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When do environment variables get set in tcsh?
I set a lot of environment variables in my .tcshrc file, using the setenv command.
When I needed to have one of these unset today, I moved this file and opened a new terminal (this is all in a Gnome ...
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Screen content showing for a few seconds before screensaver starts (Fedora 14)
This happens every now and then, I have not pinned down the cause but let me describe the symptoms.
On occasion when I come back to the computer after a few hours the screen is in energy saving mode, ...
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Prevent yum from checking for updates when a new package is going to be installed
Whenever I want to install a new package with yum, It first checks for updates. Is there a way to stop it from checking for updates each time a package is going to be installed?
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How to do “netcat” relays properly so that I have more control?
How to use the netcat to have relays? Like following I tried but not working:
cd /tmp
mknod backpipe p
nc -l -p 7007 0<backpipe | nc 192.168.1.101 9001 | tee backpipe
I want to receive data on ...
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Problem after ati driver installation
I've just installed the ati radeon drivers using the latest version on the ati site. Upon rebooting this has caused gnome 3 to fall back into a safe mode. My question boils down to how do I fix this ...
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Skype connects to the internet but all my web browsers can't on Fedora 15
I've recently taken the plunge and gone from Ubuntu to Fedora. When connected to my wireless network my web browsers can't access any sites although skype works fine. I don't have the problem when ...
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Running a pbk file in Linux
To connect to my university's network, they provided me with a .pbk file.
The file is made for windows of course and I have no idea how to use it in Fedora
(I'm using Fedora 15)
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Lxpanel sometimes freezes
I'm using Fedora 15 and the latest LXDE. From time to time I see that lxpanel freezes or maybe faults down such that I can't click anywhere except opened application icons. lxpanelctl restart works ...
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Rosewill RC-212 and Fedora 15
I recently bought a Rosewill RC-212 and configured it in the BIOS for RAID0. Windows 7 recognizes the array without any extra drivers and installed to it without problems.
I installed Fedora 15 on a ...
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Fedora location of /usr/share/v86d/initramfs
I compiled and installed v86d, yet I can only locate one binary file in /sbin. There is supposed to be the initramfs file in /usr/share/v86d, but this directory does not exist. I don't think that the ...
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How to use command line to change brightness and color?
Is there any way to change the brightness and color? Using any command line tools?
I am trying in Fedora and Ubuntu but no luck so far.
Follow up:
[command] [conneccted output] [effects R:G:B, ...
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Where should I put a script that needs to execute once when the user logs in graphically?
Using Gnome 3 on Fedora 15, where should I put a script that needs to execute once when the user logs in graphically?
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SELinux stops Google Chrome from executing
I can no longer start Google Chrome on Fedora 14 (using GNOME).
strace
strace google-chrome
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readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/opt/google/chrome/chrome"..., 4096) = 25
socketpair(PF_FILE, ...
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Did `sudo init 6` cause my file system to be corrupted?
I was developing some code and had open qtcreator (software development IDE), gnome-terminal, and possibly firefox. I needed to restart to test something. So i restarted using sudo init 6. When my ...
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Default fedora 15 install, how do you get a network drive to mount after login?
I am running a default fedora 15 install. My goal is to have a couple of network drives get mounted right after the user logs in graphically (not via ssh).
The script I want to execute is basically ...
