/dev/chat

« first day (2105 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (3143 days later) »

Pandya

05:08

I've recently found askubuntu.com/q/798071 at hot network questions and @terdon 's excellent answer. [I have been finding since a long such questions on AU] I think that our community (unix.se) is missing such questions from Ubuntu Users because of AU welcomes such questions. But I think AU help-center should encourage such questions to be posted at U&L (strictly speaking such questions are not Ubuntu specific!!).

So, What can we do to encourage people to use and contribute to U&L for such questions?

@terdon you're now moderating both communities, so you can understand better what I want to say

@terdon Should I discuss this matter on Meta of U&L or AU?

2 hours later…

cas

07:07

@Pandya we get lots of questions like that

3 hours later…

terdon

09:59

Yeah, @Pandya, I don't really see what you're asking. We get many, many such questions have a look at the text-processing tag.

3 hours later…

Pandya

12:43

@terdon I know that we get many such questions. But many questions that U & L deserve but AU get.

...(Not all but ) Many are of (from AU popular tags) command-line, scripts, etc.

terdon

13:01

@Pandya I don't understand what you're suggesting.

Pandya

@terdon I mean there are many questions that AU get but that are not Ubuntu Specific and our community deserve such questions. You can check questions that are tagged command-line and scripts on AU

terdon

@Pandya All of those are on topic on AU.

Just like all of ubuntu are on topic here.

There are also loads of text manipulation questions on Super User, Stack Overflow, maybe even Ask Different.

Pandya

I want to say that many of that questions are more suitable on U & L than AU :p

terdon

Why do we "deserve" them more?

Pandya

@terdon Because it is worthy for U & L and more suitable on U & L

Pandya

13:18

The reason why AU get those is because Ubuntu Users use AU and may be unaware of U & L!

check my some old questions. You'll find most of them more suitable on U & L but I posted on AU because (I was Ubuntu user and) I was not active on U & L that time.

@terdon ^^

terdon

I don't agree that they're more suitable for one or the other @Pandya. AU and UL have overlapping scopes. There are things that are on topic on AU and not on U&L and vice versa, but these questions are equally on topic on both sites.

It is up to the OP to choose where to post them.

Pandya

I just discussed it because I realized that our community is missing traffic of such questions.

terdon

We still get many more such questions than AU

And we can't do anything about it. Consider that Stack Overflow has 70383 bash questions.

Pandya

Users should be encouraged to post shell scripting on U & L (from on-topic you'll find shell scripting nicely mentioned)

I think we should post something like "When to use U & L instead of AU"

Thanks

_________________________________________________

btw, @terdon good comment:

> honestly, there's not much reason for AU to exist

at discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/23096/…

bye!

terdon

13:51

@Pandya yeah, but it does...

@Pandya We already have. On both sites. And shell scripting is on topic on both sites.

3 hours later…

terdon

17:00

Wow, user just created an account to ask and answer a question! Give the man some upvotes!

Q: How can I recover from a `chmod -x chmod`?

Assuming that you can't reach the internet nor reboot the machine, how can I recover from chmod -x chmod ?

Gilles

17:58

@terdon I'm sure that's a duplicate

131

Q: How to chmod without /usr/bin/chmod?

Today I was told a tale by a Unix trainer, a tale where the root password got leaked to the students, and one of the fellas removed the execute permission from /usr/bin/chmod itself. How do you recover chmod in this case and make it executable again? Let's say getting it from an external source o...

permissions executable chmod

Q: How to recover from a chmod -R 000 /bin?

And now I am unable to chmod it back.. or use any of my other system programs. Luckily this is on a VM I've been toying with, but is there any way to resolve this? The system is Ubuntu Server 12.10. I have attempted to restart into recovery mode, unfortunately now I am unable to boot into the s...