This catalogs my experience with installing archlinux. Which of course, I’ve never used before, so it should be a nice learning curve. First off, navigate to the archlinux website, and download the iso. Then put that on a USB Flash drive. I used the following command to do that: dd if=archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M Next boot … Read more
I have a similar article here which discusses the steps to mount a NFS exported directory from Linux. However, I never really went into the steps on the Linux side of actually mounting it and what-not, so I’ll give a real world example here. On the Linux box, I have already downloaded AIX 6.1 TL6 … Read more
I played around with this one, and what not. In some cases you may have a ton of files in a directory, and for whatever reason you only want specific files from a specific date. This little trick might come in handy. I’ll show via an example. touch –date “2012-01-01” /tmp/start find /var/log/apache2 -type f … Read more