Posts Tagged ‘system’

Execute command on every boot

You want to execute a command on every boot but do not want to create an init script? Well, if your *nix system supports cron jobs which is very likely it is your lucky day.

Just open the cron file for the user who in whose name the command is supposed to run.

crontab -e

Add the …


Memcache is not cacheing

So you are using memcached to speed up your system. Than suddenly at some point you notice memcache is not helping anymore but is does not cache the part that has the worst impact on your system.

That´s what just has happened to me. Why is Memcache not cacheing I asked myself. Well, the …


How to find out user id on linux system

For a mount command I needed to find out what user id my user account had. There are several ways to find out. As root you could look into the passwd file (most likely /etc/passwd) or on OpenSuSE use the Yast user module. But I was looking for a way to find out my …


System upgrade openSUSE 11.0 to openSUSE 11.1 with zypper

I had to set up a server. The hoster offers openSUSE 11.0 at the moment but no openSUSE 11.1 yet. As I like to go with the latest and greatest I decided to upgrade the system to openSUSE 11.1 after using the hoster’s installation image for openSUSE 11.0. I searched on the web how …