Going off of another thread elsewhere I'd like to propose a thread of interesting linux tips, commands, and scripts which would constitute as a tip for the community.

I'll start with an easy one:

If the startup screen goes to fast for you and you would like to see just what it was that flew by you can use the command dmesg to display the messages from the most recent boot.

Tag, your it!

To run xscreensaver daemon automatically when you start up your user acct edit you .xinitrc or .xsession file like this.....

xscreensaver-command -exit
xscreensaver &

Make sure you put these lines before the lines that execute your window managers.

If you haven't got a soundcard, network card, blah blah blah chicken-on-a-stick, as long as its a PCI card, ignore the label on the box and try /sbin/lspci, then feed that info into www.google.com/linux to figure out what module to probe. Doing that is usually step one of 1/3 of the posts I reply to.

Cheers,

Finegan

To get your scroll wheel to work with an Intellimouse Optical, edit your XF86Config file like this:

(go to the mouse section where you see this--)

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"

Add these lines after Option "Device" /dev/mouse (or whatever)

Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

And your mouse wheel will work.

The other buttons (the side ones) can work too, but that will involve remapping.

Hmm I seem to have remembered this thread from another forum...
Get books. Whether you but them or check them out from your local library Linux books are almost as important as forums like these. It so much easier to follow directions when thier printed on paper in fron of you. And, as some of us know, when troublshooting with linux you may not always have access to the internet, then a book becomes more than neccessary.

setuid/setgid files allow normal users to run programs as root and can be a security issue.

Find all the setuid/setgid files on your computer like so:

find / -perm +6000 -type f -exec ls -ld {}\; > setuid.txt &

This creates a setuid.txt file for you to peruse at your convenience.

You can change the suid/sgid status for at and crontab in two commands like so:

chmod a-s /usr/bin/at
chmod a-s /usr/bin/crontab

or in one command like so(I like curly braces):

chmod a-s /usr/bin/{at, crontab}

This can be read like so, change mode attribute sticky bit for the at and crontab command.

I seem to remember this thread HERE a hundred times already. there is a vastly vastly vast amount of information on this site already

Should I stop then?

Well, if we're in the habit of repeating ourselves, I'll post one of my favourite tips for keeping libraries up to date:

find /usr -name lib > /etc/ld.so.conf && ldconfig

Another one (although this one's less handy) - need to see the middle 3 lines of a 100 line poem?

head -n 51 < clouds.txt | tail -n 3 > clouds2.txt

That's all I can think of for now.

Bert

no no, just remember that this site has existed long before all this justlinux stuff came along.

Come on Acid! Stop that!

I'm sure they've noticed and used the graphical search button facility located in the top right hand corner of the page, second row.



Bert

I can honestly say that the search button on this site has been my most useful resource. The need to post is really not necessary (hence my low post count) if you know what to search for.

My natural order of searching has always been my books, google.com/linux, and the nice search button at the top of good boards like these. I just thought it would be nice to have a thread to put interesting hacks. Certainly not looking to redefine the wheel by any means.

Yeah, actually I'd think most of us would be better off posting all of our suggestion into this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=27957

It's a thread dedicated to this, and is already much larger (and maybe a better) resource already

Just a suggestion

Cool

Sounds good to me