If you want to have a short overview about which files of installed RPM packages has been altered, you probably don't want to deal with AIDE - a short script should be enough: 1#!/bin/sh 2for i in $(rpm -qa|tr "n" " ") 3do 4 RESULT="$(rpm -vV $i)" 5 if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then 6 …

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Especially on new installed systems it is possible that the manpage database wasn't initialized, yet. You can identify this if whatis / man -k doesn't "find anything": 1# man -k man 2man: nothing appropriate Under HP-UX the index is created using the following command: 1# catman -m Under RHEL there is a tool …

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SciTE is a minimalistic, extendable editor with syntax highlightning for more than 30 programming languages. Of course SciTE also supports UTF-8 - but doesn't use it by default. If a UTF-8 encoded file is opened, umlauts are displayed erroneous. The used encoding can be selected from a menu - anyway, this trick needs a …

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Raspian is a special customized version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi. By default, this image includes a graphical user interface and some tools like media players and web browers. For some use cases (e.g. servers) this might be not needed. It's also a security breach if you run a server. I want to use a Raspberry Pi …

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If you establish a connection to a HP-UX host using PuTTY and SSH you might have the problem that the backspace is not working with the standard settings. Characters are not deleted, a control key is added - the solution is quite simple: You need to modify the settings under "Terminal > Keyboard > The …

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