Questions tagged [unix]

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia page

Unix was originally written in assembly but has since been rewritten in C. It has been branched many times both commercially and open source. One popular variant is the BSD variant which originated from the University of California, Berkeley. It also gave rise to Linux.

Notable variants

  • Silicon Graphics - Irix
  • IBM - AIX
  • Sun Microsystems - Solaris
  • Hewlett Packard - HP-UX

Unix is officially trademarked as UNIX.

Unix on Wikipedia

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same shell environment in all accounts

What would be the best way to get the same shell environment (paths excluded) on all my accounts automatically? What I want is something that transfers the aliases, coloring, and other cool shiznit I have going on in my shell to other shells when I…
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BIND/RNDC - Why do my subzones work and my actual zone doesn't?

Here is my named.conf: view "external" { match-clients { any; }; match-destinations { any; }; recursion no; allow-query-cache { none; }; include "/etc/named.root.hints"; zone…
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How to make PHP more scalable on Unix Apache

I'm looking for free/low cost ways to make PHP running on our Unix Solaris servers (under Apache) more scalable and reliable. Do you recommend the free version of the Zend Server? Are there other solutions? This is for a site that on occasion…
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execute bash file daily ? (OS=UNIX)

i want to execute bash file daily at 12:30 for example to make backup to something how i can do it ?? and other one monthly ???? the operating system is Unix
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Ubuntu server: manually changed /etc/passwd shell for my user, now can't login

I attempted to change shell from bash to tcsh via editing /etc/passwd file directly. Yeah, dumb move. I guess I've learned my lesson. Now I can't SSH into the remote server. Any way to fix this? PS. I can still connect to MySQL server via SSH…
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SVN: Including the directory but exclude directory contents

I'm using Subversion on Unix-based systems. In my current working directory, the subdirectory ./tmp is managed by Subversion. I would like all contents under ./tmp to be ignored by subversion. To phrase it another way: When a user does svn checkout…
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MySQL: Not much activity, but thousands of network connections remain in TIME_WAIT"

We are running MySQL 5.1.33 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is a development database server attached to a development webserver running Silverstripe and PHP 5.3. This morning, the development webserver was complaining that it could not connect to the…
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Unix mail program CAN'T send email but crontab email agent CAN

CentOS 5 I have setup /etc/crontab MAILTO=my@email.com and can get emails with outputs whenever any tasks run by crond. But if I use mail program send email to same email, I CAN'T receive the email. (with command this: mail -s "test email"…
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how i can execute windows batch file from UNIX-AIX?

how i can execute windows batch file from UNIX_AIX i install copssh ???
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Apache, mod_rewrite and symlinks/aliases

I'm trying to force the adding of www. if visiting my site. I've added the following to my site conf file: Options FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)∞ …
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are full privilegies on phpmyadmin correct?

I've just realized that my phpmyadmin has full privilegies (to guest also). See screenshot: However phpmyadmin is actually a link to another directory in my unix system. Is that normal or should I change the settings ? thanks
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Failed depencies: libmysqlclient.so.16 is needed

I'm trying to install something on my server that requires mysqlclient, but looking at my RPM package list I have it ("MySQL-client-5.0.91-0.glibc23"). Doing a locate on libmysqlclient gives me this: [root@host.domain.net] ~ >> locate…
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What profiling tool for Linux requires very little overhead?

I need a tool to profile a Linux application, but I can't seem to find any that have little overhead. (By overhead, I mean require a large download or disk space once installed.) I looked at valgrind but it seems to require the debug version of…
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In Unix is it possible to list directory entries after a starting point?

For example, if my directory contains files a, b, c, c1, c2, c3, c4, d, e, f, g Is there a command something like the following pseudo code ls -filename>"c2" that would only list files c3, c4, d, e, f EDIT: Modified question to address a more…
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How and where to create Subversion repository in best practice by web development

Could you teach me, how to create svn on the Redhat server, in which several sites, there is need to each of them: /home/webmaster/www/kmp.ru/ /home/webmaster/www/yandexapi/ /home/webmaster/www/fms01.ru/ /home/webmaster/www/klubpodarkov.com/ There…
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