You are correct, I would add them but I am unsure of what exactly they are named. — user397980Apr 14 at 12:50
^ declined. But obsolete by the next post....
You are correct, I would add them but I am unsure of what exactly they are named. gconftool -u "/$entry" was suppost to "Unset" all of the keybindings BUT maybe what your looking for is (gconftool -u "/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/navigation), if this doesn't help. Maybe you could try installing gconf-editor (sudo apt-get install gconf-editor) open it up and try changing settings in (apps->metacity->global_keybindings) or (apps->metacity->keybinding_commands) Hope this helps, sorry I couldn't find the exact thing you are looking for. — user397980Apr 14 at 12:57
hm yes, I've deleted the comment. My best guess is that it didn't look obsolete from within the flag dialog (the comment flag UI is pretty bad). Comments aren't considered that important (and we can't mark a flag helpful without deleting or editing the comment) so if it isn't obvious they often get declined. Taken care of now. Thanks!
@muru btw, I've been meaning to reply on your meta post for a few days. Been having a super busy week.
I have a server running webmin/virtualmin in debian 7 with one 80GB hard drive. I want to increase disk space adding a second 1TB disk, but without losing any data as I'm hosting a few websites.
Any method and help is appreciated, Thank you.
I'm on the fence. Migrate to Unix & Linux and send good content away or just edit out the reference to debian (since the question has absolutely nothing to do with it).
I'm against editing away problems, if is ubuntu it is ubuntu. if it is not... then it isn't
plus this comment:
It worked great! Thank you :) I couldn't make it with gparted in debian, so i edited the fstab file where I changed location of new drive and automount. — Roman Aftantilidis13 hours ago
A question isn't off-topic simply because it's about an EOL release. If the problem is specific to that release, sure, but not otherwise.
Questions like the following are on-topic:
PLEASE HELP!"Desktop effects could not be enabled" Ubuntu 10.04 on ppc
wifi is unable to connect with ubuntu 10.0...
ok. I think we had a bit of a misunderstanding on the last one so I want to clear that up too, I'm just not sure exactly what was misunderstood and on what side. Sorry.
the misunderstanding if any is in this: I think any driver problems cannot be simply closed as OT, unless any of the close voters can show it is fixed in a newer version.
None have. Ever.
Without that, there's no way to say if a problem is specific to that (EOL) release.
the point is -> they upgrade and test -> if they still have the problem the question can stay -> if they don't problem solved, day saved, security of the Internet is maintained -> if they still have the problem the will have better resources and tools and up to date locations of all the stuff that changed
I agree that is where we miss each other, but I think for different reasons. I don't think trying to "prove" that something is specific or not is either worth our time nor all that useful. Just close it or don't close it. I only want to save the questions that are obviously not related to an EOL release (e.g. my android example question). If you have to fire up a VM to figure out if it's a good enough question to stick around it most likely should be closed. It isn't worth that much trouble.
And I think that's where we got confused. When I said "burden of proof" I didn't mean you have to literally prove something and I didn't realize that is what you meant.
@Mateo no, my point is that question has nothing to do with the EOL release, the answer will be the same regardless. No point in wasting close votes and reviewer time.
I'm trying to say that there is always going to be an issue trying to make answers when you are using a new version, and they are using an old version, pointless to try and answer
I'm forced myself to serve unix.stackexchage to moderate, answer , essential comments and so on.
I'd like to do above task in askubuntu , however my favorite OS is Debian, But i'd like do it.
Why askubuntu and unix estackexchange have not been merged?
Is it policy of you or historical? I predict ...
So I can walk into the room with my phone, press a button, and whatever my phone is playing gets pushed to the Pi (which is connected to the speakers).
I just streamed star trek via a nas4free box that I ripped from a DVD via ubuntu using openelec that is networked via a wireless bridge on a linksys wrt-54gl with dd-wrt installed
Openelec on the pi that is
The only thing that wasn't open source was the actual router which was only handling dhcp anyways.
Suppose we have drives which are encrypted, what could be the output of following command in Debian based (specially Ubuntu OS)?
lsblk -f -r | grep ' /' | grep -v ' /boot'
As the reputation requirement to comment is pretty high (50), many new users who want to contribute to the site use answers to leave a comment on questions, e.g. to request additional information needed to write a proper answer.
Sometimes those posts (which always get flagged as not-an-answer of...
@Danatela (If they drink) A really good bottle of something traditional is always fun present, especially if you get to drink it with them. What's the fanciest Vodka (or their favourite drink) you can get your hands on?
Or something that means something to both of you, from a happy memory, etc.
@Oli @JourneymanGeek Would you two as moderators mind to have a quick look at my last meta discussion/feature-request post? It's about converting answers to comments
But I suspect this might be something TBTP might decide on. I'd also hint that this might be a handy 30K user ability, and I vaguely recall some talk of that.
@JourneymanGeek That is also in my opinion the best approach. But it happens too rarely and normal users have no chance instead of manually flagging for moderator attention - which is not even possible inside the LQ review queue.
> The upcoming (currently beta) LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu, code-named "Vivid Velvet". To be released on 23rd April, 2015. Only use this tag if your question is version-specific.
@Oli Yeah, I guessed as much but I don't know what I need to set. I tried adding my user to the audio group but that didn't help. What confuses me even more is that spd-say does work (though vlc also fails).
I put an executable script in /etc/cron.hourly, but that script didn't run every hour actually it never runs at all.
Here is the script content:
#!/bin/bash
mplayer ~/Music/sfx_msg-highlight.wv &> /dev/null &
spd-say -r -50 -p 50 -t male3 "The time now is $(date +"%l %p")"
notify-send "It's: " "$(date +"%l %p") now." -i ~/Pictures/"first tee.png" -t 5000
So how to make this work?
I figure there are three issues, 1) run-parts and its silly name constraints 2) setting DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY and, apparently, 3) figuring out how to get mplayer to play nice.
@Oli How? As far as I know, cron.hourly needs to have a run-parts compatible script in it. Since setting the vars in the script itself failed (when run with a normal crontab), I expect it will also fail via cron.hourly. I had to set the vars in the body of the crontab instead.
Presumably, it's a shell thing and they need to be set in the parent shell for some reason.
@Oli I don't think so. It seems like I can't set them in the script itself and cron.hourly is just a directory with scripts. No need to use that anyway, using user crontabs is much neater.
OK, answer posted. Let's see if it works for the OP.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS with subversion 1.8.8 and attempting to set up remote svn access via apache2 with mod_dav_svn - this is a migration to linux from a windows server running apache2.
The issue I am having is that any <location> with a space in its name will not work, the below example...
Unattended-Upgrade upgrades and restarts my machine without any issues. However, I have a python script that runs infrequently, but when it runs it may take days to complete. I would like to suspend automatic reboots while this script runs.
What is the easiest way of achieving this?
@Oli Sorry about the bad excerpt, it was a result of a very bad Trusty excerpt edit, also I pulled a fix for the name which is not "Vivid Velvet" but rather "Vivid Vervet". About what exactly?
#!/bin/sh
# Action script ensure that unattended-upgrades is finished
# before a hibernate
#
# Copyright: Copyright (c) 2009 Michael Vogt
# License: GPL-2
#
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
SHUTDOWN_HELPER=/usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown
if [ -x /usr/bin/python3 ]; then
PYTHON=python3
else
PYTHON=python
fi
if [ ! -x /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown ]; then
exit 0
fi
case "${1}" in
hibernate)
if [ -e $SHUTDOWN_HELPER ]; then
I'm trying to setup a symlink, using the command ln -s /var/www/data/cache/widget/overlay/ /var/www/public_html/images/overlay, but it outputs ln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/www/public_html/images/overlay': Protocol error.
The host OS is Windows 8, and the Docker images is Ubuntu. I be...
@ByteCommander "This is a quick reference guide to the meaning of some of the less easily guessed commands and codes. " >:) -e is not one of the less easily guessed commands and codes >:)
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system using NIS for login. On startup it seems that automout is starting before NIS, and then not honoring the auto.home NIS pushes out to do NFS for home directories. Restarting autofs doesn't help, but if I kill the automount process it will automatically respawn and t...
Unattended-Upgrade upgrades and restarts my machine without any issues. However, I have a python script that runs infrequently, but when it runs it may take days to complete. I would like to suspend automatic reboots while this script runs.
What is the easiest way of achieving this?
@ByteCommander Yeah, I saw but I don't know how to do it off the top of my head and I'm busy revising an article I have to resubmit soon. I'll try and have a look later but I can't promise anything, I don't know much about that kind of thing.
@terdon I just saw it when @A.B. showed it around above and remembered your suspend-prevention answer. First I thought that should work similar (especially as there exists a directory power.d), but that was not the case.
This is my understanding about the usage of &, disown and nohup:
<command>: runs the process within the Terminal's current bash instance, in the foreground (i.e. the process is listed as a bash foreground job and stdin, stdout and stderr are still bound to the terminal); not immune to hangups;
<...
@kos Oh, I was writing an answer but got distracted by work. Why do you include <dev/null there? That's not relevant, you seem to be asking what the difference between i) normal ii) background iii) disown and iv) nohup is, right?
If so, all this </dev/null and >/dev/null is completely irrelevant and only confuse the reader.
I'll need to check and make sure, but the basic idea is that normal execution is in the foreground, tied to your current session. Background lets you do other things but will die if your session is killed. Disown will continue as long as you're logged in and nohup will continue even after you've logged out. I need to check that disown will exit when you log out but I'm pretty sure it will. I know nohup won't.
By the way, how come your name is Kos? Not because of the island by any chance?
I have tried following command on my local system (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS):
$ ssh localhost
The authenticity of host 'localhost (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:00:11:22:33:44:55.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Terminated
...
@terdon Ok thanks, waiting for your answer then. Nope, but somehow related: it's a short for my name which is greek (altough I'm not greek), and it happens to match the island :)
@kos OK, I just checked and my assumption about disown was wrong. I'm now thinking that the main difference is that disown is a shell builtin, so tied to bash while nohup is a separate executable. Apart from portability issues, I have yet to find a difference in what they do.
To be clear, this isn't a screen issue, I'm sure it's a general shell issue.
On a new Ubuntu 12.04 server, I'm currently logged into a terminal in which I want to run the screen command with my custom ~/.screenrc file. I scp'ed my .rc file to the Ubuntu machine and ran screen, but I can tell tha...
@kos Just did. By the way, you might want to consider asking that kind of distro-agnostic and more UNIXy question on Unix & Linux. There are people there who know this kind of thing inside and out and could give you a very detailed answer.
@terdon You're probably right. Anyway there's still something I can't figure out, why does e.g. nohup watch -n 1 'echo foo' block the shell? I need to hit Ctrl+C to terminate it
@Mateo It's very easy for you to say that, you aren't taking Physics. I got 6 out of 9 problems wrong because I was off by 1 significant figure on 5 of those, and the other one was also a significant figure error, just not 1.
@terdon You know probably I'm going to read something very basic on the topic because I keep getting confused. You said in your answer that nohup already disowns the process, so I tried nohup watch -n 1 'echo something' but both this way and by adding & at the end of the command the process is still listed within the bash jobs, so perhaps I am missunderstanding what disown is about?
I use CMake and Ninja to build a test executable of mine written in C++. I use gcc 4.8. I'm on Ubuntu 14.
I run CMake to configure the ninja build scripts, then I run ninja to build. I specify the libcrypto.so and other openssl *.so files as target dependencies in the CMake script.
When running...
Oh, I've just been off by 1 or 2 significant figures here and there and it's screwing up my answers :P Rest of the math is totally correct, putting it in the right spots in the equations, everything ... except significant figures :P
@kos Ah, yes, but try exiting the shell. The job won't stop.
I guess that's the main difference actually. disown works at the shell level while nohup at the system level. It has no knowledge or access to what the shell has listed as jobs, it just makes sure that the job itself is independent.
On Ubuntu 14.04, I found that when I don't plug in my external wireless adapter, its module rt2800usb is still shown in lsmod.
when does automatically loading a driver module happen? Is it when the device is connected to the computer, or when the OS boots?
when does automatically unloading a ...
I need some guidance with my 1st repo.
I created a repo with apache 2.4.7 on Ubuntu 14.04. I can access the repo from the gui but when doing an apt-get with kali I am told the line in source list/etc/apt/sources.list is not known.
I used the same format the default repos had and cut and pasted t...
I want to deliver a Linux tool as a boot able USB stick and so I am trying to create a USB stick with the Ubuntu core. I am following the steps here http://askubuntu.com/questions/67001/what-commands-are-needed-to-install-ubuntu-core
But when I run the following command grub-install --root-direc...