I’m a total noob at bash so this is most likely a syntax error, but I could not find anything that worked for my syntax in my searches. From terminal, running find . -name “*g*” results in However, running this bash script called grepdir.sh from terminal as grepdir.sh . “*g*” res…
Why my IOCTL call work with copy_from_user but not with get_user?
I am writing a simple driver. Here I’m learning ioctl calls, they work perfect in copy_to_user and copy_from_user part but not in get_user and put_user part. It works if I send some data by those functions; problem is when I have to just pass an integer or character value: in above part it works fine fo…
Deal with Squid Kerberos auth and Squidguard ldapusersearch
I’m meeting troubles with Squid Kerberos auth and the Squidguard ldapusersearch who I use to apply acl by Active Directory groups membership. The problem is : Squid and Squidguard see my user as : user@domain.local so the ‘%s’ variable of squidguard is ‘user@domain.local’ Into my…
Changing SAMBA Password in Java
I have a Java program running on linux that needs to be able to both set a users initial samba password, and then allow them to change their password without giving them access to the terminal. Below is my code for changing the users password, as this is easier to test with, and I will be able to figure the
Linux-C: reading from pipe returns first buffer written to it
This program simulates a variant of Dijkstra’s Producer/Consumer problem. A pipeline is first created followed by a child process using fork(). The child will then write to the pipe a crudely done randomly generated piece of “stock market ticker information”. After waiting for the child/prod…
How to add more than 1 number in a loop in Bash script?
So I have this loop: I want to know how I can add 10 every time the loop repeats instead of adding 1. So I want the loop to look something like this: 110 120 130 140 and keep going until it reaches the limit or stopped! Thanks Answer Simply change ++ to += 10
How to do runtime binding based on CPU capabilities on linux
Is it possible to have a linux library (e.g. “libloader.so”) load another library to resolve any external symbols? I’ve got a whole bunch of code that gets conditionally compiled for the SIMD level to be supported ( SSE2, AVX, AVX2 ). This works fine if the build platform is the same as the …
How to prevent Python script from Force exit?
I am running a python script and trying to prevent from force exiting or print an error message or log that into the log file. I am already using logging.info(“”) for logging.. or just print for printing something.. but what or how do I create a method or function that can either do print or log w…
Unable to connect Serviceable Agent (sun.jvm.hotspot.HSDB) to running jvm on windows 7 (32 Bit)
As per the link I successfully be able to connect HSDB to running jvm process on Ubuntu by following steps below: (On Ubuntu Terminal) set SA_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin/java (On Ubuntu Terminal) echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope (On Ubuntu Terminal) java -Dsun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.…
What is the best way of determining that two file paths are referring to the same file object?
I want to write a unit test that checks that two file paths are equivalent, but I don’t want to assume that the string representation is the same. For example, on Linux there could be symlinks in the path in one case and not in the other. On Windows, there could be drive notation on one (X:foo) and netw…