Today’s hint is for those of you who, like me, use Terminal often and occasionally have a need to do things there as the root user. If you don’t know what Terminal is, don’t know what the root user is ...

I need to run a command as root that copies a bunch of files around, stops a process, restarts the process, deletes some things, and copies some other things around.<BR><BR>I'd like my boss to just ...

I have a Ubuntu 10.10 VPS that is experiencing a strange problem. I log in as my normal user (dustin) using a keypair, then try and 'su -' into root. The ssh session closes immediately. Looking at the ...

Working on the Linux command can be a lot of fun, but it can be even more fun when you use commands that take less work on your part or display information in interesting and useful ways. In today’s ...