derobert

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2d	answered	Running time command with cron
2d	comment	Why does this code work on Linux but not on SunOS? Just FYI, setting LC_ALL=C (or en), or whatever the equivalent is on Solaris, will get you English messages... Which is helpful when pasting them to an English-language site.
2d	answered	Upgrading Debian Squeeze to Wheezy - Should updatedb.conf be kept or replaced?
May 22	comment	“No such file or directory” on an executable, yet file exists and ldd reports all libraries present Indeed, the loader is what that objdump line would have printed out. I forgot it was actually in the `ldd` output. Good catch!
May 20	comment	“No such file or directory” on an executable, yet file exists and ldd reports all libraries present Let's try `objdump -j .interp -s ./zls`. I suspect that will list the file that doesn't exist.
May 15	comment	Can anyone decipher this kernel stack trace? I think it's hardware, but It says libafs (which I assume is the AFS filesystem) all over it, why do you think its hardware?
May 14	comment	“no public key available” on apt-get update ... and that string you elided is an important bit. It'd let us identify which keys you're missing (assuming installing the keyring packages—preferably from trusted media—that ruda suggested doesn't help)
May 14	comment	How do I specify arguments to return all dot files, but not . and ..? Indeed, this works in bash, and I think POSIX shell as well.
May 14	comment	How do I specify arguments to return all dot files, but not . and ..? Indeed, you're right, that does work in tcsh. At least unless your filenames contain newlines, which is sufficiently uncommon that its probably ignorable.
May 14	comment	How do I specify arguments to return all dot files, but not . and ..? Did you have multiple items in that directory? I'd expect it to work with 1, but fail with 2 or more. I guess its possible tcsh does something weird there...
May 14	comment	How to monitor the last PID assigned by the kernel? Odd, I don't have that file on several Linux boxes I checked, but they do have pid namespace support. One is even using namespaces...
May 14	answered	How do I specify arguments to return all dot files, but not . and ..?
May 14	comment	How do I specify arguments to return all dot files, but not . and ..? `du *` will work even if there are names with spaces in the directory. du `ls -A` will not (and du "`ls -A`" will not work at all).
May 10	comment	Adding a user to a group by default Sorry, yeah, this is a Debian thing.
May 10	answered	Adding a user to a group by default
May 10	comment	What email features/functionality are baked into a typical Linux/GNU distro? @Corey I'm already one of the reopen votes. You could try stopping by the chat room chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux and seeing if you can drum up two more reopen votes...
May 10	comment	Forcibly create directory hard link(s)? Errrr... From the question: "In my case I'm currently just using rsync to create hard-links to existing files, but this slow and wasteful, particularly with very large backups and especially if I already know which directories are unchanged." Time for more coffee, I think.
May 9	answered	Can I create a symlink that will ignore subdirectories?
May 9	comment	Can I create a symlink that will ignore subdirectories? @HaukeLaging Dropbox doesn't like symlinks. It immediately converts them to copies.
May 9	comment	Can I create a symlink that will ignore subdirectories? @MattDMo I believe Camera Uploads is a special folder in Dropbox (used by the e.g., Android app), I'm not sure you can move it...