Frequently I need to check the space of user folders on our file server. The easiest way to do that is to use the du command (Disk Usage). I change directory to the parent folder and then run du with the -d (depth) flag to summarize one level deep.
cd /userhomeshare
du -kd1
You can use that with a pipe or redirect
du -kd1 >> file.txt
du -kd1 | mail chris@mydomain.com
Update – if you want to check the size of everyone’s movie directory:
du -kd0 -h /userhomepath/*/Movies
Drupal is an excellent open source content management system.
Once you have a linux install with Apache, PHP, and MySQL installing drupal is a breeze.
Refer to this post for an easy installation of Fedora Core 4.
This is a very good FAQ regarding installation of Fedora Core 4:
The Perfect Setup – Fedora Core 4
In addition to the standard server install, I chose the following packages:
Server Configuration Tools (all)
Web Server (all)
Mail Server (all)
MySQL Database (all)
Development Tools (Standard)
Administration Tools (all)
I was at the IL-TCE conference on Friday and went to a session by David Warlick called Right & Wrong on the Information Highway.
He showed a clip that was a generated a good discussion regarding how trustworthy information found on the internet is now and in the future.
Check it out:
Epic 2014
In restoring a file from our backup machine to a user – I found the easiest way is just to email the file to the user through the terminal. However since it was a word document it needed to be encoded. This worked beautifully:
uuencode FILENAME FILENAME | mail -s SUBJECT RECIPIENT
