chroot stands for change root and is a function on Unix systems to change the root directory. It only affects the current process and its child processes. "chroot" itself can refer to both the chroot system call and the chroot utility. A program that has been "rooted" to a directory and has no open file descriptors outside the root virtual directory will no longer be able to access files outside … [Read more...]
What is /dev/null?
What is /dev/null You Often View in the Commands and Shebang Scripts We Supply You? What is More Confusing Looking is /dev/null 2>&1? Get the Full Idea From This Article. Full idea means, within the capability of an online informative webpage. Some basics are mandatory to know to completely understand the usage and we have hyperlinked towards our own articles wherever possible. What are not … [Read more...]
grep, cut Examples with unix pipe
There are certain commonly used commands for managing Linux Servers. Here are some useful grep, cut examples with unix pipelining for SSH. We wrote about UNIX Pipe before, the reader must read that article if he/she is not aware of using pipe. Theoretical knowledge and practical management of a server differs hugely. We often do not type cd followed by space on Mac iTerm2, Homebrew Setup. We … [Read more...]
List of All UNIX / Linux Commands
Here is a list of all UNIX / GNU Linux Commands. This is an abridged list, alphabetically arranged, fully free and continuously edited to improve. This is an exceptional post which is under GNU GPL 3.0 License. You can contribute to add information. We are trying to arrange it in a meaningful, semantically right way with within post search feature, small description and examples. While we have … [Read more...]
Colors for OS X Terminal and iTerm With lolcat
We are not satisfied with boring syntax highlighting with transparent iTerm2! We want to add more colors, fun and animation for our setup! Diwali Festival is coming in India, then Christmas! It can not happen that only the server's SSH will get rainbow colors or Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Tool will blink like twinkle twinkle little stars! If you belong to the category of hardcore Command Line … [Read more...]
chroot Command Example and Usages
chroot means ch is root. ch is Child (child process). chroot was introduced in 1979. Here are examples of chroot Command through examples. The reader should know the basics of UNIX, Linux, Unix Shell or Shell, UNIX Wheel Group etc. topics. chroot stands for "ch is root" as said before and is a function under *nix systems to the root directory. It affects only the current process and its child … [Read more...]