Monthly Archives: January 2009

Why does htop display an exclamation mark next to uptime?

I keep getting the exclamation mark in htop next to the uptime and always wondered why it’s there. According to this mailing list post it’s a little easter egg in UptimeMeter.c:

35 char daysbuf[15];
36 if (days > 100) {
37 sprintf(daysbuf, “%d days(!), “, days);
38 [...]

Careful with sudo – giving access to vi/vim via sudo could allow someone to wreak havoc

sudo can be used to give certain users access to commands that require root. This is handy when you’ve got lots of users that need to administer the system or software that resides within it. This also means you don’t have to distribute the . An example would be to allow a user to edit [...]