What is meant by a shell is in “vi” mode or “emacs” mode?
This question follows directly from the answer. In this case I am specifically unable to understand the part which says:
Unix & Linux
Difference between .xinitrc, .xsession and .xsessionrc
I found three configuration files.
Mounting new filesystem affects non-recursive bind mounts?
It hasn’t always behaved this way, but nowadays I get this inconsistent behaviour. Bind mounts don’t copy existing mounts (unless you use --rbind), but new mounts (and unmounts) get copied automatically. It seems like a bug. What causes this?
Why is Firefox so slow over SSH?
I try to launch Firefox over SSH, using
Is it possible to have multiple default gateways for outbound connections?
I would like to have multiple NICs (eth0 and wlan0) in the same subnet and to serve as a backup for the applications on the host if one of the NICs fail. For this reason I have created an additional routing table. This is how /etc/network/interfaces looks:
What happens when you ‘mount over’ an existing folder with contents?
Right now /tmp has some temporary files in it. When I mount my hard drive (/dev/sdc1) on top of /tmp, I can see the files on the hard drive. What happens to the actual content of /tmp when my hard drive is mounted? Is it possible to perform r/w operations on the actual content of /tmp while the hard drive is mounted?
View remote value of $PATH inside shell script
When executing this bash script, it only shows my local path.
What do the scripts in /etc/profile.d do?
I am reading about basic shell scripting from Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible.
Can sed save its output to a file?
> can do it.
Unable to delete file, even when running as root
I am in the process of migrating a machine from RHEL 4 to 5. Rather than actually do an upgrade we have created a new VM (both machines are in a cloud) and I am in the process of copying across data between the two.