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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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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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