Bash is the Bourne Again SHell, the successor to the classic Unix sh (shell).
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Supervisord unable to shutdown fcgi processes
I've managed to set up supervisord with fastcgi on a django project of mine, the problem is that when I make mi program stop, the server keeps running somehow, and my page keeps online.
Here is my ...
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IBMi bash upgrade
I am trying to install rvm in PASE on IBMi (v7.1) but it is failing because it states bash version 3.2.25 is required. Running bash --version via CALL QP2TERM states I am running the following ...
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Remote rename of a file on Samba share via Bash script
I'm running a Bash script under Cygwin, but this question applies more broadly.
I have a remote file: //someremoteserver/somefile.db
That "//" path is under Cygwin--it's essentially a UNC pathname ...
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Problems in monitoring file age with nagios (command substitution in filename)
In my current nagios installation I check for the existence of a remote backup through NRPE. In particular, my remote nrpe.cfg (on a Ubuntu 8.x) is:
...
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How can I kill and wait for background processes to finish in a shell script when I Ctrl+C it?
I'm trying to set up a shell script so that it runs background processes, and when I ctrl+C the shell script, it kills the children, then exits.
The best that I've managed to come up with is this. It ...
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export_bashrc() bash function to export .bashrc to a server
I am trying to write a bash function shown below.I am trying to scp my .bashrc to the target
machine.I want to do modify the following function in the below two ways.
1.I want to enter the password ...
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Redhat 5 Upgrade / Sphinx Search Init Startup Hangs
I recently upgrade a VM to Redhat 5 and moved Sphinx Search to that server. For some reason when
I try to start Sphinx, the startup script fails to push the searchd process to the
background. I ...
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pbs/Torque interactive jobs: bash trick to run command after launch
I'm using pbs interactive jobs in bash, launched using qsub -I, and I'd like to run some command after launch. After this command is run, I'd like to continue to use the interactive reservation as ...
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iotop for Linux kernel 2.6.18
So it has to come to my attention that iotop isn't availalbe for 2.6.18 since it's less than 2.6.20 and requires Python 2.6+. I've done some research and came across this article:
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run several bash scripts with expect code and leave them running
I have a bunch of several bash scripts that will perform some actions that require user input, therefore I'm using expect with it.
However, I need one to keep running. But if I use expect, the expect ...
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Linux- Permission denied?
I'm installing Neo4j server as a linux service, but when I install it, I get the following message:
/sbin/insserv: Permission denied
What is this? What should I do? I'm running everything with ...
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Close a SSH Session when it suspend
I start a ssh session on a remote host and execute a script on the remote host. The Script is an update script that change the remote IP.
Now my local bash script hanging on the line with this ...
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expect script works fine standalone not from bash script
I am running a expect script,which login to a server check if iptables running and return the log file of the status. There is a hostfile also given with server list and password, expect is being ...
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screen, expect and scripted detached interaction
Trying to write a bash script which will open a screen, start a python application, and interact with the python interaction as required when it is first started.
If not possible in screen, I would ...
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Deleting Files in a Zip Archive on Linux
I have a situation where I need to be able to run a script and delete specific files within a zip archive. Below is the general setup
/mnt/directory
/mnt/directory/Folder1
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smtp.gmail.com from bash gives “Error in certificate: Peer's certificate issuer is not recognized.”
I needed my script to email admin if there is a problem, and the company only uses Gmail. Following a few posts instructions I was able to set up mailx using a .mailrc file. there was first the error ...
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OSX terminal bash permission denied after GIT changed file permissions while cloning repo
I am a beginner at OSX/Unix command line.
I have a GIT repository that was created on my OSX computer. Recently I cloned the repo and went to run a bash script within the repo via ./BashFile.sh. This ...
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What could block the output of a command?
Sometimes I'll attempt a (2>&1) redirection and some/all of the resulting output appears to be silenced.
e.g.
wget -O- http://localhost/test.txt 2>&1
I would expect to see a merge of ...
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Formatting a disk and creating a partition using the maximum amount of cylinders through bash
Usually we would use parted or fdisk to create a new partition, but in my case I want to do this non-interactively in a script. An interactive fdisk session would look like this:
# fdisk /dev/sdb
...
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Bash reverse-search malfunctioning sometimes
When using the reverse-search feature in bash (Strg+R), typing some letters and pressing TAB, We encounter an error like in following example
(reverse-i-search)`sudo servi': ^Cdo service omd-0.54 ...
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Omnibus uniform Chef version install across platforms
So I'm looking for a uniform way to install chef on a number of different servers running different platforms. I know I can use the omnibus installer for this, but I also need a way to lock or ...
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Interfacing strace with Process Name instead of PID
How do I implement a wrapper script pstrace in bash that changees the interface of
[sudo] strace -c -p [PID]
to
[sudo] pstrace -c -p [PROCESS-NAME]
similar to how
killall [PROCESS-NAME]
is ...
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How do I correctly SSH port forward using LiveReload on Redhat?
Referencing this page:
http://feedback.livereload.com/knowledgebase/articles/86280-if-you-edit-files-directly-on-your-server
It says you can remotely port forward the LiveReload specific port of ...
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Create restricted user on Debian server
I want to create a user account for each of the key programs installed on my debian server. For example, for the following programs:
Tomcat Nginx Supervisor PostgreSQL
This seems to be recommended ...
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on suse11 executables are run using sh instead of bash. How to change this
On Suse 11 though the default shell is bash, when I run any executable shell like ./IsCurrentShell then this script is run using sh instead of bash. How can I make this behavior to change such that ...
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calling a variable in find regex
Is there a way to call a variable in the below manner?
in this case X=$(date --date=yesterday +%Y-%m-%d)
echo $X --> 2012-07-26
The below command works but even if the date is in 25 it considers. ...
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Cron task failing on specific job
On my server I am getting the following error when running one of my cron tasks:
CRON[9913]: (CRON) error (grandchild #9915 failed with exit status 127)
The server is running ...
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How do I download the avatar image from an Active Directory server?
I'm using the ldapsearch.exe binary that was installed along with an Oracle client. It took awhile to tease out the arguments that it wanted, but I'm able to successfully connect to AD and parse out ...
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Calculate average of every 5 samples with rrdtool or other languages
I want to make an average of 5 samples and calculate a single value:
Current output - I put resolution of 5 minutes but receive 5 samples:
$ rrdtool fetch file.rrd AVERAGE -r 300 --start 1200000000 ...
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Spanish Characters in Linux Server Bash Shell
I have a database that contains Spanish words in it. It contains words like sueño which have "special characters" in them. The MySQL database collation is set to utf-8-general-ci which supports ...
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Generating jmeter .jmx files with shell and variables
I've been trying to find a way to mass generate jmeter xml config files based on my template and some variables I could define somewhere.
Bash didn't work too well, I was trying while read line with ...
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Autocompletion, history and scrolling in Byobu
I am using an Ubuntu server with Byobu. For some reason, the tab key writes a tab instead of completing commands and paths. Top arrow writes ^[[A instead of the command history. Scrolling writes ^[[B. ...
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Running Hudson builds with a higher nice level
I want to run build jobs in Jenkins with minimal cpu usage. I've tried this:
Created the directory "jenkinsJdk".Jenkins is configured to use this dir as JDK "testJdk". A sample job uses "testJdk" ...
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schroot auto-mounting doesnt works?
I've been reading about schroot and trying to understand the parts in various tutorials that mention about auto mounting. For example check the section (and the parts after it) "Basic schroot ...
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Installing keys with .DEB packages silently fails
I'm trying to create a .DEB package which will install a number of certificates and keys onto a system.
To do this, i've gone through the standard package creation process, and thrown two files, ...
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How can I block all wordpress admin access on a server?
I administer a server with lot of wordpress installations.
Is there a way to block all admin-accounts with one script, or to add an extra password in the global apache configuration?
I would like to ...
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rsync script to rewrite suffix - BASH, awk, sed, perl?
trying to write up a script to put the suffix back.
heres what I have but can't get it to do anything :(
would like it to be name.date.suffix
rsync -zrlpoDtub --suffix=".`date +%Y%m%d%k%M%S`.~" ...
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How to remove openstack without reimaging
I would like to be able to remove all open-stack components and all config files that were installed without re-imaging the system. I can delete the files and folders manually, but system changes will ...
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init script not working on reboot
I'm trying to run a script on reboot or halt, the function stop should be called. I done
chkconfig --add scriptname ;
chkconfig --level 345 scriptname on ;
chkconfig --level 016 scriptname off ;
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readlink: illegal option — f
Recently the script was working fine, but from some days I'm receiving such message, while running the readlink -f "$0" command:
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
I was ...
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Different result with same grep conditions via ssh
Like in the subject I got different result from the same grep command.
The following command is run on a central server which query the other servers via ssh.
ssh root@$domain "grep `date +%Y/%m/%d` ...
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SELinux denies execute of script resulting in a complex looking custom policy
The heartbeat type polling tool nanny (part of Piranha / Linux Virtual Server / LVS / IPVS) is being denied access to my "sendprogram" scripts by SELinux. Setting the context alone is not sufficient. ...
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Unable to write files from CGI running under boa on linux with busybox
I am running the boa webserver on an IP camera with BusyBox. I have set up a ScriptAlias and can run CGI scripts. I can echo "who" to the page and it says I am running as root, but I cannot write ...
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Accessing PSN (process serial number) from script
I have a script which is getting called by Flash Builder, which I would like to access the arguments of. Unfortunately, Flash Builder appears to pass the arguments via PSN (ie. -psn_0_12345678). Is ...
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Permit www-data to run ONE svn hook (bash) as root
A quick overview to my structure:
/var/bin/ Dedicated server bash scripts to manage server
/var/svn/[domain.com]/ SVN repositories directory
/var/svn/hooks.d/ SVN hooks (each domain is symbolic ...
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Remote call script as administrator
I created a Windows XP bat script to modify etc/hosts file.
I want to share this script at other machine, then from another computer I want to invoke these script to modify hosts file at first ...
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scp in for loop for installing printers — connection refused
I could've sworn I was able to setup printers by:
setup first host with lpadmin
setup additional hosts with for loop: wherein
stop cups
copy printers.conf over
start cups
for host in ...
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0answers
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ldap_delete issue: no global superior knowledge
I'm trying to remove all entries under a particular OU on an LDAP server. The command that I'm using is:
sudo slapcat -v -n 1 -a ...
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0answers
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How to run script only if load balancer is NOT routing requests to it via bash script?
I have 4 cloud instances. First is a load balancer (LB), and then 2 instances with the identical setup holding the application code (APP1 & APP2). And finally, I have a database instance (DB).
...
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Execute command with Jailkit
So I created a jail at /opt/jail using http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/ - how can I execute a command inside the jail now and get the output as I can do with chroot ?
The simplest command I'd like ...
