Category: unix

To sum-up the filesize e.g. for emacs :

find . -name "*~" -printf "%s %p\n"|awk '{a=a+$1; print} END {print "Cumulated size:" a}'

Howto deactivate users under linux with samba and courier servers.

1. deactivate samba sam account : smbpasswd -d username
2. delete objectClass CourierMailAccount in LDAP to prevent further mail delivery if desired. Or set disableimap,disablepop3, disablewebmail to 1 to only disable login
3. set attribute shadowExpire to 1 in LDAP (meaning that account is disabled since 1 day after 1970-01-01). This also prevents ssh logins when using pam_ldap

If you have changed configuration setting for X programs, e.g. xfig, you have to reload it with

$ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

$ xset b off