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Good day! Has anyone tried to install Linux on SiS motherboard chipset.?I hesitate to install linux on my notebook because some says it will break the LINUX OS. Any answer will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.!

Hi all i have just installed Nagious on gentoo using emerge command. but i want to configure that so that i can monitor different services. as i am new to nagios so can any one help me by providing me information how to configure it. thanks

Hi, Has anybody got a shell script to see what is filling a mount point? It's my oracle mount point but I can't see anything writing to it when I check using ps -ef | grep *log nothing stands out are there any other commands I can use, it's solaris …

Can someone help me accomplish the following on my unix box? Can someone walk me through step by step for each task? I'm connecting to a machine using UBUNTU with SSH with admin priviledges. 1. Create an account for myself as administrator 2) create one additional regular user account which …

I recently decided to take a chance and install some unstable upgrades (I love unstable things). So I upgraded many of my applications via apt-get. One of the big things I upgraded was libc6. I think that my be the issue, not sure. After the upgrades, I had many many …

I just installed Linux Mint 7 Gloria yesterday:) . I just want to know, how to access the desktop cube because there are no desktop button in the taskbar(the bottom panel):( . I have enabled the 3d Desktop effect in compiz but I don't know to change to the next …

Hi All, I am new to kernel Programming when i started browsing the code i saw that there are so many main function. Please give detailed explanation

Hello, Please can anyone help me with a tutorial or something to run ubuntu server 9.01 on Virtual PC 2007. Help will be highly appreciated! Thank you! Regards, Akshit Soota

I've been reading all this stuff about Linux and how it is open-source for everything, and that is one of the great things about it. But I haven't really seen anything. On the one hand I have just switched to Linux so don't really know anything. Please correct me if …

I've been looking over the same .htaccess codes that will not work for a subdomain. It seems not many people really know how to do a correct .htaccess (including me I suppose). I've tried: [CODE]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^site\.net$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://site.net/$1 [R=301,L][/CODE] And it requires the WWW on the subdomain, …

Hello I have 3 computer network and I installed apache on the server and working properly ([url]http://localhost)[/url]. but when I try to reach another computer in the network using [url]http://localhost[/url] or [url]http://127.0.0.1[/url] or ip address of server, I receive "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. …

I've set up a web store with a SSL cert, for checkout when the store scripts invoke https. I believe it was initially working fine before mods like adding an addthis.com link and jQuery scrpting. I know SSL requires scripts to be run as https, but the addthis link is …

Hi, I have a quite loaded webserver, the CPU is very low and memory usage is also low, but sometimes the page doesn't respond... Here's the info on my system: FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 1x Q9550 (quad core) 8Gb RAM top ------ last pid: 13453; load averages: 0.09, 0.08, 0.07 up …

Hi, I have searched a lot in google about proper video and audio chat in linux. Skype is available for linux, but for some reason when I installed it in ubuntu 8.10, the audio was very low. I tried changing the configurations of pulse audio but it still didnt. Is …

Hi All, I am having fedora latest version and vista OSs in my system. Yesterday accidentally i have deleted the boot folder from fedora. After that when i try to restart/start my system it is hanging and showing me 'grub>' terminal. I tried with linux bootable cd but the same …

Hi I want to learn UNIX and UNIX shell scripting. But right now I can just read the tutorials as I don't have UNIX/LINUX at my computer. Is there any way by which I can try and test my UNIX commands and scripts over internet. What I mean to say …

I have 2 operating systems on my system............ i use GRUB provided by PCLINUXOS..........as i have installed it before DREAMLINUX..........I have 3 entries in GRUB menu for Windows ,PCLOS and Dreamlinux.......... when i intalled DREAMLINUX i selected add to existing GRUB option in its installation menu.......and it made following entry …

well recently i got the mandriva spring summer 2009 edition and i saw the snapshots.. its just awesome :cool: , well and i want to install it on my system. since i already have fedora 8 and windows xp2 partitioned on my disk and for some reason i dont want …

Hello forum members, Due to the very slow speed internet access I use, I find it almost impossible to successfully download and burn any linux installation live cd (especially ubuntu and fedora10). I have been reading studiously in preparing myself technically for server administration using linux for the past four …

What's your favorite linux distro? tell us why.

i have a dell poweredge 1950 server currently running linux redhat. i want to have 6 total instances of linux/centos running on this server. what is the best free vmware download that will suit my needs? i heard for freeware you can only use the windows version of vmware not …

I have 2 hard disks on my pc......sda with 80GB and sdb with 250GB.....on sda i have two OS windows XP and PCLinuxOS........I tried to install DREAMLINUX on sdb and i formed 3 partitions on it for /,/home and swap........it got installed and i attached its entry to previously installed …

I am trying to do a Redirect with SOME Querystring Parameters Maintained. I already know how to do a redirect with ALL parameters maintained, or with NO parameters maintained, but in this particular case, i need only ONE of them dropped. For example, my old links for my old system …

Hello, I had a few questions about Ubuntu 9.01 Server Edition. 1> How can I make my personal domain? 2> How do I make it point to specific whois or something to view details while a whois is done? 3> How do set up a website on the domain? 4> …

I've installed and am able to run the game: "Act of War: Direct Action" using wine. It seems to work perfectly with only one problem, the ambient sounds are really loud and the voice tracks are so low you can't even here talking on some parts. On the other hand, …

After shutdown and restart of my Linux Slackware 12 server everything came up the way it should. The reason to shut down the server whas to re-locate the machine. But, at random intervals, eth1 goes down. Syslog and Messages doesn't show anything about it. I know I haven't given eth1 …

Heya, I want to install TuxPaint on OpenSolaris. I tried to install it by source, but it got stuck on the 'make' command. Can anyone please give the step-by-step process of doing that? I am using the latest version of OpenSolaris.

I normally use knoppix version 3.9 live cd on various machines I use. I have no problem finding the mount point of ide hard disks usually in /mnt. If I cat the file /etc/fstab sata hard disk is never there. I have experienced similar problems with ubuntu 7.1 even when …

I have the following problem: I have brand new Fedora 10 installed and everything works file except one thing - I cannot mute my speakers when I plug my headphones. It is not just that Linux does not automatically detect that my Headphones are plugged in and mute the speakers …

Hi, I've a *ix machine and I need to share some folders with Windows users. I use samba for this purposes. Samba is set-up and works fine. All windows users use one id to mount (net use) samba drive. But the problems is that when user tries wrong password 3(or …

I am new to linux so I used to use both Windows Xp and Ubuntu.But due to problem in Windows,I re-installed Windows,but While re-starting the system, OS choice menu lost from Boot, Windows automatically opens, and ubuntu lost..,How can I find it..?

hello, im using ubuntu 9.04 and i was looking for a way to change my wallpaper randomly when the computer boots is this possible.. google was no help thanks in advance. benjdee

I have setup in .profile my login prompt as: PS1='${HOSTNAME}/${PWD}> how do I get the prompt to highlight so everytime i log in i see whatever i set my PS1 to highlighted.?

This is atep by step tutorials how to setup Debian server this includes Debian Installation FTP Server Setup in debian Webserver Setup in Debian Samba Server Setup in Debian Database Server Setup in Debian Time clock sync for debian server Mail Server Configuration in Debian VNC Server setup in Debian …

Hello all! I've been using Linux Ubuntu for 2 days now. Only today I actually realized that I don't have any drivers for any of my Cards build on my Laptop, I've searched in Google but still can't find it. Any help will be well appreciated. P.S.: No sounds, No …

Hi there, I am new to use unix operating system, and I was wondering where can start learning the main commands in the unix, as I am working on server that is unix, tutorials or links that can help, when I need some functionality or a specific command I search …

Hello, I've recently setup samba to run on my server, and it works perfectly well within my LAN. I can access all the shares.. However, I cannot access the shares over the internet. I've tried connecting by IP and by name, but it fails either way. The ports are forwarded …

Well i have a windows xp and linux (fedora 7) partition . and now i have found a new distro of linux which is called Belinix . its not very famous but has a lot to offer . Well my problem is i want to install and run belinix , …

This may sound like the install from hell, but I'm still trying. I wanted to try out Linux after a *very* long association with windows, but to say I'm having problems would be an understatment. Let me go through the whole sorry tale, and my question is at the end. …

Hello i recently tried to install apache on my old computer ... the error message he gives is ResolveServerName Can anyone help ùme with this one PLZ :cry: [URL=http://users.skynet.be/mustid/fout1.jpg]ErrorPic[/URL] [B]Edit:[/B] Pc info: WindowsMe, no internet connection, Celeron 700Mhz 256Mb Ram ... That were the error messages I searched in google …

Hey. I got a problem when i boot up my ubuntu server machine. Don't know really how to explain it, but when i boot up its is like the discs don't get enough time to start and the OS tries to load too quick, i dont know. Anyway i get …

Okay i need to install an OS on a system with no monitor. Is there any livecd that can be set to autostart SSH at boot?

what is the minimum space of pen-drive required to install ubuntu in a pen-drive. ubuntu may be of earlier version

Hi I am using Ubuntu linux 8.10 I have installed Apache, PHP and MySQL on my pc and testing all scripts on my localhost by [url]http://localhost/[/url] . Currently I am creating directories for each web projects to test on my localhost. So my project can be access by [url]http://localhost/project01/[/url] and …

Do you know how I can see who is connecting so much to my smtp so much? It's centos 4.5 linux host [URL="http://www.dwhs.net"]dwhs[/URL] and it runs cpanel Here is the error: 421 Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later

Hi, I want to partition my 160 gig so I can install and dual boot linux. my hd is fully formatted in ntfs and has winxp installed -- I don't want anything to happen to windows. Are there any recommendations for good partitioning software? btw -- I might buy a …

I wish to run a .exe file in ubuntu for this I've install wine,but still I cannot run it.

hi, i want to know how to check system spec (command line) in linux like right clicking "my computer" in windows and click on "properties" some system i know i can do #cat /proc/cpuinfo but how do i check like how much ram the machine has? some system i can't …

Does anyone know of linux software for creating wills, advance directives and such? Thanks, Harold

Hello forum members, Due to the very slow speed internet access I use, I find it almost impossible to successfully download and burn any linux installation live cd (especially ubuntu and fedora10). I have been reading studiously in preparing myself technically for server administration using linux for the past four …