Gentoo tips and tricks

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GWN: Tips and Tricks Archive

    * A Quick and Easy Password Generator
    * ANSI Escape Sequences: Colors
    * Accessing the Kazaa network without Wine
    * Adding Users with Superadduser
    * Aliasing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
    * All about:Mozilla
    * An introduction to info
    * An introduction to sudo
    * Backup up files with tar
    * Bash Commands and Tricks
    * Blocking Spam with bogofilter
    * Bootup with the Gentoo 2005.0 logo
    * Catching emerge messages with enotice
    * Changing File Attributes
    * Changing the logname with sudo
    * Combining Commands with For
    * Comparing Files
    * Converting Text Files
    * Converting data with units
    * Converting data with units
    * Creating ScreenShots with import
    * Creating a Certificate Authority (CA)
    * Denu - a Portage-savvy menu generator for window managers
    * Devtodo: Nifty tool for developers and others
    * Displaying Runlevels
    * Editing USE flags with ufed and euse
    * Efficient file change notifications
    * Emerge flags deserving more attention
    * Export an X Session
    * Finding recent files with ls and 'FlAt'
    * Forwarding an SSH agent
    * Fresh USE flag and profile editors
    * Fullscreen task-switching: skippy
    * Gentoo Initscripts
    * Gentoo bugzilla search plugin for Firefox
    * Getting information about installed packages
    * Handling Files with Spaces
    * Hotplugging? Coldplugging!
    * Implementing a command line thesaurus
    * Improving DNS Lookups
    * Introducing the -- flag
    * Iproute2 instead of ifconfig/route
    * Job Control
    * Keeping track of emerge world
    * Killing Processes
    * Killing a Hung Virtual Console
    * Linux Magic System Request Key Hacks
    * Logging the boot messages
    * Managing your overlays with layman
    * Manually resetting a service
    * Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
    * Multiple X-Sessions
    * OpenVPN primer
    * Portage GUIs
    * Portage magic
    * Portage magic: Identify obsolete packages
    * Portage's new '--newuse' option
    * Preventing System Reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del
    * Privilege Separation in Portage
    * Protecting files with noclobber
    * Querying Portage with etcat
    * Quick 'cd' trick
    * Quick Backup Tricks
    * Reading binary data with strings
    * Rebuilding modules after a kernel upgrade
    * Recovering some log space
    * Recovering the root password
    * Renaming Files
    * Revival of the Compose Key a.k.a. Multi_Key
    * Roaming network profiles for laptops with Quickswitch
    * Scheduling with "at"
    * Searching for kernel features
    * See which USE variables affect a package during an emerge
    * Setting Your Terminal Title
    * Setting the Hardware Clock
    * Shell Auto-logout
    * Shell Autologout with TMOUT
    * Some pretty .bashrc hints
    * Specifying only needed locales
    * Spell Checking with Aspell
    * Synchronizing System Date/Time with rdate
    * Timezone conversion using date
    * Tips for 'ls'
    * Trying out filesystems where it does no harm
    * Tune your filesystem
    * Tweaking kernel options yet some more
    * Updating a Gentoo system
    * Using 'make' for backups
    * Using /dev/loop to view a CD image
    * Using /etc/skel
    * Using Fluxbox Autogrouping
    * Using GnuPG to digitally sign emails
    * Using Procmail and SpamAssassin to Block Spam and Filter Mailing Lists
    * Using RCS
    * Using SSH for remote commands
    * Using Screen
    * Using Unison to Synchronize Two Directories
    * Using a localized rsync mirror rotation
    * Using bash history
    * Using netstat
    * Using nl to number lines
    * Using qpkg
    * Using script
    * Using the Gentoo Log Parser (genlop)
    * Using the file command
    * Using tmpfs
    * Using ulimit
    * Using vim as Man-page and Info browser
    * Using watch to repeat comands
    * Watch it!
    * Watching logfiles on your desktop: root-tail
    * nice and PORTAGE_NICENESS
    * ulimit and sysctl