Hi,
What's the best way to compare directory structures?
I have a backup utility which uses rsync. I want to tell the exact differences (in terms of file sizes and last-changed dates) between the source and the backup.
Something like:
Local file Remote file Compare
/home/udi/1.txt (date)(size) /home/udi/1.txt…
I am having a bit of trouble understanding what the execute permission means for directories. Do I understand it correctly that anything in a directory for which a user does not have x-rights is inaccessible even if the things inside the directory gives specific rights to the user?
Or will the user still have direct access to the things in the…
I run an engineering program for class, Quartus 2. The issue i am having is that every time i launch the program, it creates 10 bitmap files in my home directory.
This is not so much of a problem, it just makes my OCD hurt :(
I can delete them without affecting anything, but every time the program is launched it recreates them, and there is…
I've got a somewhat weird problem which I'm not sure how to troubleshoot.
We have a FTP running on a Windows Server 2003 machine using the IIS FTP Service, this is for our clients and is configured with IP-restrictions. However, now ONE of the clients starts complaining that they can't log in to the server from time to time. This is just ONE…
I am writing an webscrapper, to do the download content from a website.
Traversing to the website/URL, triggers the creation of a temporary URL. This new URL has a zipped text file. This zipped file is to be downloaded and parsed.
I have written a scrapper in C# using WebClient and its function - DownloadFileAsync(). The zipped file is…
If I have Notepad++ running as administrator, I can't drag files from explorer on to it (they are rejected with the 'stop' cursor) and if I try to use the explorer extension right click 'Edit with Notepad++' it throws an error.
Opening the files using the Notepad++ 'Open' dialog, or even double clicking them in Explorer works as it should.…
Hello together,
I´ve a big problem.
I have to move data from an old Webspace which is only accessibla by ftp.
No we have a new root server which is accessible by ssh of course :-)
No i Need to move all data from the old space but there is a lot of Gb of files.
Is there a way to fetch all files directly from the old ftp to the storage and…
I am unable to log into a samba server (running on fedora core 6) as it prompts for a username and password when I try to connect to the mapped drives from my windows 7 machine.
I decided to reset the password using the command smbpassword paddy and when I list users using check the pdbedit -L -v I see that the password was updated at…
I am trying to schedule a batch file in Windows 2008 R2 Server. My batch file internally calls two other batch files. I am trying to schedule this on hourly basis. The schedular calls my batch file correctly but it does not run the other batch files which I am calling internally! Any idea why this is not working?
When I run my batch…
I've got a logfile in the standard syslog format. It looks like this, except with hundreds of lines per second:
Jan 11 07:48:46 blahblahblah...
Jan 11 07:49:00 blahblahblah...
Jan 11 07:50:13 blahblahblah...
Jan 11 07:51:22 blahblahblah...
Jan 11 07:58:04 blahblahblah...
It doesn't roll at exactly midnight, but it'll never have…
Use this when you need to open multiple windows on a regular bassis, such as when deploying manually.
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe "D:\dev\Trunk\web\Mysite\PrecompiledWeb"
For my company I'm starting to manage more and more domains; and with that more and more certificates for those domains.
What is a good way to store the basic KEY and CSR files generated? I was considering a git repo on our private code server. This does not seem secure enough though.
Would you suggest and other system, or how…
i am trying to install teamviewer and i am getting the following error and the entire process is as follows
kittu@kittu-355V4C-356V4C-3445VC-3545VC:~$ sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux_x64.debdpkg: error processing archive teamviewer_linux_x64.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were…
I would like to configure GNU screen such that it stores the command histories of all the different windows in different files.
I know by default GNU screen does not store the command histories (of its different windows) in a file at all (it stores them in memory instead), but it might be possible to tell it to store…
Our Sharepoint installation currently has 30Gb of Usage Analysis Log file - these date back about six months.
I have configured Sharepoint to do Usage Analysis Processing every night, so I am wondering whether I need to keep these files for so long.
Sharepoint doesn't seem to clean up these files automatically - I…
I want windows to use c:/temp as its temp folder.
I want all other applications to use d:/temp as their temp folders.
I believe this is not possible, or is it ?
I'm busy trying to build a .deb package from the binaries of my application (non open source) and I'm having trouble getting the correct info to display in the Ubuntu Software Centre (when you click on the .deb file).
Please see screenshot below of control file and Software Centre View. It seems like the package name…
I have a database in a single file group, with a single file group. I've added 7 data files to this file group. Is there a way to rebalance the data over the 8 data files other than by telling sql server to empty the original? If this is the only way, is it possible to allow sql server to start writing to this file?…
What I want/need/desire is to log when a user logs into my FTP server.
Problem: I can't make swatch work the way I should be able to.
This data is logged to a file - but of course these logs are not kept very long. I can't keep the logs around forever, but I can extract data from then, analyze it, store results…
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'Installing' Applications, where to put folders?
Hello,
Where shall I put applications which do not require install (extracted from archive)?
E.g.
java based programs
executable scripts
In two variants:
for all users
for one user
Some times the archive itself contains…
Is it possible to improve the quality of reports from logwatch?
Like make it not just report disk usage which doesn't even change much in daily operation, but report significant changes in usage or approaching critical capacity levels?
If I cannot do that with logwatch and instead have to write custom…
Are there any simple tools to normalize an .ogg-library of 10'000+ songs so that the volume is the same throughout all songs?
Terminal or GUI doesn't matter, it only need to be simple.
One caveat though, I don't want soft interludes/intermissions and ballads blown out of proportion.
Preferably the…
Selling digital or downloadable products on the internet is one of the most efficient ways of doing business. However, if you don't know of the dangers that lurk, you will inevitably fall victim to the several websites out there that will rip you off.