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Automating process killing…

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

The one-liner:  ps -ef | grep http_load | grep -v grep | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs kill The in-depth explanation: ps -ef | grep http_load lists all the processes with http_load in their name.  That’s the processes I want to kill. grep -v grep removes from that process list the process which listed the [...]

To be organized later…

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125200842406984303.html#articleTabs=article About data mining against criminals / terrorists

Cool little nmap command

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Good for scanning systems, even with firewall up: nmap -sP -PT80 192.168.1.0/24

What interfaces are being loaded at boot?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

dmesg | grep [driver] (This will also tell you the MAC addresses being used)