I have a shell script that I execute after uninstalling a web application. The script is meant to clean up permissions that were needed during the execution of the application. find /opt/path -exec setacl -d user:myUser{} ';' After this executes and the acl is removed I am left with an acl that...

Long story short: Have one laptop, need to multiboot FreeBSD/OpenBSD as well as a number of Linux distros. Which one do you think should go first? FreeBSD offers a bootMgr, but I'm not sure how it relates with GRUB. How am I supposed to make the partitions knowing that a harddisk can take up to...

I have created the alias below in my .bash_aliases file alias auth="grep \"$(date|awk '{print $2,$3}')\" /var/log/auth.log|grep -E '(BREAK-IN|Invalid user|Failed|refused|su|Illegal)'" This is supposed to: check todays date grep auth.log for todays messages grep todays messages for warning mes...

In Midnight Commander, how to quickly set the right panel to the same directory as the left panel (and vice versa)?

I have tried using wget --recursive http://example.com, but it only retrieves one page, "example.com/index.html". Is this a bug in wget? Which other tools can I try?

Hi, I wonder if I have previously installed ubuntu with root, home, and swap partition. And now I want to change distro to arch linux. Is it so that I only need to wipe my root-partition and install arch linux there instead?

Are there any wgetpaste alternatives?

I read this up on this website and it dosent make sense. http://rcsg-gsir.imsb-dsgi.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/documents/basic/node32.html When UNIX was first written, /bin and /usr/bin physically resided on two different disks: /bin being on a smaller faster (more expensive) disk, and /usr/bin ...

Hello everyone, the organization I work at wants to create a custom Ubuntu LiveCD, the customizations are: Pre-installed programs, plugins, some device drivers, and aesthetics such as icons and backgrounds, as well as changing Firefox's homepage and removing unneeded packages. Not big changes, ob...

I can neither code Bash nor Python (actually, I am only comfortable with C-like syntax), and, actually, am too busy and lazy to learn them now. But I would like to script some tasks. Is there a scripting language for GNU/Linux, having obvious and comfortable syntax for C/C++/C#/Java developers?

Both pacman and powerpill don't seem to be working on my Arch installation. I'm sure my Internet connection is working. The download just starts in powerpill but speed remains zero. In pacman, there's an error saying 'No file address found'.

I am not an Unix/Linux admin. I was attempting to install git on our server, and after much googling and trial and error, I discovered that perl* is excluded in our yum.conf file, preventing perl-Git from installing, which is a dependency of git-core. I understand what this does, but I'm not su...

I have a color scheme that I like for when I'm in a terminal, but I ssh into the machine I work on from multiple sources (locally, PuTTY, my netbook, etc.) and I want to maintain the same color scheme throughout. Is this possible? Especially want it in PuTTY; it's a bitch to change PuTTY colors.