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Is there a default or recommended directory to store source files ('configure', 'Makefile', etc) of *user* installs?
Suppose I have downloaded the source of some software I want to install just for myself, not system-wide; say Emacs or whatever. Typically the source is downloaded zipped, then it's unzipped in some ...
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Does any organisation standardise system management fundamentals?
Context Through a bug report and discussion about KDE Plasma's user management KConfig Module silently failing to support commas inside the full name field, I recently came to realise that parsing ...
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POSIX wording regarding Shell grammar
This page describing the Shell grammar has the following paragraph in the "Shell Grammar Rules" section: [Command Name] When the TOKEN is exactly a reserved word, the token identifier for ...
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Why did Red Hat relocate Apache to /usr/sbin
I run Apache http servers on Red Hat and Oracle Linux machines. The account requires that only packages from the Red Hat or Oracle repositories be used. That’s fine , they work and are reasonably ...
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What does "site-wide" mean?
I'm reading man hier, which says: /etc Contains configuration files which are local to the machine. Some larger software packages, like X11, can have their own subdirectories below /etc. Site-...
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What is the standard for "traditional Unix file system permissions"?
I am writing about Unix file permissions - i.e. user/group/world, read(4)/write(2)/execute(1), chmod(), etc. I would like to point the reader to a standard (e.g. Markdown have the CommonMark standard, ...
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How to interpret "functions ... may also be defined as macros"?
For the sake of public record, I'm asking here at SE rather than on the standardization mailing list, so that it'd be more accessible to people. With practically every headers that specify functions (...
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When to clean up /var/tmp?
/var/tmp is not defined in POSIX, but is defined in FHS: 5.15. /var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system reboots 5.15.1. Purpose The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that ...
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