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on the password prompt, the shell automatically adds a return after entering a character and displays authentication failed
logging in to an ubuntu 16.04 server via ssh. This has never happened before. The other user I asked seems unaffected by this. What could have happened? Also, when I try to enter my git credentials ...
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Why performing the env command I obtain different values of the environment variables declared into "/etc/environment"?
I am working on an Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS system and I have the following doubt.
Into the /etc/environment file I have delcared the following variables:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/...
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Cronjob in background
I have a bash script already tested and working fine. It's a listener that trigger a command on new created files in a specific directory. I added it in crontab "* * * * * root /bin/bash /var/...
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Terminal gets closed as soon as I start it
I have newly given ubuntu 16.04.
I wanted my terminal to execute command during start up so I go to:
Edit -> profile preferences -> run a custom command instead of my shell
There I wrote the ...
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Why can I not mount my NTFS local partition on Bash for Windows
I have two local disks on my Windows 10 OS, C:/ and W:/ (w:/ is an NTFS partition of my C: drive). I start up Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, and under /mnt/ I only see one directory, /mnt/c. Following ...
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How to know where terminal name (command line prompt) come from?
When I log in on remote server with my user, I see terminal name:
user@someName. I want to modify someName part.
I thought maybe it was related with hostname. So opening /etc/hostname, it was also ...
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pkftk.jar executable with bash script pdftk current directory
In ubuntu-16.04 the command line program pdftk was dropped. I use pdftk every day, so I am working on using this PDFTK fork https://gitlab.com/marcvinyals/pdftk from the instructions found at https://...
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Bash :: append text to output of file
I am very new to Shell Scripting so this maybe a very easy solution but i'm struggling to get it to work.
I have a file with this content:
example1.eu
example2.eu
example3.eu
What I am trying to ...
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Where exactly is defined this service into a Linux Ubunty 16.04 system?
I am not so into Linux and I have the following problem. I am working on n Ubuntu 16.04 system.
In this system I have a program that it is started from the command line in this way:
service wso2ei ...
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Why does Bash suddenly print a lot of `declare -x` commands on startup?
Recently, whenever I open a terminal, bash prints this text(some info redacted) to it before I'm dropped into the prompt:
declare -x CCACHE_DIR="/local/.ccache"
declare -x CLICOLOR="1"
declare -x ...
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ssh is stuck at sending command, but login without a command works
I am able to ssh to machine xyz:
$ ssh xyz
mitchus@xyz's password:
Last login: Fri Sep 1 12:37:10 2017 from 192.168.1.23
mitchus@xyz:~$
but I can't scp to it, nor can I send a command via ssh. ...
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Does changing root permissions matter?
I see many times when dealing with password or other confidential files, tutorials and the like recommend changing the file permissions to 400. This seems odd because root, I have learned, is like the ...
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