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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.

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Fortinet SSL VPN Client Setup Without GUI on Linux (centos)

How can I install and setup a fortinet SSL VPN client on a VPS that's running on Centos? I have problem to do it because all guide I have are all using GUI which is not installed on the VPS to save resource. (example:…
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Scrollback not working in terminal window (ssh session)

I have an ubuntu slice at slicehost, which means it is a DomU on a Xen host - and it's a pretty stripped down installation. The thing that bugs me is that scrolling back in the terminal using shift-pgup doesn't work. Can anybody tell me what package…
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How can one set a terminal's title with the 'tput' command?

I discovered through this answer that I've been setting terminal colours in my prompt in a naive way for years. I've now modified my .bashrc to use 'tput' commands to colourise various elements of my prompt. The one remaining escape code I have is…
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Nginx Restart Issues

All of the sudden when restarting Nginx I get the following error: Restarting nginx: [alert]: could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied) 2011/02/16 17:20:58 [warn] 23925#0: the "user" directive…
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How to scroll back in screen within a ssh session from OS X?

I do the following: Open Terminal.app Open a ssh session to a remote Linux server Open a screen session on the server Start a program who breaks with many lines of error reporting… How can I scroll up to read that? And no, fixing the program is…
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Why do some ssh sessions offer autocomplete and some not?

Very newbie question! I'm sshing to two different servers, both part of the same Amazon AWS cluster. They're not run by me. On one ssh session, the terminal lets me autocomplete. On the other session, it doesn't - I wish it did. Why is this - is it…
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cp command, ignore unchanged files

Is there a way to do a cp but ignoring any files that may already exist at the destination that aren't any older then those files at source. Basically I want to copy the contents of one disk to another, then run the copy again but only updating new…
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Can I recover a nano process from a previous terminal?

My system crashed while I was in a nano session with unsaved changes. When I log back in via SSH I see the nano process still running when I do a ps. davidparks21@devdb1:/opt/frugg_batch$ ps -ef | grep nano 1001 31714 29481 0 18:32 pts/0 …
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Why does CTRL-r act weirdly (showing only part of a command) on OS X

Ctrl+r is a great little tool for searching your .bash_history for previously run commands. However, when I use it in my OS X Terminal.app I see weird behavior, and I was wondering if anyone else sees the same thing or knows how to fix…
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SSH connection - after some time I can't type anything

This keeps hapenning on which ever server I am connected to. I type: ssh user@server I log in, everything works for a couple of minutes. But after some time, possibly when I switch to other programmes (browser, ftp client etc) when I try to type…
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OS X WiFi settings via terminal?

I manage a large group of macs and they are all connected via ethernet. I would like to disable wifi on them and then require and administrator to change any wifi settings (pretty much what is shown in the picture below) Since I manage so many, I…
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Connecting to an analog dial-in PSTN terminal without a PSTN line

there's a computer ("server") that has no Internet connection, and it is located in a place with no GSM signal. The only way to get connection to it is an analog modem (US Robotics 56Kbit/s). This modem is connected to a national PSTN line with a…
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What is the export command supposed to do in Linux?

What is the export command supposed to do in Linux?
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How can I watch a terminal window remotely?

I left the office earlier with an active terminal window running a script on a Centos 7 server. Now I've SSHing in from home and I want to see where it's got to. Is this possible? Can I rejoin the same terminal window from here?
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create zip based on contents of a file list

I created a file with diff files diff-files.txt it has 6000+ file paths in it. Now I want want to create a zip based on those files. I know I can zip multiple files with: zip diffedfiles.zip file1 folder1 -r But that won't work with 6000+ files. Is…
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