title: gnome file manager with vnc link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/gnome-file-manager-with-vnc/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 368 created: 2009/03/03 14:58:40 created_gmt: 2009/03/03 14:58:40 comment_status: open post_name: gnome-file-manager-with-vnc status: publish post_type: post

gnome file manager with vnc

There are times when a graphical file manager can really be helpful. For example, when trying to manually clean up old log files generated by one of the Oracle Application Server (OAS) products. Why Oracle didn’t include a syslog-like log rolling feature like Sun does for their Directory Server is beyond me. It’s not like it would have cost them a lot. But as I’ve said before, the operation of every part of the OAS suite show it is very clearly a developer, not administrator, oriented product. Developers don’t really care about hundreds of log files filling up the file system, because it’s not their responsibility. That’s what administrators are for, after all.

Anyway, assuming you’ve persuaded your ops team to include the base gnome desktop packages in the Red Hat build for OAS (you are running this on Red Hat, aren’t you?), it’s very easy to bring up a graphical file browser under vnc to manually whack away at unwanted files. Here’s the command:

nautilus --no-desktop --browser

That’s it. What you’ll get is the same app that you’ll see labeled as “File Browser” on a standard gnome desktop, but without all the cycle-stealing graphics of a full desktop.

Among the things this will let you do is change to View … View as List and then sort by date by clicking on the “Date Modified” column. At that point it’s just a matter of using Cntrl-click to highlight what you want to get rid of and then hitting the Delete key. Simple.

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