Say I am running a software, and then I run package manager to upgrade the software, I notice that Linux does not bring down the running process for package upgrade – it is still running fine. How does Linux do this?
During an audit of /var/log/auth.log on one of my public webservers, I found this:
When using a tty login shell by entering Ctrl-Alt-F1 from an Ubuntu 12.04 install on a laptop the keyboard seems overly sensitive and if my finger lingers for a moment on a button I end up with repeats of the same letter. Is there a way to adjust keyboard sensitivity that would influence the keyboard response when accessing a login shell from a tty instance?
While going through the “Output of dmesg” I could see a list of values which i am not able to understand properly.
I have a disk with two partitions: sda1 and sda2. I would like change the number of sda1 to sda2 and sda2 to sda1.
Using ps -aux or top, I can list other users running processes, but I’m neither running as root nor making use of sudo, why?
The following Perl script can convert CSV file to XLS file
I have the following data (a list of R packages parsed from a Rmarkdown file), that I want to turn into a list I can pass to R to install:
Linux as router: I have 3 Internet providers, each with its own modem.
Sometimes I need to look up certain words through all the manual pages. I am aware of apropos, but if I understand its manual right, it restricts search to the descriptions only.