Category Archives: Linux

Gentoo Installation Bullet-point List

By Josh Perry | Published: February 9, 2010
I install Gentoo often enough that the Gentoo Handbook is way too verbose, but not often enough to memorize the steps involved. This list is meant mainly for me, but also for anyone who is comfortable enough in Linux to know what to do with a description like “Partition disk and create file systems”. Config network, [...]
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Modifying only directory permissions using find

By Josh Perry | Published: December 18, 2009
I recently went through my web directories and updated the permissions to be more inline with recommended security practices. When setting web file permissions in Linux you want to set execute permissions on a directory to allow listing and traversal, but you don’t want to set execute permissions on the files for security reasons. Doing [...]
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