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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Apache Web Server Virtual Hosting

i'm making a apache web server with two virtual host, i have a DNS Server caching-only on my other centos 6 minimal VM, the IP Address of my Apache Server is 192.168.1.9, when i try to browse that IP Address(192.168.1.9/index.html) on my test VM…
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CVS override CVS/Root

We have a server that we host web-solutions on, they are updatede on the server with CVS. About 4 people need access to the server and the ability to update the web-solutions through CVS. When I checkout the web-solution the CVS/Root is set to…
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What version of SCO Open Server are guys using out there and on what hardware?

I have some old applications which are running on SCO Open Server 5.0.5, and i would love to move them to SCO Open Server 5.0.7 and on modern hardware(servers), currently am running SCO on old IBM PL 300 personal computer, on 92MB Memory, one…
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BNF diagram for sudo file

How can I generate a (BNF) railroad diagram for /etc/sudoers file? I know the sudoers manpage has Extended Backus-Naur Form informations. Also, there are some tools to generate such diagrams (see Tool for generating railroad diagram used on…
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Run a script in /etc/motd

I'd like to run a python script when people log in to the server. I thought editing /etc/motd would be the best approach, but since it's only readable file, that won't work. I found pretty much identical post: Is it possible to put commands in…
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sed replace unix path with variable that contain another unix path

I need to replace Unix path via sed with variable that contain another unix path in a bash script Example: another_unix_path=/another/unix/path sed -i 's/ \/some\/path\/file.txt/ '$another_unix_path'/g' some_file.txt
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sftp: get file by mtime

Objective: Connect to sftp server with very simple script using -b option, cd to directory and get file with the latest modified time or created time. I can connect and download *.csv but that may download a dozen; I can provide part of the file…
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cron job doesn't run under specific account

I have a crontab entry on my RHEL 5.4 system under the "oracle" account but it never seems to actually run. I have the following entry: * * * * * /home/oracle/blahblah.sh > /tmp/test.log 2>&1 Since "blahblah.sh" does not actually exist I would…
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Not able to restrict the user to particular directory in unix

Below are the steps I performed: I created group sftponly. Added one user named sftpusers to that group. Added Subsystem sftp internal-sftp to file /etc/ssh/sshd_config Added this line to the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Match group sftponly …
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VPS restarted for no reason. Why?

I have a VPS that runs a Java server, a redis server and a PostgreSQL server. Everything is running well but last night my server "crashed" at 3:15:50 AM. At least that's what I thought. I looked at my server log and I saw several exceptions caused…
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Server ran out of HD room

A rogue script brought my centOS-based server to its knees and resulted in 0 bytes of HD room left. I since fixed the issue and everything seems to be running normally. So my question is, what should I do to check/fix for damage to the file system?…
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SFTP and syslog-ng custom logging format

I have modified sshd_config and syslog-ng configs to log sftp connections into separate files. Now I would like to create custom logging like: [date] [source_ip] has downloaded the [filename] [size] for the config I have used: SFTP: log to a…
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Why am I getting a 'Memory fault(coredump)' when I start the oracle listener?

This server (AIX ver 6) recently went out due a prolonged power outage. When I try to start the oracle listener I get this $ lsnrctl start Memory fault(coredump)
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NFS server in Vista?

Does Vista Ultimate features a NFS server? I have very little experience in this area, but I have a unix-based device which can mount nfs shares and I would like to serve files to it. Is this possible using just Vista or I need a third-party…
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Openfire how to fix? Error creating secured outgoing session to remote server

I have a OpenBSD server 5.6, in this server install Openfire 3.9.3. But I am getting the following error: error.log 2015.02.16 08:59:44 org.jivesoftware.openfire.session.LocalOutgoingServerSession - Error creating secured outgoing session to remote…
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