Exiting a script and logging out are very different, but sometimes you may need to log out of your Linux system from within a script. Here's how to do it. Most of the time, exiting a script leaves you ...
Oh happy day! I got an e-mail from a reader with a shell script question that didn't appear to be homework from a programming class or anything to do with hacking passwords. The reader wrote: I am ...
David Howells put in quite a bit of work on a script, ./scripts/syscall-manage.pl, to simplify the entire process of changing the system call tables. With this script, it was a simple matter to add, ...
How to use a Bash script for-loop for system administration in Linux Your email has been sent Bash scripting remains a staple of my endeavors in Linux as a system administrator, and I use it every day ...
I have a simple API running in Flask on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has Debian (buster) installed. In the API, I am making calls to Twilio. I'm storing sensitive info like the auth token in environment ...
Sometimes it’d be nice to be able to make a change in System Preferences without going to the trouble of opening that utility and then navigating to the preference pane you want. Hints reader BrentT ...