Posts in "Aside"

„man sh“ on Fedora shows me the man-page for bash. But I want to write a portable script…

Kann es sein, dass die Unix-Opas von der GPN Linux-Opas waren? #spitzfindigkeiten

Talking about “unix”-tricks and how to show progress with dd but having no siginfo available 🤔 And my gut-feeling tells me that all those shell-tricks in the presentation might only be tested in bash and maybe zsh…

How do you manage dotfiles with different operating systems? I use stow for “deploying” them and have three branches in my git-repo (one for Linux, one for FreeBSD, one for OpenBSD). What are you using?

Is there a way to build a port in #OpenBSD outside of the ports-directory? /usr has only 2GB, is nearly full and building Lazarus needs too much space. Or should I just check out the ports-tree in my home?

What is the reasoning for having a low limit of how many open files I can have at the same time? What is the disadvantage of setting kern.maxfiles to 65535 for example? #openbsd

ZipRecruiter-ads in a podcast about The education and Training of an ISIS-fighter might not be the wisest choice I think.

Oh fuck. My one private CentOS-machine is b0rked. I have apparently nearly 200 duplicate packages and cannot update. WTF?