I’m running ImageMagick with Fedora Core 5 and wanting to locate ImageMagick I used whereis. This does not in fact give you the location of ImageMagick as you would think. whereis ImageMagick Returns: ImageMagick: /some/path/to/ImageMagick.1.gz What you’re wanting to do … Read More
Installing ImageMagick on Fedora Core 5 is as simple as using the yum utility: yum install ImageMagick There’s a little information on this here: http://www.gria.org/docs/5.0.1/user-guide/installation/services/fc5-pre.html You can then test on the command line: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
Like everything else, it seems that it takes some time to figure something out. A client of mine needed the ability to easily add images within their Joomla Content Items and more importantly, they needed to allow Joomla Authors to … Read More
You can check for your version of MySQL on the command line with the following: # mysql –version or # mysql -V I tried to search checking mysql version on the command line a couple times without success, so it’s … Read More
Find all files in this directory (.) modified in the last day (-mtime -1) that aren’t directories (\! -type d) and execute the list function on them ls -l: find . -mtime -1 \! -type d -exec ls -l {} … Read More
To chmod recursively, meaning directories and all directories within, you’d use the -R option: chmod -R 755 From the chmod man page: -R, –recursive change files and directories recursively This is all simple enough, but for some reason I always … Read More
At one time, I had a tarred site still containing all its .svn directories. Needing to just start over and remove all .svn directories, I found the answer at Linux by Examples under the aptly named page “Remove All .svn … Read More
I’ve watched people search for character matches on Unix and Linux machines at times with not a lot of success. A very good way to make this search on a Unix/Linux box is to use the find, xargs, and grep … Read More
Ok, here’s a little bonus. I spent some time importing blog posts from pMachine into TypePad the other day. To import the posts into TypePad you can use the Movable type import format. This format is discussed here: http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/mtimport The … Read More
Quick notes on my implementation of Webalizer on multiple virtual hosts with Fedora Core 5. There is documentation that I used off the mrunix webalizer faq files. Mainly the INSTALL file. Here are the steps I followed: create ‘webalizer’ directory … Read More
