i actually own very few admin books, i have many programming books and only like 3 admin books that are more unix than anything else, i used them probably 10-15 years ago, not much after that
yeah, I was never able to really sit down and read literature (which is why I still have yet to read my shell's manpages, despite recommending them above). I think books are still valuable, though, to fill gaps in your knowledge
unix for the impatient is one, the other is a vax manual i got in college and some unix shell book i got, they actually suck, but was all i had pre internet
i have all the perl programming books and lots of ruby
man & info
This is too complicated to pull off, IMO. I get your idea but I've been working with Linux/Unix for the better part of 30+ years and continue to learn things everyday that leave me wondering how I hadn't learned this bit yet.
I will leave you with this though. Most of the help that o...
i just wrote a program in Bash mainly b/c it was easy to start, but you have to write them in a specific way so they are easier to maintain, this is only obvious after you've coded in them for years
and, shells are ambiguous. for example, a number in bash: 1. a file descriptor for a file called "1": 1. a string: 1. in real programming languages these types of variables are differentiated
@RubanSavvy I'm a bit hesitant to recommend this, but when you feel up to it, you may want to try a command-line focused distro like Arch. the barebones way that Arch is set up will force you to learn a huge amount about your system, and it will probably help you understand a lot more about what's happening underneath
but don't do it before you're at least moderately comfortable with the commandline.
@RubanSavvy it's a power user distribution. its full name is Arch Linux; I was abbreviating. and yeah like I said, you need to be OK with the console before you do it
yeah and honestly, I wouldn't really mind that attitude if it didn't end up screwing over the rest of the ecosystem as well. like, I wouldn't care about Mir at all if I wasn't worried that it would bump Wayland drivers lower on the list of graphics vendors. except for Intel. <3 Intel.
yeah that gui mounting, i hate these 5 Q's in one. They make the site messy
but ppl love them, b/c they're often these innocent looking 1-2 sentence kinds, which usually is a indicator that they're overly broad, but they're perceived easy to answer so ppl can't resist
@slm thanks for approving my edit, but I missed a really important letter in the edit suggestion. In the title, I meant to capitalise the letter "i". If I edit it now, it will be too little for a suggestion. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103621/…
@strugee what doesn't make sense about that? It's the same thing, just looking at it from the other side. Some things are easier to express in one representation or the other, of course.
For the record, increasing the amount of disk allocated to a VM turns out to a PITA. At least the way mine are set up.
1. lvextend the logical volume on the host. 2. Reboot guest. 3. gfdisk on guest, delete and recreate both extended partition, and logical partition. 4. Reboot guest, again. 5. pvresize on guest. 6. lvresize on guest. 7. resize2fs on guest
yeah when we moved to a newer ver. we were able to extend the VMs easier. Before that we used to have to concat a empty 10GB file to extend them 10GBs.
These serverfault questions are similar but more specific, KVM online disk resize? & Centos Xen resizing DomU partition and volume group. The 1st asks the question of how to increase a KVM guest while it's online, while the 2nd is XEN specific using LVM. I'm asking how to accomplish this while th...
instead of using files you use actual lvm's on the host for the guests?
root@wheezy-64:~# gfdisk -l /dev/vda
GNU Fdisk 1.2.4
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Disk /dev/vda: 16 GB, 16105098240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1958 cylinders
@derobert - what Debian doesn't have any -isms either? WTF's w/ /etc/network/interfaces. And don't get me starteed w/ the whole apache virtual domains crap.
@slm Oh, yeah, if I was trying to install software on RedHat, and it kept expecting things in Debian locations, I'd complain about #@#(*!@# Debian-isms
Thankfully, I only need to get the instant client installed...
Yeah, I have a build script for Debian 7. First time trying on 8, I think.
root@wheezy-64:/opt/oracle/oracle/product/11.2.0/client_1# cat lib/stubs/libpthread.so
/* GNU ld script
Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
the static library, so try that secondarily. */
OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf64-x86-64)
GROUP ( libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib64/libpthread_nonshared.a )
@slm, hey. I have just asked a question why my edit suggestion was rejected after it was approved, rejected and edited all at once. meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2540/…
When you have enough rep on the site (I forget how much exactly, 3k or 5k, probably), you get three options when reviewing suggested edits: approve, reject, improve
If you click improve, it lets you edit the question/answer, starting with the suggested edit as a base
There is a checkbox on that page for whether the suggested edit was helpful or not
If you check it, Community will approve the suggested edit. If you don't check it, Community rejects the suggested edit.
@ThatBrazilianGuy have you tried something like the youtube downoader plugin for firefox? There are various addons that allow you to save flash videos.
@terdon ohh. my point was that just because I brought up the network doesn't mean that I want to bring up Apache. the problem with Upstart is that it doesn't ask.
with systemd you have to explicitly enable the Apache service in order to have it brought up.
@ThatBrazilianGuy OK, but try watching it through vlc, that's probably your best option. This link suggests it should be easy to point vlc to the stream and save the output:
I guess there are some Debian questions that'd be off-topic here. E.g., maybe we wouldn't take a question about how one becomes a Debian Developer, or other Debian project stuff...
But I don't think I've ever seen such a question asked here.
@slm you lose time. But you don't gain a date (if there's one thing that's inappropriate for SE chat, it's that).
@Braiam <distro>.SE proposals come up every couple of months or so
I've written several posts on D.A51 to explain why Ubuntu is a special case and others aren't warranted. Which get deleted with the associated proposal :(
@slm speaking of tags, I try to enforce the distinction between startup (after the unix OS is loaded, i.e. the kernel is running) and boot (getting the unix OS to load, i.e. the bootloader and kernel configuration)
I'm not sure what the exact boundary is: are initrd and such startup since they are running under a (restricted) unix OS, or boot since while they have a unix kernel, like Android, they don't have a unix userland
The distinction between the tags boot and startup isn't very clear. The tag wiki excerpt for boot reads
This tag covers both bootloader issues (what happens before the operating system starts) and the starting up of the operating system.
However, I think since this excerpt was written almos...
@Gilles personally I'd vote for the initrd to be [boot], since it's a transient part of the boot process (like the bootloader, it doesn't stick around)
Whenever I'm at the console login, I press up arrow intentionally to see the previously typed commands. But I see this ^[[A.
But when I press Ctrl Alt Print Screen Scroll Lock Pause Break Page Up Page Down Win keys doesn't echo any characters.
What might be the reason behind?
Does ^[[A sort of...
@Gilles - I know, that's why I didn't even bother writing an answer, seemed like it was already covered here, if not directly there are at least several dozen that discuss strange characters and what they are and why.
@Gilles Ah, I don't think I've ever pulled that hot questions tab before today.
The distinction between the tags boot and startup isn't very clear. The tag wiki excerpt for boot reads
This tag covers both bootloader issues (what happens before the operating system starts) and the starting up of the operating system.
However, I think since this excerpt was written almos...
Whenever I'm at the console login, I press up arrow intentionally to see the previously typed commands. But I see this ^[[A.
But when I press Ctrl Alt Print Screen Scroll Lock Pause Break Page Up Page Down Win keys doesn't echo any characters.
What might be the reason behind?
Does ^[[A sort of...
