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Jan
23
comment Who's consuming my inotify resources?
It was a backup application creating lots of inotify watches, and the solution in the accepted answer helped identify the culprit. However, I wasn't previously familiar with the system call tracing you've demonstrated here. Very cool. Thanks for the information!
Apr
26
comment Bash prompt when my home directory is a symbolic link
Maybe. I mentioned that as a possibility because sometimes things are configured (e.g., under X or in OS X terminal) such that putting it into .profile or equivalent won't do the right thing, and I'm too lazy to test it out...
Apr
26
comment How to really easily save all tagged attachments in mutt?
I've updated my answer with an example.
Apr
22
comment How to open a port early in boot process to unlock LUKS via SSH
Do you have console access to the machine while it's in the busybox environment? Can you verify that dropbear is actually running (via ps) and listening on the port you expect (via netstat)?
Apr
3
comment Can I list only specific subdirectories?
The find command walks the directory tree. There are a number of things you could do to speed it up, including restricting the search to directories, limiting the maximum depth of the search, etc.
Apr
3
comment Can I list only specific subdirectories?
You could find . -name weekly | xargs ls
Mar
30
comment CentOS Apache virtual hosts sites-available type structure
You know that <VirtualHost var/www/aSite:80> doesn't make any sense, right? The argument before the port number (:80) is supposed to be a hostname or ip address (or *).
Mar
26
comment Multiple subnets on multiple virtual interfaces with one physical interface
If you have a switch with VLAN support, then you can trunk multiple layer 2 networks over a single physical cable. You create multiple VLAN interfaces on your Linux that will act to most intents and purposes like separate physical interfaces. Take a look at this document and see if it makes sense.
Mar
26
comment Multiple subnets on multiple virtual interfaces with one physical interface
This would be really easy if you had a managed switch with VLAN support.
Mar
26
comment bash script with network request in pure lsb environment
Also, for those following along at home, I wasn't really serious with that bit about bash...
Mar
26
comment bash script with network request in pure lsb environment
Ooo, bummer. The options get slimmer and slimmer.
Mar
25
comment bash script with network request in pure lsb environment
I was looking at this page, but it was a quick look...
Mar
25
comment bash script with network request in pure lsb environment
...hence my question about whether or not the LSB mandates libwww-perl.
Mar
14
comment What does this egrep command do?
I'm glad this helped out! If you like the answer you may want to mark it as "accepted" by clicking on the checkbox on the left. Thanks!
Mar
14
comment How to salvage an unreadable usb flash drive
At this point I would toss it in the circular file and go browse [large online retailer].
Mar
14
comment How to salvage an unreadable usb flash drive
Is there any additional dmesg output along with the error from fdisk? Can you read directly from the device using, e.g., od -N 128 /dev/sdc? (If this works it should print a short hexdump.)
Mar
14
comment How to salvage an unreadable usb flash drive
What happens if you run fdisk /dev/sdc? Do you get an error?
Mar
13
comment error when i try to reboot freebsd on a virtual machine - vmware
And in general: when you ask this sort of question, show us exactly what you typed, and show us exactly how the system responded. This will let us provide more accurate and timely answers to your questions.
Mar
9
comment Bash read command and stdin redirection
Take a look at the answer to this question.
Mar
9
comment Error when I want to create a user on FreeBSD
No problem...there ya go.