The action of modifying a program's behavior, generally by modifying a text file.
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How to make changes in nvidia-settings tool persistent
I want to disable VSync (it's called "Sync to VBlank" in nvidia-settings) for my nvidia graphics card.
But the configuration only takes effect if I start the nvidia-settings tool. After rebooting ...
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Close ssh session that has ControlPersist and is kept alive in the background
I have ControlPersist 4h in my .ssh/config and it works perfectly,
Every now and then I need to connect to this server that requires some special authentication, and if I don't use that account for ...
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How to setup squid simplest way for safe proxy?
I have installed squid on my remote linux box and added my desktop's IP as
acl lagrangian64 src XX.XX.XX.XX/32
in squid config.
Also I have added lagrangian64 to the following line:
http_access ...
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Linux Mint Settings Changed Automatically
The settings for my linux mint OS have somehow changed automatically. The wallpaper has changed to default background, the mouse and touchpad settings are different, and I can't see the 'Computer' ...
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Installing Redmine on openSUSE
I installed redmine-1.1.3-1.1 on a openSUSE 12.1 using the repositories http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/scm/openSUSE_12.1 . Anyway, after the installation: I edited the ...
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How to edit grub2 to use kdump?
I was following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes and in step 2 I need to add the line to grub.cfg, but grub.cfg is a shell I do not know how to edit it, most ...
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vi setting for new window
I'm using terminator (terminal emulator). Whenever I open it, the initial workspace comes with the setting I defined in the config file. But whenever I split the workspace, the new workspace comes ...
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Opendns setup failed. How to fix it?
I have problems trying to configure OpenDNS. I have contacted OpenDNS support but they did not answer. I cannot access websites like Twitter and Facebook.
I tried welcome.opendns.com (did not ...
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Vim settings within ncftp edit
I'm using the ncftp utility. It has an 'edit' command which handles the get, edit, put sequence for me as in GUI ftp clients.
It's great except for one thing, I get vanilla vim, with none of my ...
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Configure Emacs to use Chrome as the web browser of choice?
Using Emacs on a Linux system I click:
Scala>Browser Scala API
which produces a terminal window with this message:
/usr/bin/xterm: Can't execvp lynx: No such file or directory
How do I inform ...
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How to get hgk working on RedHat Linux?
I plan to get hgk to work.However, no matter how I configure the redhat linux, it still does not have any response. Here is information for my machine.
RedHat 5.3
Mercurial 1.8.1-1
I installed ...
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MAC OS X lion mac address spoofing problem
I have to change the MAC address of my Macbook due to ISP issues. I changed it using:
sudo ifconfig en1 ether my_new_mac_address
And it is changed successfully when I check it through:
ifconfig ...
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How to properly configure GRUB settings from KDE System Settings
I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 with KDE 4.10, and I recently installed the kde-config-grub2 that places a nice Grub configuration panel into KDE System Settings.
I played around a bit, more for learning how ...
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Fontconfig default unavailable font selection, How is it defined in the XML configs? Couldn't locate in documentation
I've worked with Fontconfig previously, and understand how to do most of the common configurations. All my aliases work as expected, and I'm almost completely finished.
I'm trying to set the default ...
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FreeBSD 9.0 install NOT configuring ports
We have a new FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE with a ports tree generated via portsnap and none of the ports perform make config.
To some degree it is behaving as though BATCH=yes was set. However, that variable ...
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How to deal with closed source modules when configuring a new kernel build
I found this command very useful:
make localmodconfig
However, having some closed source drivers/modules ends up being a problem because this command can't find an appropriate way of including the ...
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Configuring default resolution and color depth for RealVNC's vncserver-x11-serviced?
When searching the web for information about how to configure the default resolution and color depth for RealVNC sessions, I always come across stuff that talks about passing commandline parameters to ...
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Sendmail configuration with user mapping on Solaris
I have the following:
host1.intra.net which has sendmail and users: user1, user2 & user3. It is running SunOS 5.10.
host2.intra.net which has SMTP server. No authentication, no encryption.
Email ...
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Can sources.list only be updated by hand?
I'm currently running Linux Mint. I remember that under Ubuntu, whenever a new release comes out, it prompts you with a choice of whether to upgrade or not. It seems like this is not happening in ...
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Setting a default todo list in KOrganizer
I've been using KOrganizer's calendar for awhile now, synching it with my Android phone's calendar using Google's calendar. Now I want to start using the todo list. Synching it with my phone using ...
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apache2 gui / Comanche Replacement
I opened an OLD redhat book to the section about Apache configuration and it talked about the Comanche GUI. I thought "That's great! Why hasn't anyone suggested that before?" Then I found out that ...
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Is collectd able to send data tagged as a host other than itself?
I log various stats both generic and custom from a lot of different servers using collectd to a single host running a network listener. The setup is pretty simple. All the systems run an instance of ...
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Having a problem installing snort on fedora 17
I've installed the latest versions of libpcap and libdnet. There is however a problem with daq. I configured snort with --wth-daq-libraries=/usr/local/lib/daq and --with-libpcap-libraries=/usr/lib ...
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Configuring network settings manually in Qubes OS
I'm trying to setup Qubes OS on my desktop but struggling to get the network/internet working.
This is the configuration i want to setup -
ip - 192.168.1.2
Subnet - 255.255.255.0
Gateway - ...
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Are there any editline configuration files available to make it act more like readline?
With editline replacing readline in a few software packages I use, the annoyance is growing at editline's behaviors and shortcomings. Is there someone maintaining a configuration file to at least make ...
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why xfce4 always replace a new files in .config/xfce4/panel/?
I started inotify tools to see which files are changing during my work process. And i found that xfce4 always update their config files.
Anyone know it do that ?
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Is it possible to enter a port range in /etc/services?
I have a passive FTP server setup that accepts ftp-data connections on a specific set of ports, ie 50000-50100
In the /etc/services file, I found the ftp-data entries:
ftp-data 20/tcp # ...
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mod_python won't “./configure” because it can't determine httpd version
I'm trying to install mod_python 3.3.1 on Apache 2.4.3 and whenever I try to run ./configure (with apxs etc) and instead of configuring correctly, it says that Apache 2.x is required and my current ...
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Mail Server not working?
I am trying to setup mail server since a long time but as I am new to Linux I have unsuccessfully configured it to the best as I could but now I need assistance.
I have installed it using the links ...
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How to disable tmpfs on /media in openSUSE?
In OS 11.4 /media is a regular directory. Whatever I put there, it stays.
In OS 12.1 /media is tmpfs. Whatever I put there, on next restart is gone.
The question is -- how to get rid of tmpfs on ...
