In various shell scripts I often see two approaches for getting information from databases supported by Name Service Switch libraries like /etc/group, /etc/hosts or /etc/services. One is getent utility and other is grep or some other text processing tool. For example:
This page describes how you can use the debootstrap utility to install a base Debian unstable/sid system on an existing Linux machine. The new install is accessible using chroot.
I have a laptop with an Atheros card and I woud like to use it as a wireless access point.
Below is a complete copy of a demo I’m using to to figure out to get the sed command to get rid of the spaces in a persons name, and compress it down to not have spaces.
My company has asked me to look into connecting our CentOS 7 instance’s to our Active Directory to make it easier for user management.
I am porting C/pro*c code from UNIX to Linux. The code is:
I have a problem with my WiFi card on Kubuntu. Sometimes the system doesn’t recognise it, but what is strange is that it doesn’t happen everytime, but just about one boot on four, and I can’t understand why. If I run lshw -C network I get:
If a user has loginShell=/sbin/nologin is it still possible to
I noticed an O’Reilly awk example (1997) which assigned an awk variable by setting it on the command line after the program-text. It does work, but I can’t find this syntax in man / info awk. Have I just missed it; is it depricated…? The only syntax I’ve seen in the manual is the -v option.
I use a MS keyboard on my Debian machine. The problem is that MS does not ship configuration software for us and touchpad’s default scrolling directions are reversed (it uses natural scrolling).