When you su in ESX you may find that you can not run the usual commands. This may be down to environmental variables, use: su - This will change the environmental variables to the new user.

This is by far the best thing to use when you are running programs that take a while to complete. The danger is that you lose your SSH connection and your program along with it. Use the following to start a screen session: screen This generates a screen session that can be detached from by pressing: ctrl + a d At this point you can safely close down the SSH session.

Syntax: grep -E (string|string2) *

Blat is the way forward. Blat is a small, efficent SMTP command line mailer for Windows. It is the SMTP sending part of an eMail User Agent (MUA) or eMail client. As such, Blat sends eMail via SMTP (or internet eMail) from the command line, or CGI, … blat 1.txt -t [email protected] -attach 1.bmp -base64 -html This will include the contents of 1.txt in the body of the email and attach the file 1.

If you want to export AD info as CSV then csvde is the cmd for you, for example: csvde -s clyde -f users.csv -r objectClass=user -l givenName, sn, name, sAMAccountName

Use the following program that comes with putty to copy files from nix machine to a windows machine. pscp -r -C User@Machine:/var/log/httpd/ c:\weblog\ -C Enables compression, which sounds like a good shout accross slow links.

Get hold of 2003 cdburn.exe from the Windows 2003 Support Tools. cdburn.exe e: c:\path\iso_file.iso Where e: is the CD writer.

Use the following to find Forbidden errors from web server logs: grep 403 \machine\i$\LogFiles\W3SVC1\ex0* You can get GNU utilities for Windows which includes grep. Microsoft has its own version of grep called QGREP which is part of the 2003 resource kit.

Use the following: tcpdump -i <interface> -s 1500 -w <some-file> tcpdump will only cature the first 68 bytes so you need to change the value to your packet size.

dd is your man here. Replace /dev/disk for the disk you are interested in i.e. sda, sdb : dd if=/dev/disk of=/path/backup This will create a full backup of your partition i.e. /dev/sda1: dd if=/dev/disk_partition of=/dev/backup You can compress the backup using gzip: dd if=/dev/disk | gzip -c9 < /path/backup.gz And to restore it: gunzip -c /path/backup.gz | dd of=/dev/disk