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Oracle 11 release 1 on Fedora 12 installation failed

vasanth19 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:37:42 GMT

Has someone managed to install Oracle 11.1 on Fedora 12 ?

The following packages failed to install :

Checking for libaio-0.3.106-i386; Not found. Failed <<<<
Checking for libstdc++-4.1.1-i386; Not found. Failed <<<<
Checking for libgcc-4.1.1-i386; Not found. Failed <<<<
Checking for glibc-devel-2.5-i386; Not found. Failed <<<<
Checking for compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-i386; Not found. Failed <<<<

I couldn't find any of these packages in the x64_86 or i386 DVD.
i686 version of the above packages are already installed, but I still get the error while installation.

how to redirect 301

jakesee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:24:11 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to set up a redirect 301 and have tried several methods which appears to be all wrong. Can anyone advice exactly how redirect 301 works?

redirect 301 http://newdomain.com/



redirect 301 / http://newdomain.com/



redirect 301 http://olddomain.com/ http://newdomain.com/

redirect 301 http://www.olddomain.com/ http://newdomain.com/



redirect 301 /^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1

Ideally, http://olddomain.com goes to http://newdomain.com and http://olddomain.com/example.html will go to http://newdomain.com/example.html

Can I do all this without the RewriteEngine On?

PS: If there's any documentation I'll be glad to do my own homework. Thanks.

Sharing files and folders from external drive on Ubuntu

notuserfriendly — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:34:44 GMT

Hello i have ubuntu . I can rightclick on any folder and share it and i am able to view them from my windows xp machine and another linux machine at home. but when i try to share stuff from the a second HardDrive from the said ubuntu machine , well everything works fine clicking wise
it says the folder is being shared. and i have clicked that guests can connect as well. but when i go to the other machines i cannot access the files. i can view them. like the most hierarchical folder. but it says i do not have privileges and need to contact my system administrator.

Apache overload

Abadon_ — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:13:02 GMT

Hello,

I have a virtual machine in one hosting company that will use to host my site. Since the installation do everything alone. OS is Ubuntu Hardy, Kernel 2.6.24-25-virtual, VMware tools the last version, the host machine is a VMware ESX 4 with processors Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5405@2.00GHz. For my virtual machine are allocated 256MB of RAM, restricted to use up to 450 Mhz processor during a Xeon and I have a 100Mbit-flat channel to the Internet. My problem is the following when I decide to test the performance of Apacha and from my laptop run ab-c 10-n 100 http://mysite.com/ or ab-c 20-n 20 in http://mysite.com/ get console response:

Quote:

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking mysite.com (be patient)...apr_poll: The timeout specified has expired (70007)

Load of my server is just over 20, CPU-it is almost 100 percent all the time. top show about memory following thing:

Quote:

Mem 255764k total, 231156k used, 24608k free, 12432k buffers
Swap: 401400k total, 100K used, 401300k free, 110376k cached

In the first 20-21 lines shows apache2. I watched the top around, 40 minutes, values remain almost unchanged. Execute /etc/init.d/apache2 stop waiting 4-5 min but nothing happen. For that reason execute killall -9 apache2 and loading the machine decrease.

My question is what is the reason for this overload of apache.I guess something fundamentally wrong.

Here is what I changed from the default settings. In /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

Quote:

StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 20
MaxRequestsPerChild 1024

Overrideis prohibited anywhere. Instead .htaccess files use the directives in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf for the specific directory where it should have .htaccess file.

In /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini I change:

Quote:

post_max_size = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 200M
max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 600 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB default)

I installed eAccelerator according to the instructions here My configuration in /etc/php5/conf.d/eaccelerator.ini is as follows:

Quote:

extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size="16"
eaccelerator.cache_dir="/var/cache/eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="1"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="0"
eaccelerator.debug="0"
eaccelerator.filter=""
eaccelerator.shm_max="0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl="10"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="10"
eaccelerator.shm_only="1"
eaccelerator.compress="1"
eaccelerator.compress_level="9"

In /etc/mysql/my.cnf I change this:

Quote:

max_allowed_packet = 128M

My file system is reiserfs mounted with the following options relatime,noatime,notail

Thanks in advance!

Multiple linux distro's on external HDD, is it possible?

Grand666 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:52:08 GMT

Hey guys,
I have an idea to take my old 160GB internal HDD from an old desktop, and converting it into an external HDD. And then, I want to partition it into four parts, 40GB each, and install four different distros on it. The reason I want to do this is because I want to get LPIC-1/2 and CCNA certified within the next year or so, and I want to play around and get experience with configuring the different distro's. So, here are my questions..

1. First of all, is it possible to do this? I thought it through, and I don't see anything that can prevent it, change BIOS to USB Boot etc.

2. When I format the drive in windows, and partition it, what fomat should i use? FAT32?

3. When the HDD is plugged in and I start up my laptop, will GRUB ask me which OS I want to run?If not, how will I choose the Distro?

4. Lastly, what are the top 4 distros used in the industry today? I have an Ubuntu Dualboot now, but heard that Red Hat is popular in the USA and SUSE is in Europe. And another one used is...?

5. Should I install the normal distro or the server version?

Basically, I just want a normal Windows based Pc that I have now with Ubuntu on a 10GB partition, and whenever I feel like practicing, I want to plug in my external hard drive and boot to either one of the four installed and start playing around, configuring it etc. Im currently studying Linux+ material to get the heads up on the Shell commands etc.

Sorry if this is a long q, but I havent found someone who did this on the net. Don't know what you call it, quadruple boot HDD or something. Any advice for learning Linux and the LPIC course would also be appreciated and what will be good for industry.

Thanks for your replies. Hope I was clear enough.
:-)

Network Statistics

jen140 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:52:48 GMT

Hello again.
Thise time i'm looking for an app, that will do packet sniffing (using pcap) and make a nice statistics by service and by destination showing the ips from local computers and from internet computers, the ideia is to see in with some web browser client.
Example log:
FROM To # of Requests Ports
pc1 www.google.com 100 21,80
pc2 www.google.com 20 80
Thanks in advance.

Run CS4 On Ubuntu

web3 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:54:29 GMT

How to install Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop CS4 or CS3 on Ubuntu?Wine can't install it.I am using Ubuntu 9.10.And if it's possible no virtulization software.

Apache2

web3 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:09:43 GMT

I installed Apache2 but when I type http://localhost/ in browser it show an error "Unable to connect".

Change folder permissions

web3 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:57:52 GMT

I have a folder and i can't paste anything or save anything in it. Can i change permissions in terminal?

Lamp

web3 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:23:09 GMT

I installed lamp.But i can't delete my index.html page and i can't save any page in that folder.I am using ubuntu 9.10.

Setting crontab to pull database

Aigini — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:26:07 GMT

I'm working in a location with a physical server, and the company I am working for is in a different location, and has a cloud server with a different address.

Database backups work using automysqlbackup script in the cloud server also. But the database backups that I want to pull from the cloud server is quite huge and cannot be exported to my local server using phpMyAdmin.

So can I use the scp command in the crontab to pull the backed up database daily into my local server? , i.e :

Quote:

* * * * * scp -r root@cloudservername:/backups/databasename.sql.gz

Thanks.

Cut off every 7 days

Aigini — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:20:09 GMT

Hi,

I am a trainee System Administrator in my company and still a newbie. How do I set the cron job to only show the current week's backup (in the database backup directory) and remove the previous week's backups.

One week would mean Monday to Saturday.

Pls help.

Tqs.

Cron job problems

Aigini — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:21:34 GMT

Hi I've set my crontab as follows :

Quote:

30 17 * * * sh /bin/automysqlbackup.sh.2.5

The script I'm using to function as a cron job is a database backup script, which is automysqlbackup .So by right my daily backups should be at 5.30 p.m in the evenings.

But I noticed that my database does not backup on Saturdays. It backs up on Sundays, but not Saturdays.
There is another default crontab scipt in the /etc directory :

Quote:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

Does this play a part in not creating a backup on Saturdays?

I do not know why this should affect the backing up because I've not placed the automysqlbackup script in the cron.daily directory.

Why does the database not backup on Saturdays at all, but does backup on Sundays at 5.30 p.m?

cron job not running for big time intervals

aman_dba — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:51:59 GMT

hi friends

well m facing a different sort of issue in my cron.
i hav set job like this

30 09 * * 1 /bin/backup14M
01 14 * * 1 /bin/backup14N
20 18 * * 1 /bin/backup14E

that is for every Monday at three different times.
but, first job executes well, later ones do not. I checked my scrip result at 14:05 hrs, and it was not executed, i change the job to 14:08 and it executed well at the specified time, then checked at 18:21 hrs for the output, again it didnt execute, and i changed the time to few more minutes and it executed at that time. All i noticed is, that if i change the time to few minutes, it executes, but it do not execute for big intervals.
Can anybody tell the problem and the respective solution

Mentionable:- I hav the checked the basic cron forums, so find my issue lil different from the mentioned.. Using centOS 5.3 system.

thanks in advance

Flash videos won't play sound

Epi23 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:36:04 GMT

Ok, so here goes, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but it seemed closest to me. I recently set up a dual boot on my laptop to run XP and Ubuntu 9.04 (or some number relatively close) and I installed Flash player 9 because it wouldn't take 10 for some reason, and now when I watch videos, lets say on YouTube, the video itself plays fine, but there is no sound. I'm going to run the update manager as soon as I can get a chance too, to see if that'll fix the problem.

Any ideas will be much appreciated. Oh, and I am new to Linux OS's.

Thanks everyone!

How to detect file deletion @ samba server

Yudi Purwanto — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:06:37 GMT

Hello all ... i'm still new in linux networking ...

my office use mandriva 2005 w/ samba as the file server and all client using win Xp to access the shared folder on that server

I need your help about these matter :
1. how to config mandrake/samba to detect file deletion on samba server.
2. how to set access right to samba user, so the user can only create/modify file and can't delete the existing files

Thanks in advance..

i am not able to listen any thing on linux os

balbirchnd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:40:33 GMT

i have installed vlc amarok xmms but not able to listen music or anything..
helf me how i can listen on my this operating system..what exactly to do step wise i am very new to this world.

port 80 showing filtered - router has it open.

pjay — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:29:26 GMT

Hello,

We have a problem. We have a router which has, amongst others, ports 80 and 443 open. Both are pointing to one machine running apache2.

However, https on 443 works, but http on 80 doesn't.

nmap shows port 80 as filtered (why?), and port 443 as open.

I have stopped the firewall on the web server. I have made no changes to the apache2 config since installing it. Still no "It works" page!

Any help gratefully received!

Kind regards

Home Folder is 40GB ??

HLA91 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:06:13 GMT

Hi all

I hope this is the right section

Today I entered

df

and noticed that my hard drive was 80% full. I checked my home folder and my files came to 7.3GB but when I viewed all hidden files it comes to 40.6 GB.
I realise they belong to programs but 33.3 GB ??? I have looked in applications and un-installed the programs I don't use but it doesn't seem to have made a dent in the size due to the program sizes being so small.
Short of re-installing is there anything I can do to clean my system up as it is only an 71GB drive, 54GB is used and 13GB free and its a bit cramped for my liking.

Many thanks

HLA91

PostFix

jen140 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:22:28 GMT

Hello all, i've tryied to setup a mail server using thise guide:
http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-ma...rrel-mail.html
I can easily recieve it, but have problems sending it.
My main.cf :

biff = no

append_dot_mydomain = no

readme_directory = no

smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem

smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

smtpd_use_tls=yes

smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache

smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache

myhostname = server

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases

myorigin = /etc/mailname

mydestination = server, localhost.localdomain, localhost, jen140.hopto.org

relayhost =

mynetworks= 192.168.0.1 127.0.0.0/8

mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"

mailbox_size_limit = 0

recipient_delimiter = +

inet_interfaces = all

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes

smtpd_sasl_local_domain = server

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination

smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtusertable

local_recipient_maps =

When i try to send using TLS autentication with hostname "jen140.hopto.org" i get

 14-10-2009, 22:16:04: SEND  - Initiating TLS handshake

>14-10-2009, 22:16:04: SEND  - Certificate S/N: E7A8ECAF42FCA158, algorithm: RSA (1024 bits), issued from 30/09/2009 13:03:51 to 28/09/2019 13:03:51, for 1 host(s): server.

>14-10-2009, 22:16:04: SEND  - Owner: server.

>14-10-2009, 22:16:04: SEND  - This certificate is self-issued.

!14-10-2009, 22:16:04: SEND  - TLS handshake failure. The server host name ("jen140.hopto.org") does not match the certificate.

As i understand i need to create a new certificate for that hostname, but i didnt find any way to do it, sometimes because i lack files or just dont know what to put.
I've also tryied setting "server" as the hostname of the smtp server and got the next errors:

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - TLS handshake complete

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - Conectando ao servidor SMTP

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - authenticating (software CRAM-MD5)...

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - O servidor indicou erros. A resposta é: 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - O servidor indicou erros. A resposta é: 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - authenticating (plain)...

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - O servidor indicou erros. A resposta é: 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - authenticating (login)...

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - O servidor indicou erros. A resposta é: 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - VAROVÁNÍ: nebyl nalezen žádný kompatibilní protokol pro ovìøení

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - Enviando mensagem para scan@virustotal.com

 14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - The last address submitted was 

!14-10-2009, 22:17:44: SEND  - A mensagem não foi enviada. O servidor respondeu - 5.7.1 : Relay access denied

Any way to solve thise?

How can I edit scanned book pages?

shamli — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:28:49 GMT

I have a full scanned book of 250 pages in which I have to make some changes for my new publication. From where I can do this?

XEN installation in Redhat 5

rashid47010 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:05:27 GMT

I copy the xen rpm from the RH dvd

when running below command

yum install xen

the installer gives the dependencies error:

ERROR: Missing Dependency: libblktap.so.3.0 is needed by package xen

and many more

please guide me how to solve this issue.........

thanks in advance

help to connect via putty

azegurb — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:06:05 GMT

hi, all
i have installed SuSe linux into VMware (as virtual OS)
i have set up network card IP to 192.168.1.50 in Linux
then i gave the same IP to VMWare virtual machine adapter
and then i opened putty, wrote IP address which i gave but it displayed error (fatal error)
can you help me to solve this problem
thank you beforehands

Port Forwarding

jen140 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:46:38 GMT

Hello all.
After passing for some days trying to configure ip forwarding under debian i've understood that there is some problem with them.
So now i'm looking for any stand-alone app, not a firewall to handle the port forwarding.
Would be glad for any information.
If you have some skill with iptables, you could pass by
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1282215
and
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=45715
Thanks in advance.

News Story Richard Stallman Speaks

khess — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:20:52 GMT

I had the honor and pleasure of speaking to Richard Stallman a few days ago while he was in New Zealand on a speaking tour. I had been in an email conversation with him over several days asking about which software programs he uses and I finally connected with him for some clarification and more details. So, if you've ever wanted to get the scoop straight from the man himself, you'll want to listen to the podcast.

The conversation begins abruptly because the phone conversation is a continuation of that email dialog. We also got cut off at one point during the interview and I had to call back.
I found him to be very personable, articulate and a pleasure to speak with. He was very patient with my nervous fumbling and was quite happy to discuss free software, his software choices and even his choice of computer.

To begin, I wanted to know not just about free software and the movement but his personal choices and I got quite a surprise. He is definitely no hypocrite. He is so much of a free software advocate that he even chose his personal computer because of the type of BIOS it uses.

I personally feel that using only free software is very limiting and would be very difficult to successfully accomplish. Richard Stallman doesn't find it difficult at all.

After speaking with him, I wrote "What Free Software Means" and placed it over in the *nix Software forum. Our conversation has certainly changed the way I speak of free software and my perspective on the whole movement.

For the bits that we didn't get to in the phone call, here is the list of software that Richard Stallman uses on a daily basis:

Operating System: gNewSense
Email: Rmail
Editor: Emacs
PDF Viewer: xpdf
Audio: Audacity

He doesn't typically use a browser unless he views html offline. He only uses OpenOffice.org when someone sends him a file in those formats. My guess is that if you send him a proprietary file formatted file, he would either not open it or send you back a message stating that you need to convert the file to a free software alternative.

I liked speaking with him so much that I asked for another interview where we could actually have some time to sit down and do something in-depth. He agreed. He will be in southeast Asia next month and I'll catch up with him for that interview. Stay tuned for that one.

For more information on Richard Stallman, go to the Free Software Foundation site and GNU.org.

News Story What Free Software Means

khess — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:20:56 GMT

You often hear the terms 'free software' and open source used interchangeably but they're not the same. In fact, true free software zealots launch into a fiery diatribe on the issue should you even utter the words "open source" when speaking of free software. Free software is not related to the amount of money you pay (or don't pay) for software; it is an ideology. Free means freedom. Most writers relate the concept to free speech or free beer, however, neither fully illustrates the concept.

Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), comply with the Four Freedoms.

Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.

Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.

Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies.

Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

So, you see, for Freedoms 2 and 3 to be met, the source code must be available. And not only must it be available, it must be available for modification for any purpose, commercial or otherwise. These two freedoms make the term 'open source' redundant and unnecessary.

The other major issue with the term 'open source' is that it does not imply freedom of any kind. Just because you can look at the source means nothing from a freedom perspective. Restrictions might keep you from modifying the code for any purpose, redistribution or charging for your new version. These restrictions are abominable to the FSF and its members.

The two key points to remember are:

Open source and free do not mean the same thing.
Free software has nothing to do with price.

For more information, please visit the Free Software Foundation and the GNU website.

Linux Server clock

JohnAvo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:23:50 GMT

How I can setup my Linux server to automatically synchronize its server clocks? We need to ensure our server clocks set to correct time always.

Xvidcap or Recordmydesktop?

JohnAvo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:10:41 GMT

Kindly share your experience of using Linux screencasting tools. I am interested in fully automated solution to record a video from the screen and produce a small video file (flv preferred)

Thank.

Squid Configuration.... ?

SecurExpert — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:15:47 GMT

Hi guys,

I am running SuSE linux Enterprise 10 and am trying to use and make squid run. It runs on port 3128.
Anyone there with knowledge on how to configure and make it run?

Load balancing . . .How?

sysenm — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:43:21 GMT

Dear All!

I have a nix machine at home that is connected to the the Internet via adsl. Now i am adding another Internet connection (Fiber optic). How can i do load balancing between these two connections??

( by load balancing i mean that i would like to utilize the available bandwidth to the maximum. I also have a collection of softwares that are very bandwidth hungry and also require a certain level of minimum bandwidth for example my HD video conferencing software requires at least 10Mbps.

Any idea or suggestion will be very helpful. I am using Ubuntu 9.04.

Thank you very much

PS: my "arrogant" class mate told me that this can be done using iptables but i have no clue about them. Is he correct ????

Anyone know a good service for making video tutorials?

Arsham3 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:41:40 GMT

Anyone know a good service for making video tutorials?

Problem Dual Booting Ubuntu/XP - Can't get into Windows

Dennis7 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:31:14 GMT

I have been using a dual boot system for several months with no problems...Windows XP PRO on drive 0, and Ubutu on drive 1. Use GRUB to choose which OS. One day, about 2 weeks ago, for no apparent reason, I can't get into Windows. When I choose Windows from GRUB, I get the "Starting Up" message, and nothing happens. Can get into Ubuntu fine, everything works fine. Can access files on the Windows drive from Ubuntu, and the Windows disk get a "PASS" on the diagnostics check. Bearing in mind that I am not a techie, what can I try to resolve this. I tried running the repair console from the Windows CD, no luck, it does the file overwrites, then says to reboot, but can't access Windows. Any help appreciated..lwould really like to not have to reformat the drive...most stuff is backed up, but hate to reinstall all the programs. Thanks in advance.

please suggest good payment processor for credit cards

Arsham3 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:30:04 GMT

please suggest good payment processor for credit cards. We tried 2checkout - other suggestions?

linux audio

manutm — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:12:49 GMT

Hi guys!

I'm trying to achieve a new ***working*** audio setup on ubuntu after upgrading. As always, after every upgrade, I have to start again. So I'm wondering if there are people out there who would be willing to share their insights of the process. I have already and unsuccessfully spent a lot of time trying to get a less confusing picture of the beast but the truth is linux audio is still really messy, with a lot of subsystems, oss, alsa, pulseaudio, jack, etc. The problem is I don't know what I should stick to. For a while, it was ok for me to accept the situation, but now I'd really like to be able to fix it. I'd like not to have to switch to xp whenever something doesn't work like it should (actually, I always switch to xp if I want to watch dvd's (with menus!) without something inevitably going wrong, but this is another problem... or is it?)
So, what do you think? All contribution will be welcome!

Manu

Please advice good linux performance tuning tools or sites

Arsham3 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:58:43 GMT

Please advice good linux performance tuning tools or sites

i cant install the game tictactoe socket game...pls help me

chingkoysilog — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:47:05 GMT

Always error... i can install it..Im in the admin account..pls help me to solve this probem.....

hir are the prblems:

barry@barry-laptop:~/nettoe-1.1.0$ make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/barry/nettoe-1.1.0/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/barry/nettoe-1.1.0/src'
/bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin/install -c nettoe /usr/local/bin/nettoe
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/nettoe': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/barry/nettoe-1.1.0/src'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/barry/nettoe-1.1.0/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Simple Script

jen140 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:57:33 GMT

Hello all.
With help on forum i've got the ideia of making the script to check if the file was created today and if its so,print its name.
Here it is:

#!/bin/bash

for file in *; do

        filedate= "date -r $file +%Y-%m-%d"

        currentdate= "date +%Y-%m-%d"

        if["$filedate" == "$currentdate"]; then

        echo $file

fi

done

After reading some tuts, it appers to be parcially valid, but i get the next errors :

./script.sh: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `then'

./script.sh: line 6: `  if["$filedate" == "$currentdate"]; then'

Thanks in advance.

is it true that microsoft is using unix servers?

serkan sendur — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:55:29 GMT

one of my trusted friends said that even microsoft uses unix servers as a response to my comparison of unix vs windows servers.

What do you think?

how to run windows applications using unix command prompt?

serkan sendur — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:53:57 GMT

from telnet application i want to run windows program. for example when i type vi, i want to run notepad.exe with the output of vi.
how can i do that ?
thanks.

i cant find my .profile file

serkan sendur — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:10:17 GMT

i changed the directory using cd $HOME but i dont see any .profile files under that directory. am i missing it? or it can be under some other directory? is it required to have it?

LS

jen140 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:43:59 GMT

Hello all.
I have a small problem, i would like to make a statistics website.
What i need is to show only two columns(creation date, filename) when i do "ls" to be like:
2009-2-2 filename
Reading the man didnt helped much.
Thanks in advance.

Gettext trouble

hhh123 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:10:36 GMT

Hi,
I want to install gettext on my fedora core 10.
Gettext package installed successfully but in /usr/share/locale/ there is no .mo and .po files in its language directory.
Plz tell me how to install that locales
plz reply me on
Sorry 4 my band english

Thnx

Makefile with multiple directories

zeeli — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:19:35 GMT

Hi,

I am a total newbie when it comes to makefiles and now I'm in a need of one.

I have a directory structure as follows:

Project_root/Makefile

Project_root/src/

Project_root/src/widgets/

Project_root/include/

Project_root/include/widgets/

Each directory contains multiple source/header files.

I need to build a shared library out of this directory.

Please help me!

Best regards,
zEeLi

mkisofs help

rusman — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:54:56 GMT

What mkisofs options would you use to ensure the ISO loads and can run on Solaris 8/9/10 when the ISO is made from a Solaris 10 system? There are some pretty deep directories, but I don't know how deep. I also suspect there are some hidden files (start with ".") and some long file names.

Thanks!

Grub doubt

luismidife — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:23:13 GMT

Greetings for the community of this forum=)

I have a doubu about the GRUB.

When I install linux I make a partition using Partition Magic, then I boot

from de cd choose the file system, the space for the file system and

the space for the Swapp.

My question is, when I dont want to use that partition anymore containing linux and I also want to delete linux, I format it..

OK.. But then when I reboot the pc GRUB fails to load and its a problem....

Is there any safe way to format the partition containing linux, and use it again in Windows normally without this GRUB problem?

Firefox become Shiretoko

khakilang — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:10:40 GMT

I just upgrade to Firefox 3.5.4 cos it claim to browser faster. But as it turn out to be Shiretoko. Is it a Beta version? Appearance and features is the same. No problem so far just curious.

my login manager is KDM

soni1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:24:30 GMT

How do I start applications on Blackbox startup if my login manager is KDM?

How do I create/run my own programs in Solarius

Paradox1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:56:30 GMT

I am using Java and was unsure where to put this so mods if I miscatagorized it my apologies.

Pretty much how do I run my own code the JVM on solarius? thanks!

how to store in an array (unix) ?

OneDreamCloser — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:59:10 GMT

hi all,

i am using a unix script to control various pieces of code,
sometime i call this python script,
HOW can i store the result of the python script
INTO an array defined in my unix script ?

thanx

Software Corrupt When Doing Upgrade

khakilang — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:35:42 GMT

I seem to get software corrupt when doing upgrade. Like the one below.

Attachment 11617

Why is this happening? Is there anything I can do to solve this or prevent this from happening again?

Attached Images

Uprade error.png (62.5 KB)

Installing CC compiler in ubuntu

power_computer — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:34:18 GMT

I am curious as how to install the CC command line compiler for my uni C++ projects I am not interested in g++ or gcc or whatever I want to use CC exactly so I get the desired affect of when I use it in class, however I class we use CentOS so I dont know if this makes a difference

News Story DotNetNuke Co-founder Defends Role with Microsoft's CodePlex

Techwriter10 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:47:44 GMT

Microsoft announced a new organization this week called CodePlex, which according to its web site, is "a non-profit foundation formed with the mission of enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities." Now, you don't normally see Microsoft and Open Source in the same breath without raising a hair of suspicion (and in some cases howling laughter). In fact, my colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, who has been writing about Linux and Open Source for many years, wrote in his Cyber Cynic column yesterday, he finds Microsoft's motives in this project dubious to say the least.

That's why I was surprised to find a press release in my In Box yesterday from open source vendor, DotNetNuke proudly trumpeting the fact that their chief architect and co-founder, Shaun Walker was joining the CodePlex Foundation interim Board of Directors. It's worth noting that DotNetNuke is built on Microsoft's .Net platform. In that context, Walker's role with the new foundation makes sense at least on some level, but will it fly in the open source community, a place that has been known to be cold and unforgiving?

Can Microsoft Change Its Stripes?

Walker says in the past he has been critical of Microsoft projects when he didn't believe they were created in the best of interest of the open source community. "A specific area where I have expressed public criticism of Microsoft in the past is regarding their Port25 website, which is supposed to represent the 'Open Source Community from Microsoft;' however, it traditionally has offered minimal support or representation for open source projects which are native to the Microsoft platform," Walker said.

Walker believes CodePlex is different and it represents and evolutionary change for Microsoft."This should not be seen as a sudden change in direction, but as another evolutionary step by Microsoft in terms of recognizing and accepting the importance of open source." He adds, "Microsoft has been progressively becoming more supportive of open source projects over time." He cites as proof their decision to start the CodePlex open source project hosting site, a projects he sees as "highly beneficial in helping stimulate a rich open source developer ecosystem on the Microsoft platform." In fact, Walker is so convinced of this change that he moved his company's code base from it original home on SourceForge to the CodePlex site.

How is it Different?

When asked about possible open-source community criticism for his role with a Microsoft-sponsored initiative, Walker fiercely defended his decision. "The CodePlex Foundation is completely independent from Microsoft with its own distinct mission, vision, values, and charter," he said. He added, "It is technology-agnostic and is intended to facilitate the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities."

He says this starkly different from the earlier Port25 project, which he said was "owned, maintained, and controlled by Microsoft." He says the two projects are completely different. "Port25 is intended to be a window into the collaborative efforts which are occurring between Microsoft Corporation and open source communities," he explained. "Microsoft's sponsorship of the CodePlex Foundation is intended to address a fundamental problem which they currently face as a company, and which other large software companies in the industry face as well: how to allow greater participation in open source projects."

Whether this flies within the Open Source community remains to be seen, but Walker believes it's in the best interest of his company to be involved with this program, at least initially. Only time will tell if Microsoft has set up this site out of benevolence or self-interest.

.htaccess exclude subfolders from urls

valonesal — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:13:55 GMT

Ok here is the code I am working with. What im trying to do is pull up pages without showing the subfolders.

ie. http://mywebsite.com/index.php , my http://mywebsite.com/index2.php, http://mywebsite.com/index3.php and so on. Not http://mywebsite.com/folder1/index1.php, it works for one page but not for multiple pages, and im at a complete loss.

Can someone show me how to get it to work with any page in a subfolder. Thank you.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(folder1|folder2|folder3).*$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /home/name/public_html/folder1/folder2/index.php [L]

Thanks again.

Corrupt files or Broken Dependencies

khakilang — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:07:31 GMT

Recently I received corrupted file or broken dependencies when using update manager on my Ubuntu 9.04. Could it be due to my aging notebook that the hard disk has bad sector or is it that the file already corrupt in the repositories. Trying to reinstall doesn't work either.

Appreciate anyone who can help.

Ubunto and adept manager

Dan08 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:14:10 GMT

Hey everyone, I've just installed Ubunto on my computer, my user name is 'Daniel', and I've added 'Julio' and 'David', I'm the administrator. My problem is that when I try to open Adept Manager, I suppose that is a program to install, remove or/and change other programs. Well, but what's happening is that when I open it, a dialogue box appears on the screen, asking for my password verification, so I entered my password and clicked ENTER on my keyboard, and nothing opened and nothing happened, so I did the same thing, but instead of clicking ENTER, I clicked with the mouse on the button OK, and still nothing opened, nothing happened.
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks Dan08.

Firefox and Opera (linux) can't open one secured site, IE (win) can

Mocabilly — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:36:20 GMT

Hi all,

First of all, I never experienced problems using secured pages, except for (this) one site.

To picture it in short, I use a login page, get directed to an other login page, I DO get logged in, and as I'm logged in, an other page (main secured page) is normally loaded.

Problem: using Firefox and Opera in Linux gives the following errors:

Firefox: (free translation) "Can't find the server on" followed by a string containing some numbers and letters, ends on a dash (hyphen?) a dot, followed by the domain name from the site.

Opera: "You tried to access the address " followed by an url starting with "https://" and containing a different address then firefox mentions.

I use Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Zenwalk and Slax, on different computers, and get the
same error on all of them :(

An other maybe interesting fact is that in the past I didn't have any problems at all logging in, but like half a year ago this error started, after trying a few times I could get logged in.
This could be (probably is) because the string mentioned above was changing every login, and is not changing anymore now...

To me it seems there are 2 possible sources for the error.
- Firefox and Opera can't handle certain character(combo's) in url's (the changing string part in the url)
- The folks running the website have some bugs in there scripts/server

In the end I can leave out the possible "network-error" or "firewall blocking" thing because I tried without firewall, and all other secured pages just work.

So my question (if you are still reading (I do hope so)) is:
Does anybody else have this problem?
Tips on solving this one? (I can't directly get to talk to the people running the site, the people from the help desk won't put me in contact with them)

Problems joining ADS Domain , Cross Domain Autentication, likewise

Beholder — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:32:21 GMT

hello all, make someone can help me, I'll make a post of the problem as we put in another place.

This is the history

I cant join an Ubuntu 9.04 machine to a domain.
Details are:
* I am trying to join a domain that is not the root of the forest.
* I am using an account that is from another domain in the same forest.
* The account I am using does not have rights to create a computer account, but the account was already created by an administrator an delegated to me rights to join it.
* I try joining another domain (where I am Domain Admin) and it work ok. The big difference was that I am domain admin of this other domain and that this domain is the root and the only one in the forest.
The command I am trying to use is: domainjoin-cli --loglevel verbose join --ou Servers/Sales/UK FOO.DOMAIN.NET MYACCOUNT@DUMMY.DOMAIN.NET
The log output near the error is:

Quote:

[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 3] libads/sasl.c:ads_sasl_spnego_bind(787)
ads_sasl_spnego_bind: got server principal name = domcont1$@FOO.DOMAIN.NET
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 3] libsmb/clikrb5.c:ads_krb5_mk_req(657)
ads_krb5_mk_req: krb5_cc_get_principal failed (No credentials cache found)
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 10] libads/sasl.c:ads_sasl_spnego_bind(80
ads_sasl_spnego_krb5_bind failed with: No credentials cache found, calling kinit
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 10] libads/kerberos.c:kerberos_kinit_password_ext(217)
kerberos_kinit_password: as MYACCOUNT@DUMMY.DOMAIN.NET using [MEMORY:net_ads] as ccache and config [/var/lib/likewise-open/smb_krb5/krb5.conf.WORKGROUP]
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 1] libsmb/clikrb5.c:ads_krb5_mk_req(666)
ads_krb5_mk_req: krb5_get_credentials failed for domcont1$@FOO.DOMAIN.NET (Server not found in Kerberos database)
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 0] libads/sasl.c:ads_sasl_spnego_bind(817)
kinit succeeded but ads_sasl_spnego_krb5_bind failed: Server not found in Kerberos database
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 1] utils/net_ads.c:net_ads_join(1791)
error on ads_startup: Server not found in Kerberos database
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 10] intl/lang_tdb.c:lang_tdb_init(134)
lang_tdb_init: /usr/lib/likewise-open/en_US.UTF-8.msg: No such file or directory
[2009/08/30 00:54:53, 2] utils/net.c:main(117
return code = -1

Tried upgrading to the last release from likewise-open…
Now the error is…

Quote:

Joining to AD Domain: MYDOMAIN.MYORG.NET
With Computer DNS Name: hostname.mydomain.myorg.net
MYUSER@MYOTHERDOMAIN.MYORG.NET’s password:
Error: Lsass Error [code 0x00080047]
0x3B - Bad font file format

BTW: I still can join to domain where I am Domain Admin.

In this last case… there are syslog entries related to the problem:

Quote:

Aug 30 16:47:37 sidd00206138 lwiod[3191]: GSS-API error calling gss_init_sec_context: -1765328377 (Server not found in Kerberos database)
Aug 30 16:47:43 sidd00206138 lwiod[3191]: GSS-API error calling gss_init_sec_context: 851968 (Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information)
Aug 30 16:47:43 sidd00206138 lwiod[3191]: GSS-API error calling gss_init_sec_context: -1765328377 (Server not found in Kerberos database)
Aug 30 16:47:48 sidd00206138 lwiod[3191]: GSS-API error calling gss_init_sec_context: 851968 (Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information)
Aug 30 16:47:48 sidd00206138 lwiod[3191]: GSS-API error calling gss_init_sec_context: -1765328377 (Server not found in Kerberos database)
Aug 30 16:47:50 sidd00206138 lwiod[3191]: GSS-API error calling gss_init_sec_context: 851968 (Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information)
Aug 30 16:47:50 sidd00206138 lwiod[3191]: GSS-API error calling gss_init_sec_context: -1765328377 (Server not found in Kerberos database)

This happens while trying to join to the domain.

It seems the recurring error is always Server not found in Kerberos database

I Added capaths to krb5.conf and now I get this error:

Quote:

20090831234618:ERROR:Lsass Error [CENTERROR_DOMAINJOIN_LSASS_ERROR]
0x5 - Input/output error
Stack Trace:
main.c:885
main.c:455
djmodule.c:319
djauthinfo.c:752
djauthinfo.c:1082

Any idea what does it mean?
Please if any have a clue what can be wrong… i would appreciate any suggestion.

Window Live Mesenger using Pidgin

khakilang — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:03:04 GMT

I try to log into my Window Live Messenger using Pidgin but doesn't work. I use the MSN to log in. Is there any different between MSN and Wiindow Live Mesnger? I also try using Wine to load the Window Live Messenger but fail to work. Is there anyway I can make to work?

Appreciate to anyone who can help.

Ubuntu On Notebook

khakilang — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:48:06 GMT

Finally I install Ubuntu Linux on my old notebook and to my surprise everything works great even my with a new wifi adapter. I thought I need to do a lot of configuration to make it work. I couldn't be happier and it look Linux is here o stay in my computer permanently.

But i got only 1 issue. How do get my Totem player to watch Youtube. It seem it don't have the necessary file but it didn't say what file it need. So here again I hope someone can help. Its no big deal, just need to see some video off line.

Appreciate to anyone with an answer. Once again great work to those who make Linux a great OS.