Since most operating systems I've heard of besides Windows seem to derive their heritage from Unix, I've been curious whether any OS's with the following characteristics exist:
Not generally considered Unix-like, i.e. wasn't designed with Unix compatibility as a primary goal, doesn't use X11 as its default GUI in the most common distributions,…
Jun 7 00:01:18 Isis lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-autologin:session): session opened for user mimi by (uid=0)
Jun 7 00:01:18 Isis lightdm: pam_ck_connector(lightdm-autologin:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Jun 7 00:01:26 Isis polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for…
Is Linux/Unix based OS adoption for development (or recreation) a rough measure of the awareness, adaptability and/or skill of a developer, after considering factors like learning curve for effective code testing via the CLI, basic scripting, tweaking, etc.
I have no intention of starting flame…
I have created the following code to update the text contents of all spans like this every minute. There are numerous of these spans on the page which all need to be updated every minute:
<span unix="1372263005" class="time_ago">4 minutes ago</span>
The code is as follows:
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I need help is enabling SMTPS. I use postfix , dovecot with MySQL(virtual domains). I do not know how to enable SMTPS(465). I already added tls related settings and key and certificate in the "/etc/postfix/main.cf"
OS: Centos 6.4 64 bit
Please my /etc/postfix/master.cf file here
#…
I have a web server (nginx) and a CGI application (gitweb) that is ran with fcgiwrap to enable Fast CGI access to it. I want the Fast CGI protocol to take place over a unix socket file.
To start the fcgiwrap daemon, I run:
setuidgid git fcgiwrap -s "unix:$PWD/fastcgi.sock"
(this is…
Which unix like environment do you prefer on Windows?
I have found Cygwin to be very comfortable for a windows platform (usually XP).
I am wondering if there is a better alternative (not because I want to move away from Cygwin).
What are the features of Cygwin that you like OR,…
I am not a unix expert, more like a novice. I have one user account replicated on two unix boxes receiving same mails on both boxes for fail over. Sendmail has mimedefang utility running to process these mails. After all the processing is complete, more like weeding the spam,…
Apparently BSD is like this but only for the OS not for the third party applications: Is there a Unix or Unix-like operating system (but not OS X), where all the installed applications and drivers either all work smoothly/properly or are not included in the distribution? But…
Hi,
I started to work in unix for couple of weeks ago and can very little about unix.
Everytime I edit a file, a temp file~ appears in the filesystem. What does this mean? Can I just remove all these files? What can I do for removing these files automaticaly everytime I…
If I have a text file in Unix that contains N-many independent entries (e.g. records about employees, where each employee has a separate record), is it expected that this file will take up less space than if I split the file into N files, each containing the entry for…
at my school we have a student unix server with our accounts.
i have installed git on my account, created a repository, and created the acl permissions on the folder repository so other users can access the repository
# file: tp1
# owner: my_account
# group:…
I have tried to install php5-fpm and Nginx on Ubuntu machine, but I got a problem. When I have only one virtual host on a unix port it is all fine but when I try to add another virtual host Nginx goes to default web page "Welcome to Nginx!" but when I run it…
In our app we have only windows servers beside the cases we use redis queues.
This case , we use unix server created by amazon.
As you can see we do not have a lot of space available and we want to make sure redis has enough space to work without getting…
My final goal is to write the program which can run on the Unix OS. I know that there are many Unix versions, and don't know exactly for now which one I need to support. I cannot install any Unix OS right now. The only thing I can do is to use free OS…
Hi,
FOund the following on: http://mike.murraynet.net/2009/08/23/parsing-the-verisign-zone-file-with-os-x/
Can unix-masters have a look at it and see if its the best possible way to gather the unique domainsnames in a zone file?
For .NET domains:…
I'm a novice programmer and have been experimenting with Javascript, jQuery and PHP but felt I wasn't getting a real depth of understanding of what I was doing. So, after reading Joel Spolsky's response to a question on this site (which I can't find…
I have an application which has components on Windows and Unix. I need to run overnight jobs which initiate tasks/jobs on both environment.
These need to be sequenced so I cannot simple use Cron / Task Scheduler.
For each job, there will be a…
Is there any difference in C that is written in Windows and Unix. I teach C as well as C++ but some of my students have come back saying some of the sample programs does not run for them in Unix. Unix is alien for me. Unfortunately no experience…
Hey everyone, I have an old server that doesn't boot. I don't know the version of unix installed, but I see SCO UNIX. It stops with that error:
UX:init: ERROR: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
UX:init: ERROR: failed write of utmpx…
We recently acquired a company that was running a legacy application on a SCO Unix box.
I can tell that the app is running off of http, but its reporting and data export functions are limited and I'd like to find a master db or data source on…
This summer I'm getting into UNIX (mostly *BSD) development. I've graduate level knowledge about operating systems. I can also understand the code & read from here and there but the thing is I want to make most of my time. Reading books are…
We are currently running Unix dedicated servers for everything (Web cluster, database, FTP, batch, ...) except for a Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services. The sole purpose of this Windows box is to provide client side certificates to…