It may look like this: [2] 2847. I guess the first digit is just an enumeration of processes created from the shell. The second is the PID. Anyway, I never care about that information so it is just annoying to see. Is there a way to turn it off? (I found that set +bm in .bashrc disabled the proce...

All, I'm using top -l 0 -s 1 -pid XXX -stats rsize | awk 'NR%13==0; fflush(stdout)' > output.txt to store the rsize value of a process in a file. Currently the contents of output.txt look like this: 3828K+ 3832K+ 3836K+ 3840K+ 3840K 3840K I would like to modify th...

I would like to have insert mode completion for sentences rather than lines in vim. C-x C-l completes lines, but cannot complete sentences that do not start with a new line. For example: I have a dog. My dog's name is Spot. I want to be able to type: My dog then hit a key to complete the ...

I have an OpenBSD server that has a running webserver (the built-in apache web srv). How can I harden this setup? I want to only server static html files, no php, no sql.

I have headphones with three buttons on them which allow me to control my music player with my phone. I want to write a driver for my headphones to make it control my music player on my pc (Ubuntu Linux). So I think I should write a special program for my device. I have some basic knowledge abou...

I want to use a combination of the date and time at startup as filename for GNU screen's logfile. In screenrc, if I put logfile '~/log/screen_%H_%m%d%Y_%0c-%t.%n' I get a dynamically generated file, e.g. screen_nanna13_06062012_08:03-bash.0 Now I want screen to display this filename in the ...

I want to edit bsdinstall script of freebsd 9.0 iso file. I tried to extract files,edit and recreate iso but I couldn't boot it.I realized that some of files missed while extracting. I also use tools like "ISO Master" but when I try to open it, I get this error: Failed to read directory tre...

I have a system with Solaris 10. One of the internal disks is broken: c0t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk1_1 rootdg online c0t0d0s2 - c0t1d0s2 auto - - error c0t1d0s2 - c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootmirror1_...

I was just typing something along the lines of: mv foo/bar/poit/zoid/narf.txt and suddenly realized, damn, I have to type large parts of that parameter again mv foo/bar/poit/zoid/narf.txt foo/bar/poit/zoid/troz.txt Even with tabcompletion, quite a pain. I know I can copy paste the parameter...

From here: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/RTnet:Installation_%26_Testing#Debugging_RTnet The Linux driver for the real-time network device was built into the kernel and blocks the hardware. When I do rmmod 8139too it says module does not exist in /proc/modules. Kernel is 2.6.38.8 (64 b...

I'm the new one to use the linux.I want to learn the total number of keywords especially in the linux. Can you any one give me the web link or url to learn the keywords using in the linux.Thanks to be patience while reading the question.

i'm the very new one to this platform. So i want to know the main differences between the Unix and Linux ?

I have been trying to install a gedit plugin called RunC to compile C programs using the text editor. Although the instructions tell me to use ubuntu 9 or 10 for this, I'm currently running Fedora 16. I thought that I would not have much problems, but after running the shell script using the sh ...

How can I know if /dev/sdX is a local HDD or usb key ? best doing this without root privileges. OK , I tried dmesg , but I don't see difference between HDD and usb keys: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks: (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB) sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 15646720 512-byte logical blocks: (...

I use a gnome-terminal, and I run emacs under the terminal in background, as known $emacs &, but after I close the terminal, emacs is also closed, I want to know how to avoid it? I know that emace is a child process of bash shell.

I'm aware of what a proxy is and of its main usage to provide a bridge between two networks ; but as an interest, I'd like to get your opinions and ideas as what can be done with a proxy (at home or at work)? cheers.

Please suggest me the lightest debian linux ditribution with console interface only. Please dont suggest any net install stuff like netinst. I need an iso of that distribution which is capable to boot and install by itself. Later I'll install my own chosen GUI/Applications of my need from debian...

I have two animations (.gif files) I want to run side-by-side. Can this be done with ImageMagick? Moreover, I want to start one of the gifs after thirty frames of the other have passed. Can this be done as well? Otherwise, I can manually insert thirty frames of blackness into one image, but it w...

After creating a new instance,I am trying to access my instance like below: ssh -i private_key.pem root@my_instance_public_domain but the operation is timing out,I have updated the private key file permission using chmod 400 and also edited default security group by adding a new in bound ...

I'm having trouble with my new mouse Corsair M90. It just won't work. I managed to make it working somehow the first time I connected it to the machine, but it stopped working after a reboot (the mouse is OK though). Here is my Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/FNk8LLfY I have tried some configur...

On my SLES 10, SLES 11, and CentOS 6 servers, I'm able to list information about each NFS mount via nfsstat -m, e.g.: /usr/local from nfssrv1:/vol/foo Flags: rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,nolock,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=blah,mountvers=3,mountp...

I want to emulate a client site who doesn't have much caching because they have so much I/O all the time. I want to run a SQL query on my machine (on my VM to be precise) with the same limitations they have, so I thought I would flush the cache before runnning it everytime. I need to flush the c...

Something is wrong with the way my Mac generates ssh keys. This has been the second time where I've created a key with ssh-keygen -t rsa. When I paste the created id_rsa.pub to use in a connecting service, it does not work correctly. But when I create it on another machine the same way, the publ...

I use alpine to read mails, and occasionally get emails from people with vCalendar files in attachment. Is there a command line utility that reads and displays vCalendar files?

I'm trying to set fine grained access control to various mercurial repositories using ACL. When I push changes to repository any new files created under /myrepo/.hg/store/data do not have default permissions and users can't access them. The issue is reproducible. Assume the user "myuser" is ...