I’m new in linux and I’m building a program that receives the name of a process, gets its PID (i have no problem with that part) and then pass the PID to the kill command but its not working. It goes something like this: Can someone tell me why it isn’t killing it ? I know that there are som…
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PHP: creates file but can’t append with (apparently) correct server permissions (LAMP)
I have seen many questions and answers on this topic but none seem to help my situation. My PHP code is successfully creating a new logfile, but then cannot access that file to append further info, close it, etc. I am migrating an application from local XAMPP onto LAMP: hence problem only showing up now due t…
How can I use the set-guid (i.e., set group identification) vulnerability to execute a file with limited permissions?
How can I use the set-guid bit vulnerability to execute a file /bin/grade which is owned by root using the following 3 vulnerable programs? I am not root nor part of the bsp* groups so my access to the programs is limited to read & execute only. For the file /bin/grade, I only have read access, but I want…
Why is echo showing the command itself and not the command output
Why is echo showing the command and not the output of the command once I start using it in a FOR I loop? For example this command works But not in a FOR I loop I want the command to print the first field so then I can add other functionality to the For I loop. Thanks EDIT — Not
How to select Amazon Machine Image (linux distribution) to AWS EC2? [closed]
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Linux total disk I/O from already running process
I’m working on a performance tool and I’m interested in the total disk I/O i single process have done since it started. I have the porcess PID and i can easily get the current I/O rate with tools like iotop or sar, but not the total I/O. Is this even logged in Linux and is there a way to get
Reasoning behind ‘sort’ core util’s key (-k) syntax
When using the sort function in a shell, it seems the preferred syntax for the -k option when sorting via only one field is, for example, -k5n,5. What’s the advantage of the ,5 in this case? -k5n works the same, or at least seems to for me. Refs: The man page seems to prefer this but also suggests it is
Function arguments in x86-64 asm
So I have to do this project for school that consists of reading a file in brainfuck and interpret it as assembly. The code works if I save the file path as a String inside the .data section, but what I want to have it so it gets the file path as an argument when starting the code in the
Run matlab compiled dll library from a C program on Linux/OSX
So I have a .dll file that was built via Matlab on Windows and I would like to run it on a C/C++ program I’ve created. Is that possible at all? I know I can run it on windows like this: But windows.h is not available on Linux/OSX, is there any other way? Alternatively is there any other format I
Edit field with date in .csv
I have .csv file with lines like this: and i need to change all date and time to this: I think it’s possible using awk and date but until now nothing worked. Answer Some perl: That removes the last 2 comma-separated fields from each line, deletes the fractional time and timezone, reformats the time and …