I am trying to install either Debian or CentOS on a home server (Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3). I first tried installing Debian. The whole installation was successful (including grub). But after rebooting, the OS would not boot up. My partition was the default setting for new users: /dev/sda1 pr...

Is it possible to monitor on all interfaces with xfce4's netload plugin ? Currently I can only place one interface name on it.

I'm trying to dd an .img file over to my micro sd (8 GB). The rom (.img) is 2.66 GB, but in my output of DD (live) it says its transfered 9 GB. I don't get how it's turning a 2 GB image into 9 GB. I'm running OSX Lion and using a Belkin card read. The card reader is not the problem, I have used d...

My Debian kernel is linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64, and the command uname -m returns x86_64. However, apt-get do get i386 packages (those /var/cache/apt/archives/*_i386.deb), but never get amd64 package. I want to install virtualbox, but neither -i386 nor -amd64 work for me. I have tried to instal...

whereis pwd pwd: /bin/pwd /usr/include/pwd.h /usr/share/man/man1/pwd.1.gz The pwd in the binary folder is not the same as type pwd pwd is a shell builtin so wouldn't it be harmless to do some experimentation on the external pwd? Like, adding a "Hello shell!" cout just to demonstrate the prin...

Maybe someone could point this question at exactly duplicated, but, the truth it didn't had the required attention on askubuntu.stackexchange. So, I would like to ask, if somone want vote to close for this reason, please vote up instead or give me a clue to me solve this boring problem. Thx. The...

I am running OpenSuse 11.2 (x86_64) and I am trying to install mono through yast but I am currently unable to. When I try and perform the install yast will display the error nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) needed by mono-devel-2.10.2-36.1.x86_64 When I look in yast for GLIBC...

I just installed the latest Ubuntu 12.04 and obviously it screws something up. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the fact that I have a Raid 1 but at the moment, I have sda and sdb which point to the same device: # blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="88aa922a-4304-406e-8abd-edc2e9064d79" TYPE="ext...

ext4 is one of the filesystems recommended for using on SSDs (with a number of built-in techniques and advices how to tune it for better performance and wear-levelling of SSDs). I want to install a Linux system onto an SSD, and I'm going to use ext4, because it is the better tested FS (I don't w...

When I execute gnome-open textfile I expect gvim to open up. Instead what happens is that a command /bin/bash -ic (uname) > /tmp/{some random string of characters} uses 100% of the CPU. When I kill the process (and I have to use -9), then cpu usage goes back to normal and gvim opens. Running ...

Just synchronized and updated all packages on my Arch Linux. Now I try to find out all available modules by modprobe -l But I got: modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' /sbin/modprobe was linked from /usr/bin/kmod , which exists.

The configure file of gnutls configure for make file. After build source code of gnutls with make command line by ./configure --prefix=~/gnutls/build \ LDFALGS="-Wl,-rpath,~/nettle/build/lib64" b It's show error as below. /usr/bin/ld: warning: libhogweed.so.2, needed by ../lib/.libs/libgnu...

I am trying to write a script that will attempt to find if a certain program is installed. Lets say that the program is called, myprog. The problem is that the program can be named in different formats such as, 'prefix-myprog', 'myprog', and 'prefix_myprog'. If I use: which myprog then the c...

There is a search page in a form http://site.com/search.php and it sends a search query via POST request. I want to fetch this request via curl command line tool to inspect a POST request. The HTML form looks like this: <form action="search.php" method="POST"> <input type="text" nam...

I want to do research on the evolution of Linux. Therefore it would be nice if I could download the sources of Linux at several moments in time (from 1991 till now). Is there a site where one can find those sources? Similar sites for other Unix based operating systems are also welcome.