Archive for January, 2011

Removing a LVM Volume Group in Linux 

What if you created a volume group in LVM and no longer need it? Well, to properly clean everything up follow the steps below.
First, let’s identify the target.  In this case, I made a temporary /u2 partition, that I now no longer need:
# df -h /u2
Filesystem [...]

Sending mail from command line using Mutt 

I use this to attach reports (pdfs, etc) to emails in my scripts. Small Perl snippet:
system(“/usr/bin/mutt -i $file_with_body_content -a $file_to_attach -s \”Some Random Report $report_date\” $mailto < /dev/null”);
And since this has now bitten me twice, make sure that there are no variables with carriage returns at the end. In my case, both times [...]