Screen makes my ESC key wait for more commands I beleive, and if it does not get those commands, it sends it to my terminal Session (which I am running VIM in). ESC is used alot in VIM and currently I do not make any use of the ESC key in Screen.
How would I go about changing the timeout?
I h...
I have an alias for a command (I'm setting up a Python development environment)
alias python=~/virtualenv/bin/python
so that I can run ~/virtualenv/bin/python by just typing python. Now in my project there is a shell script that goes, for example:
#!/bin/sh
python run-project.py
Can I make ...
I want to locate a date which is somewhere in an 8 GB log (text).
Can I somewhat bypass a full sequential read, and first do binary splits of the file (size), or somehow navigating the filesystem inodes (which I know very little about), to start reading from each split point, until if find a ...
Not that its a very good idea to change it, but for fun. According to this post, there are still some problems even after changing entries in etc/passwd and etc/shadow(and sudoers). Any suggestions?
Hello,
I would like to configure squid in such way, so that only specific (public) ip, could connect to the server, but I don't know how... can someone tell me how to do this?
Hi, I'm trying to send mail from shell(GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)) using;
mail foo@bar.com
After I complete the command, the mail won't show up in the mailbox. What could be wrong, how can I check is my configuration is correct. Thanks.
Hi! i tried to install xinetd- by the command "sudo apt-get install xinetd" & got this error message "Unable to locate package xinetd" - why? isn't it supposed to be under init.d folder??? thank you all- it's pretty urgent.....
I have a vps with Debian Linux on it.
I'm trying to install a php file manager so that people could access it and download stuff into a directory.
I don't have anything in my /bin about php so this is probably the issue
I installed php with this command
apt-get install php5 php5-cgi php5-cli...
Some ideas:
Rename the install tag, to something like installation?
If applicable, get rid of it in favor of package-management or something more specific (apt or yum)?
If not, limit it to OS installation and installations not involving a package manager?
Hi all,
As you can see the new design is live, which means Physics-SE has been officially launched, and is no longer a Beta site! Congratulations! Also, thank you for the feedback on the design.
I decided not to use the handwritten font as much I did in the mockups. I agree with you that they'...
Hi all. I'm Jin, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit of common elements so they feel like they're part of the Stack Exc...
Is the other guy on to you? If he has physical access or root access, he can erase all his traces and even plant a bug to spy on you. On the other hand, some traces are a pain to erase, and it's hard to think of everything.
Various things are already recorded in the system logs, typically in /va...
I'm having trouble getting Ubuntu connected to the internet in vmware fusion. Every other Linux distro has no trouble...
Ifconfig shows that eth0 is up and running, has been assigned an ipv4 address (DHCP) as well as an ipv6 address. I can ping localhost, but nothing else. It just stalls out. I'...
Hello,
I managed to get russian language working in my Gnome apps, but neither in the console (Alt-Shift-F2 and such) nor in the Gnome Terminal
valyagentoo va1en0k # locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETAR...
Hello,
sometimes I run an app in the gnome-terminal, but then I suddenly have to restart gnome or something. I guess the answer to the question is also useful then I want to disconnect from SSH where something is happenning.
Gnome's terminal tree looks like this:
gnome-terminal
bash
...
I think people probably know what betas are. I guess if you delete them all it's fine, but it's really unusual; normally you just leave old threads alone
Yes, but you keep doing things like trying to get commenters to delete their comments after you've updated your posts, which seems rude to me -- if they found a problem, let them get the credit for pointing it out
@Tshepang in this case it was ok though I think unnecessary. But there were some cases where the comment conversation was relevant, and you deleted it... I don't agree with that. If the conversation is in any way relevant to the question/answer it should probably be left alone. if it's relevant to the previous comment, leave it alone, unless it's a way offtopic asside... which is basically what that side convo was, which is why I deleted it.
I ran mv a-folder /home/me on a machine and half way through the move the destination device filled up.
a-folder was made up of folders and files in various subdirectories.
Does mv leave the source folder intact until the move has successfully completed?
The source and destination folders were...
Apt pinning is a feature that allows to set install priority for a group of packages, determined by a number of attributes, such as package version, repository, distro version, etc.
See man apt_preferences for more (http://linux.die.net/man/5/apt_preferences)
Quote:
APT then applies the fol...
I recently discussed the merit of keeping no-longer-relevant Comments around with Michael Mrozek.
Scenarios:
OP follows a suggestion by a commenter, something like add output of the exact error message when you...
A commenter mentions some info that is outdated, like Squeeze is still in freeze...
I am trying to create an alias to use in my Cygwin shell to determine if the Mercurial-managed directory I'm currently in has outstanding changes. The command "hg st -m" lists all modified files. Unfortunately it doesn't set an exit value based on whether there are changes or not. So I have tr...
I'm running a series of commands on the command line that takes approximately twenty minutes to complete. I'd like to see some sort of notification on my Mac when these are finished so I don't need to monitor the terminal for when it finishes. Is there a way to do this?
$svn update . &&...
We have a large file system on which a full du (disk usage) summary takes over two minutes. I'd like to find a way to speed up a disk usage summary for arbitrary directories on that file system.
For small branches I've noticed that du results seem to be cached somehow, as repeat requests are muc...
I'm trying to backup a MSSQL server from linux. I'm able to connect to the server using tsql (from the freetds project), and I'm even able to backup the database on the server using the backup database command, but I haven't been able to download this backup onto the machine I'm using to connect...
This seems very strange to me. I'm running kernel 2.6.37.2 and ran:
~]$ cp -r /proc/ here
~]$ rm -rf here
I get some permission denies when copying as expected and I eventually hit Control-C. I get Permission denied on a lot of files when trying to remove the new directory and files.
As a not...
I've got local_acl_check_data to reject the typical spammer tactic of using the same address as From: and To:, but since some less-spammy sources, such as Yahoo Groups, do this, I'm using a whitelist as well. Here is the ACL:
# block spammers who use the same "from" and "to" address
accept
...
When the question deletion notification bar appears, the “Post your answer” button is disabled and the answer saver stops running. That's not nice (but I admit it's a rare scenario).
@UnixandLinux Is there some kind of law that all database engines must be called /^m.*sql$/i (msql, mysql, mssql)? I had to read this question three times for it to make sense, and yet it's as clear as it should be
No your source folder is not intact... I'm not sure how mv. on the same file system all it does is adds and removed directory entries. But on a different filesystem... I'm not sure at what point it unlinks the file, and whether it removes data as it goes... but once a file is moved, it is unlinke...
I'm running a CentOS 5.5 system. This system has 4 disks and a 3ware RAID controller. How can I determine the make and model of my drives?
/proc/scsi/scsi and parted --list shows the RAID controller (3ware 9650SE-4LP):
# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun:...
@Gilles Really? I have no idea what "No your source folder is not intact... I'm not sure how mv. on the same file system all it does is adds and removed directory entries." is about
Heh, so you can exceed the rep cap and have less than 200 rep for the day
(I'm waiting for the right to do unsupervised tag wiki edits. Not that I intend to have much time for that soon. But I'm impressed that one thing SFF is actively doing is tag wikis.)
Hi,
I'm struggling to work out what the octal 2-byte output from the od command is. I understand the octal output (-b flag) but the octal 2-byte is a mystery to me (-o)
Can someone shed some light on how the -o result is calculated from ASCII?
Here is an example:
[root@localhost lpi103-2]# ca...
I have a xmms2d process running, but two possible executable files (in different directories, both in the executable path) that could have spawned it. I suspect that one of those is corrupted, because sometimes this program works and sometimes it doesn't. The process running now works, so I want ...
This seems very strange to me. I'm running kernel 2.6.37.2 and ran:
~]$ cp -r /proc/ here
~]$ rm -rf here
I get some permission denies when copying as expected and I eventually hit Control-C. I get Permission denied on a lot of files when trying to remove the new directory and files.
As a not...
The answer clearly helped him, he even commented to say so. The question I don't think is likely to help anyone else, people don't generally make copies of /proc to begin with
@MichaelMrozek He'd figured it out, so I don't think I actually helped him. Few people copy /proc, but I've seen the misconception that rm -rf can delete everything before, and that's what the question is really about, /proc is just an example
Maybe the title could be generalized
“I can't remove a directory tree with rm -rf even though I own it” (too long but you get the idea)
Screen makes my ESC key wait for more commands I beleive, and if it does not get those commands, it sends it to my terminal Session (which I am running VIM in). ESC is used alot in VIM and currently I do not make any use of the ESC key in Screen.
How would I go about changing the timeout?
I h...
I have an alias for a command (I'm setting up a Python development environment)
alias python=~/virtualenv/bin/python
so that I can run ~/virtualenv/bin/python by just typing python. Now in my project there is a shell script that goes, for example:
#!/bin/sh
python run-project.py
Can I make ...
I want to locate a date which is somewhere in an 8 GB log (text).
Can I somewhat bypass a full sequential read, and first do binary splits of the file (size), or somehow navigating the filesystem inodes (which I know very little about), to start reading from each split point, until if find a ...
Not that its a very good idea to change it, but for fun. According to this post, there are still some problems even after changing entries in etc/passwd and etc/shadow(and sudoers). Any suggestions?
Hello,
I would like to configure squid in such way, so that only specific (public) ip, could connect to the server, but I don't know how... can someone tell me how to do this?
How to read XLS File (Microsoft Excel) using unix Bash / Corn shell script?
I have a vps with Debian Linux on it.
I'm trying to install a php file manager so that people could access it and download stuff into a directory.
I don't have anything in my /bin about php so this is probably the issue
I installed php with this command
apt-get install php5 php5-cgi php5-cli...
Some ideas:
Rename the install tag, to something like installation?
If applicable, get rid of it in favor of package-management or something more specific (apt or yum)?
If not, limit it to OS installation and installations not involving a package manager?
Hello,
I managed to get russian language working in my Gnome apps, but neither in the console (Alt-Shift-F2 and such) nor in the Gnome Terminal
valyagentoo va1en0k # locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETAR...
Apt pinning is a feature that allows to set install priority for a group of packages, determined by a number of attributes, such as package version, repository, distro version, etc.
See man apt_preferences for more (http://linux.die.net/man/5/apt_preferences)
Quote:
APT then applies the fol...
I am trying to create an alias to use in my Cygwin shell to determine if the Mercurial-managed directory I'm currently in has outstanding changes. The command "hg st -m" lists all modified files. Unfortunately it doesn't set an exit value based on whether there are changes or not. So I have tr...
This seems very strange to me. I'm running kernel 2.6.37.2 and ran:
~]$ cp -r /proc/ here
~]$ rm -rf here
I get some permission denies when copying as expected and I eventually hit Control-C. I get Permission denied on a lot of files when trying to remove the new directory and files.
As a not...
I've got local_acl_check_data to reject the typical spammer tactic of using the same address as From: and To:, but since some less-spammy sources, such as Yahoo Groups, do this, I'm using a whitelist as well. Here is the ACL:
# block spammers who use the same "from" and "to" address
accept
...
I'm running a CentOS 5.5 system. This system has 4 disks and a 3ware RAID controller. How can I determine the make and model of my drives?
/proc/scsi/scsi and parted --list shows the RAID controller (3ware 9650SE-4LP):
# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun:...
