Posted in Linux on Jul 6th, 2008
Sitting here installing a brand new box, I look through what I use on other machines and figure out a list of things I want to have installed on any box I’m on. Here’s the list so far, in no particular order:
Today I had to bring up an old virtual machine which was used to test some homebrew modifications to the apache webserver. The root password, of course, was nowhere to be found. What can you do?
Has your desired eth0 ended up as eth1 and the other way around? Did you put in a new network card, having every config file set to use eth0, and the card shows up as eth1?
How to get lm-sensors, the Windows speedfan-equivalent, working in linux - short reference
apt-get install lm-sensors
sensors-detect
pwmconfig