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Hi, Trying to add a swap file to my server as below: [code] dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1M count=2048 2048+0 records in 2048+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 27.4514 seconds, 78.2 MB/s [root@clearab2 /]# mkswap -c /swapfile1 Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2147479 kB [root@clearab2 /]# swapon …

Responses (from another site) on my recent, "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story261566.html"]Security Alert: They Should Have Used Linux[/URL]" led me to explore the conclusion that hacking is really only for those seeking the low-hanging security fruit as their prey. These folks, who tout themselves as "Linux Experts" intrigued me so much with their comments …

Is it just me or has Ubuntu 9.04 become broken by not allowing any software to be installed. I have done two clean installs and still the synaptic package manager does not show any items that are not installed. Also I am unable to install any software from the command …

I'M new to Linux & Ubuntu. I know I could just install Open Office through the Ubuntu Software Center or the Package Manager but I wanted to do it manually. So I download the debian package from [url]www.openoffice.org[/url] and unzipped it. Now I have a folder on my desktop lapeled …

Hi, I have apache2 running on Ubuntu 9.04. I am trying to set up vhosts. I have two files in sites-enabled there contents are: [CODE]<Directory /var/www/video> AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all AddType text/html .htm </Directory> <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/video ServerName jvids.co.uk Serveralias www.jvids.co.uk ServerAdmin jameslovejoy1@googlemail.com </VirtualHost> [/CODE] That …

I am doing upload and download script with php. For the upload part, I store the uploaded file, for example, 'my picture.jpg' above my 'htdocs/' with a random name. e.x.: [CODE] [-] htdocs |--[+] download [-] upload |--abcdef <<-- 'my picture.jpg' stored as 'abcdef'[/CODE] The original file name and the …

Hi friends, I have installed ubuntu 9.04 in that i have install DRBL package installtion is done correctly but when i run LANG=C sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/drblsrv -i it gives *****************************************************. Hint! When a "yes or no" option is available, the default value is uppercase. E.g. (y/N) the default is "N", so …

Hello, I just started with Maude (.maude), and I'm currently using gedit as the preferred editor. I do however have some questions I'm sure some here could answer for me. How do I get it highlighted in gedit? I cant seem to find a way to highlight Maude... - or, …

Bjorn Olstad, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of FAST, has revealed that beyond 2010 there will be no more Microsoft FAST enterprise search products which support Linux and UNIX search cores. In an official Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog posting, [URL="http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2010/02/04/innovation-on-linux-and-unix.aspx"]Olstad states[/URL] that although when Microsoft acquired FAST two …

Very simple question - can a Ubuntu 9.10 distro format a hard drive in ntfs format?

Hi, I would Like to access the Linux desktop from windows PC. I don't want to use SSH console for I need immediately (Have no time for learning for now). TRied VNC, but I cannot access it from Windows. I'm stucked! I can Access my windows machine from Linux with …

I manually set-up a partition during my installation of Ubuntu 9.10. I only created a swap partition about 512mb and a root partition of 10gb and no partition for /home but I have a partition for all my data files. What I really want is a separate partition for programs …

Hi, I want to replace my hosters mail server and have my own mx route. Basicaly I need a mail server, webmail, caldav, webdav, mailman, external pop3 conector, to pick up mail from external domains on different hoster. I will also need a real idiots guide how to set this …

As promised yesterday, this is my potential solution to the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story249841.html"]Linux survival question[/URL]: A Linux Commercial--created by you--and it's a contest. Sound exciting? You creative types will now have a chance to create your own short film/video/commercial for Linux. Give Linux a face, a voice, a rap, a song, a …

My laptop came with Vista basic preinstalled. Now I am completely switched to Ubuntu. But for some reason I want vista in virtaul machine. I am using virtual box. Since my vista came preinstalled i dont have any installation disc. But using Create Recovery Disk option in vista i have …

I have ssh, apache running on a ubuntu 9.04 home server and can access from any network connection. However, I want to be able to go onto the linux server (as I can to Windows servers) as a terminal services client; run programs on the server, check e-mails, browse, etc, …

Ok, so we all know that I've been giving [URL="http://www.fedoraproject.org"]Fedora[/URL] a bit of a black eye lately with my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4448.html"]BaitNSwitch[/URL] and [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4459.html"]Is Fedora Still Relevant[/URL] posts so I've decided to give them some positive press and enter their [I][URL="http://spins.fedoraproject.org"]Spins[/URL][/I] Zone. Spins are live Fedora CD images designed with a specific …

It seems that I caused quite a stir and some arguments among some of my readers with the likes of my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story254705.html"]5 *nix Myths Busted[/URL] and the ever popular [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story256070.html"]Retraction: 5 *nix Myths Busted[/URL], when I referred to rebooting systems. I never thought that something so benign would cause such …

Hi friends , I installed Apache Server on my Ubuntu 9.10 and it is working now . Now i can able to access the localhost using the IP Address 127.0.1.1 . I want to access my website in Apache server in Ubuntu from my Windows system through LAN . Is …

I'M just getting started with Linux and I'M using Ubuntu. Straight from the CD Ubuntu came loaded with Open Office - Word, Spreadsheet, & Presentation. But how do I get the whole Open Office package? And what happens with the ones already on my system? Do I need to remove …

Hello. I remember once I googled a topic, and I kept stumbling upon a linux command, that would allow me to get some info on a binary application, including it's architecture. Basicly, I could see if the program was build for x86_64 or for x86. Now I actually need this …

Hi guys i want to make a project in which i am planning to create a fully functional shell. But i don't know how and where to start from. Please anybody reply if you have any knowledge regarding this. Any website ,any starter information will be greatly informatively for us.

Hi guys, I've downloaded fedora core 7 and installed it, the problem is when i want to type Farsi in Gnome the words are separated from each other, and i cant write well, I have add Farsi to my keyboard lay-out but still no result! Regards

I am not familiar with Linux/ Unix and I encountered a corruption. How do I repair this? Warning: mysql_num_rows():supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in usr/local/apache2/htdocs/vicidial/AST_timeonVDADall.php

hi to all this is my first post here at daniweb. here is my situation. i have 1, installed win xp verison of virtualbox 2, installed mandriva power pc as the virtual box guest 3, fully configured ssh and httpd (deault ports) 4, they both can see the net 5. …

I am looking to have both a forward proxy, and a reverse proxy at the same time. It seems as though, when I do this, the Proxy definition I put in place to restrict access to the forward proxy also effects the reverse proxy. [CODE] ... #... inside my virtual …

I love mythology and there's nothing like hearing a technology myth to make my day complete. Just today someone applied one of the following myths in a conversation with me. I didn't say anything but it gave me the idea for this post. Here are the five myths related to …

Hi, I am facing problems in scheduling the cron to run on first monday of the everymonth. Can anybody help me out? Regards, sri

How do I Install Quicken 2010 in Ubuntu 9.10 as I am new to Linux?

Hello Friends, I have a small IP scan code written in shell script,i want my code should get executed as kernel get booted....plz tell how can i insert that code into new kernel...what are the steps should i follow..... My aim of putting the IP scan code in kernel the …

Hello Friends I made new simple 'Hello World' module * * hello-1.c - The simplest kernel module. */ #include <linux/module.h> /* Needed by all modules */ #include <linux/kernel.h> /* Needed for KERN_INFO */ int init_module(void) { printk(KERN_INFO "Hello world 1.\n"); /* * A non 0 return means init_module failed; module …

I have hundreds of domains so I needed an htaccess that would force www without knowing the exact domain name. I got it to work, but then it started forcing www in front of ALL my subdomain URLs too, not just domain.com (ex: [url]http://www.sub.domain.com[/url]). So I need something that will …

Hi I am new to the forum, I need some advice, I run a small business that's heavily dependent on the internet and I use my Laptop constantly, I am frustrated by the hanging and the slowness of the various to respond, I generally do a few different things at …

hey guys just want to install open suse with windows 7 but i have a problem which i have only one hard disk with one primary partition running windows so i want to know how to make another primary partition to boot open suse from .. so how to make …

As a current [URL="http://www.gnome.org"]GNOME[/URL] user and former [URL="http://www.kde.org"]KDE[/URL] user, I'd like to know when we can expect some new innovations from either of these desktop environments? I know KDE came out with KDE 4.x just over two years ago but it seems that its popularity has fallen away in favor …

hi friends, I'm trying to install mysql on linux through rpm. I have install it & when I'm I enter the command mysqladmin -u root -p create mydb its showing Enter password: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)' …

Hello, We are trying to create a new account on our dedicated server with whm. We fill out the information: [CODE]Domain: jdomain.co.uk Username: jollysof Password:xxxxxx Email: me@domain.co.uk DNS settings: Use the nameservers specified at domain's registrar(ignore locally specified nameservers) Mail Settings: Automatically Detect Configuration.[/CODE] When we attempt to create this …

Can it be done!? I just found out about this version of Ubuntu called Ubuntu Studio (based on 7.04), and I want to know if I can do it without losing everything in /home/alex. I don't care about applications, I just want music and documents. Without insane amounts of DVDs …

Plagued by duplicate files that clog up your system? Quantum, a company once known mainly for hard drives, yesterday unveiled a new version of its [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StorNext_File_System]StorNext File System[/url] that it says optimizes storage efficiency by implementing automatic data deduplication. It's part of StorNext 4.0, Quantum's high-performance sharing and data management …

Last week, The Linux Foundation [URL="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/node/5716"]launched[/URL] it's new Linux Jobs board and normally, I applaud anything that [URL="http://www.linuxfoundation.org"]The Linux Foundation[/URL] (TLF) does but not this time. And I think it's great that TLF has a [URL="http://jobs.linux.com"]job board[/URL] on [URL="http://www.linux.com"]Linux.com[/URL], however, the execution lacks the luster I've come to expect from …

I'M trying to make the switch from Windows to Linux, or at least make it a 9 to 1 ratio. I mean, I can't completely do away with windows for several reasons. I'M also interested in programming. Now, Linux is suppose to be a much better OS and that seems …

Hello! Here's the deal, my server has at least 5 different IP's. What is need is to in some of that IP's block specifique ports. Example: 120.120.120.120:4000 -> Port 4000 is open, I want it open! 120.120.120.124:4000 -> Port 4000 is open, I want it closed! I'm using APF firewall. …

When the user press a key in desktop or console or a browser or anywhere. I want to get the key that is pressed by user. I found something about that I can make my intterrup handler (IRQ) but if I change the original interrupt handler, the computer must be …

hi all, i hope this is in the right place. im a newbie and want to gain much experience with linux as server and maybe say 2 or 3 clients, all different OS's. at my work we have lots of pc's laying around and I have the okay from my …

Hi guys, As i already mentioned, am a linux newbie because our office for some reason is moving to linux and as the head of Networks have been assigned to configure a squid but am stuck on how to go about it but have installed the squid on my debian. …

i try to complile fcgiwrap from [url]http://nginx.localdomain.pl/wiki/FcgiWrap[/url] on solaris 10 platform however i got this error msg [CODE]# make gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic -O2 -g3 fcgiwrap.c -o fcgiwrap -lfcgi ld: fatal: library -lfcgi: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to fcgiwrap collect2: ld returned …

The issues are 1) "Ylmf Windows XP" was a real pirated Microsoft product prior to the arrival of "Ylmf OS" which is Ubuntu Linux. The Ylmf team has been frightened away from distributing real Microsoft products by the arrest of the distributor of "Tomato Garden" which was also a real …

Hi friends, I want to install gd2 on my linux(centOS) system. I have download gd-2.0.35.tar.gz file and I extract all files also. and read the readme file but not getting anything. plz help me

Install dependencies: [CODE]sudo aptitude install python-fuse python-elementtree[/CODE] Karmic only has python-gdata 1.2.4-0ubuntu2 which is too old so get gdata 2.0.6 from here: [url]http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/[/url] and install that. Look for the README.txt and INSTALL.txt for info. Once the dependencies are satisfied: [CODE]sudo aptitude install subversion svn co http://google-docs-fs.googlecode.com/^Cn/trunk/ google-docs-fs[/CODE] and install that. …

Hi, I have this main folder (with some sub folders and files) in my ubuntu. [CODE]/var/www/asg[/CODE] When I run this [inlinecode]http://localhost/asg/index.php[/inlinecode]in browser, I get this error. [CODE]Forbidden You don't have permission to access /asg/index.php on this server. Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80[/CODE] This is what i do but …