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Hi! That's my first post in Daniweb Forums. If I go wrong in explaining something or violate rules of posting threads, give me assistance. Two days back, I installed Fedora 18 having KDE Desktop Environment on my Core i3 Computer. It was working smooth and fine. I have Intel HD …

can someone really explain to me what rpm command does in linux

hey everyone I want to change some environment variables , but I can't find the .bashrc file were I can change them, so can anyone tell me how to change environment variables in linux mint 14

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Have Lubuntu on a netbook. When navigating the web I now find popups such as waiting for ads... Also waiting for cache. Did not have this problem two months ago when first installed. Lubuntu shows no apps to address adware. Suposedly, Linux is not susceptible. Guidance sought.

Hi I nees answer for this questions 1.In Linux, what describes hdb2? Choose all answers that apply. Selecting an incorrect option will give minus points! A) [-1.00] Refers to the first disk. B) [1.00] Refers to the second disk. C) [-1.00] Refers to hard drive number 2. D) [1.00] Refers …

Hi all I want to login a machine remotely and doing some operation on the remote machine and then exit the remote machine by a unix shell script. I can login these two machines without passward. How can I do that? For example, my script is on machine1. that script …

Hello I need to install magento on my server and for this it requires pdo_mysql I am trying to install pdo_mysql via whm option "Easy Apache" I tick the pdo_mysql option but after apache rebuilding process the phpinfo not showing pdo_mysql Do I need to enable it some where I …

i used the command : sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop in ubuntu 12 Now this command has not completed , remains active even after reboot and continues to stop a network connection a few seconds after it becomes active. i looked at ps aux but i'm none the wiser. How to eliminate …

Actually I change the permissions of my var/lib/mysql folder to view the files using the command: sudo chown -R . after that wen i was trying to access my phpmyadmin it was displaying error message like: #2002 Cannot log in to the MySQL server Connection for controluser as defined in …

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I'M trying to get backtrack Linux to boot from a USB flash drive. The book I'M reading is haivng me to a lot of formating and what not on the flash drive from the CLI and then use rsync to copy the contents of the backtrack disk to the flash …

Hello, I want to make automatic restart of apache witgh cron. But what about everyghitng going in that moment - what will happen? Will it finish last requests and jobs or instatly stop and then transactions will be rolled back?

how to create warning pop up when access sftp like this? http://postimg.org/image/eeeyvkb7l/e97bf0ab/

one of my good friends wrote [this](http://developertimes.wordpress.com/) blog here. he asked me for an opinion , however , i havent used linux much... only used centOS for about a semester in college for a networking course. i was hoping the members here could give some opinions about the blog. thanks …

Hello guys, I need to create a daily backup for files and save them on another server I use rsync -av --progress --inplace --rsh='ssh -p22' /var/www/html/product root@37.101.11.144:/var/www/html/backup/ but this ask me for password , I want to create a cron job to copy files automatically at midnight. how can I …

I've been using Linux for about half a year now but I'm definitely not taking full advantage of it as my knowledge regarding it is weak. I've seen some recommendations for the book "Unix Programming Environment by PIKE ROB KERNIGHAN BRIAN W. (1984)" but I can't help wondering if such …

tftp server package is needed to run PXES of redhat 9.0 is?

hello I don't get where my linux space is gone. when i run df -h, it shows used 15 GB of total 20 GB when I run ncdu program, to find what takes, I do sudo ncdu in my root directory. And I see sorted by size directories: 4.7GB home …

hello guy pls i need someone put me through the stages involve on virtualizing in a virtualiztion machine using redhat 6.0 i have gone as far as installing rhe6. in a virtual form. thanks

Hey guys, I have problem in my server dns in resolve.conf keep reseting after upgrade or reboot what should I do to stop this ?

hi guys, check out this blog for basic linux file permissions. http://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.sg

Hi all, I am having serious troubles connecting my laptop to the tv. I can do that with windows ok, but not in the linux. Somebody suggested to install bumblebee http://eternalvoid.net/tutorials/linux-optimus-gt650m/, which I seem to have successfully done. I think the reason was because my laptop had the nvidia drives …

Hi, I am a PHP developer and am working for a company. I used to develop CMS for websites for it's clients but the company used to treat me like shit. I mean really really bad. I was always booed and had to do anything everything asked by my boss …

Is the Linux operating system really free of viruss and malware?

I've had several people ask me what I think the best, top, most user friendly, ultimate, and so on distribution is--so now I'm publishing my Top 10 Linux Distributions in reverse order of preference. Ease of installation, commercial support, community support, updates, administrative tools, stability, performance, and to a lesser …

If you thought, or indeed hoped, that the Google Chrome OS would be a thoroughly modern marvel running web apps only then you are about to be disappointed. It would appear that even the brave new future of the OS cannot escape from the legacy of Windows. According to a …

I have been using kali linux for a wile now on my mini laptop. I am a developer and would like to start developing in nasm. The problem is when I try to download nasm I use this command: apt-get install nasm It gives an error that there isnt such …

I have Windows 7 in my primary partition and I installed Ubuntu 13.04 in the second partition. I deleted the Ubuntu partition and kept windows 7. Now the next day when I try to start my windows 7 I get an error: error : no such partition. grub rescue> How …

How to install Ubuntu on windows 7 with out distrubig windows kidly give me valuable tips.. thanks for your time

Where can I get Linux?

I downloaded ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386 iso.Then i burn it to a DVD.But i can't run it as a live cd on Windows 7.I changed the bootable device oreder of BIOS also.Why is that? Thanks

How to run a program in background in Linux and Unix?

diff doesn't give same output format as input. How do I get that? For example file1 contains 1 2 3 4 5 file 2 contains 4 5 diff file1 file2>file3 and file3 contains <1 <2 <3 The output is right but I don't want the symbol <. Please help me …

Today I was sucessful in installing Vector 7 after trying since the last 2 years. To view power point files I need libre office and do not know how to install. Any help given will be greatly appreciated. farid ansari Karachi, Pakistan

Hello every I have adobe reader 9 and now i want to install adobe reader 11 for the same purpose i run given command sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install acroread but it gives Setting up acroread-common (9.5.4-1precise1) Noe how can done that donot …

I have a WD external usb drive attached to my BT Home Hub 3. It's formatted to ext4. I've set fstab to mount the drive and can see it and open folders, but I cannot copy to it. The file permissions ('rwx') are all in my name for the drive …

How I connect zoom altra modem setup in ubuntu/linux?

HI i have linux mint and i want to install jdk6 to learn java on linux but really it is very difficult to install it..on windows or mac very easy as i m watching tuto about installing jdk on win and mac but there is no for linux can you …

I have created a Virtual Machine of CentOS in virt-manager and cannot ssh to it. I get no route to host, even though: * The VM is in bridged mode * SSHD is started * The firewall on the Virtual Machine allows traffic on port 22 Does virt-manager have another …

Hello, I am sharing my webserver with a few people (it's my server) and I am trying to create some sort of an admin panel for them. It has to be able to change Apache VirtualHosts and reload Apache. Now I can make the config-changing PHP code, but there are …

I downloaded Kali linux, great os if you ask me, but I want to set the PATH to /sbin/ How do I do that, I want to set it permanantly and how do I make my account root so that I can create new files in /etc ... and so …

If we want to create User ID in System, How can we assign the same user ID to different User in Linux

If I boot the system in single user mode, can we directly edit the file?

How to solve the boot problems with grub in linux?

I have set a deny permission on a group for a folder in Fedora 17. I want to generate logs when a user from this group is tring to access this denied folder. Is it possible?

From where could i learn mail server in rhel6 in details plz give me a appropriate link.

c++ coding in linux to implement an ip and set its prioty as high and send it

I just installed Apache on my Ubuntu 12.04 and set it up to run with my domain name. Everything is working perfect, with one qualm. Though my site is up, and when I type mydomain.com/index.html, the index page loads, or suppose I type mydomain.com/directory, the index.html page in that directory …

Another question here. I installed Ubuntu (12.04 I thing, the ones with the LT support?), was previously using Windows 7. Now when I boot, I get the option to use Windows 7 or Ubuntu, but when I select Ubuntu nothing happens - just a black screen. I then have to …