I'm running CentOS 5.4 in combination with DirectAdmin, and I'm wondering: Is it safe to remove /media and /opt directory?Because those directories /media and /opt are empty.
View 3 RepliesI have a centos server x86_64 arch installed - i am getting some issues where i want to update rpms but because there is a equivliant i386 package installed i get dependency errors.Is it safe to run this command to remove all i386 packages - will my system still boot after this yum remove *.i?86
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I run yum list installed command the output shows two kernels:
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Would it therefore be safe to remove the first kernel in the installed list to save having two kernels being updated everytime I run yum update? Or is the PAE kernel dependant upon the original?
So I upgraded Ubuntu and was greeted by Unity. I was unsure of it at first and figured I would give it a shot. It has failed miserably in almost every way aside from looking nice in some instances. It's slow, clunky, and was a total wreck to my efficient use of the computer. But they can't all be winners I suppose. I can see where it would be useful (since it seems more finger-friendly) on a tablet device, but I'm using a standard notebook, not a tablet.
That being said, I switched back to what is now "Ubuntu (Classic)" and have put things happily back on track. However, since I have no intentions of ever bothering with Unity again, I want to remove it - it's just wasting space. My questions are, would this be safe? Are Unity and Ubuntu entwined to the point where doing so would make future updating/upgrading a problem? If it is a problem for the future, I feel it would be easier to just change distros (Mint, OpenSUSE, or just Kubuntu) - any recommendations?
Would like to use Ubuntu Tweak on 10.10 beta. Is it safe to remove everything that its cleaning section finds? Or do I have to look carefully at what it removes? Can I just let it remove everything it finds and not worry that something I have installed will be affected?
View 2 Replies View RelatedPROBLEM: My computer has an nvidia video card. I'd like to remove the packages that support ati and radeon. When I try to remove xserver-xorg-video-ati or xserver-xorg-video-ati, the package manager wants to remove xserver-xorg-video-all.
QUESTION: Is it safe to remove xserver-xorg-video-all? Obviously, I want to keep support for my nvideo card.
I just installed grub2 on my laptop and everything works fine and boots right. It gave my the option to run
'sudo rm -f /boot/grub/menu.lst*' after the installation because it said it could not determine itself if these files were necessary to keep.
I'm not sure what files they are exactly, or how to find them either, but do people usually delete them after upgrading?
Can I safely remove the lost+found folder from a disk that is going to be used exclusively for music?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to clean up an iTunes-sorted Music directory. For whatever reason, it contains a large number of folders that have album art, but no music. I'm actually more concerned about a safe way to test my removal batch, but I thought I'd paste everything I did in case it's useful to someone. Based on this thread, I came up with the following script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
find ./*/* -type f -iregex ".*(mp3|m4a)" | sort | while read line ; do
echo "${line%/*}" >> file1
done
sort -u file1 > fileuniq
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But I'm scared to just run this on my music folder. Is there any way to run rm in "test mode", so that I would just see verbose output, but it wouldn't actually delete anything? Failing that, does anyone see anything wrong with my plan?
if i use the safely remove option with disk utilty to power off a drive, is there any user friendly way to restart it (so the system sees it) without unplugging/plugging back in or restarting?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI downloaded the tar file and extract it in my downloads directory. After that I did the compiling and installing as per ReadMe file. Now, is it safe to delete that directory with the source?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there any risk to deleting program entries from gconf-editor? It's very busy with software I'veuninstalled, which makes it fractionally harder to find entries when I want to edit them.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just upped from lenny to squeeze. I didn't mean to, really, but the package manager was well into its stride by the time I realised what was happening. Mostly all went well, BUT /usr is now 100% full. I notice that there are duplicate files in /usr/lib, eg Oct 11 22:35 libgcj.so.10.0.0 and Sep 14 2008 libgcj.so.90.0.0 (I assume the latter has been replaced by the former?). Is it safe to remove the "outdated" lib files? Is there an elegant way of doing it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am planning to build a server in future. That will be a computer with GNU. It will be a router and file server. It will get the VPN-Internet and share it with all the PCs connected to LAN. There will be Samba for file sharing. And I'm thinking that if I just share some directory on that server with Samba, it will be possible to get access to that dir from VPN. So it's not very safe to do that. Is it possible to prevent access to Samba dir from VPN connection?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have two questions:How do I remove files from Directory A if their name appears in Directory B?How do I move foo.jpg and bar.jpg from Directory C to Directory D if and only if foo.png and bar.png appear in Directory D?I suspect there's probably a bash one-liner for this, but...I can't come up with it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedInstalled Fedora 14 32-bit with gnome on an older laptop for my son (want to start him early learning multiple OS's). the wireless card is not working (don't know why yet) but in the mean time I wanted to just add/remove software right from the installation media (full DVD). However, when I open system -> administration -> add/remove software, nothing is available. Trying to enable any of the sources listed under software sources tries to use the internet, which I don't have up yet and I don't see any option to add a new source... although I don't know why adding software from the install media would not be an available option by default?So how do I add/remove software from the install media using this add/remove software management tool? I don't want to have to browse the dvd directly for packages, I want to browse by the nice categories and have any dependencies taken care of for me... and the searching capability is nice to
View 10 Replies View RelatedI had a DVD image attached to Virtualbox via Virtual Media Manager and had it deleted from my harddrive without removing or "releasing" it from Virtual Media Manager.
Now the image is still shown in Virtual Media Manager but the remove and release options are greyed out.Is there a way to get rid of the image shown in Virtual Media Manager?
I need to install the 180.29 driver since I need OpenGL 3.0 (I'm a developer). I'm using CentOS 5.2 x86_64. I came across this thread, [URL].. and it says it doesn't work in CentOS because of a conflict with synergy. I don't know what synergy is, is it simply something I can remove? I'm not sure if I should expect the same problem as described in that thread with the 64-bit version. Which install procedure should I use to try this driver? If I do try it, I need to know how to revert back should I experience this issue and not be able to get into a graphical environment.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to add a directory to path in ubuntu. The directory I want to add is on Windows drive .If I try to add a directory , lets say "some directory" to path , then on adding I get following error. The directory resides on HD.
user@user-desktop:~$ PATH=$PATH:/media/New Volume/some directory/javacc-5.0/bin
bash: Volume/some: No such file or directory.
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How to install VLC media player in Fedora Core 6. I tried to find out in the net, but all went in vain. From google I got this link [URL]. But if I follow the instructions given for FC6 in that link, am getting the following error.
# rpm -ivh [URL]
Retrieving [URL]
error: open of <!DOCTYPE failed: No such file or directory
error: open of HTML failed: No such file or directory
error: open of PUBLIC failed: No such file or directory
Any other rpm's for installing the VLC media player or let me know how to resolve this error.
Since RHEL is similar to CentOS posting it here.
Upon booting from DVD, i get the below error: "CentOS CD Not found in any of the media drives. Please insert CentOS CD and press OK."
I have IDE Sony DVD RW AW-G170.
BIOS Setting:
Downloaded the CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD image from centos.org from DVD.torrent using bittorrent file.
When booting from the DVD, it gives me the boot prompt:
Upon pressing enter, the log messages of the boot detect the media drive as: hdc: Sony DVD RW AW-G170 IDE ATAPI CD.
The below steps occur:
1) Select the keyboard type: selected us
2) Select the Language : selected us
3) Select the image:
- Local CDROM
- Hard Drive
- NFS Image
...
...
selected Local CDROM
Then the above error "CentOS CD Not found in any of the media drives. Please insert CentOS CD and press OK."
The booting steps does not ask the for media check step.
The below methods have been tried to solve the problem:
- Burnt the image in another 2 DVDs but the same error "CentOS CD Not found in any of the media drives. Please insert CentOS CD and press OK."
- Upon burning the DVD image , selected the DVD read speed: 8x. Upon burning the DVD selected 18x for burning. and then tried to boot with that DVD
- At the boot prompt entered : linux hdc=cdrom replaced hdc=hdb but the error remains.
I've been trying to install the Fuppes media server onto CentOS and have had a few difficulties. I had to do a build from the source (svn build 578), then configure, make and make install. So far so good.Once I try to run fuppes, I get the error:[ERROR] Failed to bind socket to : 8.15.7.107:0.The documentation I've searched so far suggests that there is a config file that needs to be set with the appropriate ip address, but the file doesn't exist as the program hasn't started up yet!
View 1 Replies View RelatedI currently have an ASUS eebox which is running XBMC Live which includes a stripped down version of Ubuntu. The computer will be used by various people within a teaching environment and I have successfully installed launchers for Openoffice which can be opened within XBMC.
I am trying to the make the experience for the end user as simple as possible as the vast majority will have never used Linux before. I want to get to a point where they can open Openoffice, plug in their USB stick and navigate quickly to their files. At the moment when the program is launched and I try and navigate for a file it automatically starts in the Home Folder of xbmc. So I have navigate up a couple of times, then find the /media directory where the USB stick has been mounted and so on. What I was hoping to do is create a shortcut within the Home Directory which takes you straight to the Media folder where usb is mounted.
I have already attempted and created a folder within the Home directory and called it usbpen.
I have then added the following line into fstab /media /home/xbmc/usbpen none bind 0 0
Now when I reboot the machine and navigate to the home/xbmc/usbpen folder I can see the Drive name of the USB device mounted in /media but I cannot navigate through any of the files, I am greeted with a read error message. So the shortcut is only allowing me to see the device name only.
be aware that due to running XBMC Live I do not have a Windows manager installed and therefore everything must be done through the terminal.
i was trying to install ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS on my dell latitude c800 and the install is hanging at "checking for packages to remove..." and i was wondering what steps followed this, and if any of the steps that follow this one are critical to the laptop functioning... so, is it safe to restart my laptop when the install is only at 96% ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI Downloaded tomcat6 core and uncompressed using the tar utility and the result was apache-tomcat-6.0.32.Now want to remove it.When going through the Graphical mode to the Downloads directory and try to delete it it says permission denied.When trying to use the rmdir command as root the message is that the directory is not empty.How to remove a directory which has many files in it from the command line or through the graphical mode to which normally the message you get is permission denied ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have udev rules that creates a directory for each usb-media that is plugged into my debian to automount usb-media. This directory where mount-points (the mount-directories) are created is passed through a rdp-connection with rdesktop. On our terminalserver there's a drive Z that shows all mount-points with content of usb-media.When users remove usb-media, udev unmounts usb-media and tries to delete the directory that was used to mount usb-media.If the users hasn't closed explorer showing any subfolder of usb-media, the unmount-command succeeds but the rmdir-command fails because the ressource is "busy or used".My question: how can I force to delete this mountpoint? (rmdir doesn't have force and rm -rf doesn't work)Edit: I should add, that I can't use third-party software or additional packages because the linux-machine is a thin-client with very low disk-space.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am still a novice with Ubuntu and I am trying to write a shell script which will clean redundant files. I am stuck with one line where I would need a command which will remove all files from directory except some of them. Can anyone please advice how to add such an exception to the rm command? I have searched some bash shell tutorials, however, no joy. Guess I have overlooked something.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have a hacking attack on my server where some one tried to implement shell and scripts,
also in a directory he placed a symbolic link to my root. i tried to remove it with rm directotyname but it gave me :
> rm directotyname
rm: cannot remove directory `directotyname': Is a directory
how can i remove the symbolic link and make sure it will not happen again ?
I was preparing a script which will remove all my files from directory which are 24 hour old.I tried some thing like thisfind . ( -name 'log.*' -mtime +1 ) -exec rm {}; but it is throughing error like : missing argument to exec.
View 8 Replies View RelatedEvery partition in my ubuntu machine starts with "320 GB Hard Disk" followed by partition name, Even If I renamed it. I want to remove this, can I ? Another question. Can I arrange those partitions by there locations in the physical hard drive? meaning that the first 30 GB in the disk appears with there names at first.
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