when i open with winscp that opens old stale file compared to putty opening of same file say xyz.ccfg

i wonder why winscp does not show recent changs?

please advise

Hi Experts

Could you point a good tool / strategy to a HD under Lubuntu defragmentation?

Thanks in advance

on my windows 10 machine after installing oracle virtua box and centos on top of it while starting getting below error


Failed to open a session for the virtual machine centos.

The virtual machine 'centos' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).  More details may be available in 'C:\Users\saiganesh\VirtualBox VMs\centos\Logs\VBoxHardening.log'.

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {b2547866-a0a1-4391-8b86-6952d82efaa0}

i tried on other laptop i do not see red hat 64 some reason but shows red hat 32 bit

Please advise
centos.png
centos.png

how below commands are different

su department (when i do pwd here says department)
vs
su - department(when i do pwd here says /home/department)

when i do below

su -c 'echo $echo  $DEPARTMENT_HOME' department
it does not work

when i do below

su -c 'echo $echo  $DEPARTMENT_HOME'  - department
it does work. Please advise the difference.

what is difference between
department and  /home/department

how su and sudo are different?

how can there is depearment inside home as well as outside at top level again?

what is visudo and sudoers file or folder?

Please advise

Individual log  files on my server getting zipped every 1 hour and individual log files getting deleted.

PRoblems i am facing with zipped log files are
1. not able to grep them as easily as individual files

2. not able to tail to see any recent issues



if i copy over to local windows laptop using winscp and unzil anf try to open individual file using notepadd++ says too huge file to open.


how to extract zip file in unix box itself and check log files by doing grep and tail etc

please advise

Hi Experts

Could you point the more convenient  Ubuntu version and  where to obtain it to fit  with this hardware?
(an old laptop)


Thanks in advance!

We have setup OpenVas in our infrastructure. We were able to run it in order to scan assessments reports on VM's within our infrastructure. However the results of the scans is very long and complete. We would like to filter that same report in order to only have results of the High severity reports.

Any idea on what would be the most effective approach to filter the Greenbone scans?

How to send a command /dev/ttyXX.

I've tried these and none seem to worK;
1. echo "stop" > ttyS1
2. echo -ne "stop\n" > ttyS1

Hello Experts,

Getting following error while execute cmd from ssh :-

[root@200 ~]# separateBod
ENTER SERVER IP LAST 1 QUADRANT WHICH YOU WANT TO BOD:
119
Option "-t" is deprecated and might be removed in a later version of gnome-terminal.
Option "-t" is deprecated and might be removed in a later version of gnome-terminal.
Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:

separateBod Code:-
#!/bin/bash
printf "ENTER SERVER IP LAST 1 QUADRANT WHICH YOU WANT TO BOD"
 read IPNAME
 for i in $IPNAME
 do
  ssh user@192.168.1.$i BOD & pid=$!
 done

BOD Code:-
#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal \
        --tab -t "Exchange" -e " sh -c 'sleep 1s; ./startapp Exchange' "\
        --tab -t "Dragon" -e " sh -c 'sleep 10s; ./startapp Dragon' "\

startapp code:-
ulimit -c unlimited
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
./$1 $2 $3 $4 $5

After giving execution cmd from server (ssh) it should be displayed on other server vnc (user@192.168.1.119), it was working properly till last week suddenly i got this error, we have following versions of CentOS 64bit (6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.4), getting issue only with 7.4 64bit.

please suggest.

I have had to disable SELinux to get an application installed ,I was wondering if anyone has ever used 'AUDIT2ALLOW' to re-tag the objects in SELINUX and re-enable SELINUX  

I have never ever worked with SELINUX before and could use any advice you can give

what is curl and ping in unix.

lets say i have service called
www.xyz/webservice_operation

now if do
curl  www.xyz/webservice_operation
get the exact_name of service from above result
then use that exact name to ping
ping exact_name
then we can get ip of the service where it is running?

please advise