0
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0answers
8 views
No bluez device after pactl list sources short
I am using pulseaudio on a Raspberry Debian (Wheezy) but my bt-headset(Iqua BHS-611) does not show up in sources or sinks.
What I did:
I followed the Raspbian Wheezy Installation Guide at: ...
0
votes
0answers
14 views
How do you update tmux from 1.7 to 1.8?
I just recently installed tmux 1.7, but now i want to upgrade to 1.8. How do I go about doing this? I downloaded the sources for 1.8 and have them untarred. But im not sure how do you overwrite 1.7 ...
0
votes
1answer
14 views
High availibility setup with NFS
Web hosting HA setup
I have 5 servers:
Server-1: Webhosting Controlpanel (192.168.1.1)
Server-2: Load balancer [Haproxy] (Public IP:192.168.1.2 and
Virtual IP:192.168.1.3)
...
1
vote
4answers
36 views
What is the `editor` command in bash?
I was looking for a command that would hopefully open the current user's favourite text editor, because I am writing out some instructions with commands in a blog. I was expecting a command like edit, ...
0
votes
1answer
9 views
urxvt not loading xft font from ~/.Xdefaults
Some basic details:
archlinux 3.9.3-1
xmonad 0.11
urxvt 9.18
I can get urxvt to load my desired font manually using:
urxvt -fn "xft:Ubuntu Mono"
However, I'm unable to get this font to load ...
1
vote
1answer
15 views
How does the ports package build system work?
I have used yum and apt for package management. The ports system which is in use in *BSD is new to me. I see that some Linux distributions also use it. Like the Gentoo portage and Arch's ABS. I would ...
0
votes
1answer
9 views
pg_dump version mismatch on Debian
I'm running PostgreSQL on Debian Unstable/Sid. I've got the current versions (9.1) of postgresql, postgresql-client, postgresql-client-common (143) installed.
The problem I'm having is trying to run ...
1
vote
1answer
37 views
Why doesn't `head -c 2 /dev/hwrng` work?
I have an Atmel 97SC3201 in my computer and set the following in the kernel:
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_TPM
CONFIG_TCG_TPM
CONFIG_TCG_ATMEL
/dev has tpm0 and hwrng, but running this command returns the ...
1
vote
3answers
32 views
How do I use pushd and popd commands?
What are the practical uses of both pushd and popd when there is an advantage of using these two commands over cd and cd -?
EDIT: I'm looking for some practical examples of uses for both of these ...
2
votes
1answer
31 views
How can I set up a usb printer as a network printer using a linux server?
Basically right now I have a USB only printer, it's very nice. There are 5 people in my household and we all are constantly wanting to use the printer. Windows has a built in way to share the printer, ...
-4
votes
0answers
24 views
Stuck with Perl script [closed]
I think it's better if I put the instruction first and show you my code.
Can you help me out parts where I need to modify?
The program must check that: a) it is invoked with the appropriate number of ...
0
votes
0answers
23 views
Getting error opening Windows. Error 1: Filename must be either an absolute pathname or blocklist
I've installed CentOS 6.4 on UEFI machine. Created /boot/efi partition and installed grub in it.
But when i open Other in the grub menu i get this error:
Error 1: Filename must be either an ...
0
votes
0answers
9 views
Kernel dependency on Grub in LinuxMint
I have several linux OS's on my laptop the main one being Ubuntu which I used to boot the other OS's with. I recently had to reinstall Mint Cinnamon, during the installation grub was installed ...
2
votes
2answers
35 views
Running K3b from the command line
I wish to run K3b from the command line. I do not mind if it opens windows, as long as I do not have to click in them and they ultimately close.
Specifically, I wish to run k3b --copy /dev/cdrom.
This ...
0
votes
1answer
20 views
YUM UPDATE stuck forever
I created repository for RHEL 5.6 . There was already an exiting repository for RHEL5.2 which I deleted.
And i run following commands
yum clean all
yum clean metadata
then, Yum list all
It list all ...
0
votes
0answers
17 views
Can't connect to a wireless network in Arch Linux netctl
I just installed arch linux on my laptop.
But after rebooting, I can't connect to the internet.
Wi-fi is the only available connection to me.
I used the command wifi-menu then after choosing my ...
0
votes
0answers
24 views
Are these memory leaks or is it normal?
I want to find out if there are memory leaks in my kernel.
First log: http://pastebin.com/wD2Bhduz Second log: http://pastebin.com/ZWhr7T7S
Memory increases for example in UDPv6, cfq_io_context, ...
0
votes
1answer
15 views
mount Linux NFS. rpc.statd is not running
I have Ubuntu 12.04 as the NFS server. The clients are Linux. My /etc/exports file has 1 line,
/folderToExport *(rw,async,no_subtree_check)
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server status shows that the ...
0
votes
2answers
21 views
Gnome3/cinnamon set keyboard shortcut
I cannot find where I can set keyboard shortcut for switching languages.
Update:
New problem: I cannot set Alt+Shift combination for that.
2
votes
1answer
22 views
apt installing more packages than specified as dependencies
I was trying to install texmaker from the repository. For installing the texlive I followed the steps described here. For this the control file I used is this. It has the file texlive-binaries in it.
...
1
vote
2answers
20 views
Disadvantages to having www-data able to log in
I run a tiny web server basically just for hosting small data projects and files. This server has a public IP address.
I would like to be able to FTP in and upload files directly to /var/www/*, and ...
3
votes
1answer
25 views
How do I change the screen font size when using a virtual terminal
Using LDXE and Ubuntu, I can log into a virtual terminal via CTRL+ALT+F1.
The text is far too small. How do I change the screen resolution to get a larger font?
0
votes
0answers
13 views
How can I set up a samba share accessible via windows 7 to a specific point on the server?
A samba share is set up according to the directions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba
The /etc/samba/smb.conf file looks like this (after some hacking around from googling):
# This ...
0
votes
0answers
13 views
How to fix error when unmounting USBs in Thunar?
I recently installed Debian Wheezy with XFce4. Whenever I try to unmount a USB, I get this error message:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 ...
0
votes
1answer
15 views
Debian, virtualenv, IPython notebook and matplotlib inline plots
I have been using IPython notebook on both OSX and Windows 7 for a while. Now I'm trying to create a minimal system for me to work on Debian 7 (Wheezy). I installed:
LXDE
Python2.7
python-dev
...
2
votes
1answer
29 views
Is the desktop environment responsible for affecting behaviour to certain keys?
I have a laptop which has a Fn key. Using xev command shows that Fn + UpArrow is affected to XF86AudioRaiseVolume.
If I use KDE, is it KDE that is responsible for affecting a behaviour to that ...
3
votes
2answers
37 views
/sys/ documentation?
Are there any man pages on the /sys/ directory and how devices are setup? I'm hoping that there may be something similar to man proc, but cant really find anything to push me in the right direction.
0
votes
0answers
9 views
My APC opcode cache stopped working without a clearly identifiable cause
My APC 3.1.13 had been running fine for weeks, and today, it stopped working after I restarted PHP5-FPM. If I check out my apc.php it shows it caches some files, and then it just stops caching. I ...
6
votes
1answer
118 views
Why are reboot, shutdown and poweroff symlinks to systemctl?
In Arch Linux, if I do ls -l in /sbin, I can see that reboot, shutdown and poweroff are all symlinks to /usr/bin/systemctl. But issuing reboot, shutdown and systemctl commands obviously does not all ...
-1
votes
1answer
37 views
How does Google manage its service package installation and upgrade? [closed]
The RPM, yum or apt tools are very popular in the Linux world, but I don't know whether Google uses these tools in their internet service management work, and use these tools to manage the service ...
2
votes
2answers
41 views
What happens to UIDs upon mount of file system
I have a very basic question and still failed to find the answer after ~10 google requests and skimming through my unix textbook, so:
Consider a system with 2 hard drives, having root file system at ...
2
votes
2answers
32 views
ffmpeg -pattern_type glob — not loading files in correct order
I have a dilemma..
I've had a script for a while now that downloads pictures from a webcam every few minutes.
The naming convention just does new_image((len(files(dir))+1) + '.jpg') and that's all ...
1
vote
2answers
41 views
How to Remove Windows from dual boot setup?
I originally had Windows 7 Starter and Updated to the Windows 8 90 Day Trial. 30 Days into the trial I decided I absolutely hate it and wanted to try Linux Mint.
I installed Linux Mint and found out ...
-1
votes
0answers
47 views
/tmp permission denied [closed]
I'm trying to install CrossOver and I keep getting this:
/home/mike/install-crossover-12.2.1.bin: line 154: /tmp/installer.Gxlnvhb1lf: Permission denied
and ls -ld /tmp outputs
drwxrwxrwt 16 root ...
3
votes
2answers
36 views
Custom autocomplete: deal with spaces in filenames
A bit of context, this question is a follow-up of this one: Bash remote autocompletion : change the 'starting' directory
Anyway, I'm writing my custom autocompletion bash script: I want the ...
3
votes
2answers
50 views
Passing quotes and full strings to bash -c or zsh -c
When I am in Perl and I call system(some_command), this invokes some_command on /bin/sh. I would like it instead to run some_command in another shell such as bash or zsh.
One way of running ...
2
votes
2answers
39 views
mv: cannot stat No such file or directory in shell script
I wrote a script to move some files form one folder to another folder
but I got the following error, I checked 2 folders and notice for 1 folder there are such files and another there is no such ...
2
votes
2answers
31 views
How do I install Slax to a usb stick?
I want to install Slax on my usb stick, but I just can't get it to work. I tried copying the contents of the .zip file to the usb stick, and I got to some grub rescue thingy. I also tried Unetbootin, ...
2
votes
1answer
36 views
Can you create a volumegroup in LVM that all the Logical volumes created under it will be thin provisioned?
I would like to know if it is possible to create a volumegroup in LVM that all the Logical volumes created under it will be thin provisioned?
This will be used on RHEL 6 which does include thin ...
3
votes
3answers
101 views
Using Linux text editor to prepare content for Microsoft Word
I need to prepare a long manuscript that must be submitted in a Microsoft Word document in order to meet the submission criteria. (Please no "Don't use Word" comments.)
I want to use a text editor on ...
3
votes
1answer
21 views
stat on an encrypted volume in osx takes a long time
My workstation is a MacBook Pro with an SSD. For security reasons, my main volume is encrypted.
I ran this command on a folder:
time find . -exec stat {} + >/dev/null
real 0m5.205s
user ...
2
votes
1answer
24 views
Finding gEDA installation directory
I installed gEDA and I am trying to find it's installation directory/path.
I've searched Google for many strings and entered a lot of the results it returned but didn't find anything about that.
So ...
2
votes
3answers
75 views
bash script selecting the last path variable
Hey all i am writing my first bash script. and i am making it install all the repos i have on github.
warpInLocations=("git@github.com:acc/toolkit.git" "git@github.com:acc/sms.git" ...
-2
votes
1answer
29 views
bash script user promt for prefered directory
hey all i am attempting my first bash script. so i would like to prompt the user to find out where they would like a cloned repo to be saved
currently i am assigning it like this
...
3
votes
1answer
47 views
Terminal-based (non GUI) virtual-computer program?
Are there any terminal-based (ie. non-GUI) virtual-computer programs out there?
I've been using programs like VirtualBox and QEMU, but they're obviously GUI-based...
I was hoping for a virtual PC ...
3
votes
2answers
27 views
In which situation is a file written to the block-device during the umount?
I have a compact-flash memory card detected as a block device /dev/sdb. It has a single FAT16 partition. Now if I mount the FAT16 file-system, write something to the file system and umount the file ...
1
vote
0answers
25 views
Why my linux does not detect USB storages at runtime? [closed]
I have an embedded system with Linux kernel v3.0.35 and Busybox v1.20.2.
If I plug a USB flash drive in before starting the operating system the boot process mounts it to the proper place, with the ...
5
votes
0answers
23 views
How do pdflush, kjournald, swapd, etc interoperate?
Recently saw a question that sparked this thought. Couldn't really find an answer here or via the Google machine. Basically, I'm interested in knowing how the kernel I/O architecture is layered. For ...
-3
votes
1answer
44 views
How to update remote file? [closed]
I need to update the contents of a file on a remote host from my local Linux machine. How can i do this?
1
vote
0answers
32 views
How can I replace my keyboard and mouse udev rules with xorg.conf.d?
Since it is impossible to make udev rules that affect Xorg settings run on startup, I'd like to replace these with other alternatives. At the moment, I have two primary udev scripts that I've written. ...
