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How to exclude certain directories while using wget?

I'd like to download a directory from a FTP, which contains some source codes. Initially, I did this: wget -r ftp://path/to/src Unfortunately, the directory itself is a result of a SVN checkout, so there are lots of .svn directories, and crawling…
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Apache ProxyPass or ProxyPassMatch to exclude a file from proxying

I have a VirtualHost set to proxy all requests to another server running on port 9000. What I have : ProxyPass / http://localhost:9000/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:9000/ What I've tried : ! ProxyPass /test.html…
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tail all log files in a directory | exclude zipped files

Im trying to find the right command to tail a bunch of log files whilst excluding the zipped files in a set directory. The log files are being zipped as they become oversized. At the moment Im using: tail -f /var/logs/myLog* Which works fine, but…
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How to exclude a service under /etc/logrotate.d/ to run with the main logrotate job

I have a file under logrotate.d that I would like not to run when the main logrotate is running. I have created a separate job for this in /etc/crontab 45 23 * * * root mv /var/log/RemoteSystems/*/*.log /var/log/Archiv/ && logrotate…
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Is it necessary to include the /run directory in backups?

I use a variant of the simple script below from the Community Ubuntu Documentation described tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev / I…
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inotifywait usage and exclude

I want to monitor special path to any event of create or modified files recursively in it via inotifywait but I don't know what's my problem is. I have some folders that I want to exclude. watchpath -> folder1 -> file1 ->…
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How to symlink folders and exclude certain files

I'm not a server guru (unfortunately) but have a decent knowledge of linux & bsd. I'm trying to symlink multiple instances of HLDS (game server) but need to exclude certain folders & config files to achieve this properly. I need to do it this way as…
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Excluding the nagios directory from Basic Auth that is set for the root directory

I have basic auth from the root directory for Apache. I am setting it like so. /etc/httpd/conf.d/xxxx.conf AuthType Basic AuthUserFile xxxxxxxx AuthName "Restricted Area" Require valid-user Since this…
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How do I write an rsync exclude for a directory tree with names containing spaces?

I'm trying to exclude a directory tree as part of an rsync command embedded in a bash script approximately like this: $OPTIONS="-rl --exclude 'Some Parent Directory/Another Directory'" rsync $OPTIONS $SOURCEDIR a@b.com:/SomeTargetDir My aim is to…
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rsync --exclude not excluding

I'm using rsync on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with the following script to back up all of /, however, whenever I run the script (as root), the directory /backup is included, when it should be excluded: #!/bin/sh rsync…
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Excluding a directory from a root .htaccess rewrite rule to allow it to be password protected?

I have spent a tremendous amount of time the last week trying to figure this out, but no matter what I try I cannot get this to work. My web host said they did not have anyone who knew enough about .htaccess files to get this working (encouraging,…
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Nginx static files exclude one or some file extensions

I'm serving up a static site via nginx. location ~* \.(avi|bin|bmp|dmg|doc|docx|dpkg|exe|flv|gif|htm|html|ico|ics|img|jpeg|jpg|m2a|m2v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|msi|pdf|pkg|png|ppt|pptx|ps|rar|rss|rtf|swf|tif|tiff|txt|wmv|xhtml|xls|xml|zip)$ { …
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How to exclude a user from an applied password policy

I have received a requirement that a single user needs to be excluded from the company's password policy (the CEO if you ask). as such, I have tried the following with no success. I have copied the default domain password settings to a new…
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How can I exclude PATTERN from inotify/incron

I'm using incron to watch for events in a directory but I want to exclude some subdirectory or some filename PATTERNS. Is there a way I can do this elegantly?
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Tar directory contents without parent and exclude subdirectories/files

Simplified directory structure: /root/test /root/test/dir1 /root/test/dir2 /root/test/dir3 /root/test/dir4 I want to tar /root/test so that when I extract the archive I get dir1 and dir2. I want to exclude dir3 and dir4 and possibly other files and…
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