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What did the sticky bit originally do when applied to files?
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sticky-bit
asked Jun 30, 2016 at 18:49
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What's this I hear about First Edition Unix being restored?
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historical-unix
asked Oct 31, 2016 at 18:49
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What is the bin user for?
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Why did Mrs Weasley use tongs?
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So what was the "u area" in UNIX?
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asked Apr 29, 2020 at 11:58
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What's the terminal/home computer used as a prop in the computer school in Superman 3?
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Is systemd's hand-rolled Desktop-Bus-over-SSH tunnel a security worry?
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proxy
asked Sep 3, 2017 at 10:03
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How can a systemd service flag that it is ready, so that other services can wait for it to be ready before they start?
systemd
asked Dec 20, 2016 at 16:38
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How come one can successfully ping 127.0.0.2 on Linux?
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ip
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loopback
asked Mar 23, 2019 at 11:47
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Debian 9, APT, and "GPG error: ... InRelease: The following signatures were invalid:"
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How does systemd use /etc/init.d scripts?
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Does Windows still rely on MS-DOS?
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Why does /etc/resolv.conf point at 127.0.0.53?
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Set systemd service to execute after fstab mount
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What did the sticky bit originally do when applied to files?
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Understand logging in Linux
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87
Using cd command in Windows command line, can't navigate to D:\
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84
Why isn't there public transport on Christmas Day in the UK?
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New parent process when the parent process dies
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How does Unix keep track of a user's working directory when navigating the file system?
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What is /etc/mtab in Linux?
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Where does the idea of replacing "Sir" with "Ser" in "A Song of Ice and Fire" come from?
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63
Log rotation of stdout?
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63
What is there in an Operating System other than the kernel
superuser.com
62
What's this I hear about First Edition Unix being restored?
unix.stackexchange.com
60
Using dnsmasq to resolve all hosts to the same address
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59
What exactly does init do?
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56
ip vs ifconfig commands pros and cons
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52
Is there a way to save a command in Ubuntu terminal if I haven't entered it?
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The command 'ls -d' is not displaying directories. Is there a way to get 'ls' to only display directories instead of files and directories?
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Is systemd-journald a syslog implementation?
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Why does the partition start on sector 2048 instead of 63?
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48
What is an OS kernel ? How does it differ from an operating system?
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48
Grep equivalent for Windows 7?
superuser.com
46
How do some tools (e.g. nano , less) manage to leave no content in terminals after exit?
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46
Understanding home configuration file locations: ~/, ~/.config/ and ~/.local/share/
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46
Could Ecuador get Julian Assange out of the UK by giving him some mail to deliver?
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Why did Mrs Weasley use tongs?
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