Back when we were still in beta, if I visit the site's home page I can see the statistics (number of questions, number of users, like the table on Area 51). UL is out of beta now, and it looks like Area 51 has stopped updating statistics for UL. If I want to see the current statistics, is there ...

Some people told me FreeBSD is NOT Unix, is that right? confused. I checked some articles, the expressions are pretty vague. Need clarification. Thank you all.

I want to run a java command once for every match of ls | grep pattern -. In this case, I think I could do find pattern -exec java MyProg '{}' \; but I'm curious about the general case - is there an easy way to say "run a command once for every line of standard input"? (In fish or bash.)

I want files sent to my server using sftp and scp to be group-writable. How can I do that?

Are there any (good known, reliable) file systems on Linux that store the creation time of files and directories in the i-node table? If there are, is the "changed" time replaced by the creation time of an i-node in stat call?

Hello, I want to run the process ( mplayer ) with most-highest priority than any other processes, including the IO-processes. How can I do that ?

Any ideas? I'm trying to install mono as per these instructions: http://blog.ruski.co.za/page/Install-Mono-on-Ubuntu.aspx I need to be able to run the second command apt-get remove mono-common but I'm tripping up at that first hurdle! Thanks a lot

I'm having issues with a kworker process during system boot and I'd like to get such a nice call graph like Linus Torvalds posted here. How would I do this?

I used to use '' and "" interchangeably on the command line, but I recently noticed that '$HOME/some/dir' is not expanded, while "$HOME/some/dir" is. I searched around a little bit and found that "" allows some protection of special characters, while '' allows full protection. So what other chara...

I'm trying to install Fedora (dual-boot) on a brand-new MacBook Pro. The live/installer CD runs flawlessly on the machine, which was a nice surprise. But after the install is completed, I cannot actually boot into Fedora. Here is what I did: OS X by default ships with an EFI partition (/dev/sda...

What are good ssh clients for windows? I am currently using putty and I dislike the following things about it: White on black No tab support Weird(to me) interfaces for copying/pasting Can somebody suggest other alternatives?

I'm writing a wake on lan script for a set of our lab computers. We have sqlite db with a list of the computer hostnames, IPs, and MACs and currently I ping each of them with '-c1' so it doesn't run endlessly - but even that takes some waiting, is there a quicker way to get answer rather than pin...

Currently I'm running dvtm inside a terminal, and vim inside dvtm. When I press Ctrl+z intending to suspend vim, dvtm got suspended instead. I didn't have this problem with screen or tmux, so I think it must be dvtm doing something wrong (or not doing something right). How can I fix that?

awk 'BEGIN{ x=0 ; while (x < 5) { x+=1 ; print x ; } }' How to run this script called count.sh..it's giving error.. M trying to run it as sh count.sh but it's giving error.

I've been using screen for years now as a way of ensuring that any remote work is safely kept open in after disconnects/crashes. In fact, as a matter of course, I use screens even when working locally. Recently, my requirements have progressed to the stage that I switched to tmux because of the ...

Hello all! Can anyone help me using the Fedora alternatives system in order to install an old version of make? I know the actual program is irrelevant, but I need it so I'll use it as my example. I currently have make-3.82 installed on my Fedora 14 box, but I need to have 3.81 installed to buil...

I'm trying to run MoinMoin under Apache on SLES 11P1. I'm getting the following error in my Apache log when somebody tries to access the site: mod_wsgi (pid=20772): Target WSGI script '/srv/www/wiki/moin.wsgi' cannot be loaded as Python module. mod_wsgi (pid=20772): Exception occurred processing...

I can look around the internet and find that the associated number for SIGKILL is 9, but is there linux documentation (such as, a man page) showing the complete list of signals and their numbers?

Take, for example, this command: find . -regex ".*\.\(cpp\|h\)" This will find all the .h and .cpp files in your directory. The period character '.' in regular expressions usually means "any character". To get it to match only an actual period, you must escape it using the backslash characte...

G'Day, I am looking for a bash script (using Perl - As that is already installed on the machine and I don't want to have to install Ruby, Python etc. just for this requirement) that will perform some simple mySQL replication monitoring of a remote Master & Slave. The script will be able to: ...