The action of modifying a program's behavior, generally by modifying a text file.
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How to send mail?
I'm trying to send mail from shell(GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)) using;
mail foo@bar.com
After I complete the command, the mail won't show up in the mailbox. What ...
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Help configuring DBUS to start JACK
I have the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) installed, but cannot seem to get jack_control start to start the service.
I'm using Slackware64-current, which recently updated its ...
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How do I configure OpenCV and Cygwin to work together?
I'm trying to configure OpenCV-2.2.0-win32-vs2010 with Cygwin to work together. Any ideas on how can I do that?
Thanks
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What I can I do to make the transition to some new computer hardware safe and smooth?
I normally use machine A, and I make backups of A onto a fileserver B.
Sooner or later, I will lose machine A for one reason or another.
Its hard drive wears out, or it gets hit by lightening, or some ...
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Is there a 'rc' configuration file for grep/egrep? (~/.egreprc?)
I usually do some grep when developing, and there are some extensions that I always don't want to look for (like *.pyc).
Is it possible to create a ~/.egreprc or something like that, and put some ...
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best way to set up separate linux environment in ~
I do most of my work (involves a lot of C/Python) on a development server that is shared with several other people. As a result we all seem to do a bit of the system administration chores (there is ...
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How to make startx use alternate xinitrc?
I don't have a desktop manager installed (and I don't want to). After logging in through the terminal I use startx to start the GUI. I have entries in ~/.xinitrc for my GUI sessions. Right now I have ...
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How to retrieve monitors configuration from the command line?
I am making a script that needs to access the computer's monitor(s) configuration. How can I do that? Is there a command or a file I could read where I can access this information?
At the moment, I ...
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Does Solaris have an equivalent to /etc/ld.so.conf?
I compiled a package for Solaris 11 Express that has some library dependencies, which I also compiled from source and installed in the usual /usr/local. (And Solaris doesn't even have /usr/local ...
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How to place an application on the second monitor with awesome-wm?
I recently got a second monitor at work and want to configure all with my window-manager: awesome. I run into a problem to put some applications on a tag on a screen. For example I have a rule for ...
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Converting syslog-ng 3.0? format to 3.2 format
Just rebooted my system to this warning
:: Starting Syslog-NG [BUSY]
WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, please update ...
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Temporary .vimrc
Is there a way to read a .vimrc file for only a single ssh session? That is, when I log in I perform some operation so that vim uses say /tmp/myvimrc until I log out?
I do not want to permanently ...
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What format does man use?
A piece of software wants to know for its configuration whether my man uses nroff or vt100 "catman" pages. How do I determine this?
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version control for /etc under *BSD
What turnkey solutions exist to put /etc under version control, under various unices? Turnkey doesn't necessarily mean part of the base install, but the following features would be nice:
hooks into ...
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making ssh hosts global to all the users on the computer
So SSH has these files that configure settings for a specific user.
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
~/.ssh/config
~/.ssh/id_rsa
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
~/.ssh/known_hosts
I'd like to globalise some of these ...
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Why don't Page U/Down, Home/End work in less on Solaris over ssh from Ubuntu?
I need to work on a Solaris server over ssh from my Ubuntu (Lucid) laptop. I got Home/End Insert/Delete Page Up/Down working in csh and bash using bindkey and ~/.inputrc, respectively. But I can't ...
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What does “warning: override: VZ_FAIRSCHED changes choice state” mean?
I am building a Linux kernel, via the Debian linux-2.6 source package.
Now there's CONFIG_VZ_FAIRSCHED=y in a sub-config, which gets merged into the final .config, where apparently also "y" gets ...
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What does the options `ServerAliveInterval` and `ClientAliveInterval` in sshd_config do, precisely?
I found this question, but I'm sorry I don't quite understand the settings on the two variables ServerAliveInterval and ClientAliveInterval mentioned in the accepted response. If my local server is ...
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How do I read alternate gnome configuration files
I have a number of versions of gnome installed on a number of different hosts. All users have network mounted home directories. In some cases gnome works poorly when reading configuration from the ...
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What RPMs do I need for timeconfig?
I've got setuptools set up and have read through the list of what's in /etc/setuptools.d
I'm interested in installing timeconfig as well, but I only need the TUI version (no GUI). Which RPMs do I ...
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Carry-on Ubuntu Customization
Like most of us, I have several machines: at home, at work, for travelling... etc. I mainly write papers or books while I code. But I'm tired of svn'ing, rsync'ing and so on, so I've decided to carry ...
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Looking for a complete TUI script for configuring date and networking of CentOS 5
I'm looking for a script that allows complete configuration of a CentOS 5 system via TUI (no GUI, X, etc.).
I found system-config-network-tui but other than the fact it looks unprofessional (typos, ...
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Is it possible to break long lines in sshd_config?
Specifically AllowUsers parameter:
e.g. convert this
AllowUsers user1 user2 user3 user4
to this
AllowUsers
user1
user2
user3
user4
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Emacs sync w/ Google Calendar and Contacts?
Is there a way to use Emacs to sync with Google Calendar and Google Contacts, ideally keeping a local copy so I can access them offline?
Thanks!
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Keeping config files synced across multiple pc's
I have a few different linux machines and a lot of config files (and folders) on each.
For example:
~/.ssh/config
~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
~/.scripts/ ( folder )
...
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Replacing multiple lines in sed or awk
I'm trying to use sed or awk to replace 5 lines in a smb file but I just don't have any idea how to deal with the newlines.
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Testing precedence of resolving addresses from commandline
There was such tool but I cannot remember its name. I needed to configure precedence of addresses by /etc/gai.conf. I finally managed to find an error, but for future, what's the name of tool which ...
