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So, basically I tried to do everything i found to fix this but nothing really worked .. (It works fine on my 32 bit pc using elementary os(Luna linux). However my laptop has Kali Linux 64 bit. I have chromium installed. Some of the things that I tried which worked …

I installed Kali linux and while i was running as root I installed quite some programs and made graphical changes etc, even changed desktop environment .. then made a new user so I won't be using root and the new user has all the default stuff and no access to …

Hi everyone :) I have a Cent OS 5 without grafical user interface I want to install a program of flash memory how to change the CentOS-Media.repo in etc/yum.repo.d without editor? I want to change enable = 0 to 1 in CentOS-Media.repo and want that baseurl = file:///media but did …

HI What is the difference between the two payloads ”window/shell_reverse_tcp” and ”windows/shell/reverse_tcp”? I appreciate your help

Below is what I'm getting when I try nad start tor, any ideas? M ay 25 14:38:35.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 25%: Loading networkstatus consensus. May 25 14:38:45.000 [warn] Received directory with skewed time (server '193.23.244.244:443'): It seems that our clock is behind by 6 hours, 59 minutes, or that theirs is …

I just installed linux fedora 16. When i want to view my software packages in the "Add/Remove software" it doesnt show any packages. it give the following error when i click on the "Package Collection" tab: The group list was invalid The group list could not be loaded Refreshing your …

I am having Acer 5920 (64bit ,intel mobile express 965 chipset family) laptop. I have been using ubuntu 8.04 64bit on it for a while.Even internet browsing makes the temprature of laptop to shoot to above 50C.I have tried configuring it a lot(using pwmconfig , gkrellm ...). But they either …

Hi eveyone. I am trying to read a file using vi editor and sort its content inside the file alphabetically which is only names on CAPITAL LETTERS, second field (JOHN, MIKE, JAYSON and TYLER). The file is smth like this inside: 1:JOHN:Morgan:90:24 2:MIKE:Smith:95:11 3:JAYSON:Ty:99:9 4:TYLER:Edward:89:5 This is my vi script: …

Greetings everybody, I have been trying to acquire data from my Sound Blaster audio device through USB using libusb library. Have been trying to implement isochronous communication mode and having an error related to busy device, errno = 16. While I was searching in the web, I see when asound.state …

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 501758 573366271 286432257 5 Extended /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 501760 573366271 286432256 83 Linux Okay, we are building a new data server that has 6 disks - we partitioned the first 4 as a RAID 1 and the …

Hello, I am simply following setup instruction and one of them mention to type in linux: $ mv red52/ /usr/lib ------------------------- davy@ubuntu:~/Desktop/openmeetings$ mv red52/ /usr/lib mv: cannot move `red52/' to `/usr/lib/red52': Permission denied davy@ubuntu:~/Desktop/openmeetings$ -------------------------- Permission denied, what should I do to make it work?

Hello, I have tried to install mysql in linux and it said that I already installed it. Then the problem is I do not know the password to enter it. What should I do? davy@ubuntu:~$ mysql -uroot -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: …

Hey everyone. I need to use apt-get and ipkg in my CentOS. I have tried many tutorials about installing apt-get but non of them worked for me. Also I haven't found anything regarding installing ipkg. Can anyone help?

My old hard drive with Linux Mint 15 Olivia refused to boot yesterday: kernel panic etc. I tried to repair the file system and now some shared libraries are missing. On this computer, I have a brand new second hard drive with Kubuntu 13.10 freshly installed. From this OS, I can …

So, I may be kind of paranoid. I know some friends, which claim themselves being hackers. Well, I am eager to not try to even thinking of messing with anyone. Cause one showed me the "another side of software". To avoid problems when being hacked, I could just tape webcam …

*Virtual situation.* I am about to take my nasty hands to buy seperate hardware and build computer. The computer will be ready, I will run image on CD and install Linux on SDD/HDD (storage). How do I provide drivers to it? I think I have to download them from website …

2^64 / (1024^2) = 17.592.186.044.416MB = 16 exabytes 2^32 / (1024^2) = 4.096MB = 4 gigabytes 2^16 / (1024^2) = 0,0625MB = 64 kilobytes 2^8 / (1024^2) = 0,000244140625MB = 0,25 kilobytes = 256 bytes **How the heck you guys managed to do anything on "computers" which had maximum of …

Hey there. I am decent gamer. I'd like to go through 100% of visuality and emotions (adrenaline, joy, aggresivity, action) that game can deliver. But as you can guess you need very good computer for it. And yes, you could buy a gamer computer, that costs 9000 dollars. Or make …

Allow others access files in your home directory by granting them "search" permissions. Create a publicly searchable, but not listable, subdirectory to your home directory, ~/pub. Create two subdirectories of ~/pub, both searchable and listable to only the members of the groups music and wrestle, respectively: ~/pub/music and ~/pub/wrestle. Note …

Hey, I would like to customize Linux in VMware. Fully for myself. Can I later set it on real computer? If yes, how? If not, dammit!

Is swap space in Linux, something like reserved RAM? Which avoids to display spikes and calculation lag? Offcourse I know, I can't use 2GB RAM program, on 1.5GB RAM computer with 2GB swap. But, if I use 2GB program and go for one calculation that uses in fact 2.5 RAM. …

By examining the first, third and last (seventh) fields of the /etc/passwd file, determine the userid and login shell for your username, the user root, and the user nobody (yes, there is a system user with the username "nobody"). Create simple files in your home directory, called my.uid, my.shell, root.uid, …

So I just got a new laptop, it was originally running 64bit windows 8 so i had to get rid of it. Daft question, but I put a 32bit linux os (Elementary OS) on my system and it is running hideously slow. I'm hoping it is just that I've put …

I'm currently having an assignment that wants me to copy a select amount of files. More specifically files that are even using the cp command. The assignment is to copy files that start with cp and are even. This was my command at first `cp[24680]*` but it returned all files …

It's not often I start a new thread, but I've hit a bit of an unusual problem...Admittedly one of my own making... I have a laptop with a completely dead HD, which I've been using for a while with Ubuntu 9.10 installed on a bootable 8Gb USB stick with approx …

Hello, I have one "**tar.Z**" file. Objective is to unzip it by shell script and check the date. * archive: filename_20140103_1540.tar.Z #!/bin/bash cd $REP_DATAS/path u=$(date +%u) if [ ${u} -eq 1 ] ; then dateQ=`date --date='-3 day' +'%Y%m%d_%H%m'` else dateQ=`date --date='-1 day' +'%Y%m%d_%H%m'` fi tar xvf filename_"dateQ".tar.Z > error: > …

Hi. I'm still a newbie on apache/linux, so I'm hoping that my problem is relatively easy for more experienced people to solve. I have 4 folders, each containing an .htaccess file to restrict access to the PDF files they contain. My problem is that whenever I edit the content of …

I keep trying to convert the web.config file from my old server to the new one, which is using Ubuntu server, but I can't get the things done right. Can you guys help me to convert the code bellow to .htaccess? <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="Rule IIS7"> <match url="^([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+)(___)([0-9]+)(.*?)$" ignoreCase="false" /> …

Hi, I have tried reinstalling gnome-session after removing it now my desktop wont start. Even if I try startx still I can't get my gnome desktop to start. Pease help. Thank you

Hi, I have been googling around for the cgi module (mod_cgi) for Apache2 because my cgi-scripts .pl are not executing on browser and instead of getting executed it wants to "save or open with" It gave an errormessage *Warning: no MPM found. Some modules are dependant on the type of …

I'm having some error in my code but I can't understand what the problem is. #!/bin/bash ARG_COUNT=$# EXP_ARGS=2 if [ $ARG_COUNT -eq $EXP_ARGS ]; then echo "The correct number of parameters was passed: " $EXP_ARGS"." echo "My name is: "$1 $2"." else echo "Incorrect number of command line arguments. We …

In my home network I have my desktop wired (eth0) to a Netgear range extender that is wirelessly linked to my Linksys AC1200 router. If I do ip route show I get the IP address of my router but not the Netgear range extender that has the association with the …

Does anyone know how I can set the default group for /var/log/apaches/error.log to be a part of my users group each time it is created by apache?

Hi All, I've had Ubuntu for a couple of months now and I'm having problems with the boot drive/partition. I have a total of 500 GB to work with but for some reason that I didn't notice Ubuntu installed using only a (very) small portion of my 500 GB and …

I have a CA0103-dbq sound card for my desktop which I had to use instead of in built card. I have the driver called AU8850 for windows which came along with it. Now I need to use my sound card in linux also(I am using slackware dual boot with XP). …

Hi I'm new with Linux, and the class I'm in is using Fedora 13, so I installed Fedora 13 on vmware. It didn't come with OpenOffice so I had to download it and being a first time user of Linux it was not fun. The instructions said to open terminal …

I need to install hamachi on kali linux. The only problem is that when I try to install it I get an error saying that it requires lsb-core 3.0 to work. So I tried installing lsb-core 3, but I was unable to find a package named lsb-core 3. So how …

Linux Mint 15 I'm trying to run this small script located in /etc/cron.hourly/ in order to learn how to use cron but it's not running, any ideas? And the "test" script in this case has already been set to executable. garrett@garrett-bedroom /etc/cron.hourly $ cat test touch /home/garrett/Desktop/CRONTABWORKED!.txt #ENE#

Hello, I suspect that this is an elementary question but maybe I don’t understand how to search for it. I am a programmer, but having a small company and we can’t afford yet a system administrator, so I play this role as well with my limited practice on it. Currently …

Hi, When logged into my Amazon EC2 instances as user ec2-user, I cannot edit/delete files in my web root folder. All files are owned by apache:apache, and I have added ec2-user to the apache group. What am I missing? To sum up: [ec2-user@xxx ~]$ groups ec2-user ec2-user : ec2-user wheel …

Hi everyone, I'm running a linux server (centos 6.4) with cpanel. Cpanel sent me an email saying: "IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email. Your hostname (hostnamegoeshere) could not be resolved to an IP address..." When I ping "hostnamegoeshere" it does work. It shows successfull pings of the IP address. So, …

Hello everyone I am facing a problem that I have never encountered before and googling around just isn't helping. I was assigned to migrate a pmWiki server to a new MediaWiki server which was supposed to run as a virtual machine on a Red Hat Cluster Suite. My coworker and …

I"m running fedora 13 in virtual box and when I go to display settings, it is set to 61 hertz and 800x600 screen resolution. It won't give me any other options other than making the resolution 640x480. I can't change the refresh rate either its stuck at 61 hertz. Any …

I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my home web server which I am hoping to use to host my website in the near future. Security is obviously paramount, and is my primary concern at the moment. What is there that can be done to help prevent attacks? My current setup …

I was trying to install java JRE7 this earlier. I followed the instructions Mike 2000 17 linkedd in another linux thread. In the installation stage of the setup it said to put this into the terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer I did that and …

In the script below second & third line are working but not the first and fourth. The reason is because I am replacing the whole line, I actually only need to replace what's to the right of the '=' sign. Any idea on how I can accomplish this in sed? …

Last week I bought a new [Lonovo G505 laptop](http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/essential/g-series/g505/) for the purpose of installing Linux. After removing Windows 8 I tried to install three different linux distributions, none of them worked. None had a compatible wifi device driver, and none of them could start the X server after installation was …

Hi all, I'm trying to get Ubuntu to work but at boot up I get issues. I took a picture and I don't know how to procede.

I'm getting `sed: -e expression #1, char 35: unterminated s' command` when I try and run the following script. Any ideas? #/bin/bash # # # This script is to be used to re-write a configuration file # replacing select values, SSID, IP, device name, gateway, # and frequency with the …

In the following script I need to know if the configuration files is for a 2.4 or a 5.2 radio. This info is found in the filename so I'm trying to use grep -l *2.4* to find out if it's a 2.4 config file or not. If it's not the …