Questions specifically about Linux but not specific to a particular distribution. If the question could apply to any Unix-like system, specify your Linux distribution in the body of your question but do not use the /linux tag.
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Linux command to display the contents of a given file byte by byte with the character and its numerical representation displayed for each byte [on hold]
I am looking for the Linux command and option combination to display the contents of a given file byte by byte with the character and its numerical representation.
I was under the impression that in ...
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Looking for a distro that has linux kernel 4.0?
The computer I'm looking to upgrade to linux has a wifi card that isn't supported in linux but I read somewhere that it is supported in the 4.0 kernel. Because of this I can't install an old kernel ...
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ssh connection refused from same PC when going outside local network
I have sshd running on port 8000 running on a freshly installed plain vanilla Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela.
$ sudo netstat -tnlp | grep :8000
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8000 0.0.0.0:* ...
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Slitaz prevent tux login without password
I am building a small demo distro with some php / mysql code and looking at a quick boot, small footprint headless distro. Slitaz works well but I am stuck at a minor spot which I have not been able ...
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Cannot use NTFS drive as non-root user
I have an NTFS partition which I am trying to mount as Read Write in Fedora 22. Using Nautilus as root allows me to create folders, files etc. However when I use my non root account, I get an "Error ...
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Alternating a long running task to pause/run to reduce cpu
I have large file I need to mv and even with nice -n19 it seems to affect the server performance.
I think an option would be to run the process in "chunks" whereby I run the command for a few ...
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How does the Linux system manage to communicate with the interfaces in order to send a packet [on hold]
My post is about the link between interfaces and the Linux OS.
I would like to understand, how the Linux system manages to send a packet through network.
I assume that they are interfaces (eth0, ...
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Verifying which model of HP Chromebook will allow for Arch installation?
New to Arch and trying to make sense of this chart:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices/Chromebook
I have the HP Chromebook 14 G3 (Oct 2014) with a 2.1 GHz Nvidia Tegra K1
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lock_kernel declaration
I was trying to get usbip to work on my Mint netbook with Linux 3.2.
The repo package doesn't have the require kernel module and the source won't compile.
So I set off to fix it. I don't know the ...
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Linux Mint Rafaela Password
I want to boot Linux Mint Rafaela from a live USB Stick. The MD5 checksum is correct.
I am asked for a password. In the documentation I can find following: Typ as Login: "Mint" Password: -empty-
I ...
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Bulk rename files - remove space
I have hundreds of files in a folder named transactions 1.csv,
transactions 2.csv, transactions 3.csv etc
How do i remove the space in the file names, so they become ...
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Check Point - Connect under Linux - snx
We have a Check Point Mobile appliance at work and the Linux client is horrible, I can connect but for that I need:
Old unsupported Oracle Java installed and enabled in the browser
Plenty of 32-bit ...
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Optimal BIOS CPU power config for performant Hadoop?
I'm in the process of setting up a Hadoop cluster and have so far
been unable to find a good answer for how to configure CPU power
in the BIOS for Linux.
My BIOS give a variety of options with ...
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Finding a file in a directory based on time
I have a directory called /home/mydir/test A file will be sent from some other team which lands in this directory. How to find the file is whether in that directory for more than 4 hours.
I tried ...
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Desktop Environment of kali linux
Whats the desktop environment in kali linux 2.0 (sana) I am to able understand because they have some mixture of gnome + cinnamon and tell me how can i do this with my fresh debian installation
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Sharing a keyboard over point to point network
I tried following http://superuser.com/questions/67659/linux-share-keyboard-over-network but had no success with the #1 solution.
Then I tried socat and I had partial success -- it does work but ...
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Unix with lisp built in [on hold]
What is the smallest linux distro that readable makes use of something like lisp?
Ideally I'm looking for something similar to lisp although it doesn't have to be.
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extract email/web address from .CFM file in C program
i am learning C and would like my program to do the following on a Linux platform
Use System call to execute WGET command (Done)
Use WGET command to download webpage (Done)
Loads and Parse ...
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I can only install few linux distros [on hold]
I have a big problem installing some linux distros. I can install some of them, some of them can only run in live mod and after their installation I get black screen. For example, I can install ubuntu ...
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CUPS & Raspbian - Printer turns on but does not print
I am new to the UNIX exchange...
I have been setting up a home print server on my raspberry pi using CUPS.
I have managed to get it to work with one of my printers, but not with an older Laser ...
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() { :; }; in user agent on server logs
Can anyone tell me what someone is trying to do with the following code in their user-agent:
() { :; }; echo Content-type:text/plain;echo;echo;echo M`expr 1330 + 7`H;/bin/uname -a;echo @
I have a ...
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network: destination host unreachable
So Im using linux oess(centos).
in the terminal im trying to
ping 8.8.8.8
to see my connectivity. so it says:
Network is unreachable
Than I typed
ifconfig:
inet addr: 192.168.56.101
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New signal arrives while execution is in a signal handler, how to decide which is first?
I am working on a tool handling a massive amount of signals (with different signums) with sigaction().
I need to handle the case, if a new signal is coming, while the previous was in a signal ...
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Linux: root filesystem via network (with authentication)
I try to create a linux computer which loads its root filesystem from the network. This currently works with NFS, but unfortunately it is not very secure.
The network is just a home network, which ...
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Are there any drawbacks/caveats to changing process priority on linux?
I'm writing a program launcher that uses nice to launch X applications with a higher than usual priority and while there's plenty of guides to using nice/renice there's not much discussion about best ...
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MultiBoot Linux Distros LVM LUKS, How to?
The scope:
Have three linux distros(1 BSD) on a cryptodisk with a LVM instead in one computer, so must have a grub2 boot. Did tests and tests but without a success.
Following this tutorial ...
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I can't ping the gateway
The network error is that I can't ping the gateway after ip forwarding configuration.
Here's the my configuration:
linux microcore(server)(First PC)
sudo su
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.200 netmask ...
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To find files like '-file9' files [duplicate]
This is Venkat
I was created a file. Name is '-file1'. So how can we open or find these type of files
Thanks,
Venkat.K
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Find the time of the file received in a particular directory
I have a directory called /home/mydir/test
A file will be sent from some other team which lands in this directory. How to find what is the time the file came to this particular directory? ( I need ...
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How do I find out hard disk model and serial number in amazon machine?
when check in local machine /proc/scsi/scsi file it contains
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160215AS Rev: 3.AA
Type: Direct-Access ...
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Make a process unkillable on Linux
I'm working on a password manager application, and for security reasons I want to launch an unkillable process.
And besides I don't want this program to be a daemon since I need to read from standard ...
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groupadd: group 'terminal' already exists in Linux
I have created a group called "terminal" using groupadd terminal and when I list out the groups using groups command it will not show the newly created group name in the output but if I add the same ...
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Which file attribute changes when we copy a file from some other user's account?
Which file attribute changes when we copy a file from some other user's account, which may be in our own group or in some other group?
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exclude files in tar.gz
I want to exclude two files from a tar file.. But it doesn't seem to work
cd /var/www/public/api_test
tar -zcvf api_v2.x.tar.gz api --exclude "./api/distributor_test.php" --exclude ...
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I need to directly access shared folder in linux with out using the root user previlage.Host Win7, Guest Linux Mint 17.2?
I need to directly access shared folder in Linux Mint (hosted in Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.2r) with out using the root user privilege.
I have tried to change the user and user group using chown command ...
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uboot & uImage & linux boot process
Usually, in embedded systems the NAND flash is partitioned in four parts:--
A partition for the bootloader (here goes uboot.bin)
A small partition where uboot saves its environment variables
A ...
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Encrypted LVM vs TrueCrypt / Veracrypt [on hold]
I am installing Linux Mint v17.2 on my laptop. I may have sensitive client information on it and I would like to encrypt my whole hard drive. I was wondering if it would be better to use encrypted LVM ...
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How to check a Linux Distro is secure and has no malicious code? [on hold]
I am new to Linux and I love it. However, while I have been playing around with several flavours of Linux, only one question comes into my mind as a new user to the Linux systems: how can I ensure a ...
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(Linux) unable to mount from initramfs
I am trying to install Linux (Debian) on a new laptop. This requires special care because the laptop keyboard needs a kernel patch (and I have not compiled a kernel for about 10 years). Also, because ...
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How to copy/burn a loop device image to a partition?
I'm building a rootfs for a embedded device.
I start by making an empty loopback file system, then mount it, and add files to it.
When I finish, I end up with a file system image. Then I can burn ...
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Reverse DNS for external DNS server
I have my forward zone configured and now I am writing my reverse zone configuration. I've read through Pro DNS and BIND book and the examples given are if you own a portion of an IP address space ...
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I have accidentally broken /bin/bash
I just started using Linux. I'm using Ubuntu and I think I made a very grave mistake. I made a script and by some stupid sense I decided to move it to my /bin folder, but I accidentally typed
mv ...
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TTL values for external DNS records
Upon setting up my zone files, I went back to review my TTL values. The default is set for 24 hours and I have individual TTL values set for each individual record.
My thought was NS, MX, and CNAME ...
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HTML5 video lags in web browser
I have an nVidia GeForce 9500 GT on a 32-bit Linux Mate 17.2 system. If I try to watch 1080p videos in a web browser, the videos are lagging, even when they're fully buffered. If I download the video ...
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MSFvenom not working in Kali Linux 2.0
I recently updated My Kali Linux to version 2.0, and everything seems to be working fine. I have tried to use msfvenom to create a windows reverse_tcp file. I entered the comand i always used before ...
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Kali Linux 2.0 stopped update proccess
So I decided to update my Kali Linux to 2.0 using the dist-upgrade command and obviously having the official mirrors from the Kali website. It was over a GB of data that needed to be downloaded, so I ...
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Stuck in httpd unable to start
I am trying to start apache it is throwing an error saying:
httpd: Syntax error on line 100 of /opt/xag/apache2/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load modules/libphp5.so into server: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot ...
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Package dependencies Debian
I have a problem when installing certain software for Debian Jessie. I use apt-get install.
Sometimes it works, but in most cases I get the message:
The following packages have unsolved ...
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Rescue my Linux installation after made mistake with gparted
I just wanted to reformat my USB stick. But I was tired enough to manipulate my /dev/sda2 where my whole operating system is installed.
Because this partition was used (since I am running it now), ...
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How would an administrator of a system prevent himself access to a file for 24 hours?
How would a single administrator go about locking himself out of a file for 24 hours?
By "lock" I mean prevent access.
I have removed the 'rules' placed on the original post, as it is clear that the ...
