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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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Can I create a hidden admin account via the terminal on OSX?

I have around 300 baby macs to look after, and they have lots of different admin accounts, which is a nightmare to work with. ARD has slowly been configured with the accounts of the machine owners, but that doesn't help when bringing on board…
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Replacement for Windows command console

I'm not a sysadmin, but I use a Windows 2003 server at work fairly often for testing purposes, and I'm always annoyed by the limitations of the standard Windows console terminal. Is there some "industry standard" tool that I don't know about, to…
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control + punctuation doesn't register in terminal

For the purposes of using emacs in a terminal, I want to use key combinations like Control-'. But when I try that key combination, it just writes an ' to the command line. The same thing happens for all punctuation. Is there a way to get around…
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How do you differentiate between a local and remote terminal?

It's not a common scenario, but I find myself accidentally inserting commands into the wrong terminal. I haven't damaged anything important yet; So before I do, what are some of the best ways to differentiate between a local and remote terminal…
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Hot to fix corruption of taskbar (multiple language panels) in Terminal Services in Win2003?

Hot to fix corruption of taskbar (multiple language panels) in Terminal Services in Win2003? I know how to close many language panels and then check one. How to disable occurrence multiple language panels after log-in terminal session ?
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Recommendations on good terminal multiplexer

Please recommend me a good terminal multiplexer. I'm new to sys admin work and need a good way to mange multiple boxes. Edit: Just be clear, I'm looking for something like PuTTy that can send commands to multiple boxes at once. Usage example: …
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Turn off colours temporarily for ansible ad-hoc commands

When I run an ansible (v2.9.9) ad-hoc command, the output is colourized. Green for successful resuilts etc. I am building up a bash pipeline, so how can I tell ansible to not colourize the output?
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How to setup the Mac OS X Terminal so it's *just peachy*?

My Terminal is awesome, has every detail just right (for me anyway), and now I'm setting up a few new macs around here and I have no idea whatsoever how to get their terminals to a pretty state. My user account is rather old, has been migrated over…
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Why does writing to the console a process's STDIN is attached to doesn't send input to the application itself?

Taken from this answer: Terminal 1: [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ cat shows on the tty but bypasses cat Terminal 2: [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ pidof cat 7417 [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ echo "shows on the tty but bypasses cat" > /proc/7417/fd/0 I don't quite understand…
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Install Apache to CentOs 7 installed but not showing in the browser

I hope someone can help me, I am trying to set up a VPS, i have a small VPS to learn on before i use my main VPS. Ok so, I have installed Apache without any problems and when i try " sudo service httpd status ", I am told that Apache is active and…
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How to view a remote unicode file via ssh?

I have a unicode file that contains Chinese characters. I have a local and a remote copy of it. When I use less on the local file the characters are shown properly: 奥尔德林 However, when I ssh to the remote machine and look at the remote version of the…
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How to access FTP server in terminal using proxy?

I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on my pc. My network require http proxy to access the internet. Say Proxy is "xxx.xx.xx.xx" and port is "8080". I set up system proxy for http, https and ftp. I am able to access internet through terminal. But I am able…
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Cron appears to run but doesn't execute in the same way as when run manually from the terminal

I have a php script that connects to an external API returns some data and updates a database table. I can run this directly via my command line / SSH terminal and it works fine (takes about 5 minutes to complete). Using crontab I have 'cronned'…
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OSX Terminal.app seems to become 'suspended' unless I VNC into the Mac

So I have a bit of complicated setup, but let me see if I can simplify I am running a mono application on a remote OSX machine. This application can occasionally hard-crash the mono runtime. There is a recovery shell script running every 2 minutes…
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Kali linux does not boot in gui

I got kali linux installed on my pc for a while but now linux will not boot in gui mode , only in text mode ( terminal ). I get no errors on booting it goes directly to the login screen . Hope you can help me and yes I tried googling it.
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