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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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put a job in the bg and run it?

I know there are two or more ways to run a job and place it in the background. Right now I used ctrl-z to put a scp transfer in the background because I noticed it was going to take a while. How do I run the process in the background so I can write…
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DNS Cache Error

I am in dire need of some help as i have searched high and low for a answer but to no avail. To begin let me give you a idea of what I have setup and the goal I am trying to achieve. I currently have 4 Windows 2012 servers that will be used in a…
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Palo Alto PA-4020 cannot connect to terminal through Serial to USB

I have a PA-4020 that I messed up the configuration on, and I am trying to do a factory reset. I went ahead and ordered a few different serial to USB cables, and cannot connect through a Mac App Called Serial, PuttyTel (Windows) or Mac Terminal. I…
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vsphere: 2 separate terminal windows

Simple issue. Is it possible in vSphere to view 2 separate terminal windows into the same VM? I know you can switch between terminal instances using ALT+Right/ALT+Left, but I can't find a way to be viewing two separate terminals at the same…
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Shell command to remove files extension

I have a directory with automatically generated files that all end with the .sample extension. I would like to have a way to remove the .sample extension from them all in one terminal command. I tried this: mv ./{$1}*.sample ./$1 But it doesn't…
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Windows Git Linux Tools - Prevent SSH timeout in terminal

I installed Git and included the Linux tools. They rock, except for the SSH times out after five or ten minutes when I am running in the console. It just freezes the terminal until I hit a few buttons and then shows: root@server:/home/username# Read…
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Automatically selecting default in Unix terminal

I'm aware that a command such as something -y will force a yes answer on any response back from the terminal, but I'm having problems with getting Ansible to automate the process of configuration. The module in question has defaults (a [no]) and…
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Closing the terminal with an open SSH session

I closed the terminal while still being logged in to a remote server during an SSH session (I didn't exit before closing the terminal). Could this damage the server? What consequences could there possibly be?
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Home/end keys are not working correctly in the bash CLI for a jailed user using PuTTY

I'm using PuTTY to access my U14.04 LTS server via SSH. When I log in using my main account, the number pad keys work fine in the BASH CLI. When I log in to a user who's been jailed using Jailkit, the home/end keys return a '~' character and bell in…
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Send mail with priority from console

How can I send mail from the console marked with "priority high" flag? Currently I'm using this syntax: echo "message content" | mail -s "subject" user@example.com I don't see any switches for this in man.
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Send a string to a terminal program

Need to know if one can send a string of commands to a program. The program is called Dynamips, After I launch the program it comes up with "->" The command I want to send to the terminal is "start R1" and "start R2" you get the picture. Also want…
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Terminate remote process when backgrounded ssh session is terminated

So right now I have a bash script that runs a command on a remote machine using ssh. The machine running the bash script is a Linux machine and the remote machine is a Windows machine running cygwin. The bash script contains the following…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server - Providing Single Sign On to Windows 7 Clients

I've inherited a system that may have never been fully integrated as it could have been. We have a simple setup - A Windows 2008 R2 Server being used for Remote Desktop and Remote App access by users in our company. Users login to their local…
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Adminstrator cannot log on to server via remote desktop after changing default domain policy

I wanted to enabled remote desktop access for a domain security group so I search and followed the instruction here to get to the setting which was shown as "Not Defined" then I change the setting to add the security group, but it didn't work still.…
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How do I fix Open Solaris's terminal

OK so I fully admit that I am new to administrating Open Solaris but I had been a user of it back in Solaris 8 days. Since I wanted to build a ZFS NAS server I figured that Open Solaris would be be a better platform choice over FreeBSD. Anyway -…
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