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Hello I'm finding a lot of results come up in google about manpath but none of them seem to help. I would like to add some files to my man path so that I can type things like `man -k fluxbox` and...

I read somewhere that you should make sure Apache is configured to not allow symbolic links to be followed outside the webroot, as this can compromise security.

I can imagine how this could lead...

Hello, I have a shell script I wrote in /bin/sh to backup my web sever. I am now on a host (someone reselling rackspace server hosting to me) and when setting up cron, it actually has a dropdown list...

I tried looking up combinations of the keywords "infinite loop links" in google before causing a recurring post here... but alas, I couldn't find much.

Cause: I've created an infinite loop, in a...

I actually considered using a link. I don't know why, but I just assumed that apache wouldn't play well with a link.


Well, this could be a work around. The only problem/reason its a work around...

okay i'm going to try to say this uber-simple:

I use dropbox (file-sync service). in order for dropbox sync files, they must be its children [eg. somewhere under /home/jzacsh/Dropbox].
I want to...

i think its funny that no one voted for safari. i don't like safari much. firefox does the job for me

Thanks, but I just can't seem to figure out how to use fgrep to do what I want.

I need to remove all malicious lines of crap inserted by Gumblar. My site doesn't use any iframes, and gumblar...

wait a second - i just realized all of my work is really pretty pointless and might be done in a single line.

what would anybody say is the easiest way to:
given a directory of files and...

hello... I have a file with a list of filepaths in it, like so:

delMe.txt (files to be deleted)

./root/index.php
./root/language/se/home.inc.php
./root/language/pl/home.inc.php
Now here's...

wow that's amazing! (I had been trying that previously, when I had the --password syntax incorrect). Thank you so much for sticking around! I'll be finishing a book soon on PHP & MySQL and a 2-part...

aah! thank you. okay, this is now what I get:

mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user 'jzacsh_jzacsh'@'localhost' to database 'jzwp' when selecting the database
-- MySQL dump 10.11
--...

Thanks! I did just that, and got the following error (which, allow me to preface, I've been having similar errors trying to make a small test site on my server of Drupal)

Enter password:...

okay, done. didn't seem to make a difference :( (the file still comes out 0 B, just uncompressed)

test.php output:


# BEGINNING DATABASE BACKUP PORTION:
Checking if sql backup landing...

Thanks so much for your help. I'm trying to test this out on my personal live website's wordpress database first. so I uploaded a test.php file to run the shell script, like so:

test.php
<?php
...

Thanks for the reply!!


good point, I realize that though and I only had ./ in place as something temporary as I do manual tests (easier to type out for testing)


Thank you, I had failed to...

Hello. the purpose of my efforts right now are to get a larger script of mine (which the admin told me he'd put into cron for me) to properly back-up my MySQL database. To test out the sql back-up...

I've attached a screen shot of how vi shows the line numbers (on the left-hand side), so that you can understand that the place in this line that you might see the text wrap is not the same place my...

OH no! you called it from the beginning (https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/109978-lack-understanding-annoying-error.html#post302317384) but I thought the vi editor which showed line...

haha, I was using such a complicated approach! thanks


-I did part 1 (pre-setting the variable $work)
-I did part 2 (actually, clarified a few of my "debugger" statements to be more helpful)
-I...

I've tried this before and I get and error explaining that "eq" is for mathematical tests, after looking it up I found that indeed its = that's used for strings.


Ahhh - just the kind of advice I...

Thanks for your time, really! I ran:
truss -o trussOut sh./backup.shI'm not completely sure how this truss command works, aside from its man page's explanation (and the output it produced is 241...

Thanks for all your replies!



the script previously worked fine before this (I tested it in both cases), but for the sake of being thorough (and I trust most people's opinions over mine in this...

That if statement is ended at the bottom of the script (the "fi" can be found in the third to last line)

The else statement that forms the if you're looking at is at the 8th to last line

I'm working on a script I wrote called backup.sh
when I run it like this:
. ./backup.sh
I get this error:
ksh: ./backup.sh[124]: no closing quote
when I run it this way:
backup.shI get this...