In Linux, what does the d mean in the first position of drwxr-xr-x? And what are all of the possible letters that could be there, and what do they mean? I’m trying to learn more about the Linux file permissions system, and I’d like to see a list of the character meanings for the first … Read more
Suppose I have a directory structure as follows
I have linux redhat machine version 6.5
I’m currently studying penetration testing and Python programming. I just want to know how I would go about executing a Linux command in Python. The commands I want to execute are:
How can one add custom Compose-key sequences? I have googled quite a bit, but could not find an explanation. In particular, I would like to have:
How do I convert an epoch timestamp to a human readable format on the cli? I think there’s a way to do it with date but the syntax eludes me (other ways welcome).
I am setting up a yum repository, and need to debug some of the URLs in the yum.conf file. I need to know why is Scientific Linux trying to grab this URL, when I was expecting it to grab another URL:
I’m using Debian 6 and Dropbox. I followed these commands to install it.
How can I get the command arguments or the whole command line from a running process using its process name?
I would like to know how to determine which driver (out of those below) is handling my touchpad: