The Linux Tips HOWTO

Paul Anderson, paul@geeky1.ebtech.net

1. Introduction

2. Short Tips

• 2.1 Handy Syslog Trick Paul Anderson, Tips-HOWTO maintainer
• 2.2 Handy Script to Clean Up Corefiles. Otto Hammersmith,
• 2.3 Moving directories between filesystems. Alan Cox, A.Cox@swansea.ac.uk
• 2.4 Finding out which directories are the largest. Mick Ghazey,
• 2.5 The Linux Gazette
• 2.6 Pointer to patch for GNU Make 3.70 to change VPATH behavior.
• 2.7 How do I stop my system from fscking on each reboot? Dale Lutz, dal@wimsey.com
• 2.8 How to avoid fscks caused by "device busy" at reboot time. Jon Tombs, jon@gtex02.us.es
• 2.9 How to find the biggest files on your hard-drive.
• 2.10 How to print pages with a margin for hole punching. Mike Dickey, mdickey@thorplus.lib.purdue.edu
• 2.11 A way to search through trees of files for a particular regular expression.
• 2.12 A script for cleaning up after programs that create autosave and backup files.
• 2.13 How to find out what process is eating the most memory. Simon Amor,

3. Detailed Tips

• 3.1 Sharing swap partitions between Linux and Windows. Tony Acero, ace3@midway.uchicago.edu
• 3.2 How to use the immutable flag. Jim Dennis, jadestar@rahul.net
• 3.3 A suggestion for where to put new stuff.
• 3.4 Some tips for new sysadmins.
• 3.5 How to configure xdm's chooser for host selection. Arrigo Triulzi, a.triulzi@ic.ac.uk