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nixCraft 🐧

Want to run the given command in the background as root or other user? Try:
```
sudo -b /path/to/job.py
sudo --background /path/to/foo.pl
sudo -u {user_name} -b /path/to/job.py
```
Please note that you can't use shell job control to manipulate background processes started by sudo which is both pro and con at a time.

#linux#unix#sudo
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

Addendum: Thanks everyone for their input so far!

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Stupid #Linux / #Unix question - honest answers please! :boost_ok:

Why not shove all configuration files in a git?

  • Obviously not the ones that actually matter like id_rsa and/or some other private keys / certificates...

But like regular #SystemConfiguration files.

  • In all seriousness noone should actually do this with a public git but then again noone puts their Ansible public either.

What did I miss with my train of thought, folks?

Simple CONFiguration Manager - a brutally simple way to manage system(s) configuration(s) - greyhat-academy/sconfm
GitHubGitHub - greyhat-academy/sconfm: Simple CONFiguration Manager - a brutally simple way to manage system(s) configuration(s)Simple CONFiguration Manager - a brutally simple way to manage system(s) configuration(s) - greyhat-academy/sconfm
#configuration_management#configuration#config
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diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱

"No equipment, apparatus, circuit or device not furnished by the telephone company shall be attached to or connected with facilities furnished by the telephone company whether physically, by induction or otherwise, except as provided in the tariffs"

AT&T gave us two things, #UNIX and the ability to escape the #Matrix...

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.

And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...

-> infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146825

One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.

  • Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.

Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...

Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...

  • Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/1146893

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@DenOfEarth@mas.to @aka_pugs@mastodon.social I know. Cade in point, #OpenSolaris did have avid users just below that range, and a lot of #ScientificComputing used it, as they previously used #IRIX. And #Sun being #OpenSourve-friendly was the right direction...
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Dr. Brian Callahan

I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

Modernization effort (C11-C23) for Mac OS X PowerPC - ibara/libppc
GitHubGitHub - ibara/libppc: Modernization effort (C11-C23) for Mac OS X PowerPCModernization effort (C11-C23) for Mac OS X PowerPC - ibara/libppc
#gcc#compiler#compilers
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lfa :emacs: :tux: :freebsd:

#FOSS is all about options:
- I chose not to use #RedHat systems 28 years ago.
- I chose not te use #GNOME 15 years ago
- I chose not to use #SystemD 6 years ago.
- I choose to accelerate the migration of all the #Linux based systems I can to #BSD systems because:
- I choose to keep up with the #UNIX way
- I choose to use stable systems which don't change for the sake of change
- I choose to be part of healthier communities, that don't promote monoculture or fall so easily into arrogance

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