CentOS 7 how to get interface name by macaddress?
Speedy059 asked: I’m trying to figure out how I can get the network interface name and then change the name. Right now it’s easy to change the name with this …
Shell script prevent switching to other shell or escape from it
xendi asked: If in my automation script, I need to do something like install oh-my-zsh, I will have a .sh script like this: #!/bin/sh runuser -l user -c ‘sh -c …
Unable to disable yum repository 'RhnRepo' object has no attribute 'cfg'
itChi asked: I’ve been unable to disable the following repo, also I can’t seem to find a config file anywhere, so I would imagine it was removed manually: yum-config-manager –disable …
Text editors not functional
Slater Victoroff asked: Running into a slightly strange situation. Basically for reasons outside of my control I’m on a server that somebody else has set up. I’ve got sudo access, …
Long running bash update script loop. How to handle terminating better?
Rory asked: I have a bash script that downloads some data, runs a process to import it, then sleeps for a little while (about an hour). It’s running fine as …
How can I tell whether a process is invoked via an agent or when logged in?
user1074593 asked: I am using a certain tool which executes via an agent on the Linux servers. We could execute it manually by logging into the Linux servers too. I …
Compress command output by piping to bzip2
Dom asked: Is it possible to pipe a command output to bzip2 for compression to an output file? Something along the lines of: cat somefile.txt | bzip2 –output somefile.txt.bz2 My …
Enough memory but OOM killer invoked?
MikeSkril asked: It has been a long time since my old friend the OOM killer came to visit me. Now it is coming by once a week and I cannot …
How to share/persist a SSH connection from a shell script that runs multiple commands
Justin asked: I have a shell script that connects via SSH to the same host (my-server) and runs a variety of commands mixed throughout the script. For example: ssh -o …
Multiple instances of CRON_TZ inside a cron file (CentOS)
Borsn asked: Is it possible to have multiple timezones in the /etc/crontab file, like below? CRON_TZ=Europe/Paris */20 * * * * root /home/user/script.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * …