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How can I write bash script to force pre-written sql quaries and inserts into my sqlite3 DB? I am currently having to run my page in a browser and then the sqlite4 DB gets edited by php commands then I have to go back into sqlite3 and manually set everything …
Hello, For some testing purpose , I want to downgrade my PC's Firefox from 25 to 22. How can I do that? **OS: Ubuntu** Is it simply like uninstall firefox 25 and install 22? Please give me refer link of download Firefox 22. is there command in Ubuntu to dowmload …
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 …
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 …
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?
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 masters :) I want to run LEX and YACC programs in Linux but these are need to be installed before. So can u guys just tell me step by step procedure to install me I'm using openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 Help me out Thank You
hey everyone I was wondering if there is any tool that I can use to draw a Wi-FI coverage map in linux ?? Thanks in advance
Well i downloaded the tar.bz2 package but when i try to compile it, it always need a new software to get installed(software dependences), like flex, gcc, bison etc. Now i am frustrated with these installations. so, is there any other method to install wine like to get a .deb file(am …
Hi All, I need help with iptables to allow a specific IP to access a destination (FaceBook) The following rule blocks facebook access to everyone in the company(this rule works successfully): iptables -A FORWARD -p all -d $ip -j REJECT (The ip address is read from a text file.) Now …
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 …
Hi All, I want to get all the IPs of the A RECORDS for **mail.google.com**. The aim is to deny access to these IPs. I learnt that mail.google.com has several IPs. I did the following steps: 1. whois google.com 2. I got the following as its DOMAIN SERVERS: ns3.google.com ns2.google.com …
**Hello :)** I just installed bind9 on my ubuntu server. I can reach my domain fine, from any computer at home (i have fine result when trying to run: "`dig @my-public-ip mydomain.com`").. But i can't reach my domain from outside (vpn).. Do i just need to wait, for the "root-servers.net" …
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 …
Dear All, I am new to SNMP world. I would to configure and send trap for Apache, Asterisk, MySQL to my NMS server. What I have to do. Will I have to write script in Perl please send any example for this. Please also let me know why I m …
I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed, then installed most recent version of Debian on an unallocated 100GB partition on the primary drive (on a PC, not on a notebook). That all works without a problem. The problem is that I can not figure out how to change the boot menu …
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 …
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#
I have installed a Corsair F60 SSD on my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop. It has earlier been used as a system disk with Windows 8 Pro on another system, but it failed and now I want to use it for other purposes. If I use 'hdparm' I get an input/output-error, so …
Hi daniweb, i m happy join woith u ,and isk tou I'm finding a way to create a 'plug and play' printing apps that can send the document softcopy to a bluetooth tethered device on the fly. I'm seeking advice on which programming language should i get into with to …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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Hi All, THis is just a basic question about Wine. How many use it on Linux and how many are happy with it? I've seen mixed reviews about Wine on the internets so I thought I would ask the only tech community that matters. I just installed it because I …
help with the script down here. I am so confuse as to why it is not working. I've change this thing back and forth and getting no where. It is driving me crazy. The error message keep saying script2: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `done' script2: line 10: …
how do i install EXE softwares on Ubuntu OS????
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 have installed wireless assistance in fedora 14.problem is it shows error like this "No usable wireless devices found" what's this error? how can I rectify this?????
I install windows 7 in fedora running system without overwrite the previous OS.but the problem is if i install windows 7, it shows 2 os's when starting my system.I want to boot my system in fedora by default.what's the solution??????????????
In the code below how do I get sed's find and replace value to cary over into the output that gets redirected to the .txt file at the end? Everything else gets replaced but everything in the if statement gets left behind. # example: ./configure input-file, SSID, IP, device-name, gateway, …
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 just purchased a new ASUS desktop with a 1TB HD loaded with Window$ 8. I plugged in my two linux drives (OS & home DIR) but the screen was black and nothing would show up, I removed them again and now Windows is starting up again. Any ideas?
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 …
Since my remote server was recently migrated I am receiving an error message generally which goes like this Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(c:/wampserver/tmp/sess_4bkd7oiqmi7298mhikv09447t6, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /home/safetyte/public_html/portal/woodwork_sub/ws_member_profile.php on line 2 Lines 1 and 2 are <?php session_start(); This message is coming from the remote server …
while taking the backup my system used to closed the terminal and show's me the folder on usbdisk where i have copied my all data when my the process of copying is completed but from last week it never shows me the folder and terminal remains open as it is …
i need to implement and test any of the distributed algorithms in two **linux** running systems above which runs the UDP protocol. how can i proceed with this? What programming language will be easier to implement? i have done C,C++ and a little of java programming in the past.
I am involoved in migrating OS from AIX to SLES 11. One script has a command Unix2dos & Dos2Unix. What is the alternative for these in SLES. Will recode latin1.. work???
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How can i restore the backup in my portable harddisk in lunx based operation system runing on imb server system x3650 (oracle application and database runing) when my server get's crush. i don't have command on coding at lunix terminals, please let me know the coding if possible.
Hi.... I'm new in Ubuntu and GNOMe... something I don't understand is that when I've used this command to uninstall my gnome sudo apt-get remove gnome* ...and then install it again using another command which I've also found in the internet... ...then reboot my laptop... I came up to a …
Have downloaded and burned TAILS both as a DVD and a booting USB stick. Other than a marked sluggishness while 'setting the local time,' the system provides both PC look-alike and built-in TOR browser (anomymity.) I am curious to read what other user's experiences have been with this system - …
I have mobile web services written in PHP. Ant it is running on Apache Linux. Suddenly since yesterday our server became too slow. We found the reason that there are many continuous connection is coming to our server. Which is engaging bandwidth and making server slow. We have asked hosting …
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 …
 booted from a flash drive to go into the live cd mode , there , as soon as i double clicked a flash video , the screen went all jumbled up , and my pc hanged up. later i tried to check it in oracle virtual box , …
I have found a strange problem in my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop. When the machine is started, everything is working fine. But if I press the Right Shift key, the keyboard starts to work abnormally as follows - 1. All the letter keys is displayed in uppercase even if the caps …
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