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12:44 AM
I am quite suspicious of this question:
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Q: can anyone briefly tell me the steps after minimal installation of centos7.I am using it as a test server

RiyaI HAVE BEEN GIVEN A TEST SERVER..WHERE WE HAVE INSTALLED THE OS CENTOS7..CONFIGURED THE NETWORK i.e CHANGED THE NETWORK FILES IN /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.NOW WHAT ARE THE YUM INSTALLS OR FURTHER STEPS TO BE TAKEN..PLEASE HELP BECAUSE I AM CLUELESS ABOUT REPOSITORY AND PACKAGES.

 
1:30 AM
@MichaelHomer close it and move on...
 
I'm wondering if it's spam, given the two 1-rep users and the commonality in the phrasing between the question and the linked article
 
 
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9:51 AM
Darn, the narrator in The StoryTeller died
I like that show
 
 
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11:35 AM
Which is the best online course fir linux to understand it from basics?
 
 
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1:01 PM
Is this a reasonable way to modify the shell history format?
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A: Simplest standard way to print last bash command with timestamp

user79743Execute export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' and your history file will record times (only for new commands): $ history 5 99576 2016-06-13 02:26:25 export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' 99580 2016-06-13 02:26:45 bash -c 'IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@ "' 99581 2016-06-13 02:27:37 dash -c 'set a b...

 
@FaheemMitha Yes, why not? Setting HISTTIMEFORMAT is the way to go.
 
1:15 PM
@terdon Ok, thanks.
 
 
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3:07 PM
This is what happens if you don't want to use bc for arbitrary-precision additions :-) unix.stackexchange.com/a/340787/116858
 
 
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6:10 PM
@MichaelHomer I can see why, but there's nothing obvious there as far as I can tell. Either way, closed now, so all's well.
 
6:21 PM
@Kusalananda ... or dc
 
 
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7:23 PM
boo . . . did i spoop anyone here ?
@Kusalananda frankly, it's quite perplexing as to why OP in that question is so adamant on using bash, as if that's the only thing they have at the disposal. The OP needs enlightenment and *nix zen wisdom
 
@Serg Sometimes these sorts of questions are homework. "Do this in bash", so they try and try to do it in pure bash. Or "Do this without using awk" etc.
 
@Kusalananda well . . . then it's just sad, because their professors either are absolutely sadistic to make them do it in pure bash, or the students are stupid not to ask about which command they can or cannot use
 
I don't mind answering homework questions, but I try to give them solutions they will actually learn something from, other than "run this and it'll do the magic".
 
8:01 PM
Yep, I agree on that.
Sorry for delayed answer. Writing an answer
 
8:36 PM
:-)
 
 
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10:11 PM
@countermode @Kusalananda @grochmal @mdpc @SatoKatsura WTF? In what way is this question off-topic?
 
@Gilles Re-reading it... He does mention pdftk. If you think it's on-topic due to this, then I am happy to admit having done an error.
 
Drive-by close reviews, like I've said before.
 
I might have missed this on my first read-through of this, and taken it as a general question about PDF files.
 
@Kusalananda in which case it would have been off-topic on SU, but not necessarily here
Super User is “about computer hardware and software” and takes a very exclusive view of this. Network protocols and file formats are off-topic there.
 
Jan 13 at 22:28, by Michael Homer
The review queues just don't work very well.
 
10:16 PM
My humble apologies.
 
@MichaelHomer I don't think it's just that. Some people seem to have a very weird idea of what's on-topic here. It isn't the first time I see questions being bounced because they didn't seem platform-specific enough. And conversely, kernel programming questions tend not to get bounced to SO, whereas other programming questions do.
I don't understand what makes some people think that kernel programming is an end-user task, but writing applications isn't.
 
@Gilles Well, there's "If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on Stack Overflow." together with "UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )" in the Help Center...
 
Programming/scripting is a very gray area. If it was all cut-and-dry, probably 80% of U&L and AU questions would be sent to SO
 
Maybe kernel programming doesn't fall "within reason".
 
Kernel programming is rarely relevant to the Unix C API or system interfaces.
 
10:22 PM
This particular question falls within the topics of U&L if taken as a question about how to use pdftk.
@MichaelHomer Probably not, that's true. What would be the better forum?
SO?
 
@MichaelHomer so if I'm writing a module for Linux kernel and ask question here, why is my module failing , then it's off-topic here - is that what you're saying ?
 
@Kusalananda This is a site for users and administrators. Understanding the output of strace and solving linker errors when compiling software is on-topic. Writing device drivers isn't.
 
@Serg Generally, yes.
 
@Serg Yes. If you're compiling your own code, it's an Stack Overflow question. If you're compiling someone else's code, it's a Unix & Linux question.
 
There are some grey areas around external modules, patches, and so on.
 
10:26 PM
@Gilles I understand.
 
Arguably "Linux" is a misleading part of the site name, but I don't think people are generally trying that technicality.
 
@MichaelHomer misleading how ?
 
@Gilles Thanks for sharply poking me about this one. I agree that closing it was in error. I'm skipping more reviews than I vote on, but I'll start filtering the reviews to specific topics that I am more well versed and interested in from now on.
 
@Serg It's the name of a kernel, but a large area of questions about it are off-topic.
 
(it's a pity we can only filter reviews on max three tags though)
 
10:34 PM
There are a lot of bad close votes in the queue right now
 
SO has a system where they feed in test reviews every now and again... just to see if you're awake.
 
@Kusalananda same on AU
 
Remind me, AU?
 
Ask Ubuntu
 
Ah, of course!
derp
@Gilles Would that be something we could use here too?
 
10:38 PM
@MichaelHomer So . . . if I get it correctly ( and from what @Gilles said that the site is for users and admins ) , managing kernel is on-topic , but programming for kernel is off-topic. Basically use and administration, but not software-development ?
 
@Serg Yes.
 
Sounds about right, unless it's shell-scripting.
 
Very interesting . . .
 
wat
11:17 PM
shell scripting? more like hell scripting
also, this:
 
@wat looks like you're not a big can of shell scripting. Are you doing everything in c-shell by any chance ?
 
wat
> big can
also, no, zsh
 
Typo . . .big fan . . .
 
I don't use X Windows on my Unix. Looks pretty tho.
 
@Kusalananda hardcore . . absolutely no GUI ?
 
11:29 PM
@Serg Work laptop running Windows 10 and a VirtualBox OpenBSD-installation. The Windows drives Chrome and Putty is my dumb terminal.
At the moment.
 
Should have guessed. I've got FreeBSD in virtual box, although haven't played with it in a while. armhf freebsd on sdcard somewhere too . . .keep forgetting password to it
 
As soon as I've made sure that I absolutely do not have to provide compiled binaries for Window in a project I'm working on, and that this SkyLark or whatever the CPU is called is properly supported by OpenBSD, I'll repartition etc.
 
I've got laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 on main SSD, Windows 8 on secondary hard drive (inside fake dvd drive caddy )
 
I might very well puth OpenBSd on my private MacBook air one day, but honestly, I'd be sitting with a full screen xterm running tmux in any case.
 
Pretty much me, except I also have a browser open
Chrome and Terminator. Because gnome-terminal pissed me off . . .a little
 
11:37 PM
I grew up with twm and xterm, I would feel very out of place with these new-fangled Gnomes and KDE thingies. I'm old.
Can't find my way around a settings panel :-)
 
Eh, GNOME constantly changes things, from what I know, so a lot of people are displeased with them for that. I used to use GNOME shell all the time, then I stuck with Unity desktop, especially since I write appindicators for Unity, mostly related to questions that people ask on Ask Ubuntu there
Although there was a period of time when I was either using openbox or blackbox only
 

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