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Hi guys, I am running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on my PC and have installed vmware. Now, may I ask this, is it possible for me to run my host computer as a mail server for my guest virtual machines on vmware?

Hi all Yesterday my resolution was changed and I tried to change it back but nvidia wouldn't list the resolution I wanted 1280x1024 so I removed the nvidia driver and re-installed it. After that it worked, it listed the resolution i wanted, but then this morning I booted up and …

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 …

hi ppl wassuuup i am used to the windows xp i just finished the downloadin of ubuntu but i saw sum screen shots and i got confused between the real ubuntu and the mac os so how can u please gime pictures of how this ubuntu looks like and aren't …

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 …

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 …

Hello, I just got RH Fedora Linux to try it out. I am a windows user so I am still getting use to the differences of linux. One of the things I want to figure out is how to play an AVI on this os.

Helloo! I have a .txt file with around 1000 lines in it - each line just has a number. What I want to do is to copy all 1000 lines and paste it into an excel sheet. So, I went up to the first line, changed to visual mode, and …

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

I installed the centOS 5.2 on 80GB harddisk. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 Device Boot Start end Blocks id system /dev/hda1 * 1 15 83 linux /dev/hda2 16 9729 8e linux LVM DO I HAVE SOME REMAINING SPACE.......? and If I want to do further partitions in existing then how......? here their …

Is there a way to speed up Debian 4.0 access to my dsl internet? It seems like 15 or 20 seconds before the lights start flashing on my modem after I click my mouse. Thanks, houndhen

Hi! I own a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the following Network Controllers: Ethernet: Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller WLAN: Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card I have installed "Sun VirtualBox" on my Vista Home Premium. I have installed "openSUSE v11.1" using VirtualBox. I cannot connect to the internet in …

Hi all I hope this is the right section Today I entered [CODE]df[/CODE] 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 …

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 …

HI friends, I have checked the forums, until i loose my patience, but didnt get any such query or reply, so finally posting my issue. I hav a CentOS box installed as a server with static ip and windows client using it to connect to internet via squid(the proxy server) …

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 …

Hey I've got an old server in my basement and i want to host a forum on it. I know there are also online free forum hosting but i want to learn what i'm doing. I want to use this thread to ask for advice. Right now my plan is …

I've been seaching and googling for an answer that I just can't find. I have a vps account with no nameserver and have been told I need to make the nameserver myself. Does anybody know of any good tutorials or could explain how to setup the nameservers. I have already …

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 …

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.

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?

Hi, I have a place called "31 GB Media" which is C: drive in MyPlaces. I wanted to copy a folder from it to Ubuntu. I have typed this line in terminal but "No such file or directory" is returned. [code]sudo cp -r /31\ GB\ Media/Test/FolderWithFiles/ /var/www/[/code] Where is the …

hi all , I have installed ubuntu 9.04 , dual boot with xp , ubuntu can read the xp files but window xp does not see linux ( ext4) . does any one know of any ext4 driver for windows xp ? thanks

Hello guys, I have Laptop with Ubuntu/Vista Multiboot I would like to connect to my office place Domain. Mind you that this is my personal Laptop and I cannot tell the Office Admin to configure it for me. I have to do it my self which is good practice. So …

I hope I'm posting this to the right forum; if not, I apologise. Here's what I'd like to do: I have a PC running Linux and a notebook running Vista, both "talk" (ping) to each other over the network. I'd like to be able to open a terminal window on …

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, 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 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 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 …

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, 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 …

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....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?

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

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 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 …

I'm trying to upgrade libcups2-dev and dpkg is giving me an error. I issue aptitude install libcups2-dev from the CLI as root and receive - [B]aptitude install libcups2-dev[/B] Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... …

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

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 …

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.!

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, …