Comment by Phil P on How to set static routes in Ubuntu Server?
Because people do things like use ifconfig manually, instead of running ifdown, then want to be able to recover by using the correct tools. Thus it's helpful if those tools are resilient to unexpected...
View ArticleAnswer by Phil P for Does Firefox have something similar to ActiveX in terms...
It depends on the nature of the vulnerability. Sometimes you're "lucky" and the vulnerability "just" allows for some limited disclosure, but often the vulnerabilities allow for arbitrary code...
View ArticleAnswer by Phil P for Moving from bash to zsh
Learn about the extended globbing and recursive globs in zsh.Learn a little about zstyle and how various things (especially completion) let you tune their configuration using zstyle.Look into the...
View ArticleAnswer by Phil P for Editing dns-nameservers in /etc/network/interfaces...
Just went through this same issue; even a reboot would be lose the change on manually invoking the libc hook.So the most stable way I've found is, after putting the desired content into...
View ArticleAnswer by Phil P for what does startx command do?
As Rmano notes, startx is a very old approach. Way back when this was used, the X11 binary was installed setuid root.I just tried this out in a VM and indeed, startx fails as you describe, by default....
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