Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

split – but no destination parameter to specify

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

first :

cd /destination/directory

second :

split /source/directory/big-huge-file prefix-to-apply-onto-splited-files

Voila !!!

(use the parameter -b to specify the size of splited files in BYTES, NOT kb, mb or gb)

cron & time zone

Friday, April 18th, 2008

after changing time zone (tzsetup), restart cron (/etc/rc.d/cron restart) to let it know the changes or else the cron jobs will use the previous time zone.

convert epoch using date command

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

date -d ‘<Unix epoch> <epoch date> sec’

e.g. date -d ’1970-01-01 988822888 sec’ would dated “Wed May 2 17:31:28 MYT 2001″

20080430 :

get a particular date in epoch, e.g. date -d ‘Apr 30 2008 00:00:00′ ‘+%s’

Forget / forgot / cannot remember root password

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

On a FreeBSD server

1. reboot server
2. choose to boot into single user mode
3. mount -o rw <root partition> e.g. mount -o rw /
4. passwd <root account> e.g. passwd root
5. mount -o ro <root partition> e.g. mount -o ro /
6. reboot server again

Voila !!!

How to dig SRV record after creating it in DNS

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

dig <record type> <host.name>

e.g dig SRV _someservice._port.hostname.domainame.com.my OR dig SRV _https._ICMP.host.takizo.com