I have compiled a custom linux kernel in BusyBox. BusyBox init does not support runlevels. When the kernel boots up in BusyBox, it first executes init which looks for the specified runlevel in /etc/inittab. BusyBox init works just fine without /etc/inittab. When no inittab is found it has the following behavior:
According to the Intel security-center post dated May 1, 2017, there is a critical vulnerability on Intel processors which could allow an attacker to gain privilege (escalation of privilege) using AMT, ISM and SBT.
What I already know:
I’m tuning the nofile value in /etc/security/limits.conf for my oracle user and I have a question about its behavior: does nofile limit the total number of files the user can have open for all of its processes or does it limit the total number of files the user can have open for each of its processes?
Which permissions affect hard-link creation? Does file ownership itself matters?
I know I can change some fundamental settings of the Linux console, things like fonts, for instance, with dpkg-reconfigure console-setup.
Searching for what one can monitor with perf_events on Linux, I cannot find what Kernel PMU event are?
Namely, with perf version 3.13.11-ckt39 the perf list shows events like:
At this time no ansver for this problem.
I want to delete one or more specific line numbers from a file. How would I do this using sed?
PulseAudio is always running on my system, and it always instantly restarts if it crashes or I kill it. However, I never actually start PulseAudio.