@dafyre said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released:

@scottalanmiller said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released:

@matteo-nunziati said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released:

for curiosity sake: who is actually using dragonfly bsd and why?

I've deployed it a bit in labs. I'm always watching it closely because Hammer is very important.

Hammer?

One of the world's most advanced fileystems. Dragonfly is important as a kernel alternative ecosystem to FreeBSD, from which it split (in many ways Dragonfly is the real FreeBSD and FreeBSD is the "new" product that split from it) but its real relevance is as a filesystem research platform. The kernel maintainer there writes a totally unique filesystem, called Hammer, just for Dragonfly.

I have a copy of SCO Unix. Very niche. Full box and license. Found it when i was clearing out the IT attic at work. I havent seen a Solaris box since 2010.

@scottalanmiller said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start:

@Ghani said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start:

Yes i agree your sounds

If the only goal is an open source file server (we call this a SAM-SD, there is a section of the forum just for that) then the most likely recommendations for an OS will be openSuse Tumbleweed or Fedora. CentOS and Ubuntu are fine choices too. FreeBSD is excellent, but less well known.

You make it sound as though the wise choice here would be to install OpenSuse etc direct to the hardware.

@flabbergastedFiltch said in Linux: Finding Files:

Yea, Scott's reply led me to:

find . -name "*\ " -print

Not a big leap.

Now I'm all the way down the rabbit hole of xargs, grep, and perhaps sed (?)

Using FreeBSD on EMC Isilon.

I have to do this a lot, but the creative way users name files is ever changing:
filename.
filename. [filename dot space]
file*name

Here's a sample of a real directory:

./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEULIGCONOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUBLA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._TIMESEXTBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._GILLSANBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/GILLSANEXTBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVETICA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVETICANEUE3.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUHEACONOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUULTLIG.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUROM.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._ZAPFDINGBATS.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVEBOLOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVETICANEUE1.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._TIMESBOLITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVETICANEUE2.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEULIGCON.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUBLA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUHEACON.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVETICANEUECONDENSED3.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/GILLSANITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUMEDCONOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._TIMESSEMITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUTHI.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVETICANEUE3.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/TIMESBOLITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVETICANEUE1.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/TIMESEXTBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUHEACONOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUHEAITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/ZAPFDINGBATS.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUULTLIG.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUBLAITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUMEDCON.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/GILLSANLIGITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUHEAITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUTHI.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUHEA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUMEDCONOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUBLAITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUHEA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUTHIITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUMEDITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEULIGITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._GILLSANITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._GILLSANEXTBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._GILLSANBOLITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEULIGCON.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEULIGITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/TIMESSEMITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVEBOLOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUMEDCON.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUMEDITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUULTLIGITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/GILLSANLIG.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUULTLIGITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._GILLSANLIG.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVETICA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/GILLSANBOLITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEULIG.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUMED.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._GILLSANLIGITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUHEACON.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUMED.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVETICANEUE2.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEULIGCONOBL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/GILLSANBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUTHIITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVETICANEUECONDENSED3.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/._HELVENEUITA.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUBOL.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEULIG.
./WebUploads/FAMILYANDFRIENDS.1/b_Fonts/HELVENEUROM.

One or Two files (even 10) and I'd use mv to rename the files and remove the space or period or add extension, etc... This list represents just one folder out of a few hundred that have some gremlin preventing Windows NT Backup (don't ask) from taking a backup and deleting the originals.

Thanks for the reply and nudge. Now back to it after I change my Job Description on Linkedin to "Frustrated wannabe Software Developer".

As much as I like giant one liners, the best tool for this would be rename.

To remove a period just do

find . -type f -exec rename "." "" {} \;

You don't technically need to use find, but if the files span multiple directories it's easier.

@scottalanmiller said in What Linux Are You Running:

CentOS is based on Fedora. But one is about long term support and one is about currency. If Fedora seems weird to you, so would Ubuntu as they both match a six month cycle. Fedora just has the long term support option of CentOS that Ubuntu lacks (they have the name, but not the product.)

The advantage to Fedora or Ubuntu is in currency. Packages are updated every six months, everything from Node to the kernel. So you get new features much earlier. For example PHP7 is standard on Fedora for some time, but nowhere close for CentOS. If you are running modern web apps, like NextCloud, there are some pretty huge benefits from not getting outdated.

Updating every six months instead of every several years (about three or four) means that updates are typically small and incremental rather than large and cumbersome. Updating becomes a normal process and newer security features are available too, just like new stability features. Suse takes this even farther with rolling updates.

The idea behind LTS releases like CentOS is that you can stagnate on a platform and ignore it for a long time. This, of course, has value. But we aren't a stagnant company. We have active support and want the latest features and latest software. We aren't looking for vendors to blame, so long term lock ins to known platforms lacks the value that it might have in a slower moving company.

Yeah, that makes sense.

@scottalanmiller said in UNIX: Switching Users with su:

@Grey said in UNIX: Switching Users with su:

Pop quiz: why do you need the dash with su?

That was in the original article.

And I quoted you without quoting you..... see what I did there, I switched a few words 😛

Fixed

@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:

@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:

@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:

@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:

@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:

@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:

@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:

I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".

Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.

To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.

Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.

I came very close to getting a job at ABC but they wanted Mac experience (Guru was the word they used). The guy who got the job lied through his teeth (my friends works there and explained it to me). Being an honest person is hard sometimes.

Who was dishonest? The guy or the company that happily hired someone without experience?

They had no one with Mac experience to really test the guy properly but he knew his stuff generally. Then it came time for him to do something really simple (i honestly forget what its been a while) and he didn't know how to. 😞

And they kept him on even though he lied? If so, then they did too.

@tjatwood109 said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID:

@scottalanmiller

Thanks - I will proceed without using ZFS - I prefer hardware RAID.

Tim

ZFS is perfectly fine with hardware RAID, if you like ZFS' features otherwise (like zsend is nice) then there's no reason to avoid it. If you don't plan to use any unique features, then XFS is my "go to" choice by default. Very fast, very stable.

@JJoyner1985 said in UNIX: What Is a Tarball:

So, do you think the reason I am seeing a lot more gzip in use with tarballs is due to the familiarity of gzip and the negligible difference in the compression between it and bzip2? Basically, bzip2 doesn't make enough of an improvement with sufficient regularity to entice people to move away from gzip, or is there some other benefit to gzip that my training material hasn't covered?

That's correct. The difference between the two is generally small enough that people are not concerned. And lots of systems still don't have bzip2 installed by default so if you want scripts or whatever to work universally you often use gzip because you know that it is always there and predictable.

A bit shorter

wget -qO- icanhazip.com

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@Dashrender said in Senior Systems Engineer:

@RamblingBiped

What does does HR do if not put out accurate and reasonable job postings? 😛

I did my stint in IT/Engineering Recruiting many moons ago... I'm now blissfullly ignorant when it comes to the inner workings of human resources.

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