Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:03

superuser.com/help/badges/44/epic?userid=10165

Yay!

Psycogeek

50 times , wow that is epic

Journeyman Geek

There's one more for 200 times ;p

Psycogeek

I install malware bytes for manuel scanning, and it is now version 2.0 it is bufugly interface and automated quarentine and mostly "Change" that is mentally offsetting. I am wondering it the old version would still work with new database ?

Canadian Luke

@JourneymanGeek Congrats

Michael Frank

@Psycogeek How many Manuels did you end up finding? ;)

Journeyman Geek

00:15

Thanks ^^

I've been hoping to hit it for a while

Michael Frank

I don't think I've ever repcapped :<

Maybe I'm just not funny enough!

Psycogeek

Before with 1.7 I could select things like drives to use for full scan, which claimed to be virus things to remove and quarentine , even "advanced settings" are like ghosted out (probably until you pay). now it is big dummy press and go TrialWare. like what one would expect from other makers. For free you can see if you have viruses and malware, for a program , you can Pay

Michael Frank

"RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH DO YOUR TIMESHEETS"

I did them already ._.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: I rep capped twice this week cause of a hot question ;p

and of course, following my own advice on images ;p

Canadian Luke

@JourneymanGeek I rep capped 3 days in a row, thanks to the Hot Questions :P But it was a stupid simple question

Journeyman Geek

00:27

lol

sometimes stupid simple questions are good

Canadian Luke

Well, one more upvote for you, since it's a new SE day

Journeyman Geek

for example superuser.com/questions/681312/… (Granted, I'm sure a good number of upvotes are due to the mention of rabbit attacks)

Psycogeek

It didn't the malware that i keep on the side either, installs that have re-packages with candy and pup, which seems odd.

then to top it off it crashed when i closed it , including the computer had gone into standby.

All the times i recommended it , now i am not so sure anymore.

DragonLord

Do you have a Nexus device? If so, it's time to watch the notification bar because Android 5.0 OTAs have started!

Psycogeek

it Looks like this stuff is locked on, where you cant adjust advanced setting, but luckily that stuff is locked OFF as shown in it being a trial, so that is good.

Michael Frank

00:39

@Psycogeek Free vs. Paid?

Psycogeek

@MichaelFrank free, and not trial premium. i just want to manuAly scan rarely.

The last thing i need is an active scan, or one more thing filtering the web or downloads.

So the all manual MB has worked for that before

there it is, so called non-malware :-P it is malware for sure, i even have the file marked as such, but it comes in legit installs

legit installs direct from the creators own site.

These particular ones , you advanced install to keep it off, one error in install and you have a mess. It doesnt install what the programmer/creators thinks. It goes to the web first like an updater, and various "packages" can get installed with varying degrees of assault on the system.

Michael Frank

So Excel is really fun.

@CanadianLuke I ended up having to go through the 300 lines and manually type in the BRANCH name on that spreadsheet I was working on last week. :(

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Q: Readonly Content cannot be changed ...LibreOffice 3.5

I just came back to this issue after following it here for several years as a non-member. Being a new member, I would try to reply to Suggested "Questions that may already have your answer", but I can't seem to find the "Reply to" Option Button. (Blush!) [How to edit a read-only document in Lib...

This needs flags.

Psycogeek

00:55

Also if this stuff was not malware, why does it not have proper uninstall? you can think you uninstalled it, but the package it gets from the web does not go away when removing the program under windows uninstall program feature.

Michael Frank

That's not malware, just badly designed software.

Psycogeek

@MichaelFrank it is intentionally stickey addware and system takeover

Michael Frank

I'm not really sure what the issue is...

Psycogeek

it can include things concidered by all as "hijacks"

Michael Frank

It seems like MB picked it up correctly.

Psycogeek

00:59

It did,I showed that to counter my previous statement

And it is not locked on to start with windows, the advanced features are disabled in the Off state, even though the stupid thing shows them checked.

Michael Frank

I still think you're hitting a pay wall.

Psycogeek

@MichaelFrank malware bytes is a most recommended item because it is "functional" for techies without pay. and average users can go ahead and pay :-)

Michael Frank

@Psycogeek Yes, but just because something used to be free, doesn't mean it must always be free.

Psycogeek

I am not willing to pay a monthly fee , i might pay up front. for most of the AV software because the 3-4 times i have had real actual virus, it was not in the databases

I had to remove them manuely (yea that is with a manuel :-)

One came in on a china drivers disk, like cant blame me for that , 2 came in via legit software, 1 was all me screwing up.

when downloading stuff, if a person puts it in a holding cell for a few months, then checks it , prior to installing, these programs will have known about it by then.

But they cant protect against something they have never seen before, even huristics is based on known entities.

Psycogeek

01:41

Anlther reason why it would be nice if the windows system would only installed what a person wanted to use. 50-70,000 extra file items to have to scan,i did not want on there to begin with. I still wonder how win8 or win10 will have changed any of that.

Go to the Store :-) and get all the extras , have it actually install and uninstall.

Plus when it actually uninstalled and installed, a Re-install could fix that component, and all related files to it.

I can only dream about a windows system comming on a CD :-) ever again in my lifetime , without the words Embedded below the title :-)

Journeyman Geek

lol

You can still buy a cd

heck, I'll probably do that on my next build.

Psycogeek

01:57

all these 3rd party programs are installing with 27 languages too, before they would ask what language you were and install the other 26 anyway, now they do not even bother to ask. Progress

a simple intel driver comes in with 58 possible hardwares it could work with , and 27 languages. 3 musketeers software inc. All for one, One for all.

I am still not sure if i should fix this, or be happy that it works at all

There is no xeon processor on this computer, or ever seen via this install. but it is just a renamed item with a MS stock driver anyway.

Journeyman Geek

02:28

@Psycogeek: I think they just reuse the memory and PCI controllers from the xeons

Psycogeek

you mean like seconds :-) this is one sweet chip , put it with the $1700 processor, this one seems broken , put it with the $300 processor

really what is in a xeon that makes it so valuable. in the 775 socket I switched up a same consumer chip with a xeon with the same specs when they became old and dropped in price to the same price. it originally would be a ~1100 chip. in the consumer computer it tested out 99.8% the same.

I am glad that a certian market is available to pad the R&D :-)

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Things you should never see http://pastebin.com/LwzHmKz0 what a net framework 4.5 install looks like. about 1/2 of it file items, the other 1/2 registry entries.

it triggered the spam filter at pastbin it was so nasty :-0

Psycogeek

03:06

This is why I LOLed at a person who said "Bit Rot" about the registry , I did not mean to offend, the "rot" is all the stuff I install on purpose, not it corrupting or failing. Also things that dont make thier way Out again, when removed.

Bob

@Psycogeek That's mostly the GAC. Just libraries managed programs can use.

Only a few entries there are actually interesting.

Psycogeek

15 years ago a subsystem like this might be a whole piece that the programmers would access to do thier tricks. today everything has to be parts and pieces, each one with a few features.

It isnt "fast" most of the .net programs are slow to load and run. i suppose there is less memory footprint only needing some of the libraries.

I was running a "distribution" kind of thing before, with only needed parts, it was much smaller, but event log tosses up .net warnings and errors. so this time i get the whole distribution package, and Duhh same errors.

At MS they indicates there is smaller package for users, but also says there can be times when the programmer used something that is not in the small package.

They also said back in 3.5 that programs could supply Only the needed items For thier program.

very few programs took the route to formulate thier own library package (or however that works)

Me having no right to complain :-) when one time i grabbed the SDK , and i though users had a bloody mess, programmers have it far worse.

allquixotic

03:31

@Bob why does this work to fix my severe memory issues? O_O koshyjohn.com/software/memclean

Michael Frank

@allquixotic ..."MemoryCleaner is considerably better because it uses functions built into Windows to judiciously free memory" - Is that why?

allquixotic

running 3D apps over a long uptime ("long" = 1 week, 2 weeks) tends to fill up the physical memory with committed pages, and they aren't bound to any process from what I can tell

Bob

@allquixotic wat

allquixotic

but Memory Cleaner brings my commit way down

Bob

@allquixotic I didn't even know you had that problem o.O

first guess => graphics drivers

allquixotic

03:34

@Bob yeah, graphics drivers, but why does that program fix it O_O

Michael Frank

Because it judiciously cleans up memory.

Bob

@allquixotic shrug it'd be interesting to know what API calls it's using

allquixotic

yeah, for sure

Bob

@allquixotic msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/…

Psycogeek

cache filling up? slowing down your computer? try memory clean 4000tm , it slows down your computer one time really badly, then its "faster" after that.

Bob

03:37

@allquixotic What do they come up as in RAMMap?

allquixotic

that's after using memory cleaner

before, there were tens of GBs of "Modified" pages

Bob

> Shareable

Psycogeek

oh modified

Bob

> Shareable Working Set can be surrendered if physical RAM begins to run scarce

@allquixotic Wait. How did you check that they aren't associated with any process?

allquixotic

@Bob sorting task manager by memory shows only one process eating a gig, and all others just a few megs, at most 50-75 MB

but a far, far cry from 32 GB

Bob

03:45

@allquixotic ...are you looking at the private working set column?

Psycogeek

there are some SU questions showing rammaps with oddly massive modified too, with bad slowdowns. the people answering usually say it is one program (or driver) that is acting up.

allquixotic

@Bob yes

Bob

@allquixotic Try enabling the Memory - Working Set column

allquixotic

@Bob the numbers are very close to the same... for now

Bob

blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2010/10/28/…

@allquixotic Also consider checking in RAMMap itself (one of the other tabs) and in Process Explorer.

According to that blog post above, Task Manager might not be capable of showing shareable working set usage :\

...though I think it should show up under Working Set

Then again, if this is after your "clean", then that's probably it

@allquixotic Remind me - how big of a page file do you have defined?

allquixotic

03:48

@Bob 32 GB

I'm going to continue to play games like I normally do for another week and see if it fills up again

and if it does I'll compare the rammaps before and after the clean

Bob

@allquixotic Consider extending it, if you aren't lacking in disk space.

@allquixotic Also look at the working sets (not private)

support2.microsoft.com/kb/2860880

That's actually a surprisingly detailed MS kb article

@allquixotic I'm totaling <200MB shareable

@allquixotic RAMMap, Processes tab, sort by Total?

Or even sort by Standby, considering you still have ~22 GB of shareable in standby

looks like your memory cleaner thing just pushed it out of physical, but it's not doing much for the underlying problem

allquixotic

@Bob summing up the top 10 processes only totals less than 4 GiB

the rest maybe add up to another 750 MB

Bob

@allquixotic Uh... look at the Empty menu in RAMMap. I think Empty Modified Page List would do the same thing as your cleaner

allquixotic

@Bob Empty Standby List + Empty Modified Page List cleared out all that cruft :D

now I have 26 GiB as "Zeroed"

Bob

!!!

@allquixotic eightforums.com/performance-maintenance/…

Hm. The last post there suggests third-party caching software. Possible...

How certain are you that it's related to running 3D/graphics-intensive programs?

allquixotic

04:06

@Bob preeeeetty sure? could just be accumulating by having the PC on in the first place, but I doubt it

it's a fairly recent thing too... since the latest Catalyst update

I notice that after I run the empty options in rammap, I get a ton of momentary graphics lag in my game; it doesn't have to re-load or anything, but the disk grinds and I get very choppy FPS when moving around, until things get cached or whatever

I think rammap is successfully kicking out all the dirty pages of textures from the game, and those pages aren't being freed properly by the driver under normal circumstances

Bob

@allquixotic Any chance of going back a version?

@allquixotic That happens to me every time I first start a game :P

Psycogeek

are you running the on-die gpu also or having it on the side?

allquixotic

no on-die except Intel, and that's not in use

Psycogeek

well if you dont ever figure out what it is, you could disable the cpus gpu in the bios/uefi as a test.

allquixotic

I'll let it run as-is for a while and see what changes. If RamMap can consistently fix the problem that arises, I'll be happy.

Bob

04:14

@allquixotic s/fix/work around/

allquixotic

see where it says "Memory 19%"?

when I had a long uptime before, that was at 91%.

Psycogeek

rammap can slam stuff out of memory selectivly over and over again without an issue. you can even push working sets out, and feel them having to reload from disk as you start working a program again.

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek My Roccat Kone XTD is finally giving me some problems

The middle mouse button sometimes bounces

It's the fifth mouse among at least three different mouse models I've experienced an MMB failure

I'm fiddling with the idea of replacing it with a Roccat Tyon

...and it so happens that it's on sale at Best Buy

Bob

@DragonLord How long have you used it?

@DragonLord Warranty?

DragonLord

@Bob Out of warranty by 7 months.

Bob

04:26

Ouch.

Psycogeek

@DragonLord take it apart and rearrange the plastic that hits the button.

Bob

@DragonLord I'm guessing ~1yr warranty?

DragonLord

@Bob Yeah, Roccat's warranty is not the best

Bob

Currently using a G602. Three years warranty.

DragonLord

Besides, I've actually gone through one warranty replacement in the past

Roccat US handled it reasonably well

@Psycogeek I'll look into it, but not until I have a replacement product

Bob

04:29

@DragonLord I'm not sure I'd pay $100 for a mouse with only a single year

Actually, since I can probably reasonably expect a mouse 10x more expensive than the basic equivalents to last longer, by law I should be covered for somewhat longer... but it'd be a pain to argue with them over it.

DragonLord

I'm very disappointed

Psycogeek

I desperatly modified mouse after mouse, trying to get them to live longer and react better. Eventually i started looking for an Arcade :-) item i could build into the desk itself.

DragonLord

The MMB on the Kone XTD seemed to have a deficient design

Then again, most of my mice are replaced because their MMBs fail in a similar fashion

I've had Logitech and Microsoft wireless mice fail in the same manner

Psycogeek

amazon.com/Kensington-Expert-Mouse-Optical-Trackball/dp/…

Bob

My last mouse, a Dell 5-button thing (no real name) lasted me a good five years. LMB became dodgy about three years in. It's still usable, but I've finally replaced it.

Psycogeek

04:33

eventually i got one of these (not the slim) , and it not only worked for years and years, but i wore out the ruby bearings and they replaced the whole thing free , without even returning the other. No more Pick-up the ^#%@$ mouse due to lack of mouse space

DragonLord

Actually out of warranty by 8.5 months.

This particular unit has been in service for 18 months.

Psycogeek

no more dragging , i also was constantally modifying the surface the mouse was on, and the feet of the mouse to get free glide.

I didnt really do it For games, and it probably took longer to adapt to then the desktop. now i can do a 360* in a FPS game without loosing traction.

Michael Frank

@Psycogeek One of the guys at work has this. It's annoying to use.

Psycogeek

I got some large trackpads, and while the scrolling was wonderfull, those i never got used to.

Michael Frank

@DragonLord My Razer Mamba ($250 at launch) had a super squeaky MMB. I don't use it anymore after picking up a Func mouse.

Psycogeek

04:45

@MichaelFrank if you dont get used to it in like 10-15 minutes , then it probably wont work for you. I can jump over to the other computer and use the mouse, stumble over the trackpad on the 3rd computer, but the mouse user cant just hop on the trackball (or the trackpad for that matter)

I kept the (very nice) mouse on standby and plugged in, i was going to ergonomic switch between them , to break up the repetitive movement. but never pulled the mouse out to use it after that.

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: I ended up with a taipan

Great mouse but too small for my paws.

(And until I upgrade, and hand down my keyboard to my 1 year old nephew, the fact that most of my gear is razer and I can use one configurator is nice)

DragonLord

Think I've settled on the Tyon

More information at roccat.org/tyonexperience

I'll probably get it on Thursday

My schedule is truly bizarre, with evening college classes ending at 10:00 PM

My usual routine is home -> Starbucks -> campus -> home

Bob

05:03

Endless loading bar. That's not a good start.

DragonLord

It finished loading for me.

Psycogeek

they couldnt just make a normal page :-)

DragonLord

The page is an HTML5 parallax scrolling design

Sadly, not responsive

Bob

@DragonLord I'm really starting to hate those kinds of pages.

Sure, it looks fancy the first or second time you see it.

But it's a pain in the arse actually getting useful information out of it.

Psycogeek

but the hype came accross wonderfully

DragonLord

05:08

In other news, Google Now on my Nexus 7 told me what my polling site is

The address was a bit off, but I know the poll site is correct

DragonLord

05:35

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A: Why I'm not able to comment for this question when other user with 1 rep can comment

The comment you see was actually an answer post converted to a comment my a moderator. ♦Moderators can convert answers to comments provided they are no more than 600 characters long. (Perks of being a 10k user—I can see deleted answers most users cannot.) This typically happens when a user inten...

Psycogeek

"Then is it ok to answer for a specific post to which we want to comment and ask the moderator in that same answer to convert it to comment?" sure right after we whip you 50 lashes with a wet noodle

DragonLord

@Psycogeek Please don't bite the newbies.

You really shouldn't do that. Instead, you should post some good-quality answers to other questions and earn the required reputation. I know this can be frustrating, but we wouldn't have such a high-quality, spam-free Q&A experience without these stringent restrictions. — DragonLord 2 mins ago

@Psycogeek As bad as this suggestion may seem, having this hostile an attitude towards newcomers is not we want to see here.

In fact, it goes exactly against what I want to see here on Super User:

superuser.com/election/3#post-744371

Speaking of the election, I narrowly lost by a margin of 8 points

Psycogeek

then next year you can run for president

DragonLord

@Psycogeek ...rather, moderator

Journeyman Geek

05:59

eh

It was a good comment in a bad place ;)

DragonLord

Back on the Roccat mouse discussion, here's what a Forbes editor has to say on it

> I think Roccat has designed a mouse that could fundamentally change how we approach PC game control across a wide variety of genres.

Psycogeek

06:27

but is it microwave safe? :-

Journeyman Geek

Roccat makes great pieces of hardware when they work

DragonLord

2 hours ago, by DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek My Roccat Kone XTD is finally giving me some problems

Journeyman Geek

Precisely ;p

DragonLord

18 months in, MMB bounces.

Journeyman Geek

Mine died. Like completely. Twice.

DragonLord

06:37

I am no stranger to MMB issues

I've had no fewer than five different mice fail in this very manner

Journeyman Geek

(on the other hand, my logitechs last years without issues, and my razer gear have been awesome)

DragonLord

I've gone through two Logitechs and a Microsoft mouse for this very reason.

Journeyman Geek

I even have a fully functional ifeel mouse ;p

Psycogeek

new product idea, gaming mouse that hooks direct to the PCI-e with 8 lanes :-)

Michael Frank

07:33

@Bob I clicked the link when you posted this... The page is still loading.

Bob

@MichaelFrank Turns out Adblock.

Michael Frank

07:49

@Bob Ahh yep.

HackToHell

Whoa much ? winbeta.org/news/…

But no vp9 -_-

YouTube encodes new videos in vp9 at 240p,360p,420p ...

But with AVC only 360p and 720p

Bob

@HackToHell Actually, YT doesn't do 1080 with anything but AVC

HackToHell

No idea about 1080p, never used it :/

And I found this cause videos kept buffering in Firefox but was smooth in Chrome

Bob

shrug I haven't had any problems

HackToHell

Yeah cause your internet is faster :P

yay lollipop source is out, cm12 incoming ^_^

Dave

08:18

Good morning

Journeyman Geek

lo

Dave

I had a strange issue with a friends laptop last night. He said suddenly, his PC had no more memory on the C drive... I checked, it only had 6 GB from his 150GB harddrive

A quick check with treesize by jam (I think it was) showed the problem

Kaspersky AnitVirus Pure is taking up 80GB! Yes, GB!!

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Dave

That is insanse but no idea how it has managed such a thing. I'm guessing uninstalling and then reinstalling should solve it but, any one seen something like this before?

Journeyman Geek

doing what?

Dave

08:21

Taking up that much room

The site says it should take about 480MB

Journeyman Geek

lol. I mean, what's actually there.

Dave

The program... I dived into it, and filesize showed it was the application...

Some complained of a few GB's of reports etc, but nope. It was the Kaspersky Pure taking up about 79GB

Any way, thought I'd share the oddness :) He is re-installing today so hopefully that solves it!

I also saw the bendable screen

digitaltrends.com/mobile/flexible-bending-tablet-screen

Michael Frank

That's really weird... perhaps it was quaranteening large files.

HackToHell

08:41

lol ?buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/…

Journeyman Geek

08:57

(entirely related chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=18394552#18394552 )

Basj

Hi thre! Can I ask a little question about mount ?

Bob

!!tell 18465367 meta

ChatBot John Cavil

@Basj Please don't ask to ask; if you simply ask your actual question, we will help you if we know the answer or can help you find it. This is much faster and simpler than asking if it's OK to ask. As a rule, it is always OK to ask in this channel. Please go ahead.

Basj

@Bob sorry!

Can we know why /var/www is taken on the 20GB partition and not the 1.8TB one from pastebin.com/1KpBNcBL ?

Bob

@Basj There's nothing really to apologise for :P

Basj

09:12

@Bob the "asking to ask" part ;)

Bob

@Basj ...would you accept "because it was set up that way"?

HackToHell

@Basj More details @Basj

Be nice @bob :P

Journeyman Geek

Actually, that's precisely the answer ;)

Basj

@HackToHell what kind of details ?

I can give more details ;)

HackToHell

Cmon poor guy

Bob

09:14

@HackToHell But... he asked why... that is why

Journeyman Geek

the 20gb partition is / (aka root) and /var is under that

HackToHell

Winks are creepy :/

Bob

When the system was installed, /var and /var/www were not set up separately, so they default to being actual directories under the / filesystem

Journeyman Geek

it would be trivial to either use a symlink to put some directory under the bigger drive under /var/www or to modify your docroot

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Or mount /var/www if you want to use a raw block device rather than an existing filesystem.

Journeyman Geek

09:16

@Bob: Probably but I'd guess he wouldn't need to serve up all of the 1.7tb as web-space

Bob

...but no question about changing it was asked, so... :P

Basj

@JourneymanGeek Which line from pastebin.com/1KpBNcBL shows that root is on the 20GB one ? Is it this line : /dev/root 20G 998M 18G 6% / ?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: It is implied though

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I was more thinking shrink the existing partition and create a new one. Bit messy to link to what's supposed to be the user profiles/files partition.

Journeyman Geek

@Basj: rootfs 20G 998M 18G 6% /

er

the / part is useful.

Bob

09:17

@JourneymanGeek We get so many questions that only want to know the why without any intention of changing it, I've stopped assuming the latter :P

Journeyman Geek

the /dev/root implies you are using erm...

Basj

@JourneymanGeek Ok, I asked this because there is a second line : rootfs 20G 998M 18G 6% /

Journeyman Geek

What was that called...

@Basj: You're using LVM, right?

Bob

9

Q: Find out what device /dev/root represents in Linux?

On linux, there is a /dev/root device node. This will be the same block device as another device node, like /dev/sdaX. How can I resolve /dev/root to the 'real' device node in this situation, so that I can show a user a sensible device name? For example, I might encounter this situation when p...

linux proc devices

Basj

@JourneymanGeek dunno, it's my first dedicated playground server ;)

Journeyman Geek

09:18

ahh, misparsed.

Basj

So now, I would like to move /var/www to the 1.8TB one

Should I do a symlink?

Journeyman Geek

@Basj: what web server are you using?

Boris_yo

This would entirely limit price undercutting and ensure exclusive retailer retains Kellogg's MSRP without devaluing product and possibly brand.

Sales channels? They have 2: Kellogg's own and Target's but at least they adhere to MSRP.

Journeyman Geek

Personally? I wouldn't

Basj

@JourneymanGeek apache

Journeyman Geek

09:20

I'd change the document root

Much more elegant and proper.

Also, I suspect breaks in a better way.

Bob

If you want to move to the 1.8 TB one, first I'd recommend making the decision: do you really want it to be on the same file system as your user files? The other option is to reparition the 1.8 TB drive into two partitions.

Journeyman Geek

hm

I wonder if I'm asking the wrong question

Basj

As the only directory that has 1.8TB here : pastebin.com/1KpBNcBL is /home, this means that I should create a new dire in /home ? What kind of dir ? (do you have a name idea ? ;))

Journeyman Geek

@Basj: Dosen't particularly matter.

Basj

So something like mkdir /home/www , and then changing document root to /home/www would work ?

Journeyman Geek

09:22

That's what I'd do in this situation

(well, I'd take better care when actually setting up the system, but...)

Basj

@JourneymanGeek Ok. Last thing : where to change document root?

Journeyman Geek

Look it up ;)

Boris_yo

New way for spammers to ensure high email open rates:

"Flash player you sent to repair"

"Memory module in your computer"

"Your quote from our service center"

Bob

@Basj Your choices are to create a new dir there (easier, but less elegant) or repartition (more involved, but arguably better separation)

Basj

@JourneymanGeek yes of course, I'll do that when next Linux reinstallation

Bob

09:23

If you're just serving some basic dev files, I'd say do the former.

If you actually want to host something halfway-serious, go for the separation.

Basj

@Bob Yes I'll do the more elegant way later when resetting up. Now I will probably create /home/www

But a last thing : doesn't creating /home/www imply that this will be the home of a user named www ?

Journeyman Geek

Kinda sorta

adding a user called www would create /home/www as part of the adduser script

in this case, I'd just make sure www-data or whatever your web server user is called owns it with chown.

A lot of things on linux are the 'right' way, but not the only way

Basj

I did this and it works ! Thanks @JourneymanGeek @Bob !

Boris_yo

09:54

Anyone knows if increaseing email quota in cPanel based hosting formats/deletes all existing email in order to reflect new space quota?

Journeyman Geek

It would make no sense to do that.

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek To do what? Formatting/Deleting?

@JourneymanGeek It does make sense to do when increasing HDD disk space. You can't proceed without format.

Journeyman Geek

In this case you are changing a variable on a configuration file. Totally not the same

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Got it. Thanks.

Psycogeek