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Using xdg-open for accessing network with normal explorer
I'm working with small network and I want to start network explorer from a terminal. When I tried to type xdg-open network:///server it opened google chrome and did nothing. I also tried to type ...
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Release a port owned by third party application?
I have been consulted about any way to release a port owned by a third party application that is listening to it. Say the application uses sockets and is listening for an specific port the root now ...
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How do I tell a script to wait for a process to start accepting requests on a port?
I need a command that will wait for a process to start accepting requests on a specific port.
Is there something in linux that does that?
while (checkAlive -host localhost -port 13000 == false)
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What is using this network socket?
I'm trying to use NTP to update the time on my machine. However, it gives me an error:
host # ntpdate ntp1.example.org
10 Aug 12:38:50 ntpdate[7696]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
What does the ...
