I am using lubuntu 11.10. When I turn off it I can read FAIL in red color around 3 times. I would like to read some log files to remove the problem. Something is wrong but I don't know the reason for those msgs. Does anybody can help me, please. Regards.

I have .bash_aliases with: alias c1='cd /home/me/code/php' alias c2='cd /home/me/code/jquery' alias c3='cd /home/me/code/ruby' alias c4='cd /home/me/code/c' How can I Dry this up and loosen the coupling to that entire directory structure. I have tried: alias code_base='/home/me/code/' alias ...

I want to know how the update manager for linux works. For instance, how does my linux distro check to see if there are any available updates for download and which servers to download these updates? If I am dealing with 3rd party software not apart of the main distro, how do those programs inter...

.config from /usr/src/linux-2.6.38.8 contains: CONFIG_R8169=m CONFIG_R8169_VLAN=y What's the difference between CONFIG_R8169 and CONFIG_R8169_VLAN?

From here: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/RTnet:Installation_%26_Testing#Testing_with_a_single_node_.28local_loopback.29 TODO: simplify the following steps. - Then you need to edit the file rtnet.conf under the /usr/local/rtnet/etc folder for the correct setup to run RTnet. Edit the foll...

I'm not running KDE4 , but how can I use strigi to index my documents manually ? I already have strigi installed , but don't know how to utilize it.

Is there any transactional installation process like Windows installer in Unix/Linux? Installation scripts like Makefile or package manager (such as deb) usually simply copy files directly to overwrite existing files.

Suppose I do a time consuming recursive grep search. After seeing the results I want another output, for example I want to add the option -C 3 for 3 context lines. Now I can do the whole search again with the new option added. But then I have to wait the same time as before. So is there any cle...

I'd like to run some applications in fullscreen. Even though they don't have an explicit such option, it is possible with the metacity Alt-F11 command. So, I thought I could create such an input like this: full.txt: KeyStrPress Alt_L KeyStrPress F11 KeyStrRelease F11 KeyStrRelease Alt_L and ...

I need to process image with several tools in a pipeline tool1 | tool2 | tool3 | .... It appeared though that one of the tools isn't designed to work in a pipeline and only works in format of user@computer:/~# bad_tool infile.png outfile.png. Is there any way to include it into pipeline? I reall...

is it possible to execute the command "whois" and choose the outgoing ip for the query? I have mounted several IP's on my network interface "/etc/network/interfaces" for ssl porpuses, but would be great to use them also for querying. And would be this possible also with IPv6? Thank you very mu...

I apologize in advance as this is a simple question. So I'm attempting to scan a Class C to identify all mail servers by IP. The vast majority of IPs arent mail servers. I'm trying to filter out the ones that are. I've tried the following but they haven't returned what I wanted. nmap -p 25 1...

From here: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/RTnet:Installation_%26_Testing#Testing_with_a_single_node_.28local_loopback.29 Save the file and run "./rtnet start" under the sbin/ directory. It will wait for slaves. press cntl C to go out of its waiting for slaves. I added the correct real t...

I'm a debian user, and while trying apt-get install i get this tar: ./es_DO/LC_ADDRESS: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: ./es_DO/LC_IDENTIFICATION: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: ./es_DO/LC_MONETARY: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: ./es_DO/LC_TELEPHONE:...

Brief description : Linux driver gives us a chance to use Ntfs. Thanks to this driver, we can use built-in command on Ntfs . Ex : ls, chown, chmod, cd, locate, rm etc. Question : Where can I find this source code ? Why : Try to be familiar with Ntfs

I'm looking for a GNU/Linux distro that I can install in transparent setup to look for infected hosts on a LAN. I don't need to stop viruses and malwares but only identify them and the host where they come from. I don't necessarily need fancy graphics but I would like something pre-configured and...

I wonder whether Ubuntu itself provides a system-wide way to find the current JAVA_HOME or whether there is right place for setting JAVA_HOME. Mac OS X does well in this, for /usr/libexec/java_home command returns the current JAVA_HOME. But to Ubuntu, the materials I found always told me to set...

I recently switched from Gnome Terminal to URXVT. I am also a heavy emacs & tabs user which uses a lot of key combinations similar to URXVT (tab related stuff) like Shift-Left and shift-right. These key-combinations are set for selecting text in emacs. Is there a way in which I can map ALT-...

I have OpenSuse installed at work and my admin fixed tommorow some problems with my login. The login worked fine at work, I also restarted PC and tried it after restart, it was fine too. But then I came home and can't login into OpenSuse (both GUI and terminal login doesn't work), it says "No lo...

From: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/RTnet:Installation_%26_Testing#Debugging_RTnet If RTnet doesn't work, or only works intermittedly, it is probably due to one of the following problems: /dev/rtnet device node is missing. - The Xenomai or RTAI is not working as expected on your hardwa...

what's the stand-alone hyphen (between the -C & -O) stand for in this command? curl -C - -O http://www.intersil.com/content/dam/Intersil/documents/fn67/fn6742.pdf FWIW- I'm following a tutorial here.

I use screen for my command-line tasks while managing the servers where I work. I usually run small commands (mostly file-system tasks) but sometimes I run more extensive tasks (like DBA). The output of those tasks is important to me. Since I use Ubuntu and OS X (both Terminal Windows) for my ta...

I have been following the wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/SambaDomainController and got to the http://wiki.debian.org/SambaDomainController#simple_working_smb.conf stage. As instructed, I only changed the hostname and domain. I am getting the said error. This is the first time I have attempted to ...

When i copy files to the Android phone, they are copied to some cache, but they aren't written. I don't like it, because i don't know what is done. I've tried these methods: copying via thunar file manager using cp src dst command using rsync -aP src dst I have to use sync to write data. I d...

I have a file called test and the contents are: ubuntu@regina:~$ cat test ** test ** catting this file via command line works fine, but if I use command substitution I get an understandable but undesirable result. ubuntu@regina:~$ A=$(cat test) ubuntu@regina:~$ echo $A deployment detect.sh ht...

On Debian, I have multiple hard drives, how do I know where /var/www is? Bonus: How do I check the capacity and consumed capacity and of my drives?

I was wondering if there was a way to create ADMX files for use with clients on a Samba3 domain? Regards.

I am running Fedora 17 gnome (shell) 3 and gnome terminal 3.4.1.1. I am a user of both gnome-terminal and midnight commander. As default gnome-terminal has always used F10 (which I need while using mc), to opening the top menu. So was this time. I was able to disable that behaviour in the settin...

When you select "Print to File" in a Gnome print dialog (not cups-pdf): ... what is the actual command that gets executed? (I'm interested in the postscript variant, as on the image) On the other hand - maybe there isn't a command call; maybe it is gtk_print_operation_set_export_filename fro...

I want to statically assign the IP address of my Arch Linux machine using PHP. I want to change the IP by using netmask, interface, broadcast, address & gateway. The user puts up the values into a HTML page, the HTML page posts the data to the PHP page. I want to change the IP using this data...

I just configured my new VPS with Apache, PHP, MySQL and ProFTPd. I wanted to install a smtp server, but I was advised to do a apt-get upgrade first. I did this, and I got up a blue screen where I could choose between two alternatives. It said something about GRUB 2 installer. I chose the alterna...

I've a problem copying many files in different directories. Let me explain better: Let's say I have the following in a dir: $ ls file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 dir1 dir2 dir3 and I want to copy every file* in every dir* with a single command. I've tried with: echo dir{1..3} | xargs cp file{1...

I found this answer you wrote on another post and I was hoping you might point a linux noob in the right direction. I have about 9000 files in a directory and I want to mv them into 90 files in 100 directories by filename order, ignoring any remainder. What you wrote below seems to be the best...