Linux is the family of Unix-like operating systems that use the Linux kernel.
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XDMX Setup Help
I have been searching for some time now, but apparently I am not using the proper words. I am trying to setup a cluster with xdmx to display all of the information from my head node, but I am only ...
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Ruby on Rails missing Thor
When trying to run rails g migration a, I get the following message
Thor is not available.
If you ran this command from a git checkout of Rails,
please make sure thor is installed, and run this ...
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RHN Satellite scout won't push
My RHN Satellite (Spacewalk) server is having issues with monitoring. The Spacewalk Monitor Scout will not push out successfully. It always stops with a Request Expired status. I can't seem to find ...
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Can't set a blacklist for usb autosuspending
I'm trying to disable usb autosuspend for my wireless USB mouse:
CONTROL_USB_AUTOSUSPEND="auto"
AUTOSUSPEND_USE_WHITELIST=0
AUTOSUSPEND_USBID_BLACKIST="046d:c52f"
I already put these values to ...
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Asrock H61M-ITX sensors
I just installed a small home server with Ubuntu 12.04.01 but I have a problem with the fan that run on full all the time.
The server specs are:
Linkworld Mini ITX 920-01
Asrock H61M-ITX mITX USB3 ...
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Samba: system group mapping
I have w2008R2 PDC and Linux server with samba and winbind. Now I'd like to add some domain users to Unix adm group in AD.
Let's say I have adm group defined in AD, and every user from this group ...
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K800 USB Wireless Keyboard - keyboard repeat rate intermittent problems
Any advice as to how to debug this:
My K800 USB Wireless Keyboard's repeat rate intermittently stops working.
It will start behaving erratically and when holding a key down it will either not repeat ...
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hda-codec and hda-intel issues
I use Arch Linux 3.5.6-1-ARCH and since ever I get a lot of those error messages in dmesg on my HP Pavilion dv6 (pure systemd):
[ 72.137821] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x370100
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Reverse tunnelling with “stunnel” in linux
Scenario:
Central Log-Server(logserv)- only private IP interfaces
Multiple client servers (logclient)- has public IPs.
Requirement:
Need to tcp logs of syslog application from various logclients ...
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Quickly check whether many network hosts are up-and-running
Objective: check if a host is up-and-running on the network,
with a method that can be efficiently parallelized over many hosts.
Emphasis on a QUICK turnaround of the check.
Reason to emphasise ...
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Can't launch Snort on CentOS 6.3
I have a problem installing Snort on CentOS 6.3 in a virtual environment.
When I run snort - ./snort status:
Running in packet dump mode
--== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output ...
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Installing Linux distro on PogoplugPro
I have a PogoplugPro and I want to install a Linux distro on it. However, none of the tutorials I have found cover the model I have:
Model: POGOPLUG PRO
BusyBox v1.16.1 (2010-11-30 12:06:37 PST) ...
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Change terminal resolution on Whiite (Wii Linux)
Is there a way to change the terminal resolution in Whiite (Linux for Wii)? All the answers I can find suggest editing grub configuration, but Whiite uses a custom bootloader instead of grub.
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A Reboot() command with failover
I'm implementing a Reboot() call in my application. It's an embedded application, so no console, keyboard or power switch. The Reboot() must eventually restart the system no matter what. Ideally, I ...
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Flash videos turn to gray box with light gradients on edges
As explained in the title .. it started happenning since installation of new openSUSE and it looks quite bizarre, see below for a shot from blip.tv.
It happens usually after few minutes of watching ...
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BackTrack5 R2 video driver works, but presents disturbing error message
I've installed backtrack 5 R2 on my computer and everything works fine but the video driver. The solution described here does work, but whenever I start the graphics mode, a message saying that the ...
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Automatically start named pipe reader on startup?
I'm trying to run a script with root access from PHP. I can't do that because Apache's user, www-data, don't have root access because of security reasons. To fix that, I was advised to use a named ...
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Which softirq will execute if interrupt is generated on same line: preempted or new softirq?
Following is the sequence of events:
interrupt generated at line 1.
line 1 disable.
ISR executed. Set sofirq bit 1
line 1 enable.
softirq executes and suddenly interrupts come at line 1.
softirq ...
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Which of VPN or IPSec or xxx can I use here?
I'm renting a dedicated server which has a fixed / static IP and I'm using this server / IP for my business.
I'm hosting a webapp / webappserver on it (Apache + Tomcat) and I've also set it up as a ...
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Eglibc cannot compile suffix of object files while trying to cross compile
I'm currently making my way through Trac's CLFS book.
When trying to configure the 32-bit version of EGLIBC-2.15, using the options:
BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc ${BUILD32}" \
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Force mysqldump encoding
I have two mysql servers, viewed from the same mysql client, right_server is rendering the french characters correctly, wrong_server is not. Encoding is the same :
$ mysql -h right_server -NBe "SHOW ...
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Black screen on resume from suspend to RAM
This is my first post so please bear with me. I have Xubuntu(12.04) and Fedora17KDE spin installed on my netbook. While Xubuntu wakes up neatly, Fedora gets stuck at the black screen while resuming. ...
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Debian sheevaplug internet not working
I have a sheevaplug with debian 5.0..internet was always working fine until today. I have a bunch of pcs connected via wireless to my router and internet works fine. From today though my debian won't ...
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Creating and updating the packages for many Debian systems
I'm using a Lenny (Debian 5) for remotely controlled PC's (around 100 PC's) which will be pinging to my apache server. I'm developing a patch twice in a week to keep updated with the latest versions ...
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memtester runs faster after couple of runs
I am using this test tool : http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/
And I noticed that first 3 iterations take 4 hours but 30 iterations take only 12 hours. I was hoping that 30 iterations will take 40 ...
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Linux Mint: LAN “Cable not connected”, despite it is
I've just installed Linux Mint 13, 64 bit (from the CD of "c't kompakt Linux", if this matters), and came across a very unexpected problem, for which I've not found a solution with Google or searching ...
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Selective stripping on RAID-0 with mdadm
With mdadm one can create a raid with a fixed chunk. I am trying to have a line by line stripping of a file. In fact, I'd like my files to have there lines repartitioned across the RAID.
I am ...
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Alternative keyboard-triggred launcher for specific file type in file managers (Dolphin and/or nautilus)
Is it possible to have an (or some) alternative launchers (i.e. Open With) for each file type and be able to trigger them using keyboard modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl & Alt) in linux's KDE and/or ...
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How do I satisfy the “warnings” Pinax requirement?
I'm trying to build a Pinax virtualenv. I get, on Precise Penguin with 0.7:
jonathan@ubuntu:~/Downloads/Pinax-0.7-bundle/scripts$ ./pinax-boot.py ~/virtual
New python executable in ...
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Trouble getting iwlwifi driver working
I just installed Debian and I am having issues getting my wireless working.
I installed Squeeze and also the nonfree firmware for iwlwifi.
I thought I did everything right but I am still not getting ...
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X11 session environment
I want to run specific command in X11 session automatically, as soon as I take the session.
e.g. If I do
Xephyr :2 -once -query <ip_address>
then post successful authentication, a command ...
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Configure vmware-tools without an initrd image?
Is it possible to run vmware-tools without an initrd? I don't know why I should use an initrd and it makes my kernel compilation more complicated. I can boot into my kernel without initrd but when I ...
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I can't find my tape library changer under centos 5 with a quantum scalar i40
i have a quantum scalar i40 connect on a centos 5 machine trough SAS interface.
I fight with it since a while because the media changer does not work. I finally understood yesterday that the system ...
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Strange speed-throttling problem
I am experiencing strange speed-throttling on my network and I have no idea how to diagnose it. I hope someone could perhaps give me some tips or hints on how to tackle this one.
Here's the problem: ...
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error: implicit declaration of function ‘rt_dev_socket’
The developer says: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.real-time.rtnet.user/2546
Now how can I tell the Makefile to look for headers in
/usr/local/rtnet/include respectively ...
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To which audio format can I convert aac lost-free with ffmpeg?
Since I did not manage to get the audio work with
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy out.avi
I'm searching for an audio format to which I can convert aac lost-free.
Does such an ...
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Memory mapping of the Linux kernel : how extended (4MB) and regular (4KB) paging coexist?
On x86 architecture, "Extended paging" allows page frames (physical memory) to be 4 MB instead of 4 KB.
The book "Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd" at chapter 2 "Memory Addressing", sub-chapter ...
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Mon Configuration
I am trying to get the hang of the mon daemon, in linux. I was wondering, can you set up dependencies in mod, if so how. As far as I understand it the script below will run ping then http regardless. ...
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Printing failure at a network printer in linux
I added a network printer to my network by the RedHat Enterprise workstation 6 linux GUI. It seemed that the printer setting did find the network printer. However, whenever I tried to print, the job ...
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Battery not detected on my embedded device on reboot
I have an ARM based embedded device with Linux Kernel 2.6.31 running on it. I have seen that while rebooting the device sometimes battery won't get detected and the device will just fail to boot. Any ...
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How to achieve fast user switching with multiple graphics adapters, prevent virtual terminal switch?
My boxen has two video nVidia graphics adapters which I'd like to assign to separate seats, including virtual terminals. This question most likely isn't display manager specific, but in this case I'm ...
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Booting linux from SD Card on a Leopard board (Ti DM365)
I have a Leopard board with Ti DM365 processor. Problem is that I tried to flash the bootloader (uboot) to nand and landed up corrupting the NAND. Now I can't use the NAND to bring up the board. So I ...
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Setting mailman to reject message when max_num_recipients exceeded?
I'm trying to configure a mailman list I run to reject messages when max_num_recipients is exceeded, but instead it insists on putting the message into the moderation queue.
I've searched for details ...
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acpi_listen returns different result in Ubuntu than Arch Linux
Ubuntu is able to detect my Lenovo "Mic Mute" button with acpi_listen, but when I try it on Arch Linux, there is no output available.
Model: Thinkpad X220 4290LY9
Tried to add acpi_osi=Linux in ...
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Run script as root under Busybox?
I have written a shell script that has to be run as root under Busybox. My first thought was to add the script to /etc/busybox.conf like this:
/sbin/my_script.sh = ssx root.root
But this only works ...
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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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Changing I/O settings from serial port to LCD&keyboard
I have a prebuilt image of Linux (uImage-da850-omapl138-evm.bin) from Arago Project.
So uImage and root filesystem are situated on SD card of my device (OMAP-L138 Experimenter Kit). After Linux is ...
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Connected external HDD slows down system
I need to connect large external hard disks (with many many files) to a system running Ubuntu. I have no idea how the Linux kernel is treating the inodes for the external drives, but attaching huge ...
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No sound with fresh Kubuntu install
I've just taken the plunge and installed Kubuntu as my main desktop env but I can't get the sound to work, and was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to help me work out what the problem is.
I ...
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Compiling and running linux test project
I'm trying to install Linux Test Project (LTP) on Debian 6.0.2, kernel 2.6.33.20. Compilation and installation went fine and without errors, but when I try to run basic tests
$ ./runltp
I get ...
