James O'Gorman

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bio	website	twitter.com/jogbert
	location	London, United Kingdom
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Unix systems administrator (Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux) who also enjoys photography and tinkering with hardware.

Contributor to open source projects:

Box Backup (sysadmin, hosting provider, committer)
OpenIndiana (founding member, sysadmin/infrastructure team)

	233 reputation	bio	website	twitter.com/jogbert	visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
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Apr 12	revised	FreeBSD telnet does not take root login /etc/securetty is for Linux, not FreeBSD. Explain better how FreeBSD works.
Apr 12	suggested	suggested edit on FreeBSD telnet does not take root login
Jan 17	awarded	Informed
Nov 19	comment	What does etc stand for? It's also (slightly) interesting to note that older versions of Solaris and HP-UX (and maybe others that I've forgotten) actually had binaries in `/etc` too.
Nov 19	comment	How to automatically resolve dependencies on CentOS? Are you talking about build dependencies, run dependencies, or both?
Nov 6	awarded	Yearling
Nov 6	answered	public key authentification doesn't pass, why?
Nov 6	answered	RHEL 5.5 - Need to refresh /dev/disk/by-label links
Nov 6	comment	CNAME: Mail address gets rewritten `CNAME` can't sit beside any RR, including `SOA`. You should just set the `MX` records of your domain to point to the same as viathinksoft.com.
Nov 6	comment	Ubuntu12.04: How to disable a daemon process at startup @EmanuelBerg Yes, `init` will be running 'KXXscript stop' at shutdown. You should either remove the symlink or remove the execute bit from the real init script. I believe Debian uses `update-rc.d` to manage this. RHEL (and derivatives) use `chkconfig`.
Nov 5	comment	Ubuntu12.04: How to disable a daemon process at startup While this achieves what you want, it's technically the wrong thing to do. In SysV init terms, 'S' scripts are start scripts and 'K' are kill scripts - i.e. S are run in order at startup and K are run in order at shutdown (or changing to a lower runlevel).
Sep 19	comment	modifying the zsh shell word split A more succinct version is `WORDCHARS=${WORDCHARS//[\/]}`.
Sep 19	comment	Why can rm remove read-only files? @Magnus If you have root access (including sudo), you can use `chattr` to add the immutable flag to files. If not, then ire_and_curses is quite correct.
Aug 27	comment	allow webalizer in selinux (centos) What user is webalizer running as, and what's the output of `ls -lZ` on the log files? (Please add this to the question.)
May 7	awarded	Editor
Apr 9	comment	Zsh — more intelligent autocorrection Can you post your .zshrc as an update?
Apr 9	comment	Zsh — more intelligent autocorrection Have you loaded `compinit` in your `.zshrc`?
Apr 7	comment	How can we change root password? And if you're not using /sbin/sulogin for single-user shell (it will prompt for root's password).
Apr 6	awarded	Commentator
Apr 6	comment	stderr redirection not working in csh @Craig He's running `pkg_add` on FreeBSD, so I'm assuming this is for the root user (/bin/csh is the default for root on FreeBSD). In this case you should not change the shell to /usr/local/bin/bash. /bin/sh is acceptable. You could also just switch to another shell after logging in as root.