How can I find the hardware model in Linux?
I used a system information utility to take the model number of a system, and also of the motherboard.
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How do mouse events work in linux?
This is mostly out of curiosity, I’m trying to understand how event handling works
on a low level, so please don’t reference me to a software that’ll do it for me.
Using ACL with Multiple Default Groups
I have looked though the answers to similar questions and refreshed my memory on ACLs by reading tutorials on Linux ACLs. Yet, I am still stumped. What have I done wrong, or what do I not understand?
File system compatible with all OSes?
I use Linux and Mac OS X on a regular basis, and sometimes I have to use Windows. I need to use a flash drive on all three, and I need a filesystem that will work well on all of them. None of the ext’s work on Mac or Windows, HFS+ doesn’t work on Windows (or well on Linux), NTFS is read-only on Mac, and FAT sucks on all OSes. Is there a file system that would work reasonably well on all operating systems? I’d like it to work without drivers or additional installations, so it can be used on any computer.
What is the difference between kill , pkill and killall?
I am familiar with kill command , and most of the time we just use kill -9 to kill a process forcefully, there are many other signals that can be used with kill. But I wonder what are the use cases of pkill and killall, if there is already a kill command.
Which are the standard commands available in every Linux based distribution?
I would like to know which are the standard commands available in every Linux system.
How to limit network bandwidth?
We are hosting an application on remote server. We need to test it with a limited network bandwidth (for users with bad Internet access).
What user should apache and PHP be running as? What permissions should /var/www files have?
I just spun up an Ubuntu 11.10 box and then ran apt-get install apache2 php5 to install apache2 and PHP 5 on the box. Now it is functioning as a “web server” and it loads the “It Works!” page. Now I’m trying to tighten up security and I have the following questions about linux web servers:
Is SIGHUP sent to this orphaned process, and why doesn’t it terminate?
In The Linux Programming Interface:
Problem in identifying key that causes random character in terminal
I have kali linux on my laptop.I have a problem with my keyboard . Whenever i open a terminal some key is pressed automatically and ^[[5~ this character is shown in terminal. Please tell me which key causes this issue. 