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Hello all. I have a small app that only runs on FreeBSD, and have a host where i dont have root. That app requires many libraries, most of them i have, but the problem , that app doesnt look for libs at current folder. I tryied running the app on …

I've been running a linux box with a quad core for nearly a year now. I've managed to make work most of everything I set my mind to except for one very important thing: the four cores. As I gather, I would need to compile my kernel with "the right …

Hi there, I have been an avid user of Windows XP since day 1. I have had no issues with it, surprise surprise, so continue to plug along. However, I have always been interested in testing out Linux as I hear so many positive things about it. I am currently …

I am looking for something with a gui that is capable of accessing sql database data and then being able to produce simple graphs from that data. Any suggestions for programs or something I could modify to produce that result are appreciated.

Hi, I need to validate user input to ensure it is alphabet characters only. I know there must be a simple solution but evertything I have tried has either partially failed or totally failed. At the moment, I have this: [CODE]until [ $(echo "$myVar" | grep -v '[^a-zA-Z]') ] do …

I just got the latest Linux Kernel from a magazine CD. Its the kernel 2.6.29.4 in tar format. Suppose to be the latest. How do I update or install to this latest kernel into my Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks!

Does anyone know how to write a (preferably) console app that would find the modal value of a set of data that you entered?

I have an Asus Eee 900A with Ubuntu NBR 9.04 installed. When I installed the system, I made one partition on the internal SSD and mounted as /. I left 32 MB for swap space. I mounted the /home directory to a 16GB SD card installed in the memory card …

I need to enable ftp access on some web directories in apache. What is the best way to do this? My apache server is running on linux. It runs as user wwwrun and group www. What should be the permissions and who should be the owner of the web directories …

The time is right now - I'm going to move my server from SUSE Enterprise to Slackware. It is not about that I don't like SUSE, I just like Slackware more. The main job will be the mail server - I did use postfix and cyrus imap in SUSE with …

Hi all I am new to linux and am running ubuntu 9.04 one box at home and windows xp on my machine that connects to the internet on a wireles local service. My problem is that i can't get ubuntu to connect to the internet through my xp machines connection. …

Is there any way that I can install Linux on my desktop that have windows already(corrupted don't work), without loosing my data on drives. I have 160 GB hard in it and C:\ has windows but now I want that my windows drive is replaced with Linux and D:\, E:\ …

Can anyone tell me how to configure wireless driver in ubuntu and knoppix?? In knoppix the eth0 is detected but then its asking IP address and subnet mask... will this be same as in windows....or different??

Hi there, I am new user for ubuntu, which I liked and found more comfortable than windows, :) donno whether this is the right form to post my question, please let me know if not, I have installed ubuntu on my laptop, together with windows, I have devided the hard …

Hi everybody! I am kind of new with linux. I installed Fedora 2 in my PC. I need to change my Ip address to add the PC into a Lan for an specific application. Can anybody help me telling me, step by step what I should do???? I really need …

Since I install Ubuntu, I can't listent to mp3 music or watch video under .avi format. So I have to download pluggin for those file format. But there is so many files in the library and I am confuse on what to look for. Is there a way I can …

I use gedit on a Ubuntu installation at C++ programming and everything works fine except for the small default font size that is used. How do I change this, I can't find any settings (or zoom button) in the gedit menu's? I assume that it should be possible to change …

hi.. I was working with the file /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0; edited that and to save those editings on the file i as usual press key x to write and exit. but my capslock was on, so i actually pressed X then a prompt came : enter encryption key: i entered 6 characters …

I scaned torjan from my whm . and i got following result [CODE]Possible Trojan - /usr/sbin/antirelayd Possible Trojan - /usr/bin/xmlcatalog Possible Trojan - /usr/bin/xmllint Possible Trojan - /usr/bin/ptar Possible Trojan - /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.la Possible Trojan - /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libxml2mod.so Possible Trojan - /etc/cron.daily/logrotate Possible Trojan - /usr/bin/cpan Possible Trojan - /usr/bin/instmodsh Possible Trojan …

Hi, I am using kubutu and my computer is using vishal-laptop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux I am able to change the display resolution in kubuntu but when I change from 1240x768 to 1024x768 then the resolution does change but the new resolution does …

I've done a really dumb thing: I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on a desktop & told the installer it was an AMD64 machine. The install went fine & most things work. Some don't & that's 'cos it's actually an Intel P4 :{ Is there a simple way to change th architecture, …

am using suse 10.0 and i downloaded some rpms plugins for playing audio and video but i always get some error message when i try to install through yast.some help

Hey All, I want to try Linux so I was wondering what was the best way to go about it (the way that would cause the least casualties). I guess I can either go the dual boot route or I can install it inside Windows Virtual PC. ANy recommendations?

So I am installing various OS on my new iMac with the help of Fusion VMware. i sucessfully install Ubuntu using Fusion VMware and a mounted disk image of Ubuntu. The installation seems to have executed correctly since i can boot the virtual machine. However, since i am totally new …

Hi, My HDD is divided into 2 partition. I have Ubuntu installed on one partition and Win XP Prof installed on another. I obviously select one to boot my computer. Let's say I booted from WinXP and also want to use Ubuntu without restarting the PC. Is this possible. Do …

Hi, Like many of the earlier users I am also facing a problem on my touchpad. I am new to linux. I first tried to use the xinput list and the below result shows no touchpad Virtual core pointer" id=0 [XPointer] Num_buttons is 32 Num_axes is 2 Mode is Relative …

Hello, Last week I converted my girlfriend's computer after yet another windows virus. I gave her an openSuSE 11.1 install and set the whole thing up including wine. So far everything goes well, the only trouble she has with running linux is where to find things. the Gnome menu does …

HI, I am having trouble installing Linux over Vista. I have tried Ubantu and Red Hat Linux 9. In red hat when it comes on partitioning phase it gives error message somthing like "No device found to alter partition table". I dont remember the exact message. I have four partitions …

Hello Friends, Iam a new guy to linux and i installed suse 11.1 linux in my system and with that Macromedia dreamweaver 8.0 also i installed but the dreamweaver icon is not came on the desktop and i am unabling to start the dreamweaver. The Dreamweaver is installed in my …

HI, I new to linux device drivers. I am developing HDLC driver. I dont know how to read and write data in memory mapped address. Please help. /*code*/ #define REG_MAP_ADDR 0x50400000 /* Registers */ typedef struct { u16 MOD; u16 STATUS; u16 TBASE; u16 Tx; u16 TxBD; u16 RBASE; u16 …

Hello, I come to set up a linux server with RedHat Enterprise 5.1, so I want to migrate my online application I have from windows based xampp to Linux with xampp. I downlaoded xampp 1.7.1 and I installed it on my Linux RHE. Please help me, and I believe in …

how to create an application for client and server through any port available using Red Hat Linux.. give some link to refer...

I have windows vista home basic installed on my system. Now i need to format and reinstall vista. The problem is that along with vista i have Ubuntu linux installed inside windows (on other partition). So i am afraid that on reinstalling vista ,there would be a problem with the …

Hi All, For the last 6 months our site has been under severe brute force, syn flood attack. They keep bombarding a single URL of the server and it is xml file. They are not attacking any other URL. e.g. http://www.example.com/rss123/attackedfilename.xml We have removed the xml page from our site …

Which one is the web editor to create websites in Unix/Linus? In window we know Front page whats there.

hi....I use both windows server,03 and redhat-9(dual). on the bootloader windows is default loader. first i installed windows then on the remaining space installed redhat. For some problem on windows i have to reinstall windows. as a result linux has been lost from bootloader(Grub). Now I want to get my …

Hi all I just bought an external 60GB HDD I cant say what brand name as it doesn't have one written on it. I know there are problems unmounting HDD's and then they do not spin down and I am having the same problem. It is in /dev/sdc and the …

Hi all I want to write program in linux about first come first served algoriyhm by using C++ but I don't know how to start??????????????? I know how to write the code in XP system. what is the difference between programming in linux and xp? Can anyone help?

I run windows but have recently acquired a Linux Mint iso disc. I can run Linux Mint straight off the disc for trying it out. There is an icon on the desktop for installing. When installing I select to run Windows and Linux side-by-side, choosing between them on start-up. Then …

hi every one, i am a final year student. I want to make a project related to kernel........, but i am not able to think any new idea related to kernel so please give me some idea related to kernel based project. thanks.

Hi, I am following a programming tutorial and it has asked me to enter the following line in the Terminal: aspell dump master | uniq | sort > wordlist When i type this it spits out the following: Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/en_AU" can not be opened for reading. It seems …

can anyone help i have a 8.2gb usb stick and i like to give it 2 partitions, i have heard that linux can do this if so what is the command, i have ubuntu 9 thanks barry

Is there a similar such thing in linux. I.e a batch file?

I am new to Linux.I don't know anything about Linux . I have recently installed Fedora 10,I heard that files having extension .exe are invalid or can't be opened in Linux, but I also heard that there is a program in Linux which can open those files called wine.I want …

Hi all, Im having some problem with my DNS. We are using a Linux web server as one of our web server which runs some live websites.When I trying to get the status of the DNS (NAMED) it comes the following error : [root@ns milindras]# /etc/init.d/named status rndc: connect failed: …

Hi all I just thought about backing up my home directory to a zip file so I used [CODE]zip backup-13-jul-09 .[/CODE] Then I read about the argument [CODE]-u[/CODE] so I found a file called readme.txt in my home directory opened it and added "Hello World" to the bottom line then …

Hi All: So here's the problem: I want a subdomain, email.mydomain.com, to redirect to the google apps website we use for our office: [url]http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com[/url] I set up the subdomain through our host to point to mydomain.com/email Then I used 301 redirect to redirect mydomain.com/email, mydomain.com/email/index.html to [url]http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com[/url] However, typing email.mydomain.com …

Hi everyone. I just wanna ask: what's the difference of TeX and LaTeX? Please help me..

Where can i start learning to work with l[B]inux[/B] -Linux tutorials - ebooks -Which distrubution do you recommend and why ?. (fedora, ubunto....) - And some other info Ill apreciate any help and information Thank you for taking an interest

Sorry i have'nt got a clue what i am doing i just bought a webserver and and can't get it to work. I have a dynamic dns set up with my static ip address. In the nat on my roter i have set up name1 as port 80 with my …