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1:36 PM

Hello?

3:00 PM

as seen in AU: networkworld.com/community/blog/…

> A Seattle-based band called netcat - not to be confused with the networking tool of the same name - has perked ears in the software community by releasing its debut album as a Linux kernel module (among other more typical formats.)

TAFKA 'goldilocks'

3:49 PM

Anyone who voted to close this want to reconsider:

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Q: What does ~ mean at the end of a file name (e.g. httpd.conf~)?

I edited a fresh apache config file in CentOS 5 using gedit. When I looked at the directory I saw now two files: httpd.conf and httpd.conf~ What does the ~ signify?

As per:

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Q: Which duplicate should be closed?

I'm raising this issue because it seems to me that when we find a new question that has an obvious duplicate, it should not necessarily be the new question that is closed. We already have a good precedent in that occasionally someone will do a self-answered Q&A (actually the only one I know of i...

discussion close-reasons duplicate

slm

4:14 PM

@TAFKA'goldilocks' I think mikel's answer is better on the one he's referencing though

Braiam

@TAFKA'goldilocks' mm... I would downvote his question because there's another with the exact same title which answers his question

Ramesh

Hi all, I was just curious to know if we can make a file system read only issuing the below command at the startup.

mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sda2

TAFKA 'goldilocks'

@slm Actually I think the dup indicated by @Braiam is better than both of them. As a futile gesture, I'll vote to reopen that one and change my comment to Mikel.

slm

ha funny, same friggin title. Apparently ppl don't understand the concept of the search box in the corner....

does anyone know how to do this Q?

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Q: How to actually test locale

So I know what locale does. Sets the output format of certain programs depending on what country/language you're in, for example 1000000 can be formatted like 1,000,000.00 1 000 000.00 1.000.000,00 and a variety of others on output. But is there a program to literally test this so that I could ...

locale output format testing

TAFKA 'goldilocks'

@Ramesh How about "How to make a filesystem readonly at boot?" We don't seem to have that. What you have should work (try it), although it if is already mounted you'd want -o remount,ro, I think.

slm

4:29 PM

I know there's iconv but it seems like a reasonable Q and I'm a dumb american that doesn't know much of locales

Ramesh

@TAFKA'goldilocks', let me try it in the test bed.

@TAFKA'goldilocks', I tried to umount and issue the above command. But it's giving me error.

Braiam

anyone knows a way to transforms a number in bytes to kB or GiB?

Ramesh

@slm, ha if you consider yourself dumb american, what happens to the rest of average Americans?

TAFKA 'goldilocks'

@Braiam That seems a little unfair considering the other question was CLOSED (it should be re-opened so I've nominated it). Why would a newish user pay attention to a Q&A marked CLOSED in a search list?

@Ramesh You don't want remount if you umount first.

Braiam

@TAFKA'goldilocks' try ask a question with his title verbatim, and check what the system tells you

Ramesh

4:41 PM

oops, I did not issue remount. I just gave mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sda1

@Braiam, how about this? echo '1452360394' | awk '{ foo = $1 / 1024 / 1024 ; print foo "MB" }'

Braiam

@Ramesh no kB, then?

slm

@Ramesh I know very little about locales and timezones 8-)

TAFKA 'goldilocks'

@Braiam Point taken. It actually says '[duplicate]', which is not so discouraging.

Ramesh

@Braim, may be like this?
echo '2048' | awk '{ foo = $1 / 1024 ; print foo "KB" }'

@Braiam, much more elegant solution using units command.

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Q: Convert 1000 to 1024 bytes

I am trying to convert a size, let's say 244410368 bytes to xxxxxx megabytes (MB) but I have no idea how to do this. I find the idea of 1000 and 1024 bytes/bits rather confusing.

linux shell

Kiwy

4:58 PM

Hello everybody, hope you're doing well :)

I'm doing fucking good

do you think this is a legitimate answer ?

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A: temporarily disabling one's own filesystem write permission

What I propose you is to execute a script that will overide all command you're usually using for editing files so it uses less instead for example: #!/bin/bash export EDITOR=less alias vi=less alias vim=less alias nano=less alias pico=less alias rm=less This is just an example but by executin...

Ramesh

@Kiwy, I can still modify the file if I give some command like "echo "something" >> *.conf". So, I do think what the OP asks is not possible unless he gets root access.

Kiwy

@Ramesh yes I know, that's why I suggest this, but I don't know if it's possible to overide redirection

Ramesh

I can use sed to replace the characters or I can use cat and then do some modifications. So, just disabling the editors will not be enough, I believe. However, if the OP is a novice, may be your suggestion might be fair enough I guess.

Kiwy

though he can avoid using cat and echo so redirection become less easy

but read only with user right is definitely not easy

Ramesh

without root access, I don't think it's possible.

Braiam

5:04 PM

why is this still in the site? unix.stackexchange.com/q/92670/41104

Kiwy

@Braiam why not ? nothing indeed is useful with this

and it shoudl have disapear with time...

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Q: How to identify executable path with its PID on AIX 5 or more

On AIX 5 or 6, `ps -ef` shows the executable full path randomly. Why and how to determine it? I find many thread through internet and also Unix & Linux and this stack overflow post about finding the path of a process and so far I don't succed in applying any method. I keep falling into having p...

path aix ps

why in this case, my accepted anxswer appears at the second rank ?

casey

6:27 PM

kde 4.13.0 -- i can finally keep youtube fullscreen on one monitor and interact with my other monitor at the same time.

its about time...

slm

6:44 PM

@casey - I'm popping corks of champane 8-)

casey

:)

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