I am trying to allow all hosts in my subnet to connect to a server I have running in VirtualBox with ssh. I have tried several different methods so far, none of which have made any progress. What I want is to allow all hosts on my subnet to attempt to login without being blocked after an arbitrar...

On one computer I installed an application from source using configure make and make install. Now I want to install the same application on another computer that lacks gcc, make and all the other build tools. Both computers are running Kubuntu 12.04. How can I locate all the files to copy to the ...

How should I add a luks device after installation of Ubuntu ? I already have /etc/crypttab configured , but the prompt at boot doesn't show up.

I'm coming to Linux from the Windows world, and I want to learns the ins and outs of the system in order to make it my primary day to day work and hosting environment. I'm pretty much a complete beginner as far as the OS is concerned, so I would have to start learning it from total scratch. I'm...

When I run :make from vim and there's an error, it opens that file on the error line number in the current buffer. If possible, I would prefer it switch tabs to the file if it's already open, or make a new tab with the error file. Is this possible?

I'm trying to set up a custom toolchain where the browser (Firefox or, preferrably, Chrome) is often/frequently/constantly forced to refresh from the commandline. (The idea is to instantly see the visual changes in the html/webapp I'm editing in an adjacent Emacs frame - without having to consta...

When I run this script I don't here any beeps - I suppose it is because there is no speaker attached to the mainboard. Is there a way to redirect this beeps to the "normal" audio? #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; $|++; my $beep = "\07"; print $beep; sleep 2; print $beep; sleep 2; ...

Is it possible to change the font attributes of the output of echo in either zsh or bash? What I would like is something akin to: echo -n "This is the font: normal " echo -n $font=italic "italic," echo -n $font=bold "bold," echo -n "and" echo -n $font=small "small". so that it print: "This is...

I often connect to multiple network simultaneously. Each of these networks provide nameserver configuration via dhcp. E.g. Network 1: (eth0): domain company1.corp # nameserver 192.168.0.253 nameserver 192.168.0.254 Network 2 (tun0): domain company2.corp # nameserver 10.102.204.51 nameserver 1...

Can I reload xserver-xorg-input-mouse driver on the fly? For example, after I modify and recompile the source

I am facing the below mentioned warning issue in 3.0-RT(Real Time kernel) due to the following commit. {{{ commit 79b1bee888d43b14cf0c08fb8e5aa6 cb161e48f8 Author: Dongdong Deng Date: Fri Aug 21 03:33:36 2009 +0000 netpoll: warning for ndo_start_xmit returns with interrupts enabled WARN_ONCE ...

I am looking for something responsive and robust, other than that I am not quite sure by which criterias to decide. In regards to Ubuntu, would you recommend the on the website offered version 11.10, or eventually the beta? In regards to Mint, what would be cases, one should rather opt for Mint?

I need to test network throughput of a server to/from itself (it's a lonnnng story!). I love Iperf and use it across the network, but, I just can't figure out how to bind it to a single interface and only listen via that. From the documentation, I would assume that this would work: iperf -B eth...

see the example below to understand my problem ; consider my console prompt look like this user@server $ ls "I opened a file temp" user@server $ vi temp "temp will open in the same window, when I close temp, I dont come back to " user@server $ ls user@server $ vi temp user@server $ instead ...

I am writing an update utility for an embedded Linux device for which I am responsible. I'm creating a basic side-by-side setup, where updates are applied to a staging partition and then the bootloader is switched to the staging partition, changing the primary partition into the new staging one....

I have configure, gmake, and gmake installed syslog-ng-3.4.0alpha1 with eventlog-0.2.12 and other dependencies. From then output of the ./configure --prefix=/syslog --with-gnu-ld, I can see that the configure script is passing the compiler option -pthread and the linker flag -lpthread. syslog...

Whenever I try to boot linux with an external monitor attached to my laptop, it hangs after checking the battery state with the following message repeated several times: ...crtc_helper_set_config... The only solution is to boot without the monitor attached, then attach it, and readjust my sett...

I try to make a patch as introduced here. Say I have two directories pp1(modified version) and pp0(clean version), I make a patch file pp0.patch with the diff command: diff -crB pp0 pp1 > pp0.patch The problem is if there is a file only in pp1, it won't be included into the patch. How to w...

i had windows 7 in my system. after that i have installed the fedora in my system for dual boot in separate partition. to remove the fedora i deleted the partition in which fedora is installed so now i am unable to start my system. its displays only a command line of grub. i want to start my wi...

I originally created a software RAID using a controller that could only address 2TB per disk. The disks are 3 TB disks. It worked fine, but only used the first 2TB of each disk. I have now changed the controller to see the full 3TB. I would therefore like /dev/md0 to use the last 1 TB, too. I h...

How can you compare and choose between H-Sphere v/s C-Panel v/s Plask in Windows or Linux environment?

Given the limited fixed size of kernel stack, my guess is that although theoretically we might have a recursive function if its recursion doesn't go too deep, pragmatism would suggest to do away with recursive functions all together, to be on a safer side. After all, too much of recursion can res...

All, I have a script in which I use find command to filter out all png files in a given folder and list them along with their size. Sometimes the file names or the paths have spaces and this trips the script. Here is what I'm currently using: find "$somePath" -iname "*.png" -print0 | xargs -0 ...

A lot of people log into the same AIX 6.1 server as I do with a terminal emulator that automatically interprets and runs code encapsulated by certain control characters as VBA script instead of writing it to the display. So as a prank, I have a file that contains a sequence of characters that dis...