Questions tagged [files]
Organized data encoded in a pre-defined format and stored on a filesystem.
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How to delete non root-owned files from Unix /tmp folder
We have some Ubuntu v22 servers that get a lot of files dumped into the /tmp directory, in spite of our best code efforts to clean up after the processes are done. What we would like to do is run a ...
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Audit trasspasing information
I would like to know if there is a way to audit what files a user is "passing" from the file server to their local environment.
I have the event viewer enabled but I can only see which file ...
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.htaccess to normalize requests to files with or without extension to URL without extension: $1(\.html?) --> $1
This is a followup question
My intended .htaccess ruleset has overall been achieved.
See that file in its current form quoted below.
Remaining problem: One ruleset yet not working
Goal: Normalize ...
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.htaccess files directive only matching when I'm checking the same folder
I've got a server set up where I want a specific PHP file to be readable via the browser, but I want access to be denied to the rest of the PHP files. So I put this .htaccess in the server root:
<...
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Why would /etc/krb5.keytab change?
A half-dozen boxes out of hundreds reported a changed /etc/krb5.keytab all within a few minutes of each other on a random Saturday. No one was logged in at the time of the changes. I have asked for ...
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If Robocopy is run from a different server, does it copy the files across the network if the source and destination are the same server?
As part of our build and deployment process, we deploy applications from Server A (our build server running GitHub self-hosted runner) to Server B (web server). The process involves publishing from ...
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Files with apparent 86TB file size, how to shrink them?
After extracting a zip, I have 8.6P in apparent size but only 728M on disk used. I did some checks and hdparm --fibmap shows that all the files have a huge byte_offset: 94331430207488.
I tried to use ...
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ICSharpCode.sharpziplib.zip.zipexception. Cannot find central directory
Every time we run a certain commercial software in a Windows Server 2019 we get a pop-up window with this error:
ICSharpCode.sharpziplib.zip.zipexception. Cannot find central directory
It looks like ...
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How to save my files from initramfs for Ubuntu 22.04, which is unable to boot?
My Ubuntu got broken because UUID isn't correct, and I try all the ways but not fix it, so I decided to reinstall Ubuntu again. However, I need the old files in Ubuntu, is there any way for me to copy ...
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NGINX - How to serve file with filename that begins with the last segment of uri?
I have many PDFs in a \drawings folder on my server. The filename structure is: 8 digits, underscore, Rev level letter -- i.e. \d{8}_[A-Za-z]\.pdf. These files are organized in subfolders that match ...
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Delete folders asynchronously
I have a large file system in which I have to delete certain directories from time to time. Currently I have a script which amongst other things, deletes a folder and subsequently generates an email ...
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How are files routed through the network when using a copy command with UNC paths as the source and destination?
Given a command like robocopy "\\UNC1" "\\UNC2" /E /MT:128 /R:0 /W:0 executed from a workstation.
Do files move like this
or more like
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Discrepancy in file usage after rsync
I copied files from an exFAT filesystem to an ext4 filesystem:
sudo rsync -avz /media/user/1TB-SD-EX/ -e ssh example.com:/data/pc/sd1tb
After successful run I check source and destination size with ...
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Using file system (AWS EFS) as cheap database for Lambda function
I am designing a database that could easily be represented as a large collection of files containing fixed size records, with sequence numbers 0,1,... This could fit nicely in DynamoDB with the ...
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Permission for Users group successfully modified via code, but change is not reflected in Security tab for the Users group
I have C# code (at the end) which:
Creates a file
Prints the current ACL
Gives the builtin users group "write permissions" to the previously created file
Prints the current modified ACL
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