POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) is a set of standards for Unix-like operating systems, defining programming APIs, command line shells and common utilities.
Questions tagged [posix]
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Which special characters work in sieve regex?
I have the Roundcube Webmail v. 1.3.1 mail client with managesieve v. 8.7 extension and want to add some regex driven actions for my mail and the only documentation I found on the regex flavour is this document. However I can't find which special…

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syslog direct to AWS cloudwatch?
Is there a way to push POSIX syslog records directly to AWS cloudwatch? I know Cloudwatch can be rigged to look at the /var/log/messages files and similar.
But is there a way -- a sylog.conf(5) setting, or a rfc5424 compatible listener, or some such…

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OpenLDAP & Posix Groups/Account
I'm not able to add posix users/groups to this newly created ldap directory. OpenLDAP version is 2.4.19.
The LDIF I've populated the LDAP directory is probably the problem, but I'm not sure what I need to do next...
dn:…

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Is there an effective way to test whether a script only uses POSIX features?
If I wanted to be sure that a script I have written is as portable as possible and only uses POSIX features and no, say, bash features, is there an explicit way to check this?
Obviously, I could try running it in a different shell to my usual shell,…

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Postfix header_checks syntax (POSIX - Perl)
I am using header_checks in Postfix to rewrite my headers (for emails sent by Outlook through my server).
Here is the part of the header I am trying to change :
Received: from Raphasus (****.abo.wanadoo.fr [***.***.***.109])
by mail.********.com…

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Cant install php-posix on CentOS 6
I'm trying to install php-posix on CentOS 6, with no luck:
$ yum install php-posix
Getting the following error:
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.nluug.nl
* epel:…

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find nouser equivalent for POSIX ACLs
On a Linux system it is possible to find files that are owned by a uid that does not have a user name assigned with "find -nouser". I have been looking for an equivalent that will search the POSIX ACL lists for non-existent users, but have had no…

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Auto set Active Directory attributes upon new User creation
I have successfully created an OpenLDAP (CentOS 6.2) to Active Directory (Windows Server 2008 R2) connection. I can login to my CentOS using an AD user.
Problem is, the AD user has to have these attributes:
objectClass = posixAccount
objectClass =…

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ionice process group?
Is there an easy way to change the I/O priority of a whole group of processes the way renice -g does? It seems like only changing the I/O priority of a single process is supported by ionice. If this can't be done, can someone please point me to…

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Bash build environment settings
I'm newbie in Bash and I'm using MinGW as a GCC compiler.
I have .profile in my home directory which sets building environment.
Here is .profile content.
What's a difference in commented/uncommented lines? Why GCC doesn't work with uncommented…

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Posix attributes not returned when using ldapsearch against Active Directory
In our organization, we have ActiveDirectory set up with Identity Management for Unix (IDMU). When I look in ADUC on the Attribute Editor tab, I can see the posix attributes on my account (eg. gidNumber, uidNumber, etc...). However, if I run an…

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Using posix attributes instead of normal LDAP?
Due to the way a software we use interacts with Unix, when I am setting up a certain application to interact with LDAP I need to use Posix attributes instead of normal LDAP attributes.
So far all I have found is that for…

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Why is posix.lstat taking such a long time? (duplicity backing up of 9p virtio filesystem)
I have a filesystem mounted with 9p virtio through KVM, and am backing it up using duplicity to a remote SSH server. I' m trying to speed up the backup process, which seems unreasonably slow to me.
The source size is 20GB in 107.651 files, which are…

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sftp permissions limited to primary group after update?
My CentOS7 server runs sftp through openssh. Users are chrooted to a dir with subdirs that are owned by another user, but sftp users are group members through their primary or secondary groups with rwx permissions. Since a recent update they are no…

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Linux Authentication with Windows 2012R2 Server (Deprecated IMU role)
I've been looking around the web trying to find a way to authenticate users on Linux with a Domain User account on a Windows 2012R2 Server. The way I've done this in the past is using the "Identity Management for Unix" role on the server to get the…

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