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Find Locations of a Letter In Linux Command [on hold]
Hey guys i need to Find out all locations of the word ttt in a file
must find words containing "ttt" three t's consecutive can someone help me .
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What is the role of Bios in making system compatible with Linux [on hold]
I am running an Ubuntu system.
My hardware is very new.
I want to ask what is the role of Bios in saying if system is compatible with Linux or not?
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No such file or directory when copying files to current directory
I am trying to copy a file from inside a bunch of folders to the current directory I am in.
Playing around with the terminal, I see that when I specify the entire location it works:
joostin@ubuntu:~$ ...
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PHP running under “www-data” user
In PHP if I run get_curret_user() it prints www-data. This makes it impossible for me to use this function in order to test a FTP password from input.
Is there any way to make PHP run under the ...
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Windows 8.1 does not load on my dual boot laptop
I am new to Ubuntu (Linux) and just installed it on my laptop which has already Windows 8.1 on it. I can't use windows anymore.
Below is my configuration for the Windows 8.1 booty loading. The link ...
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problem when booting linux server : Too many levels of symbolic links
By mistake, I executed these commands :
sudo ln -sf bash /bin/sh
sudo ln -sf bash /bin/bash
When I rebooted the Linux server in recovery mode I got this message:
unable to execute too many levels ...
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How can I effectively purge a manually installed package?
I installed SBCL 1.2.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 by downloading sbcl-1.2.3-x86-64-linux-binary.tar.bz2, and running
sudo bash install.sh
However, I was curious about how I would be able to uninstall it? It ...
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How to make Intel fake RAID 0 volume appear on boot with Ubuntu 14.04 in a multi-boot environment?
I have a computer with a Gigabyte GA-Z97N-Gaming 5 mainboard, a 256 GB drive for booting and two 3 TB drives meant to use in a RAID 0 setup with both ext4 and NTFS partitions. We are planning running ...
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1answer
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ifconfig ethernet (eth0) no data flow
Hello this is my ifconfig output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 50:46:5d:44:5e:fe
inet addr:10.0.0.6 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: ...
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svn update or checkout problem : Can't read length line in file '/home/username/svn_repository/db/revs/0/697'
My latest revision is 703 after svn committed. But When I execute the svn update or svn checkout commands from Client machine it throws.
svn: REPORT of ...
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How to ssh into remote machine and create new user in bash script
I am writing a bash script and would like to ssh into a remote machine and execute the adduser command. This is not working, all that I get is the --help text for adduser when I run the code below.
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Capstone for Python not working
I'm unable to get Capstone (http://www.capstone-engine.org/lang_python.html) for Python to work.
I have attempted to install capstone both using pip and compiling and installing from source. Both are ...
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Ec2 network bandwidth consumed by internal ip? [on hold]
On iftop I can see ip-172---2.ec2.internal
connected to my Ubuntu ec2 server for a long long time?
This address doesn't even resolves as its a ec2 internal IP address. How can I block it?
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dual boot from two different harddrives, windows and lubuntu not working
I have a computer with two harddrives. I first installed my Windows 8.1 on my ssd taking up the whole drive. Then on my second 2TB I made 3 partitions. 1TB is dedicated to external storage, 500GB is ...
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Disadvantages of Ubuntu installed inside the Win vs next to Win
Are there any disadvantages of installing Ubuntu inside the Win using installator vs next to Win using bootable device?
For example: My user account (on Win) contains diacritics which causes problems ...
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Make upstart log to /var/log/upstart/<service-name> directory
By default upstart logs to /var/log/upstart, and all the service logs are under
the same directory. I want to have a directory under /var/log/upstart (say, /var/log/upstart/myservices where all my ...
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./a.out && echo $? only prints return value if return = 0
echo $? in the following scenario does not display the return value, i.e. 1.
echo "int main() { return 1; }" > foo.c
gcc foo.c && ./a.out && echo $?
However, echo $? works when ...
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Why is my application being cut off?
I'm running a Java based application on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and for some reason it keeps getting cut off in the top left portion of the screen. I'm running this in VSphere, with VMWare Tools installed. ...
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Running Linux on Smartphone
I have recently thought about buying a cheap second hand smartphone and install Linux on it as an experiment.
I am sure this has been asked a lot but I cant seem to find an answer:
Is there anyway ...
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How to list the services I am authorized to start or stop in Linux? [closed]
I can use the following command in Linux, to list all services:
chkconfig --list
It lists all services running on that machine. I do not have the privilege to start/stop some of the services.
How ...
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Etekcity Scroll E1 Wireless USB mouse does not work with Ubuntu 14.04
I have an Etekcity Scroll E1 Wireless USB Mouse that is not working with Ubuntu(but does work on Windows). According to their website, the mouse is compatible with Linux, and the Amazon reviews for it ...
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USB hard drive won't remount after power outage
My home server has a USB hard drive plugged to it. Once in a while, the breakers jump or there are power outages. Since my server is a laptop, it keeps chugging along, but the rest of the hardware ...
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Binvox not working on a headless Linux server
I'm trying to run Binvox (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~min/binvox/) via web server, on an Amazon EC2 server with Nvidia GRID K520 GPU and running Ubuntu 14.04. I'm using the system(binvox, $ret) ...
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how to add wamp feature to lamp
I am used to do web development using wampserver in windows but recently I wanted to move to Linux and I am using LAMP now but I found that some useful feature in wampserver are not available in LAMP ...
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Install OS in a directory
We can have the full filesystem structure of any OS in a directory. To which we can chroot, so it will behave as good as native login.
Is there any way to install the an OS onto a partition with the ...
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How well do Chromebooks support other Linux distributions? [closed]
As many manufacturers of Notebooks do not offer any Notebooks without Windows preinstalled anymore, the next best thing would be a Chromebook.
I'd like to know how well do/will other Linux ...
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Dual Boot with Grub: can't boot Arch Linux [closed]
My history
I got a PC with Intel 64 Bit Processor. There I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at /dev/sdb1 and Arch Linux at /dev/sda1. Both use swap on /dev/sdb2.
I tried (with success) to install ...
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How can I deny internet access to all processes except the chosen ones?
Sometimes I am forced to use really narrow Internet bandwidth of 56kbps. On my Ubuntu desktop I have too many programs, that frequently check something on the net - and hunting and disabling them ...
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Which Ubuntu GUI should I install? [closed]
I am trying to select a GUI for Ubuntu. If I just asked which one is best, I'd probably get a religious debate until the question was closed. But I'm asking which is the best fit for my needs, so ...
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add-apt-repository Raises A Python Error
I wanted to install Numix icon theme, therefore I needed to add ppa, but it strangely raised this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 163, in ...
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new users can't log in via GUI
I have added 3 new users to the system via a terminal session and defined their password. However at the GUI logon screen when I click on their account and put in the password I get the spinning wheel ...
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bash: /etc/bash.bashrc: Permission denied whenever I open a terminal
On Ubuntu 13.10, when I open a new terminal, I sometimes get the following output on the terminal:
bash: /etc/bash.bashrc: Permission denied
However, the permissions should be fine:
>ls -l ...
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How to create a fingerprint of the hardware from a dedicated root server? [duplicate]
Recently our ubuntu root server has been replaced after some failures. Unfortunatelly we cannot confirm if it really has been replaced or just some parts.
What is the best and most thorough way to ...
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disable mouse and keyboard on Ubuntu 14.04
I use only ssh access to my 'slideshow' computer (it, and a big TV screen are located in a public room). I'd like to disable generally (not X only) all of the USB slots, and the PS2 keyboard/mouse ...
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FileZilla: Failed to retrieve directory listing
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 as the host and installed Ubuntu 14.04 in the Virtualbox as Guest OS.I have installed and configured VSFTPD on Ubuntu 14.04 and forwarded the virtualbox port's as follows:
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How to kill all processes for a given user that take longer then X time
When I list processes with ps auxf I often see some that are stuck and I need to manually kill them. How can I do it with one command?
Example ps result:
$ ps auxf
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ ...
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Issue in ubuntu disk size (vitualbox image)
I am having an issue while increasing the disk size for Ubuntu where I see that pvdisplay doesn't show all the partition, and only show /dev/sda5. Also Ubuntu disk size is 52.4 GB, but the disk is ...
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/etc/init.d/nis missing on Ubuntu
I'm trying to setup NIS on a machine. All instructions always expect /etc/init/nis to exist as at the end of configuration one is expected to restart the service using that. For me it doesn't exist. I ...
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Installing noip via sh script
I have this script:
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz
tar xf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz
cd noip-2.1.9-1/
make install <<END_SCRIPT
Username
password
...
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Installing 14.04 from ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso with pxe
We're trying to do an automated network installation using pxe.
We installed netboot tools (14.04 LTS) and extracted theubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso contents into an http server. We saw that we ...
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Bash script for logging in ftp
I have seen this question: link
I have similar, if not the same request. I'd like to create a script that will log me in ftp server. I do not want to automate the whole exchange, I just want to speed ...
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Cannot succesfully run apt-get -f install
I am working on a Ubuntu Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-43-generic x86_64) machine.
There are some packages that I need to install, and in order to be able to that, first I have to run apt-get ...
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Not see file NetworkManager.conf in folder /etc/NetworkManager/
My network connectivity often gets interrupted when I use the local DNS server at the company, I wanted to change dns=dnsmasq to #dns=dnsmasq in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.
But I do not ...
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Unmet dependencies using apt-get on Ubuntu
I am working on a Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-43-generic x86_64) machine. It is a server running in production environment with other projects so I have to be quite careful.
I have to install ...
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Why is there Apple copyright on lpadmin, lpq and lpstat pages?
I am on Ubuntu 12.04.
Why do lpadmin,lpq, lpstat man pages have Apple copyright on them?
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How can I solve the error in svn mailer.py?
I got this error, please help me:
Sep 6 18:29:50 dmayavanlo1 logger: Going to execute the email notification command
Sep 6 18:29:50 dmayavanlo1 logger: File ...
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USB Ports not working with Ubuntu Linux 14
Sorry if this seems like a duplicate post but I am Ubuntu Linux noob and am struggling with it a bit. I installed and configured Ubuntu Linux 14 for dual boot setup on my Windows 8.1 machine. ...
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Ubuntu server boot assigns names to NICs erratically but all traffic is handled on only one NIC
I have two NICs, em1 and p3p1 on my Ubuntu 14.04 Server. During boot, network interface eth0 is renamed to both em1 and p3p1 but the order is not consistent from one boot to another. In use ALL ...
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Version Error Integrating PowerBroker Identity Services and Samba on ubuntu
I am trying to use PBIS (formally likewise open) to enable me to limit permissions on shares to certain AD groups. When I run the command samba-interop-install --install I get the following error
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can't decompress .tgz using gunzip
I was able to archive and compress a folder with the following command:
tar -cvfz example2.tgz example1
I then removed the example1 folder and tried to unpack the archive using this command:
tar ...
