I am trying to automate installation of tripwire via apt-get through Python’s subprocess module in Ubuntu Linux. The problem I have is that during the installation process, Tripwire is prompting me for Postfix mail configuration, setting site.key and local.key through different set of configuration page…
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what is “.filename” in the linux and how to open that file? [closed]
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C Server/Client with Sockets
[Just 2 minor questions on the ground of this remaining] I try to write a simple server/client in C to send messages over sockets. It must run under Linux and Windows with MinGW. I found many examples for Linux but way to many arent working with Windows. It would be really nice if you would help me. For the s…
Ansible: copying one unique file to each server in a group
I have a series of numbered files to be processed separately by each server. Each split file made using linux split and then xz compressed to save transfer time. split_001 split_002 split_003 … split_030 How can I push these files out to a group of 30 servers with ansible? It does not matter which serve…
Interractive plots Ipython 5.0.0 in the terminal
I run Ipthon in the terminal, in linux (not a jupyter notebook). In Ipython 2.4.1, the following commands opens a pop up interactive Tk plot window: In Ipython 5.0.0, when I use the same code: nothing appears. How do I get my poping up interractive plot in Iptyhon 5.0.0? Answer From your output with ipython u…
Is it possible to somehow undo the results of the mv command?
Here’s the problem. I had a bunch of files in a directory. Then I created another directory in that directory. Then I cobbled together this command: This command was supposed to take all the files in the directory and move them to that newly-created directory, but instead of providing the name of the di…
Concatenating file names into string for a function
I’m trying to concatenate a bunch of files into a string so I can use them for a function. As a test script I’m trying to do this: but I’m getting the error: but they are most definitely there can I get some advice please? Answer Change the last line to mv $A ./stuff That should work with fi…
Bash: Using filenames as commands with the wildcard
I was playing around in my terminal earlier and discovered that I can execute single word commands (‘ls’,’cat’,’python2.7′,’exit’) by making a file or directory named the same thing as the command. However, I can’t execute ‘multi-word’ commands…
Bash: Determine partially deleted content [closed]
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linux – created duplicate root user, cant login anymore.. what do i do? [closed]
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