philippe::niquille | irregular niche market thoughts

Some stuff which is good to know:

• ps aux | grep your process name
  Search for a running process (here clamd), kill it with the following:
  kill process id or killall process name
• man your_command
  Manual for specific command. Search the manual with /what you want to search for.
• find /usr/local -name “myfile.c“
  Search for any file ex. in /usr/local.
• mysqldump -u your_user mysql_db > dump.sql
  Dump a mysql db to a .sql file. Very userful for backups. Import with this:
  mysql -u your_user mysql_db< dump.sql
• mysqladmin -u root password ‘new password’
  Change root password (really do it!! I have seen alot of systems without root pw..)
• cat file | grep what you are looking for
  Output whole file to command line and search for string.
• tail file
  Just output end of file. (Very usefull for logfiles.)
• du -xh | sort -nr | head -10
  Get the ten biggest files and their file size in the current directory. (-h is for human readable size values.)
• df -H
  Get total disk space used/free on all mounted drives (even smb!).
• whereis appname or locate app
  I think whereis is fedora specific (when you use rpm). Get the folder where the binary is.
• finger or w
  See who else is logged in.
• passwd user
  Change password for user.
• rm -fr folder or files
  Delete everything without asking (even folders).
• cp -R directory where to
  Copy a whole directory with all subs.
• tar xvzf file.tar.gz
  Extract tar.gz file.
• tar -cvzf file.tar.gz what you want to pack
  Pack a tar.gz file.
• uname -mrs or uname -a
  Get system information.
• rpm -ql package
  Display content of installed rpm package.
• scp local_files user@your_remote_host:port
  Copy files to a remote linux system over ssh.

And try this if you want to patch your orinoco_cs driver with monitor mode (for kismet, etc.).