The Linux Tips HOWTO

Vince Reed, reedv@rpi.edu

1. Introduction

2. Short Tips

• 2.1 Moving directories between filesystems. Alan Cox, A.Cox@swansea.ac.uk
• 2.2 Pointer to patch for GNU Make 3.70 to change VPATH behavior.
• 2.3 How do I stop my system from fscking on each reboot? Dale Lutz, dal@wimsey.com
• 2.4 How to avoid fscks caused by "device busy" at reboot time. Jon Tombs, jon@gtex02.us.es
• 2.5 How to print pages with a margin for hole punching. Mike Dickey, mdickey@thorplus.lib.purdue.edu
• 2.6 A way to search through trees of files for a particular regular expression.
• 2.7 A script for cleaning up after programs that creat autosave and backup files.

3. Detailed Tips

• 3.1 Sharing swap partitions between Linux and Windows. Tony Acero, ace3@midway.uchicago.edu
• 3.2 How to configure xdm's chooser for host selection. Arrigo Triulzi, a.triulzi@ic.ac.uk