Archive for December, 2012

SBDavid
Dec 7th, 2012

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

The CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network and can be accessed at http://www.cpan.org/ , and searched at http://search.cpan.org/ .

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

First, are you sure that the module isn’t already on your system? Try “perl -MFoo -e 1″. (Replace “Foo” with the name of the module; for instance.

“perl -MCGI::Carp -e 1″

If you don’t see an error message, you have the module. (If you do see an error message, it’s still possible you have the module, but that it’s not in your path, which you can display with “perl -e “print qq(@INC)”".)

SBDavid
Dec 3rd, 2012

How to verify user defaults

How to verify user defaults.

If you want to view the defaults, type the useradd command with the -D option as follows:

# useradd -D
GROUP=100
HOME=/home
INACTIVE=-1
EXPIRE=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SKEL=/etc/skel
CREAT_MAIL_SPOOL=yes

You can also use the -D option to change defaults. When run with this flag, useradd refrains from actually creating a new user account; instead, it saves any additionally supplied options as the new default values in /etc/login.defs. Not all useradd options can be used.

To set any of the defaults, give the -D option first; then add any of the defaults you want to set. For example, to set the default home directory location to /home/everyone and the default shell to /bin/tcsh, type the following:

# useradd -D -b /home/everyone -s /bin/tcsh

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