How to configure a program Traditionally, there are 3 ways of configuring the behavior of a program: System wide configuration files User specific configuration files Compiling options A few conventions about configuration files: Configuration is stored in text files (as opposed to binaries ...
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Configuring network settings manually in Qubes OS
I'm trying to setup Qubes OS (http://qubes-os.org/) on my desktop but struggling to get the network/internet working.
This is the configuration i want to setup -
ip - 192.168.1.2
Subnet - ...
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How to configure a filesystem+LVM for effective usage of SSD?
ext4 is one of the filesystems recommended for using on SSDs (with a number of built-in techniques and advices how to tune it for better performance and wear-levelling of SSDs).
I want to install a ...
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Sendmail configuration with user mapping on Solaris
I have the following:
host1.intra.net which has sendmail and users: user1, user2 & user3. It is running SunOS 5.10.
host2.intra.net which has SMTP server. No authentication, no encryption.
Email ...
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How can I reset or lower the serial used in BIND DNS server's “SOA” record?
I use BIND as my DNS server at home. For my SOA record (start of authority) I always use a serial in the recommended format
YYYYMMDD##
where ## is the counter for changes on that day.
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How can i split openbox `rc.xml` into multiple files?
I don't like big text configuration files. So, i'd like to split my rc.xml file into multiple files:
rc.xml
rc.keyboard.xml
rc.mouse.xml
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How to configure network profiles in Centos?
I'm trying to setup two network profiles in Centos. One for at home, one for at work.
The home profile has a fixed IP address, fixed gateway and DNS server addresses. The work profile depends on DHCP.
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How to configure SSL in apache?
I have installed apache in RHEL 6. Everything is working fine. What all changes and configurations should be done to use
https://localhost:443/.
If I change the "Listen 80" to 443 it is throwing an ...
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How to properly and easy configure `xdg-open` without any enviroment?
I'm using OpenBox window manager without any desktop enviroment.
xdg-open behaves strangely. It opens everything with firefox.
$ xdg-settings --list
Known properties:
default-web-browser ...
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Can I configure XFCE terminal the way to open all the new terminals as tabs of one window?
I strongly prefer to have one terminal window with all the terminals being tabs in it, but the most usual way I open a terminal is calling it from another application (usually with "Open Terminal ...
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USB 3G Modem for embedded linux
I am fairly new to linux world, I have to develop an application on embedded linux which sends data over internet. I have to choose a USB 3G modem with a SIM card holder. I would appreciate if anyone ...
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How can I configure /etc/hosts file to point to apache web server?
I have installed apache web server and I need to point 127.1.1.1 with alias (www.someaddress.lan) to local apache. What is the proper way to do it? How to point someaddress.lan to default apache page ...
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How to disable tmpfs on /media in openSUSE?
In OS 11.4 /media is a regular directory. Whatever I put there, it stays.
In OS 12.1 /media is tmpfs. Whatever I put there, on next restart is gone.
The question is -- how to get rid of tmpfs on ...
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varnish configtest
Is there a way to check varnish configuration syntax without actually using the new version?
I'm searching for a native varnish equivalent of apache2ctl configtest
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Cannot find config option “CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP” for kdump
I'm studying on kdump which is a linux kernel crash dumping mechansim. According to documentation/kdump/kdump.txt under the kernel source tree, I need to set the kernel config option ...
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How can I save the Xterm configuration I set at runtime?
I configured my xterm using the CTRL-MiddleClick and CTRL-RightClick. Is there a way to export save these settings?
