.Xdefaults Is Empty!

Dear all,

This is long story cut short, with vsftp, if i set this parameters in the vsftp.conf file below

Code:

local_enable=YES
chroot_local_users=YES

I am able to login to the ftp account, see and list my home/user directory, and if i do a cd / or cd .. , i will still be chroot to my /home/user directory.

without, the need to chmod or or chown anything to my /home/user directory

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With openSSH, internal_sftp, even though I have set the sshd_conf to

Code:

Match user alankoh
X11Forwarding no
AllowTcpForwarding no
ForceCommand internal-sftp
ChrootDirectory /home/%u

I will need to change owner my /home/user directory to have root becomes it owner.
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Q1) why this difference ? How does vsftp chroot without changing the /home/user folder ownership ?

Q2) i realize that openssh ChrootDirectory parameter causes my default login directory to be set as that of the parameter.
(e.g. if i set to "/whatever/xyz", i will be brought to that /whatever/xyz everytime i login to the sftp instead of my /home/user folder.

Why ? I thought that ChrootDirectory is just a security measure to specify the directory to go to in case the user cd to root (e.g. cd /), else not, i should still go to my /home/user folder everytime i login to sftp.

Regards,
Noob

Hello, I'm on my first attempt at configuring a kernel. In the sunxi how-to guide, under 'Tweak config', it says to run this command:
Code:

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- menuconfig

This works fine for me (if I leave out:ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-). The editor starts up with a configuration file already loaded.

I noticed though, after exiting the configuration editor, that another command was called after I entered 'make menuconfig':
Code:

~/linux-sunxi$ make menuconfig
scripts/kconfig/mconf Kconfig

If I try running this on its own:
Code:

scripts/kconfig/mconf Kconfig

I just get an empty editor, asking which configuration file to load.

Shouldn't 'make menuconfig' need to be run only once? Is there another command to start the editor with your configuration file already loaded?

When I type in a path to a directory - whether it be in SSH or a config file or wherever - should I end it with a trailing slash or not?

For example...
Code:

/home/rob123/temp/

or

Code:

/home/rob123/temp

Rob

I have a shell script to find folders which are 25 days older and delete it, and put the deleted folder details into log file like this

Code:

 find /ahome/xxx/$FOLDER -type d -mtime +25  -exec ls -ld {} \;  -exec rm -rf {} \;  >> mylogfile.log

after running this command it deletes the folder and logs the folder deleted. But also print error msg
Code:

find: /ahome/prksh/dir/test: No such file or directory

How to suppress the error msg

I made the mistake of adding an xterm invocation to my ".bashrc" file. My intent was to simply execute an xterm upon initial login to the KDE environment on Debian Wheezy (though the distro probably would have made no difference). What happened is that with each invocation of "xterm", the new xterm would again invoke an "xterm" via the ".bashrc" file. Duh, infinite recursion of xterms upon login. Is there a simple way to invoke an xterm at login that doesn't itself lookup the ".bashrc" file? By the time someone answers this, I will probably find and answer somewhere in the bash/xterm man pages, but thought I'd throw it out there. Really felt stupid after having realized my mistake. Had to login to recovery command line mode and replace the ".bashrc" file with "/etc/skel/.bashrc". Cheerio

hi guys, im trying to get rid of a non empty directory. i have researched it online and it basically says that the command would be sudo rmdir -r filename
it keeps coming back with invalid option for r

what am i doing wrong?

the directory is in the home directory along with the documents, videos, download etc and i am in the home directory. i tried putting a text file there to make sure i am in the right path and it deleted it with rm so the path is correct.

i understand that i can do it with the gui but im trying to learn the terminal for the next forty years.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, I hope you're all well, I've made a pretty stupid error and I hope someone can help, thanks for your time.

So, I had been warned by gnome and my package manager that my HDD was full which didn't seem right so I decided to look at Gnome's 'Disk Usage Analyzer' which made the problem appear obvious. There was apparently a complete 1.5TB copy of my home directory in the /srv/nfs/ directory, now I don't have much use for NFS anymore and I needed to install some software so I thought the solution was quite straightforward , I cd'ed to /srv/nfs/ and rm -rf'ed the directory and figured that I would fix nfs at a later date. Now this seems to have deleted my actual home directory, which is completely empty and it looks to me like I've lost ~1.5TB of data.
So firstly, Is it actually this operation which deleted my home directory or did I manage to do this at some other point with some other command?
And secondly do I have any chance of recovering files? I tried to unmount the partition when I realised what I had done but I kept getting an error to the effect that the drive was busy at which point I rebooted and got the same error, so I unplugged the machine. Googling led me to extundelete but I don't have access to another linux machine at the moment, would this be my best chance?

Thanks again for any replies.

System Info:

I have normal user in CentOS 7 whose name is "mostafa" (the name of the account).

I naturally have another user called root with all privileges. User "mostafa" is put into sudoers file, too.

The OS is installed in VmWare, so the system is all mine.

Problem:

Now I create a file with touch file.sh and put a command in it, but when I want to run it with Code:

sudo ./file.sh

, an error is shown that the command Code:

./file.sh

does not exist. But if I Code:

 sudo chmod 777 ./file.sh

then it gets run. My question is that, why should I use Code:

chmod 777

when I myself have created the file, and I am in sudoers.

Can anyone explain me why shuold I still use Code:

sudo chmod 777

when the creator of the file is me.

https://code.google.com/p/wavelet1d/...ar.gz&can=2&q=

The above link is where I downloaded *.cpp(s) and the libraries.

If you "untar" the package, in "examples" directory, there are some demonstration files. What I wanted to do was to make an executable file out of "wavedemo1.cpp".

I modified the code in "wavedemo1.cpp"; Code:

#include "wavelet2d.h"

to Code:

#include "wavelet2s.h"

, then placed the header file "wavelet2s.h" (from /wavelib/src/linuxstatic) and the modified "wavedemo1.cpp" into my working directory.

Inside the working directory, I ran the following command

Code:

gcc -L/home/mario/wavelet/wavelib/linuxstatic -lwavelet2s wavedemo1.cpp -o wavedemo1

Then I get the following error messages.

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /home/mario/wavelet/wavelib/linuxstatic/libwavelet2s.a when searching for -lwavelet2s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwavelet2s
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm not sure what went wrong with my approach. This is my first time trying to use libraries on linux and it's giving me really tough times.

I would appreciate your help, please let me know if you need more details to explain things.

Thanks.

Hey, I'm aware that /etc/ stores config files and in my home directory I also have dot files as well as a .config folder.

And I'm told not to edit /etc/ but create a copy in my home directory to preserve original files. Is it as simple as creating the full path the same as /etc/ and editing it in home folder?

Ideally this is how I hope it works, because I don't want to edit /etc/ and end up with a bunch of custom, non default files.