Mochabomb

Ever had dual NICs fighting to be king of the hill? This will help settle the battle once and for all.

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Useful diff and patch commands:
Create a patch with 3 lines of context and amount of blank lines. I want to see other whitespace difference - it might expose a typo.
diff -u 3 oldfile newfile > patchfile

Use CVS diff to create a patch comparing the local file (newer) with the repository version.
cvs diff [...]

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Cygwin is installed on this system, thus the command line work. You can do this with the command console perhaps, but I have never seen the value of learning the windows command line when unix is more mature and stable (since the late 1960’s).
1] Backup the database:
Format: `mysqldump -u -p
-h [...]

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From http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/setfacl1.html
#####Granting an additional user read access
$ setfacl -m u:lisa:r file
#####Revoking write access from all groups and all named users
(using the effective rights mask)
$ setfacl -m m::rx file
#####Removing a named group entry from a file’s ACL
$ setfacl -x g:staff file
#####Copying the ACL of one file [...]

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Cygwin was erroring out when I tried the following:
csh# gunzip articles.tar.gz
After some googling, found that gunzip is symlinked to gzip -d, so I added this line to my .aliases file:
csh# alias gunzip `gzip -d `
This fixed the errors.

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