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Unix & Linux

Does a user have to log in to run a process and become its owner?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

In general, does a user have to log in to run a process and become its owner (ruid, or euid)? Does this apply to any user or any non-root user?
For example:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags linux, process, root, users Leave a comment

Understanding core IDs

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

Just to understand core IDs:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags cpu, linux Leave a comment

Stealing and reattaching a running process

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

-T

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags disown, r, ssh Leave a comment

How can a process appear to have different name in ps output?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

recently I had to clean up a hacked server. The malicious process would appear as “who” or “ifconfig eth0” or something like that in “ps aux” output, even tough the executable was just a jumble of letters, which was shown in /proc/[pid]/status .

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags linux, process Leave a comment

Chmod is not working on ntfs-3g partition

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

my chmod doesn’t work properly.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags chown, linux Leave a comment

Why do I have “join: extra operand ‘/dev/fd/62′” error?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a script equijoin2:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags coreutils, join, text-processing Leave a comment

Shell test to find a pattern in a string

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I just wanted to ask whether there is any command which would work on common shells (bash, dash, kornshell)? It is supposed to check if the line variable contains any part of the path.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags regular-expression, shell, string Leave a comment

Use a partitioned live usb

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a USB device and i’m trying to create it in a way that it has 2 partitions: one for a live linux disc and the other for document storage.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags live-usb, livecd, partition Leave a comment

OSPF: Migrating Quagga to BIRD

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I need/want to migrate from Quagga to BIRD after several Quagga hiccups, namely Quagga stopped working after updates in Stretch.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bird, debian, ospf, quagga Leave a comment

How do you increase MAXSYMLINKS

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

In a python script, I am creating a bunch of symbolic links chained together.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags limit, linux, symlink Leave a comment
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