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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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"Must have" tools for managing arbitrary *nix daemons and their activities

What tools do you advise for managing running daemons? This includes: Load monitoring: renice a daemon when it slows down the whole server Keeping alive: restart it when it's not functional. Maybe, connectivity checks? Any advanced log…
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BIND9 reverse lookup failing for just one zone all other are working fine

BIND9 reverse lookup failing for just one zone all other are working fine. I am setting up an internal DNS server with below config. I have added reverse files for /8 networks. zone "test.com" { type master; file…
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count the number of occurances of .dll in a file

say I have a file in on a unix server, I want to count the number of occurances of .dll or say .exe in the file. how can I do this?
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Specify rrd files for Docker install of Graphite

I originally asked this over in the default Stack Overflow and was suggested I ask the question here instead: This is my first foray in to both Docker & Graphite so I'm not entirely sure if this is a docker issue or a graphite one (I'm guessing…
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timestamp in shell code script

I'm new in shell coding and hopefully I'm in the right place to ask this question. I'm working with a shell script which collect daily file and send them via ftp. In the filename there are both date and time and type of files is text(.txt). Files…
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Not able to send mail from solaris server

I'm not able to send mails from my server using MAILX command,have found that some of them,sendmail.cf has no entry for DS.Is there any other things which can disable mail functionality in server?
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init never reaping zombie/defunct processes

On my Fedora Core 9 webserver with kernel 2.6.18.8, init isn't reaping zombie processes. This would be bearable if it wasn't for the process table eventually reaching an upper limit where no new processes can be allocated. Sample output of ps -el |…
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Command history but only for one directory

Is it possible to get the history of all commands that were entered but just from one folder? like the history command, but only output should only show commands that the user entered while in a certain directory From my knowledge its not…
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Issues using PHP Trader Functions: Call to undefined function trader_ma()

I'm attempting to install the Trader extension on my mac, currently using MAMP. I believe the install was done correctly but can't seem to use them. Here is my feedback from terminal sudo pecl install trader pecl/trader is already installed and is…
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learn how hosting companies setup accounts on servers

Are there any HOTWO's or books that go over real world, best practices, on setting up a computer like unix hosting companies do?
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How to enable users to manage certain groups on file server

Let's assume we are in a business environment and we want to configure a *nix/*BSD file server. The business does work for several customers, thus the folder structure has the clients' names on the top level and then different projects in the…
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What is the best way to give root access to an account without using sudo?

I have an HP-UX server where I need to create a special user account for an application to interact with, and this account must have full root privileges. Sudo is not an option in this. The only thing I can think of is to assign the account UID 0.…
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HTB Traffic shaping in Linux - change quantum of a class

I am using Linux HTB to shape traffic, I am able to achieve the bellow diagram. The problem arise when I want to change the allocation for the excess bandwidth, instead of giving each class its proportion from the excess bandwidth, I'd like to be…
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Unsure why unreliable WiFi

So I'm a little at my wits' end here. I have a device with WiFi capabilities connected to my WiFi router. It is quite literally 5 meters away from the router, and it works fine and fast when it's active, but somehow sometimes completely loses…
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`id -a` shows different groups if I run as `ssh "id -a"`

If I run id -a on my remote host it shows a different set of groups if I run ssh [remote_host] "id -a". I would expect both to return the same set of groups as I am the same user in both cases. I am trying to run a chgrp command using ssh to change…
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