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CentOS Wiki is filled with information and is one of the most frequently used resources available to CentOS users. But, little known is its statistics page: http://wiki.centos.org/PageHits According to Ralph, this page is created through a macro called “PageHits” but not all the details as to how this works are known. Anyway, let’s take a [...]
While we are talking about colors … As you know, thunderbird has gobs of options you can play with. I usually do not care much about how it looks and just use the default settings. The only thing I have done was to change the background color of sub-windows. This was easily done by editing [...]
It is rather an old trick – adding a color to your prompt. But it was resurrected when someone asked a question on a CentOS forum: “how can I change color of root@localhost inside console????” After some cheerful exchange, it turned out that this person wanted to know how to color the root’s prompt. As [...]
OpenSSH has built-in support to act as a SOCKS proxy. In my case, there are web sites I can access only from work computers and I need to get to them from home. So, I issue the command from my home computer: ssh -D 1080 my work IP However, I do not want to redirect [...]
If you often need to access files on a remote machine and do it by ssh login, there is a handy way – sshfs. Here is a simplified howto that works. (1) Set up the rpmforge repository if not done yet (see Installing RPMForge ) (2) Either use the dkms-fuse with the stock RHEL/CentOS kernel [...]
