INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rcS” (or rc)

PROBLEM: The Linux init process gets an error that looks like this (in the stderr output): INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rc” Several things may cause this error but in my case it was happening because the rc script had #! /bin/sh on the first line, and /bin/sh was missing. SOLUTION: In /bin provide a link called […]

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How to make ‘man’ or ‘less’ paged text not disappear from screen after exit?

Problem: Depending on your Linux distribution, the text displayed by the ‘man’ command  (or any other text piped into ‘less’ for that matter) may stay on your screen upon exit from man/less or be cleared from your screen upon exit. Many people find it useful to have the man page text stay on the screen, […]

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