Tag: Linux

Stop all downloads in KTorrent using dcop. Can be done from local system or by logging in using ssh from…

show statistics of network card ‘eth0’ ethtool eth0

Find the process that’s opened the file from a specified directory. You can use this if you cannot unmount a…

Show link status of ‘eth0’ mii-tool eth0

Shows a tree system processes pstree

If you want to repeat a command many times, for example you are monitoring something, then don’t forget about the…

Run a remote GUI tool in a local system ssh -X neo@192.168.0.30 /usr/bin/kate

Lookup hostname to resolve name to ip address and viceversa nslookup www.example.com

Backup content of the harddrive to a file. Creates an image of the drive dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/sda.iso

repair / check integrity of ext2 filesystem on disk hda1 fsck.ext2 /dev/hda1