Some geeks have assembled a list of 58 Linux hacks.
It contains some very useful hacks, including:
- Running multiple X sessions
- Backup your website easily
- Finding the biggest files
- Defrag your databases
- Parallelise your build
- Save battery power
- Unclog open ports
- Faster Hard drives
- Access your programs remotely
- Generating package relationship diagrams
- Unmount busy drives
- Listing today’s files only
- Avoid common mistypes and long commands
- Where did that drive mount?
- Autorun USB devices
- Transferring files without ftp or scp
- Hardening ssh
- Stop replying to pings
- Slow down ping rates
- Password-less ssh
- Using rsync over ssh
The best being:
From: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/wiki/index.php/58_Cool_Hacks