Terminal: 1) A device or program used to talk to a terminal server, usually over Serial or RDP, 2) A synonym for command-shell or command line, 3) A specific OS X program.
Questions tagged [terminal]
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Terminal Services connection slow over VPN
I just started with a company and I've been asked to resolve a problem. I'm a jack of all trades and master of none so I'm looking for some help.
We have a remote site (8 PC's and 6 printers) with cable modem business class service (10MG download…
jim s
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How do I change the year in Unix?
I've looked at the man page for "date" and I can't figure out how to change the year. I know there is some string you need to create to describe the date format but how do I use that?
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CPU load on Debian (webmin)
When I look at webmin's "system information" page it tells me that the CPU is much greater than when doing top in the terminal? Why? What is going on?
Today the server also broke down
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Recursively removing the content of a directory but not a directory itself
I have a directory which contains other directories and files of unknown depth. How can I delete only the content of the directory -- nested directories and files -- but not directory itself?
I've tried these and they didn't work - nothing was…
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Why can't I restart my Apache Amazon EC2 server?
I'm trying to restart my amazon EC2 Apache server, and I'm getting an error message that says
(13)Permission denied: AH00058: Error retrieving pid file /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid
AH00059: Remove it before continuing if it is corrupted.
I'm trying…
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What Does "ping -f" Do In The OS X Terminal?
I've recently read about the command in the OS X terminal, "ping -f (Target IP)". I haven't been able to form an understanding on the command even after looking through numerous online articles.
I assume it floods the server with ping requests…
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editing files on remote server with Vi not recognised when I refresh my browser
My server is running on Apache Linux. I'm very new to this area. Is there a default folder where the website files are stored? I mean I thought I had it - the first one in the list below, but it doesn't seem to be.
I've been editing what I thought…
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can't see my site after ctrl-alt-delete in Virtual Machine Console
I'm a total newbie to this and hope you might be able to help me.
I just put my website up on a VPS server last week. I've been trying to get familiar with
Terminal in Ubuntu and ssh for accessing the site, rather than shelling out more for
cPanel…
CHarris
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Create a public key to allow scp server to server
My scenario is this, I am trying to SCP from server1 to server2 and and I need to create a public_key on server1 to allow server2 access to it. How do I do this?
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how to compress a files inside a shell script file?
I have seen a .sh file on execution in terminal it extracts some jar files inside the sh file, how to create such sh files? i could not open that sh file in normal gedit to check the content.
Is there any way to do that?
Pradyumna Sagar
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Killing a bash sh script
I made an .sh file load.sh which has (almost) unlimited loop of curl requests. I run this as $ bash load.sh. Now it just keeps running the loop. I can't cancel its execution. It keeps running. I pressed ctrl+c to cancel but it starts again. I closed…
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Setup web terminal access in case ssh crashes
I would like to setup my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server for a backdoor in case ssh crashes. I would simply connect to the server and restart ssh manually but this is not possible. Contacting the system administrator so he can restart it takes too much time…
Tom Siwik
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"date" returning a month as a 3-char word
At the moment I call date this way:
date '+%Y %m %d'
# ==> 2017 12 01
How should I adjust it so that it return a month in the 3-char format? Like this:
date '+%Y %m %d'
# ==> 2017 dec 01
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How to open a directory contains "-"?
How can I open a directory via PUTTY that contains -?
For example the name of dir is:
some-thing-dir
cd /some-thing-dir not working.
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