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So Im using our university servers through an ssh connection. I have a bunch of files in a directory which I would like to run through a perl script. So I thought this simple script I concocted should do the trick. I have used similar script on my home computer …

Hi, I installed Gentoo Linux, build the kernel with "genkernel", and copy the image file into the /boot folder, also I installed grub. It all works fine. What confusing me is that now I cannot find the kernel and grub under the /boot folder, the folder is empty. I did …

I am switching our file server from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu Server 12.04) and am using Samba. I was able to successfully set up all the folders needed with the same name that was on Windows. However, there are two folders on the Windows share that is being used by …

how to Implement a Virtual Machine (VM) of Windows on Linux platform and also instal all features of windows on it. for the user it should look alike windows but actually performing his applications on linux platform

how to Implement a Virtual Machine (VM) of Linux on Windows platform and also instal all features of Linux on it. for the user it should look alike Linux but actually performing his applications on windows platform

Hey there, so recently i have been to Ubuntu and install it in my PC but unfornuately it shows two OS that is Wind 7 and Ubuntu and which is makes the perfomance of PC bit slow so i request you guys to please help me in deleting one of …

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Hello everyone. I want to share with you a story about ***amasing student***. I knew one girl, she had Windows XP installed on her computer. One day her PC didn't work and she worried about that. She tried to turn it on, it turned and then it didn't show anything. …

I've made live USB using these "**Universal-USB-Installer**-1.9.1.9", "**unetbootin**-windows-581", "**YUMI**-0.0.8.0" & "**LinuxLive USB Creator** 2.8.18", but unfortunately I could not boot using the pen-drive. My BIOS supports boot from USB drive. So, can anyone please help me on this? [Additional Info.: I've made Bootable USB using **PowerISO** and that booted, but …

Hello Daniweb, I'm in the process of completely re-doing my home network. On my network I run three servers: * Server 1 - Web and Database Server * Server 2 - Backups and Other General Home Use * Server 3 - Development and Testing I have previously used Ubuntu Server, …

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Hi, I am a new user of Linux, i wanted to learn linux, so i started Ubuntu 12.04 setup. Its setup formatted my hard disk accidentally and I lost all my data and also windows and all partitions. Now I installed ubuntu on same hard disk as i lost my …

i am studying at iiit campus,in india.i want to know about what is VPN and what is the use of that.so could you please tell me about that ?

I had ubuntu and windows7 at my laptop,change windows7 with windowsXP , after that again install windows7.Now ubuntu dose not work, ubuntu12.04 disapeared from boot list, what should I do?

I'm trying to connect to my Fedora machine using my SSH PEM Key. I've added the key to .ssh/authorized_keys and am still getting promted for a password. The machine can connect to other machine's with the key, but not my Fedora one. I've setup CentOS to accept SSH Keys but …

do my pc's data will be erased if i install linux on my pc ?

My school has an apache/mysql server that we make and host websites from as projects. I am doing an ebay type site where people bid on a product until time runs out. Problem is I don't know how to trigger that the product should be delisted and the buyer and …

Hi, I have the Backtrack5 iso file . i want to install all the backtrack tools in ubuntu without installing the backtrack operating system. Is this possible? If possible give me the solution please.....

We have the valid URLs: www.daniweb.com/foo www.daniweb.com/foo/ www.daniweb.com/foo/1 www.daniweb.com/foo/2 www.daniweb.com/foo/3 If I want to disallow them all in robots.txt, are *both* of these valid and will they do the same thing? Disallow: /foo Disallow: /foo/ Will the latter also block the URL www.daniweb.com/foo or will that be interpreted as a …

i just installed linux mint isadora on my dell inspiron n5110 but the sound does not play out. i can be watchinng movie or playing music and yet still the sound doesnt come out

How can we make usb not to work in linux fedora?

Hi all, I just installed Linux Mint alongwith WindowsXP. The size of that disk drive (which i choose to install mint) is 7.8GB. I need to add some space to that drive. But how?. A message box was appered when i installed Mint. It shows me that i didn't add …

Hi, I want to set path permanently in centos. I am able to set path, But when i logout and login the path is going. Please tell me how to set path permanently

hi all i want to write unix shell script but my operating system is windows 7 so do you have or know a program that provide unix environment on windows??? thanks in advance

I have an Oberthur token for digitally signiature. I tried to install the driver in the folder /root/lib or /root/local/lib. The instructions said that I have to write in the cache of the library the command "# ld config" . I opened the library and put this command. I don't …

Hi, i am relatively new to programming. i am trying to use an open source library found by google search. the readme file tells to write make on commandline, as a result i got an exe file sample, but now i am trying to chk the output and the usage …

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Help instaling linux fedore 17 from usb? I have a laptop that came out with windows 7 basic, i installed backtrack 5R2 over it but now i want to install Fedora 17 over backtrack. My laptop doesnt have a CD rom so i use usb. Now when i try to …

I've been really struggling with regex lately ... I never quite got the hang of it. I'm currently hung up on trying to match on the following in my .htaccess file: ^foo/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ The catch is that I want the alphanumeric string to *NOT* be one of a short list of …

I had written a script to login to some terminals and do some basic commands remotely. It fails at password entry. ******************************************************************* Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run "cygwin" ' Give Cygwin time to load WScript.Sleep 2000 a=Array(112) For Each i In a WshShell.SendKeys "`ssh user@XX.XX.XX.XX" & i & " 'hostname;ps …

Hi! I use Linux Mint Maya and I need to install some software from sources but the problem is that GCC is not working. When I type gcc or make command I get a error like this: bash: /usr/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file How can I fix that?

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i write alot of program in C. and it really helpful if i write them in unix or linux. so is there a way for me to use unix or linux without downloading onto my computer? may be i can download unix, linux on CD or some program that let …

Friends! i m not good enough at linux so far but have got wired net plugging disorder after ubuntu 12.04 installation on my pc. "Cable is unplagged " or "device is not ready " notices tell me nothing. pls explain how to fix the issue by command line "as root" …

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone can answer me just one simple question. Does it matter that the environment, including the setup, OS, MySQL and PHP versions are completely different between a Production Server and a Development Server for developing web-based software depending entirely on databases, php and the usual …

How to find the number of incoming requests to a apache server and also the maximum number of requests that it can serve? Is it possible to extract this info to use it in a program??

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab. To my dissapointment it is unable to be mounted to Linux. I found a few website with instructions on how to mount it be so far they haven't worked. I'M really trying to get more and more away from Window$ but I'M finding it …

I am trying to set-up some virtual hosts on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 and not getting expected results. I am using [this tutorial](http://blog.code4hire.com/2011/03/setting-up-virtual-hosts-for-apache-on-ubuntu-for-local-development/) which I have used before without fail. The challenge seems to come with restarting apache. $> sudo service apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 …

# # Based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob McCool. # # This is the main Apache server configuration file. It contains the # configuration directives that give the server its instructions. # See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/> for detailed information about # the directives. # # Do NOT simply …

I have the audio tapes of a language course, turned into mp3's, which I managed to load into a file. Now I need to load the file into flash drive for actual use studying the course. How do I do this, please? Thanks for all help!

I have install Xubuntu 12.04 LTS. Everything works fine except that when I watch a movie especailly fast action scene. It has a hroizontal line running across the screen. I have install the nVidia driver as recommended and try severall setting but fail. When I switch to Kubuntu the problem …

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garrett@mint-desktop ~ $ c++ -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=c++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version …

Hi All, I'm trying to make a tree and identify some 16s rRNA sequencing with genbank using biopython or python, but I have no Idea how can I start. Could you please help me?

Hi all, To begin, I'm not certain this is the proper place to start this question, but I believe this to be a linux-linker related error rather than a code based one. I've also searched far and wide for a solution online, but others have solved the problem simply include …

( make 2>&1 | tee make.log && exit $PIPESTATUS ) && Could someone give me a detailed explanation of the above line? I know that tee is creating a text file while also allawing the output to come to the screen but need a better understanding of $PIPESTATUS. Is "exit" …

void main (void) { /* create three message queue */ mesgQueueId1 = msgQCreate(MAX_MESSAGES,MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH,MSG_Q_FIFO); if((taskIdOne = taskSpawn("t1",90,0x100,20000,(FUNCPTR)t1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)) == ERROR) printf("generating task1 failed\n"); if((taskIdThree = taskSpawn("t3",90,0x100,20000,(FUNCPTR)taskThrees,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)) == ERROR) printf("generating task3 failed\n"); } void t1(void) { timer_t task1; struct itimerspec value; value.it_value.tv_sec = 3; value.it_value.tv_nsec = 0; value.it_interval.tv_sec = 3; value.it_interval.tv_nsec = 0; …

Hi i have a px running with xp and i had a lot of files and folders..because i had a virus that i could not take it was crashing my internet then i want to install a second boot ubuntu.. and i did not format any drive when it was …

l have a linux machine with **ClearOs and a directory (/home/mcafee)** that l have downloaded a mcafee update and l want my windows machine to be able to automatically access that Share and update my **Mcafee antivirus**, l specified the path for my Mcafee `**using ftp or http (e.g //192.168.2.3/home/mcafee) …