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How to ignore the error No such file directory in the ls command?

How to ignore the error No such file directory? Answer You are doing the following: This will do the ls, the first and the second cut, and when an error is generated at the second cut, it will be sent to the null device (which means it will be removed). If you want to remove the error message from any

Pipe between a C and a Python program

I am currently trying to write a C program that interacts with hardware, I have chosen so since the manufacturer of the hardware supplies with a C SDK for this hardware. However, I want this C program to output the data it receives from the hardware (a sensor for example) to a pipe so that I can write a Pytho…

Crontab not able to call mailx used via python subPrrocess

I have a python file (say, mail_it.py) in which I have written a function to send the mails. Code is as below:- When I run this python file directly via unix command: It sends the mail. But when I set this file to run via crontab. I get the following error: Thanks in advance! Answer this is a problem with

is shell_exec() sub-process supposed to inherit euid?

i’m running php-cli 7.3.19 as root (on a Debian 10 Buster, linux kernel 4.19.0-8-amd64), and after using posix_seteuid() to change my euid, is sub-processes supposed to inherit my euid? i thought the answer was yes, but testing it, it seems whoami inherits my uid as it’s euid, rather than inheriti…