I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a Ubuntu backup shell script.  With a backup in hand, now it was time to test how to unpack a backup and overwrite the directories. First I unpacked the backup to a temporary directory tmp-cc. Now I wanted to replace several of the directories on the server.  Starting with home, var and etc.   But what is an efficient method to overwrite a directory?   Also removing any directories that aren't in the...

Error with Nginx When running an Nginx test, the following response was being presented: nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied) 2022/08/04 07:05:54 [warn] 3105#3105: the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1 2022/08/04 07:05:54 [crit] 3105#3105: pread() "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ckan" failed (21: Is a directory) nginx: configuration file...