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Here is a very simple code snippet to ask for an input without showing it on display. Great for all password inputs.

#!/bin/sh
read -p "Username: " uname
stty -echo
read -p "Password: " passw; echo
stty echo
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Some day you wake up and everything is broken. Your lighttpd log is filled with:

(response.c.544) file not found ... or so:  Too many open files
(mod_proxy.c.744) socket failed:  Too many open files 
(network_linux_sendfile.c.143) open failed:  Too many open files 
(response.c.544) file not found ... or so:  Too many open files /favicon.ico ->

I'm sure every admin running some popular service (or poorly coded software Undecided) has faced this problem.

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On Debian, the hostname is set at startup thanks to the script /etc/init.d/hostname.sh which uses the file /etc/hostname. We can use this file to update the computer hostname and its FQDN (fully qualified domain name).

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