I'm running Fedora 13 Linux, and sending mail to myself using mutt, and I can't seem to get procmail to run. Below is what my .procmailrc, ~/Procmail/rc.testing, and .forward files all look like. As you can see, they are very simple. .procmailrc HOME=/home/cory SHELL=/bin/bash PMDIR=$HOME/Pro...

I use a script which either activates an already running window of a program, or starts that program if it is not running.  It uses different shortcut-keys; one for each of my most used apps — it checks for a unique window title format.   This has worked fine, until today, when I decided to use t...

Suppose I do the following in zsh cd ~ cd dir1 cd dir2 cd dir3 evince foo.pdf zsh writes exactly the same in its history file. Now my question is whether it is possible to have cd ~ cd ~/dir1 cd ~/dir1/dir2 cd ~/dir1/dir2/dir3 evince ~/dir1/dir2/dir3/foo.pdf in zsh history instead. I.e. t...

How to configure zsh such that Strg + backspace kills the word before point? How to achieve that Strg + del kills the word after point?

hello I have on old mac desktop, Power PC G3 (300MHz) 320 MB Ram I Want To use it for browsing the internet, playing videos what distro should I use for it? thanks

To designate Macintosh hardware, we now have a macbook and macbookpro. I don't think macbookpro should be a separate tag. There's a new question which is about a non-macbook Mac. Is macintosh the right tag? Or powerpc? or both? Should macbook be made a synonym of macintosh, or is there really a...

Everything is working with my serial port. I have connected my FTDI converter into my computer, set my COM port... ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/wine/dosdevices/COM1 But now I would like to "clone" this port. I am using wine to run u-center a GPS visualizer and I have a Linux computer running Ubuntu Cou...

Hi guys! I'm trying to build the PHP memcache extension (v2.2.6) for i386 (32bit) on my x86_64 Ubuntu 11.04. ./configure, uses config.guess by default (which outputs x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu on my system) but I want to override that. How would I have to proceed? Best regards and thanks in adv...

Say I want to grab the last 5 mentions of cron in /var/log/syslog.log looking over the grep manual it seems like I can't get grep to search in reverse. I can however grab the most recent occurrences. grep cron -m 5 /var/log/syslog Is there a reverse grep command I can use? :)

I have set up an alias in my .bashrc as follows: alias u='cd ..' All is well in my world... until I type cd .. and cringe that I did not use my incredible new alias. In fact, with this particular thing, it's very ingrained. Hard to change my behavior - I need serious intervention. So, I natura...

Hi All, My question is;When user create goes in the Linux Operating System ,The username can be seen publicly in passwd file. is there a hash set for that? Thanks in advance.

Question more or less says it all. I'm aware that /^$/d will remove all blank lines, but I can't see how to say 'replace two or more blank lines with a single blank line' Any ideas?

I often see that programs specify pid and lock files. And I'm not quite sure what they do. For example, when compiling nginx: --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \ --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock \ Can somebody shed some light on this one?