Some tasks could easily be done in a terminal whereas GUI solutions don't work. In this cases GUI-only users or beginners may be led to unneccesarily complicated procedures. This question is a good example for this.
We should take care to make CLI solutions acceptable for beginners in explainin...
Yeah. So is there a way where only either is applicable? Yes. Is there a GUI tool to update-alternatives ?
I usually look at the OP's rep as a rough measure of expertise, and answer the question for CLI or GUI. I dont try for GUI answers, because honestly it is a lot of work.
And somebody always presents another method. Not always are the answers recommending a same method. There are usually more than one method to do things.
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So If there was an edit in question, instead of overwriting it, Editer could have appended it.
@Takkat I think even on Mac you can use command line if you want. So its not because it "linux" so you have to be a script fu to use it. But if a Bash script will save you a whole day or robotic clicking around a gui then you would have to be insanely stubborn to not use it
Today, while chatting with the boss on empathy, I saw a damming spelling mistake. I thought I would correct it after typing it. Later I realized that its not AU chat. Now I am still waiting for a reply. FML.
this is funny, when I think about the name Windows rescue CD the only thing which comes into my mind is an Ubuntu CD. It is the only way I know to rescue your computer.
really annoying bug in aptana studio on debian - the code completion window is set to display with a background colour of [Window] and a foreground colour of [Tooltip] - both of which are white by default on ubuntu
When I was 17 I was opening Mail in the mail room of a shared accounting center. I fixed one of the PCs on floor during lunch and the manager was like "Do you know how to write code?" then I got my first non-freelance job
I'm needing to setup a basic web user account on my ubuntu 10.10 server to host web pages. This account should be limited to access only the necessary directories on the machine. I setup the following account but nothing happens when I try to log into it:
:~$ groupadd -g 1005 webgroup
//I then c...
Okay, you don't need to have anyone "log in" to the server for the webserver to run. The web server (Apache?) Will run as either nobody, apache, http, or whatever user that service is designed to run as. It'll serve up content to whatever valid requests are made to it.
If you want users to be able to upload and place new content on the webserver without actually giving them access to the machine they don't need SSH access (though you could give them that) They really need FTP access to a secured location on the box which the web server is configured to read from.
Typically most web servers read from /var/www - though you can configure it to read from any directory in the system. They don't constantly need to be logged in for it to run either. Just log in via FTP - upload files - refresh
@sadmicrowave Is that what you're confused about or am I heading down the wrong path?
@sadmicrowave So you can give them SSH - but most hosts don't. They just give FTP access to a folder like /home/ftp/<user>/www and that users domains vhost documentroot should point to that directory
@OctavianDamiean Do you have stairs in your house?
You don't need to have anyone "log in" to the server for the webserver to run. The web server (Apache?) Will run as either nobody, apache, http, or whatever user that service is designed to run as. It'll serve up content to whatever valid requests are made to it as long as it's on. Since it runs ...
Each account has their own user which is disabled. So if your username is mceppi all your content is in /home/mceppi then there are a few directories in there like all the mail for that account, etc and a domains directory which has all the domain names associated with that account. like marcoceppi.com, ourfriendsinjapan.com, hour45.com, in side of there is an html folder inside of which is the actual content for the domain.
So I setup FTP accounts for people to access hour45.com by making the that FTP users "home" folder /home/mceppi/domains/hour45.com That way they can upload everything to that domain but won't have access to anything else. (as a basic example)
@MarcoCeppi, so (this maybe a php question, but;) if my php code has a file_put_contents() function to another server which is mounted at /home/lv_admin/uslonsapp002. Then I'm going to suddenly have issues with this code if the lv_admin user is not logged in, right?
@sadmicrowave No, the home folder exists even if they're not logged in - so long as the user running the file_put_contents has write permissions to that folder it will work.
The reason why I ask is because that command is currently not writing anything to the path specified, meaning the user must not have access to write. So I'm trying to trace this down to figure out where I'm going wrong and which user it really is that is trying to use the command
@sadmicrowave No it will still work - since the log in creds are stored on the machine. This is likely a permissions issue. When a script is executed it is highly likely that it will be executed as the webserver user (apache2 I think on Ubuntu servers) unless you've changed the config
Yeah, you need a few more things in there for the connection parameters - it's been a while since I've mounted anything windows, but I'm sure you atleast need exec and a few others
@MarcoCeppi, @OctavianDamiean, and f.y.i to debug my permissions issue I added rw,umask=0000 to my options and the program still will not write to the directory
@JorgeCastro that is what the code looks like at the moment; the way to add icons is to call model.append(), I'm doing that the second I have a result. Perhaps it works better If I do it in a couple of threads; not sure. I have a bunch of ideas, only the last of which is to talk to the API folks.
@JorgeCastro I was in the netherlands yesterday, talking to a scientist who applies research into emotional reactions to user experience design (: Now I'm obsessed with some of the ideas I picked up.
he's also a mate, if the above sounds weird
One of the things that came out of that is that I basically have 50 milliseconds until I need to show something, and not just anything but something that provides positive feedback regarding the users query (like "world of warcraft" -> 'games' tag). I'll be working on some of that today
do you know that when you write an answer and you just can't stop? Initially you didn't even what to write too much and then you end up with a damn long answer. I somehow love that.
@JorgeCastro do you have the latest revision? I messed around with the Launcher API and left a piece of code in there that didn't do anything at the time, to do with the launcher icon.
I downloaded mysql 5.5 server and client rpm packages.
I copied them to my home directory and converted those packages to deb installer using alien.(I'm using fakeroot)
alien -d MySQL-server-5.5.8-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
alien -d MySQL-client-5.5.8-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
and then installed both of them.
b...
I want to download and save some deb files, and preferably their dependencies, of certain apps, from the repositories (apt-get, aptitude) to a custom location without installing, so that I can install those apps while the machine is off-line. Also I want to know if it is possible to download deb ...
dpkg: error processing libasound2 (--configure):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Oh man. it looks like I'll be setting up another usb stick :\
Some tasks could easily be done in a terminal whereas GUI solutions don't work. In this cases GUI-only users or beginners may be led to unneccesarily complicated procedures. This question is a good example for this.
We should take care to make CLI solutions acceptable for beginners in explainin...
I downloaded mysql 5.5 server and client rpm packages.
I copied them to my home directory and converted those packages to deb installer using alien.(I'm using fakeroot)
alien -d MySQL-server-5.5.8-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
alien -d MySQL-client-5.5.8-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
and then installed both of them.
b...
