Linux - Part 38

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-bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied

posted on February 28, 2007 in Linux with 2 Comments

” -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied “. I was getting this error earlier today while trying to add cron jobs for my login on my SLES 10 box at work. Turns out that all users in SLES 10 by default have no access to cron. The fix is to add the user to the “trusted” group [...]

Screen | Linux Command

posted on February 26, 2007 in Linux with 1 Comment

When you run commands and programs in a command prompt on Linux, the programs or commands only run while the command prompt session is open but as soon as the command prompt session is terminated for whatever reason, the commands or programs running within the command prompt session will also get terminated. I use wget [...]

mkfifo | Linux Command

posted on February 22, 2007 in Linux with 0 Comments

A short introdution to name pipes as I see them. In the Linux world name pipes are typically used to permit communications between 2 unrelated processes. Name pipes are also known as FIFOs (first in, first out), normally used to establish a one-way flow of data.(half-duplex). Name pipes have a path name of a file [...]

.htaccess password generator

posted on February 19, 2007 in Linux with 0 Comments

Use this tool at Dynamic Drive to automatically generate all the code needed to protect a directory on your site. Below are the 2 files generated by the tool. .htaccess goes into the folder that you want to protect and .htpasswd should be in a folder not accessible from the web. I normally put my [...]

Vista not working with DHCP

posted on February 3, 2007 in Tech with 36 Comments

Just had my Dell Latitude D610 upgraded to Vista Enterprise. Smooth graphics, good speed, good security (small box pops up each time you do something like install apps or change settings, just like Linux) and the side bar’s pretty sweet too. Even with all the above I still prefer my openSUSE 10.2 with XGL and [...]

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