Some Linux commands I found useful

To find out the version of the system:

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uname -r -m

To backup and restore a database

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mysql -u root -p libdata </home/pradeep/Desktop/libuser.sql

To create a database

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mysqladmin -u root  -p create libdata

To drop a database

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mysqladmin -u root  -p drop libdata

Current folder path

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pwd

Set up a virtual node

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Copy the default website as a starting point. sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite 

Edit the new configuration file in a text editor "sudo nano" on the command line or "gksudo gedit", for example: gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite

Change the DocumentRoot to point to the new location. For example, /home/user/public_html/

Change the Directory directive, replace <Directory /var/www/> to <Directory /home/user/public_html/>

You can also set separate logs for each site. To do this, change the ErrorLog and CustomLog directives. This is optional, but handy if you have many sites

Save the file 

Deactivate and Activate apache site:

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sudo a2dissite default && sudo a2ensite mysite

Finally, we restart Apache2:

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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Test Apache

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echo '<b>Hello! It is working!</b>' > /home/user/public_html/index.html

Finally, browse to http://localhost/

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Find php version

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php -v

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You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps.

Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.

Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the --skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password.

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user.

Step # 4: Setup new mysql root account password i.e. reset mysql password.

Step # 5: Exit and restart the MySQL server.

Here are commands you need to type for each step (login as the root user):

Step # 1 : Stop mysql service

# /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Output:

Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.

Step # 2: Start to MySQL server w/o password:

# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &

Output:

[1] 5988

Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql

mysqld_safe[6025]: started

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server using mysql client:

# mysql -u root

Output:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.

Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 4.1.15-Debian_1-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql>

Step # 4: Setup new MySQL root user password

mysql> use mysql;

mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("root") where User='root';

mysql> flush privileges;

mysql> quit

Step # 5: Stop MySQL Server:

# /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Output:

Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld

STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

mysqld_safe[6186]: ended

[1]+  Done                    mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

Step # 6: Start MySQL server and test it

# /etc/init.d/mysql start

# mysql -u root -p

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uuencode -- sharutils http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/

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Restarting networking services

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

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ps -e | grep mysql

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sudo shutdown -h now

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M-crypt set-up and installation

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sudo apt-get install mcrypt

sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt

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SEE ALL INSTALLED PACKAGES

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dkpg --list |grep crypt

dpkg --status mcrypt

Mysql

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http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/mysql/basictutorial.htm

 mplayer -playlist  -dumpstream -dumpfile output.ram

SVN

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Basic setup

[general]

anon-access = read

auth-access = write

realm = My First Repository

password-db = passwd

:::: To encrypt password ::::

perl -e '$pass="mypasswd"; print crypt($pass, $pass);

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View Package Paths In Red Hat
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rpm -ql <packagename>

Create A File
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touch <filename>

Change ownership of file
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chown <username>:<groupname> <file or directory name>

Change file permissions
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chmod 755 <filename>

use -r for recursive application

1-read
2-execute
4-write

Login as
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su <username>
Change Password
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passwd

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Dxdiag equivalant

The 'lspci' utility lists devices on the PCI busses in the system.

The 'dmidecode' utility should allow you to get detailed information from your BIOS about your processor, memory, chipsets, etc.

The output of the 'dmesg' command will quite often contain most of the information you want.

The 'glxinfo' command can give you details of the OpenGL capabilities of your hardware.

Disk space usage

df -h

What is machine's RAM/Memory usage?

free -m

How many physical CPU's?

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "physical id"|sort|uniq|wc –l

How many cores each CPU has?

cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "core id|physical id" | tr -d "\n" | sed s/physical/\\nphysical/g | grep -v ^$ | sort | uniq | wc –l

Total size of current directory

du -s

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What is the OS Name
cat /etc/*release*

To login to service account w/o console

 su -s /bin/bash jenkins