Hi guys - has anyone got experience with the Comp TIA Linux+ cert? I've got exam in 2 weeks and just found out that going through recommend ed book "cover to cover" isn't enough. I've got 2+ years experience with Linux too. Any advice would be great help. Thanks!
i'm reminded why i only hang around here for a month or so and then disappear for 6 or 12 months or more. it only takes about a month to attract an arsehole stalker that makes the site unpleasant and worthless to participate in.
it needs a killfile for the Q&A sites too. where you just don't see Qs, As, and comments from selected troublesome users AND where you are also completely invisible to them on the site too.
@cas I'd love the killfile. I'm not very happy at the thought of a block file.
The killfile is me exercising my right to not read crap. A blockfile would be me disallowing select parts of the world to read stuff I write on a public site. I shiver at the thought of certain users having access to that, to stop old hands from pointing out that they are wrong.
@cas If someone is harassing you, they should be blocked from the whole site, not just blocked by you. Besides, a blocklist is ineffective - all they'd need to do is to log out and read the site anonymously.
Malicious downvotes should be caught by the site algorithms; it's really easy to tell when someone is targeting a particular user. As for comments - if you've killfiled them, you don't need to read it, and if you haven't, you can flag it for moderators.
This isn't me arguing for argument's sake here. I really do strongly believe that a blockfile is more harmful than good.
i seem to have a stalker that downvotes one or two answers every few days, below the detection threshhold. dunno if it's the same one that stalks and posts trivially nitpicking comments, trying to start an argument all the time.
as things are, without a blockng/killfile mechanism i'm seriously considering just leaving the site for a significant time. i don't have the energy to put up with harassment, and really don't need any stress or anger in my life.
i have. they see only the individual event, not the recurring pattern. and try to be "balanced". which is exactly what stalking harassers are good at - pretending to be innocent or, worse, the innocent victim.
@cas yeah, I've had that issue with a user over at Serverfault. Amusingly enough, that guy also accused me (and several other long-time members) of downvote-stalking him. Which the mods dismissed, and rightly so, because I'd actually upvoted several of the guy's answer, since when he wasn't going off on a rant aobut how all the mods are evil he actually had some skills.
My recipe against downvoters is to ignore them, if it seems targeted at me as a person. Because internet points really aren't that important. As for comments trying to start an argument, that's where a killfile would really come in handy.
But on the whole, if being on the site is bringing you stress, then taking a break is probably a good idea. And I've done that, too, on occasion.
@cas Whoa! If it reaches that level, do flag for moderator attention and explain what's going on. If you need to give more links than can fit in a flag message (moderators can see comments, including deleted ones, but don't have a very handy tool to track comments addressed to a particular user), ask a moderator to create a private chatroom.
FYI: I had a similar problem. I stopped responding to the problem user. It took a lot of pressure from the mods, but eventually the user stopped interacting with me. I'm getting more downvotes than I used to (strongly correlated with said user's pet peeves), but at least I have some peace of mind now.
@FaheemMitha thanks. up until recently, i've enjoyed being back here. i haven't decided yet what i'm going to do, but it's getting to the point where i have to stop and think "is this worth the risk?" whenever i post an answer. i come here for fun and to teach people what i know and even to learn stuff, not to get angry and stressed out.
@Gilles i've tried that. slm spoke to him. it took him a few hours (my next answer) to do it again. personally, i'd just ignore him if i could...but i can't make him ignore me.
i've tried that, i've tried flagging for mod attention, i've tried arguing back and sarcasm, i've tried telling him to go away. i've tried just ignoring him.
i had no idea he had a problem with me until the last few days, when the recurring pattern became too obvious to ignore. so, maybe a few weeks. maybe a few days. dunno for sure. it's got worse in recent days.
Sometimes these people lose interest after a bit. I'd just hang in here for a bit. And try to carry on normally.
I don't have a very similar experience, but I have had a user in one of the chat rooms making passive aggressive comments (I'm not sure exactly how to express it) on things I said, often for no apparent reason. But it hasn't spilled over to any actual site. And it certainly made me uncomfortable. I don't want to be rude to a total stranger. But what's an appropriate response to that?
i tend to give people the benefit of the doubt until they do something to remove all doubt. and then i exclude them from my life and from contact with me as much as possible. i learnt the hard way several years ago that some things are unforgivable, no matter how much you like/liked the person.
it can be hard with friends in real life,. but i have a lower tolerance threshhold for mere acquaintainces on the net. dropping contact with someone i've "known" for 5 minutes is no great loss.
I'm not fully satisfied with Monica's answer, because I don't see how “don't make it about Bob” applies here: it's a personal conflict, not a disagreement about rules or etiquette
sounds like you had it worse than i'm getting it, but my reaction is the same. i can ignore him and would be happy for mutual ignoring to be the solution but i can't make him ignore me. and, like you, i don't want to leave this site and don't think it's an acceptable solution - in fact it makes me a little angry to think i might have to.
it's also a bit frustrating because i've spent a lot of time on mailing lists where vigorous debate (and beyond) is both normal and expected. that's not what this site is about, though, and i make a deliberate effort to tone down that side of my personality here....the snark factor is dialed down to 0.001 or lower.
@FaheemMitha start by collecting relevant information: what type of filesystem it is, what appears in the kernel logs. Then unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
@Gilles - i wonder if i did this to myself. a couple of weeks ago the OP asked in comments to my answer if i knew of good books to learn more about shell or awk or something. i said to search here...and to especially look for posts by you or stephane as you both tend to provide well-researched and well-written answers. that may have been enough to trigger "bob".
@cas - would you say any of your comments were inappropriate?
cause i would.
and it isn't always me, either. who was it that first commented on the other's answer at that [[ question, anyway? and what have i ever done to insult you?
i don't like personal insults - i feel like offering them is demeaning to me.
@Max_il Hey, I am now. Please ping me next time you're around. I'm very surprised that my solution doesn't work. I am guessing you don't actually have a blank line there. I'd be happy to sort it out in chat when you get the chance.
While you can check some things, during shutdown, you cannot run fsck effectively for your root filesystem. fsck requires that the filesystem is not mounted before it can attempt repair. This is only possible during boot, while still running from initramfs.
Is the above answer really true?
Couldn't you remount the root filesystem read-only and then run fsck from the read-only filesystem?
I'm developing for a headless embedded appliance, running CentOS 6.2. The user can connect a keyboard, but not a monitor, and a serial console would require opening the case, something we don't want the user to have to do. This all pretty much obviates the possibility of using a recovery USB driv...
@unforgettableid - pivot_root is an older one. systemd has a builtin switch_root, and busybox. but yeah, any of those would work. i guess the whole-shebang binary could work just as well.
While you can check some things, during shutdown, you cannot run fsck effectively for your root filesystem. fsck requires that the filesystem is not mounted before it can attempt repair. This is only possible during boot, while still running from initramfs.
Dear all: If you agree that the answer is wrong, please downvote it.
I don't work as a sysadmin, nor do I work as a distribution developer.
The reason why I came here to ask about "fsck at shutdown" at all is because I want distros to implement the feature. Not because I want to implement the feature myself. :) Personally, I know almost nothing at all about systemd.
If the executable /run/initramfs/shutdown exists systemd will use it to jump back into the initrd on shutdown./run/initramfs should be a usable initrd environment to which systemd will pivot back and the "shutdown" executable in it
oh.
well, anyway, that's one way someone else might do it.
While you can check some things, during shutdown, you cannot run fsck effectively for your root filesystem. fsck requires that the filesystem is not mounted before it can attempt repair. This is only possible during boot, while still running from initramfs.
