continuous reading from named pipe (cat or tail -f)
I have configured rsyslog to log certain log events to /dev/xconsole:
Unix & Linux
How to identify a process which has no pid?
I have a process which listen to 2 ports : 45136/tcp and 37208/udp (actually I assume it is the same process). But netstat doesn’t return any pid :
i3wm : start applications on specific workspaces when i3 starts
How can I start applications on specific workspaces in i3 when it starts?
How do I detect running processes using a library package?
This command is doing the rounds for detecting currently running processes using glibc:
Can I rollback an apt-get upgrade if something goes wrong?
Is there a way, before starting an aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade, to set up something so that you can “easily” rollback your system to the “apt” state it was before the actual upgrade, if something goes wrong?
How to make an ext4 formatted usb drive with full RW permissions for any linux machine?
I want to format my USB stick to ext4 and just use as I would any other typical non-linux format drive (FAT32, exFAT, NTFS).
get age of given file
How can I get the age of a given file in, at least, days?
Is it possible to set Gnome Terminal’s title to “[email protected]” for whatever host I’m connected to?
I’d like to set the terminal title to [email protected] so I can easily tell which machine I’m connected to from the window title. Is there a way to do this from SSH or from GNOME Terminal?
Grub not loading after Windows 8 Install
My system was configured to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and Windows 7. Today I got my hands on the MSDN release of Windows 8 and I installed it over my Windows 7. Now the computer just boots to Windows 8 directly without loading the GRUB screen.
How to set visudo to use a different editor than the default on Fedora?
Fedora 14 uses vi by default when one runs visudo. Is there a way to change this to something else?