Author: Dipin Krishna
HowTo recompile Debian packages
This article will show how you can rebuild any debian package. You might need to rebuild a package for various reasons: add/remove some compilation options, make some changes to…
kill command on Debian
In technical terms, kill simply sends a signal. By default it sends a signal which requests termination (TERM, or signal 15); but you can also specify a signal,…
Remove debian udev persistent-net-rules
Debian has a customization to udev that will keep network interface names persistent after hardware changes and reboots. Normally this is what you want and you will not care about this, but there…
Sendmail Multiple Queues
Sendmail will use by default a single mail queue. This is what most users will need, and if you don’t have any special requirement you will not care about this.…
Ext3 – Reserved blocks percentage
According to tune2fs manual, reserved blocks are designed to keep your system from failing when you run out of space. Its reserves space for privileged processes such as daemons (like syslogd, for…
Determine the Directory Size Recursively
Sometimes you want to ascertain the space hogs on your system. You might have noticed that a certain top level directory is larger than usual, but you are…