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Gadget Review: D-Link DNS-321 NAS
August 1, 2010 – 10:51 am | No Comment

The D-Link DNS-321 is among the least expensive dual-disk RAID NAS systems currently on the market. This small device offers an impressive array of features such as FTP, Samba, NFS, iTunes, DHCP, HTTP and UPnP …

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Count users with “last”
November 19, 2005 – 11:15 pm | No Comment
Count users with “last”

last | awk ‘/bold/ {printf ("%s\t%s \t%s%s\n", $1,$3,$5,$6)}’ | uniq | grep -c Aug15

Move USER to new primary group
November 19, 2005 – 10:41 pm | No Comment

1. in old user’s home dir.

oldgroup=<oldgroup>
newgroup=<newgroup>
username=<username>
tar cvf – `find . -print` > backup.tar
mkdir /home/users/${newgroup}/${username}
mv backup.tar /home/users/${newgroup}/${username}/
cd /home/users/${newgroup}/${username}/
tar -xvf backup.tar
find . -group ${oldgroup} -exec chgrp ${newgroup}{} \;
find . -type l -group ${oldgroup} -exec chgrp -h ${newgroup}{} …