I get this a lot from friends and Google is full of examples, but here it is again.
If you have a file that begins with a hyphen (one of these: -) you’ll have a tough time removing it unless you remember something simple from Command Line 101. In most CLI environments, your shell has [...]
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Removing a File Beginning With Dash -
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Updating RedHat 9
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Simply: You can’t. up2date will not run and RedHat does not provide updated packages. In 2003 RedHat switched from RedHat9 to Fedora. If you have an old RedHat box, you will have to migrate to Fedora. If it is really old, you may just be out of luck. Next time [...]
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Debian-based machines and the (initramfs) prompt
August 9th, 2007 · No Comments
There are a million pages devoted to initramfs so I won’t go in to what it is, but if you have a Dell 1655 or other machine with serial-attached-SCSI and use Debian or a Debian-derived Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or Kbuntu, you may have run in to an issue booting after installing a kernel [...]