GWN: Tips and Tricks Archive

Gentoo Weekly Newsletter

• A Quick and Easy Password Generator
• ANSI Escape Sequences: Colors
• Accessing the Kazaa network without Wine
• Adding Users with Superadduser
• Aliasing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
• All about:Mozilla
• An introduction to info
• An introduction to sudo
• Backup up files with tar
• Bash Commands and Tricks
• Blocking Spam with bogofilter
• Bootup with the Gentoo 2005.0 logo
• Catching emerge messages with enotice
• Changing File Attributes
• Changing the logname with sudo
• Combining Commands with For
• Comparing Files
• Converting Text Files
• Converting data with units
• Creating ScreenShots with import
• Creating a Certificate Authority (CA)
• Denu - a Portage-savvy menu generator for window managers
• Devtodo: Nifty tool for developers and others
• Displaying Runlevels
• Editing USE flags with ufed and euse
• Efficient file change notifications
• Emerge flags deserving more attention
• Export an X Session
• Finding recent files with ls and 'FlAt'
• Forwarding an SSH agent
• Fresh USE flag and profile editors
• Fullscreen task-switching: skippy
• Gentoo Initscripts
• Gentoo bugzilla search plugin for Firefox
• Getting information about installed packages
• Handling Files with Spaces
• Hotplugging? Coldplugging!
• Implementing a command line thesaurus
• Improving DNS Lookups
• Introducing the -- flag
• Iproute2 instead of ifconfig/route
• Job Control
• Keeping track of emerge world
• Killing Processes
• Killing a Hung Virtual Console
• Linux Magic System Request Key Hacks
• Logging the boot messages
• Managing your overlays with layman
• Manually resetting a service
• Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
• Multiple X-Sessions
• OpenVPN primer
• Portage GUIs
• Portage magic
• Portage magic: Identify obsolete packages
• Portage's new '--newuse' option
• Preventing System Reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del
• Privilege Separation in Portage
• Protecting files with noclobber
• Querying Portage with etcat
• Quick 'cd' trick
• Quick Backup Tricks
• Reading binary data with strings
• Rebuilding modules after a kernel upgrade
• Recovering some log space
• Recovering the root password
• Renaming Files
• Revival of the Compose Key a.k.a. Multi_Key
• Roaming network profiles for laptops with Quickswitch
• Scheduling with "at"
• Searching for kernel features
• See which USE variables affect a package during an emerge
• Setting Your Terminal Title
• Setting the Hardware Clock
• Shell Auto-logout
• Shell Autologout with TMOUT
• Some pretty .bashrc hints
• Specifying only needed locales
• Spell Checking with Aspell
• Synchronizing System Date/Time with rdate
• Timezone conversion using date
• Tips for 'ls'
• Trying out filesystems where it does no harm
• Tune your filesystem
• Tweaking kernel options yet some more
• Updating a Gentoo system
• Using 'make' for backups
• Using /dev/loop to view a CD image
• Using /etc/skel
• Using Fluxbox Autogrouping
• Using GnuPG to digitally sign emails
• Using Procmail and SpamAssassin to Block Spam and Filter Mailing Lists
• Using RCS
• Using SSH for remote commands
• Using Screen
• Using Unison to Synchronize Two Directories
• Using a localized rsync mirror rotation
• Using bash history
• Using netstat
• Using nl to number lines
• Using qpkg
• Using script
• Using the Gentoo Log Parser (genlop)
• Using the file command
• Using tmpfs
• Using ulimit
• Using vim as Man-page and Info browser
• Using watch to repeat comands
• Watch it!
• Watching logfiles on your desktop: root-tail
• nice and PORTAGE_NICENESS
• ulimit and sysctl