What is the difference between using ‘init’ and ‘rd.break’ for reseting the root password?
I know several ways to reset root user’s password, but want to know which is the best and why it is. For example:
Unix & Linux
Is there a way to get “top” to run exactly once and exit?
I find the output of the shell command top to be a simple and familiar way to get a rough idea of the health of a machine. I’d like to serve top‘s output (or something very similar to it) from a tiny web server on a machine for crude monitoring purposes.
Bypass GPG signature checks only for a single repository
I have read the following article: How do I bypass/ignore the gpg signature checks of apt?
Which user group can use the ‘tap’ net device?
I use the ‘tap’ net device with KVM to get my vm connect to the Internet. But I have to be root, or use ‘sudo’, which is inconvenient. I think I can put my user account into some group so I can access the net device without root privilege. I tried the netdev group, but does not work. My account is already in the kvm group.
pacman: exists in filesystem
When installing a package with pacman, I am seeing:
Changing tmux .bash_profile behavior
I have a script in my .bash_profile that prompts for X sessions to boot. When I launch tmux, I get this prompt that I had only intended for the TTY login.
Why is PATH reset in a sudo command?
After much frustrating head-brick-wall contact, I’ve discovered this: $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/steve/bin $ sudo bash # echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin but $ sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH' /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin $ sudo bash -Ec 'echo $PATH' /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin I gather from another post that the sudo path is read from /etc/sudoers — but why? Does setting $PATH in /root/.profile … Read more
D-Bus authentication and authorization
I’m trying to set up remote access to D-Bus, and I don’t understand how authentication and authorization are (not) working.
Why does Chromium not cache DNS for more than a minute?
I use Chromium and have problems with the DNS not being cached for the time that I would expect. Take the example.com domain. According to the DNS settings, this domain should be cached for another 26151 seconds:
How do I filter a glob in zsh
Basically I can use a glob in zsh to a list. Often, it turns out, I would like to filter that list, grep’ishly I’m wondering though, if I need to do that.