaskWarrior | Taskwarrior is a powerful command-line todo list manager which can be installed from SlackBuilds.org. Please note that it depends on Lua. Managing Your Todo List You can use TaskWarrior in 2 ways: 1. By invoking the Task Shell and issuing TW commands: | howtos, software, taskwarrior, todo, gtd, author sycamorex |
