Hello, I wrote a nice little script that changes my monitor outputs according to if an external monitor is connected or not and if the laptop lid is open or closed or not and so on. That works pretty well, the only thing ist, that when my external big monitor is plugged out the windows on the lap...

For some reason, I have a few open sessions on an SSH server that I don't know about. I assume they're leftovers from when my pipe broke. $ users user1 user2 user3 me me me me Is there a way to log me out across all sessions?

Context I currently write research articles in LaTeX using Vim. I have bibtex keys in my articles like \cite{smith2000sometopic} and I have corresponding pdf versions of most articles in a subfolder of ~/lib e.g., ~/lib/topica/smith2000sometopic.pdf. Aim I'd like to be able to press a key in V...

I want to install SVN version of Quantum GIS and already I have a SVN version of GRASS GIS. As instructed in QGIS Wiki here, I added the qgis repository to my sources.list file. Now I am able to see qgis1.8.0svn version in Synaptic but when I try to install it, GRASS is a dependency(older version...

On my debian testing system, I get these messages in my /var/log/boot file: Starting rpcbind daemon...rpcbind: Cannot open '/var/run/rpcbind/rpcbind.xdr' file for reading, errno 2 (No such file or directory) rpcbind: Cannot open '/var/run/rpcbind/portmap.xdr' file for reading, errno 2 (No such...

Is it possible to list down unused modules? lsmod would only list down dependency by modules, right?

I know this is not a tech support forum, but I am not etting an answer from alsa people and have tried much, if not everything. I can upload the alsa-info output if needed, but here is the info probably most relevant. Two codecs (one HDA, one NVIDIA HDMI) Codec: IDT 92HD73C1X5 Codec: Nvidia MCP...

I have a large archive of edited images from my camera, each image is actually a pair of files - *.nef & *.xmp. I would like to go through all the folders and then zip these pairs into single tgz files. Each of the filenames in a directory is unique, so it would be sufficient to move the fil...

Hello, Currently I'm using the following to check how long a process is actually running: ps -eo uid,pid,etime | egrep '^ *MY_ID' | egrep 'PID_OF_PROCESS' And that outputs the following: MY_ID PID_OF_PROCESS 00:16 However, after the process ends I want to find out how long it actuall...

I'm attempting to compile GCC 4.5.2 as part of the Linux from Scratch book (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/gcc-pass1.html). My configure is as follows: ./configure \ --target=$LFS_TGT --prefix=/tools \ --disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-multilib \ --d...

According to the man page for ls, "ls -U" means: "do not sort; list entries in directory order". What does "directory order" mean, how is it determined? The following test (executed on an ext3 file system) shows, that it is not the order in which the files were created: root@sv1010vm0007:/tmp#...

Continuing on Automounting plugged devices in linux, which left things a bit basic. Running Gentoo, I'm automounting a combination of local and network devices on my laptop with autofs-5.0.4-r5. Doing autofs alone gives me a couple of gripes: I have to predefine names for mountpoints per devic...

So say I'm in a directory that is deep within a file structure, such as /home/cory/projects/foo/bar/bash/baz I know that in either the current folder baz or one of the folders above me (such as home, cory, projects, foo, bar, or bash) there is a file named happy. How can I find that file with...

Say I have a file: # file: 'test.txt' foobar bash 1 bash foobar happy foobar I only want to know what words appear after "foobar", so I can use this regex: "foobar \(\w\+\)" The parenthesis indicate that I have a special interest in the word right after foobar. But when I do a grep "foobar...