How to find recently installed RPMs

rpm -qa --last will return all installed rpm packages with their installed time. The last installed packages will be at the top of the list. rpm -qa --last | less is will return all installed packages with their install date. Less allows you to scroll through the results. rpm -qa --last | tail -n [lines] will return the last 5 packages. Replace [line] with any number you want, in my case 5 for file lines. ...

2008-05-05 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Cheap hosting at Shinjiru

[Shinjiru][2] is where I’m hosted. The guys are giving away 500 shared hosting packages at only RM 9.90 . That’s a 90% price cut on the original RM 99 proce tag. The package comes with 50GB of storage and 5GB /month bandwidth allocation. However there is a catch, the promotion is only open to those currently hosted with Shinjiru and is limited to 3 purchases per user. But don’t worry, registered member are allowed to purchase the packages for their friends and family. ...

2008-05-02 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

support.microsoft.com not working behind Squid

Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy. Here’s the fix/workaround, Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go. #> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf add lines into /etc/squid.conf # Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain support.microsoft.com header_access Accept-Encoding deny support.microsoft.com #> service squid restart The other way is to remove the tick from “Use HTTP1.1 through proxy connections” in IE’s Advanced internet options tab. Beware that this might break other sites. ...

2008-04-25 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

How to restart snmpd service on AIX

This is how you would restart the snmpd service on AIX. oslevel is used to return the current OS level. stopsrc -s [service] to stop and startsrc -s [service] to start a service. [root@kakuna]:/# oslevel<br /> 4.3.3.0<br /> [root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd<br /> 0513-044 The snmpd Subsystem was requested to stop.<br /> [root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd<br /> 0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, snmpd, is currently inoperative.<br /> [root@kakuna]:/# startsrc -s snmpd<br /> 0513-059 The snmpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 8004.<br /> [root@kakuna]:/#

2008-04-25 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Google Earth for Linux

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7cM5Yvhz4[/youtube] A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature. Now something to excite Linux users, Google Earth is now available for Linux. Not on WINE as but as a native application based on Qt and openGL. I’m yet to try it but for those who have I have heard nothing but good reviews with some minor glitches. ...

2008-04-24 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan