RWX Files Linux files have three important access rights for files: Read Write Execute If you want to mark a file as executable, you can add the x-right: When you want to mark a file as readable, you can dd the r-right: You can remove rights in a similar way: Now, often this is expressed [...]
I just had the problem, that the bash prompt of my universities computer I’ve connected to via SSH looked like this: bash-4.0$ Change the prompt I think it’s much more useful to see the path you’re currently using. To get the current path in your bash promt, you have to add the following snippet to [...]
Der folgende Text wurde von Moritz Klammler, einem Informatik-Studenten am KIT, als E-Mail an die interne Mailingliste der Vorlesung geschrieben. Ich habe nur ein paar Kleinigkeiten umformuliert und die Formattierung geändert. Mailinglisten-Beitrag Der in der Vorlesung vorgestellte Scheduler[1] wurde vom 2.6er Linux Kernel bis Version 2.6.23 verwendet und dann durch den sogenannten Completely Fair Scheduler [...]
Vor ein paar Tagen ist mein Acer Travelmate 5744Z, das ich bei Amazon für 305,95 Euro bekommen habe, angekommen. Ich habe es mit „Linux“ als System gekauft. Wie sich herausstellte, ist MeeGo release 1.0 mit dem Kernel 2.6.37, installiert. Das System startet zwar in sensationellen 29 Sekunden, aber Ubuntu ist mir doch lieber. edit: *argh* [...]
free I’ve you want to check your memory consumption on a Linux machine, you can use free. This means: I have a total of 3952 MB RAM, used and free should be clear, shared is memory which is shared between processes, e.g. shared libraries. The “buffers” entry tells you how much of your RAM is [...]
Linux users who are not very skilled have a big problem: If they want to buy a new computer or new hardware, it is very difficult for them to find out if something works or not. I’ll give you some hints how you could find it out: Debian device driver check & report This site [...]
find is a very mighty tool. It allows you to apply a very detailed search syntax. Every Linux user should know how to use it. Very basic usage I told you I would start with the very basics, didn’t I? So, you can need the option -iname if you want to do basic matching against [...]
