While I am no seasoned veteran with PowerShell, I have been using it heavily for the past 6 months or so to help automate tasks and increase the speed of my system management workflow. I have recently noticed that not many admins that I have been talking to, in and out of my place of work, are really leveraging what it has to offer. I realized that looking at an example .
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Below is a link to a document that contains some useful Linux system management command line utilities. Note, these may not work on every distribution of Linux but I have currently tested them on a few of my VM based servers which are running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). I will be updating this document ad-hoc as I find things that are useful.
Linux Management Commands
[Last updated 6/28/11]
Step 1 Run the following command to verify if it is enabled or disabled. 0=enabled & 1=disabled
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 Step 2 Using vi add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf
the # comment is optional but considered a best practice
#disable ipv6 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 vi Notes Command Function i Enters insert mode (editing) esc exits insert mode : followed by x saves your work and exits Reboot and run the first command to verify that is has been disabled.
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The link below points to a Google Spreadsheet that is always being updated. Bookmark, if you wish, and check back every now and again for new commands.
VMware Useful Commands
Updated: 7/21/2011