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Where's the conventional place to store git repositories in a linux file system tree?
If I make an analogy with the hosting of a web server, I would say that git's data should be in /var/git, so my git repository would be in /var/git/myrepo
Q: Is that the right guess ?
Samuel Rossille
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Is there a way to avoid SSH typing delay?
Can I tell SSH to send the data only after pressing enter or tab, and not after each individual keypress?
StackedCrooked
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How to read in N random characters from /dev/urandom?
read /dev/urandom 3
The above is not working..How can I read random bytes from /dev/urandom in bash?
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Why Block Port 22 Outbound?
I'm a programmer, and I have worked for a few clients whose networks block outgoing connections on port 22. Considering that programmers often need to use port 22 for ssh, this seems like a counterproductive procedure. At best, it forces the…
runako
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How do I join two named pipes into single input stream in linux
Using the pipes (|) feature in Linux I can forward chain the standard input to one or several output streams.
I can use tee to split the output to separate sub processes.
Is there a command to join two input streams?
How would I go about this? …
Brad
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How to grant network access to LocalSystem account?
How do you grant access to network resources to the LocalSystem (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) account?
Background
When accessing the network, the LocalSystem account acts as the computer on the network:
LocalSystem Account
The LocalSystem account is a…
Ian Boyd
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How to setup linux permissions for the WWW folder?
Updated Summary
The /var/www directory is owned by root:root which means that no one can use it and it's entirely useless. Since we all want a web server that actually works (and no-one should be logging in as "root"), then we need to fix this.…
Xeoncross
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How do I edit git's history to correct an incorrect email address/name
When I started using git I just did a git init and started calling add and commit. Now I am starting to pay attention and I can see that my commits are showing up as cowens@localmachine, rather than the address I want. It appears as if setting…
Chas. Owens
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failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted
I'm trying to list services on my CentOS image running in Docker using
systemctl list-units
but I get this error message:
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted
Any suggestions what the problem might be?
Snowcrash
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How to handle relative urls correctly with a reverse proxy
I have a reverse proxy setup as follows in Apache:
Server A with address www.example.com/folder is the reverse proxy server.
It maps to: Server B with address test.madeupurl.com
This kind of works. But the problem I have is, on…
Hard worker
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What is the difference between /sbin/nologin and /bin/false?
I have often heard it recommended that a user account should be disabled by setting its shell to /bin/false. But, on my existing Linux systems, I see that a great number of existing accounts (all of them service accounts) have a shell of…
Michael Hampton
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How to combine various certificates into single .pem
I've just finished reading over this great thread explaining the different SSL formats.
Now I'm essentially looking for the opposite of How to split a PEM file
There's 4 files I want to consolidate, originally created for Apache, I'm looking at…
quickshiftin
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Your system administrator does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer
At our office, all of our Windows 7 Clients get this error message when we try and RDP to a remote Windows 2008 Server outside of the office:
Your system administrator does not allow the user of saved credentials to
log on to the remote…
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How dangerous is a wet server room floor
We have a couple of tower servers in a small server room. The carpet is wet as a result of the cooler and no-one else really seems concerned about this but I'm not too happy. I'm only a lowly developer, but I seem to be more concerned than the…
JMK
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