My server program received a SIGTERM and stopped (with exit code 0). I am surprised by this, as I am pretty sure that there was plenty of memory for it. Under what conditions does linux (busybox) send a SIGTERM to a process?
I was reading up on chmod and its octal modes. I saw that 1 is execute only. What is a valid use case for an execute only permission? To execute a file, one typically would want read and execute permission.
The Learning Bash Book mentions that a subshell will inherit only environment variables and file descriptors, etc., and that it will not inherit variables that are not exported:
I wonder why some similar bash commands behave the way they do.
I have a ton of files and dirs in a subdirectory I want to move to the parent directory. There are already some files and dirs in the target directory which need to be overwritten. Files that are only present in the target should be left untouched. Can I force mvto do that? It (mv * ..) complains
Can anybody explain me what is the meaning of the last column of the output of the last command? I’m particularly interested in its meaning with respect to the reboot pseudo-user.
I have a lot of commands I routinely need to execute, often with the slightest variation.
In Gentoo there is the file /var/lib/portage/world that contains packages that I explicitly installed. By explicit I mean, packages that I choose, not including anything installed by default, or pulled in by the dependencies.
I have a binary (that I can’t modify) and I can do:
Inspired by this question, titled: When are the built-in commands loaded to memory, while attempting to answer this I tried the following command and was a bit surprised that I couldn’t run it: