Trailing Slash Or Not?

hi

hope this is the right place for noob questions

i'm struggling with this example:

Code:

$ find . -name temp -prune -o -print
from theunixschool.com

it means:
Find all the files except the ones under the temp directory.

shouldn't it be:
Code:

$ find . -path temp -prune -o -print

thx!

Hi, I've just recently installed MySQL connector/c from source code on my Slackware 14.1 x64

I read the official instructions of the connector but I felt a bit disorientated when I read:
Code:

1 -Change location to the top-level directory of the source distribution.

I interpreted that I have to go to the "highest" directory Code:

/

So I wrote: Code:

 
        #                            cd /

root@- /#                            tar xzvf /home/normal/Downloads/mysql-connector-c-6.1.6-src.tar.gz 

root@- /#                            cd /mysql-connector-c-6.1.6-src/

root@- /mysql-connector-c-6.1.6-src# cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"

root@- /mysql-connector-c-6.1.6-src# make 

root@- /mysql-connector-c-6.1.6-src# make install

Then I did:
Code:

ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.6.25/include /usr/include

But when I try to compile a program in c with #include <mysql.h> i get this error:
Code:

# gcc ctemp.c 
In file included from ctemp.c:2:0:
/usr/include/mysql.h:57:27: fatal error: mysql_version.h: No such file or directory
 #include "mysql_version.h"
                           ^

What can I do? Thanks a lot and sorry for poor english

PD: If you need the official instructions I paste here the link: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-...on-source.html

Hello,

I cannot understand why the symlink I have put in /etc/cront.daily won't work. It is very possible I am wrong, but my understanding is that cront.{daily,weekly,monthly} works fine with symlinks.

Basically it is double symlink-ed. ls -la on /etc/cron.daily looks like this:

Code:

... 
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    49 Nov 27 18:26 rsync_mysql_backups.sh -> /home/myuser/scripts/bash/rsync_mysql_backups.sh
...

Now, ls -la on /home/myuser/scripts looks like this:

Code:

...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myuser myuser    26 Sep 20  2013 scripts -> /media/md1_storage/scripts
...

I couldn't see anything suspicious in syslog, so I installed postfix in the hope that I will get some sort of information there. Nothing... I also redirected the output of the script to a file in /home/myuser/log.txt but nothing there. The file was not even created.

I am not doing anything mad in the script, I am just synchronising a local directory with a remote one like this:

Code:

/usr/bin/rsync -avzx -e 'ssh -i "/home/myuser/.ssh/myremotehost/id_rsa"' /media/md1_storage/backups/stuff/ myuser@myremotehost:/srv/backups/stuff/ >> /home/myuser/log.txt 2>&1;

As other people suggested in similar threads, I have verified that
Code:

test -x /usr/sbin/anacron

is false, which will result in the execution of the second part of the entry in /etc/crontab:

Code:

25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

Any input will be much appreciated. I know I am doing something wrong, but I just cannot see it right now... How can I gather more debugging which will help me understand what's going wrong?

Thanks!

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.

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

=============================================

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.
============================================

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

I'm running Arch with i3. I'm trying to config xterm and realized that I didn't have a .Xdefaults file in my home directory. I saw in a forum that someone did

Code:

$ cd ~
$ touch ~.Xdefaults

I did that and it made a .Xdefaults file in my home folder but it is empty and I don't know what to do.

Code:

alice@alice:~$ grep 1003 /etc/group
alice:x:1003:
alice@alice:~$ grep 1003 /etc/passwd
alice:x:1003:1003:Alice,,,:/home/alice:/bin/bash

So there's nobody in alice's group except alice (for whatever that's worth)

Code:

alice@alice:~$ ls -ld dollstuff
drwxrwxr-x 2 alice alice 4096 Jan 28 10:55 dollstuff

alice clearly owns and has full access to the directory "dollstuff" which resides in her home directory

Code:

alice@alice:~$ grep 1005 /etc/group
common:x:1005:alice,dilbert,wally

there's another group of which alice is a member, and alice wants to share her directory with the other members of the group

Code:

alice@alice:~$ chgrp common dollstuff
chgrp: changing group of ‘dollstuff’: Operation not permitted

Why not? dilbert and wally do this very same thing on their machines on a regular basis. All are running fully updated Ubuntu 14.04.

"chown ladybug:common dollstuff" is also disallowed, although "rm -r dollstuff" does work.

Trying to get my website set up, and not hang myself in the process!!

So, last night I was able to upload my website's DB from my laptop to my VPS using CyberDuck.

Being new to all of this, I uploaded the .sql file to...
Code:

/home/rob123/public_ftp/

Then I used MySQL to install the upload script.

That went well, but now I have this naked script floating around on my VPS!

How can I delete this .sql file and be 100% certain that it is NOT lingering somewhere else on the server, and that it CANNOT be recovered??

(For those of you who have followed my threads, I am *very* worried about files and login credentials and passwords getting stored in places that they shouldn't!!!)


Also, in retrospect I am thinking it wasn't so smart to upload my DB to a public folder like that.

In the future, what is a better way to upload sensitive files to my VPS to maintain complete Privacy and Security??

Oh the stress of it all!!!

Sincerely,


Rob

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.

I have a bash script executing on an AIX server to a windows share directory to update a windows text file. Most of the file is edited as expected but I have 3 issues that I am not sure how to resolve.

1. Windows text file contains a double backslash (\\) and the \\ is being written back as a single \ which corrupts the file.
2. I am not getting the last line of text in the file written back out.
3. Some lines of text are not written back out completely.

Here is a snippet of my bash script:
cp $Directory/Somefile $Directory/Somefile.$(date +'%Y%m%d')
cat /dev/null > ${HOME}/temp.out

while read -r inpLine; do
patternFound=n
echo ${inpLine} | grep -q 'SOMEPATTERN='
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
patternFound=y
echo "##${inpLine}" >> ${HOME}/temp.out
echo "SOMEPATTERN=newValue" >> ${HOME}/temp.out
fi

if [ ${patternFound} = "n" ]; then
echo ${inpLine} >> ${HOME}/temp.out
fi

done < $Directory/Somefile
mv ${HOME}/temp.out $Directory/Somefile