is there anyother way of creating an user without the support of graphical or command base. one more question is what is the syntax to assign using chmod to a directory consisting of n number of files at atime in one single syntax suppose i want to assign 775 to all the files using one command
View 2 RepliesI can print a specific line of a file with:$ sed -n '20p' myFileHow can I store it in a variable (in a shell script)?(I wasn't successful with "myVar=sed -n '20p' myFile" for example)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI bought a Media-Teach NEMESIS USB headphones. They work really great except there's this one button that lunches Windows Media Player on Windows but on Linux... it doesn't seem to do anything... So my question is, how do I assign a different task for this button on Linux? For example I want it to go to a website address.I guess I need to get what signal it sends thru usb to my system and then somehow manipulate it? Can this be done with a shell script or perhaps there's a tool/program available on Linux for this
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using internet in my home PC using Red Hat 9. To assign static IP to my linux machine I use "System Settings....> Network" and then double click on "eth0" to assign the static IP.Well these all settings by using GUI interface.Kindly guide me that if I use only command line interface "runlevel 1" then in that case which file should i edit and assign my static IP,Subnet Mask,Default Gateway DNS settings.2- 2nd thing is,is there any way that I may open web broswer in command line? or the administrator should only use internet on Run Level 5 ?
View 14 Replies View RelatedIm running samba on fedora core 7, im abit new to the server part of fedora, i set up samba and it runs well, only issue i have now is resolving permissions( User Rights)i have a shared folder which has alot of files and many subfolders in it, the files and folders in this shared foldr were copied from our old Novell Server through samba, i need to assign permissions to this folder where by a defined usergroup can have full read and write permissions to all the files and folders and sub-folders in the shared folder. i tried doing it in GUI but i realized there were over 1000 subfolders.is there a command i can run in the Terminal to help me assign the permissions?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to execute the following command within a bash script:
Code:
tac /var/log/system.log | head -1
The script I wrote is:
[code]...
I am using CentOS 5.5 and I created few users (useradd john etc.) and now I want to assign privileges to this user on some directories and files in those directories. For example I want to give read privileges to directory "/documents" and all of files under that directory.
View 13 Replies View Relatedhow to download or upload files to a Debian machine using only the command line. I well aware of how to do it in GNOME, but seeing as how this is for a web server, I won't be using GNOME. I have a zip file on my personal machine that contains the website files that need to go on the Debian machine that is to be the web server, but I have no how to get it to that Debian machine without GNOME.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've got 2 problems:1. How can I use the find command to search for devices files?2. I need to find all files thaare 6 months (or more) old and that have a size of 2 Mo or more. What would the code look like?Oh and also, how can I use the cat command to insert text in a file?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed ProFTPD. So I want to create a user namely ftpadmin. He belongs to the new usergroup ftpuser that I just created.
sudo groupadd ftpuser
sudo useradd -s /bin/false -g ftpuser -d /var/www ftpadmin
sudo passwd ftpadmin
.....
chmod -R g+w /var/www
and when I followed the tutorial
chown -R ftpadmin /var/www/*, chgrp -R users /var/www/*
it returned an error "invalid mode: ftpadmin " why?I want my users to login my server via FTP
I have dsl broadband shared through a Modem Bridge Mode forwarded to wireless router which is configured for dhcp lease to the clients(1 Desktop, 1 Laptop).
So, in My Debian Testing Desktop, I have following lines in /etc/network/interfaces :
Code:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
[Code]....
I recently installed Squeeze. I noticed there are 2 main kernels installed. One first one at the top is 2.6.32-trunk-686 and the other is 2.6.32-3-686. At the time, I did not know or think much about it. Now when I try to get linux headers to compile drivers, I am not finding them. I also read some problems with trunk kernels.
How can I assign the 2.6.32-3-686 kernel to be the default in grub? Is it OK to use it as the main kernel?
Do I need to upgrade the trunk kernel to rid of trunk or just don't use it?
I'm trying to assign pci devices to pci-stub at boot before any of the kernel drivers can access it. I've successfully managed to do this on a Ubuntu system but I cannot get it to work on Debian. I've set pci-stub to load as a module in /etc/modules. I've then tried both these methods:
Add pci_stub ids=8086:100f to /etc/initramfs-tools/modulesSet GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pci_stub.ids=8086:100f" in /etc/default/grub.
Both give the same result after updating grub/initramfs and a reboot: when I check "dmesg | grep pci-stub" I get:
Code: Select all[ 1.522487] pci-stub: add 8086:100F sub=FFFFFFFF:FFFFFFFF cls=00000000/00000000
The actual device id's are not claimed by stub. Same for lspci -v which shows that the devices are still using the kernel drivers.Again, this configuration works on Ubuntu. Also issuing the following commands successfully assigns one of the devices to pci-stub but I need it to work on boot before the kernel drivers load:
Code: Select allecho "8086 100f" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/new_id
echo 0000:02:02.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:02.0/driver/unbind
echo 0000:02:02.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/bind
I have a problem that Google didn't give me a workable solution so I'm posting my question here, hoping that someone has an idea.On a virtual server (VMWare) running Debian 5 I have a disk of 15Gb.
Can anyone tell me if this is possible? I've been playing around with GParted but unsuccessfully. The other option is to 'move' the whole server to a new (to create) virtual server that uses LVM. Any ideas?
I would like to assign a static IP to Debian running on my virtual box. How should I do it? What needs to be written in /etc/network/interfaces.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there a command line utility to tell me about what's inside a video file? Say I have a .mpg file. I want to know about the video stream and the various audio streams, the codec used for the video stream, the bitrate of the video stream, and so on.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have some beginner questions about DHCP, Avahi, and configuring a small home LAN.Suppose I have a dynamic IP address assigned by my ISP, which requires DHCP be enabled in my dsl modem/router/"firewall" [sic]. Suppose for simplicity I have just one PC behind the dsl modem.I think "enabling DHCP" in the modem/router means that a DHCP client runs on the router, which communicates with a DHCP server run by my ISP when I boot up a PC on my LAN. Is that guess correct? Can I get DHCP to assign a particular local IP, say 192.168.1.10 (which is not the one taken by the router--- for this discussion, let's say that is 192.168.1.0) to my PC each time I boot it up?
Now suppose I want to build a stand-alone firewall, so that my LAN will have the firewall and the first PC behind the modem, with the first PC virtually behind the firewall. By default, I think these will both have DHCP clients running which I need to configure properly. The firewall should also have a DHCP server which should control how local IP addresses are assigned, correct? I should try to arrange that the LAN has only DHCP server, only one NTP timeserver, only one DNS nameserver, correct?My first PC seems to have installed an autorun client called Avahi, which performs DNS multicast services and incorporates something called zeroconf which seems to have something to do with remote desktops, which I don't need and which is a potential security hazard. But it seems that Avahi is an intrinsic part of the KDE desktop and cannot be removed. Just want to be sure that Avahi can coexist comfortably with dhcp3-client, which is also installed on that PC. They perform different tasks, correct?If I can get the stand-alone firewall to work, I know I need to turn off the commercial firewall in the dslmodem/router/firewall device. Should I purchase a bridge and try to turn off the routing function also?
I'm using kde 3.5.10 on a Debian Lenny with xorg from backports and nvidia proprietary driver (195.36.15) on my laptop. Nowadays I have received a 2nd monitor, end my purpose is to attach it to my laptop. TwinView or separate X screen work fine but clone or extended view modes for my mind are not so usefull. I think there is the possibility to assign one virtual desktop to one monitor and another adjacent virtual desktop to the second monitor. how to obtain this kind configuration.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHad this strange issue ....
Steps
a. Working Gnome desktop with NVidia proprietary drivers in Jessie.
b. Something happened (see below)
c. Still working Gnome desktop with NVidia proprietary drivers in Jessie.
d. Reboot
e. Boot up in low res -can see the terminal messages but no X/ Gnome Desktop
f. CtrlAlt-F1 takes to terminal login
g. Log in, looked at dmesg, syslog shows no errors but looking at Xorg.[0-5].log shows:
Code: Select all[ 7.942] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Found DRM driver nvidia-drm (20130102)
[ 7.943] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 240 (GT215) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[ 7.943] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 1048576 kBytes
[ 7.943] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.15.27.00.00
[ 7.943] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[ 7.945] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce GT 240 at PCI:1:0:0
[Code] ...
After looking at this post [URL] .... poked around at the back of the monitor and found the DVI cable loose. Plugged it in tight and rebooted and Gnome desktop came up as good as ever.
Step b. , as it turns out, was someone had adjusted the monitor height resulting in the DVI cable coming loose but not getting pulled out entirely.
I am writing a script that calls a program which writes a lot of lines to stdout continuosly. If the last line in stdout has some regex, THEN, certain variables are updated. My problem is that I don't know how to do that.
A simplified example would be (it's not my exact case, but it I write it here to clarify): suppose I issue a ping command (which writes output to stdout continuously). Every time that the response time is t=0.025 ms, THEN, VARIABLE1=(column1 of that line) and VARIABLE2=(column2 of that line).
I think the following code would work in awk (however, I want the variables in bash and I don't know how to export them)
Code: Select allping localhost |awk '{ if ( $8 == "time=0.025" ) var1=$1 var2=$2}'
In the previous code, awk analyzes each line of the output of the ping command as soon as it is created, so the variables $var1, $var2, ... are updated at the appropriate time. But I need the "real-time" updated values of $var1, $var2 in bash, for later use in the script.
I am using the diff command with the -r option, to compare a large number of files and files in subdirectories. My main interest is to find out which files have been changed, and not what the actual changes are, and since a lot of files has been changed, it would be a lot easier to view the file names only. Is there and option for diff that might do this, or does there exist a similar tool/command that could do the job?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI found this command that works great finding and replacing a simple string to another in files located in that folder and all sub-folders.
Code: find . -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/OldText/NewText/g'
The problem I have is that I need to replace a more complex string, like this: Old string: /mnt/stor6-wc2-dfw1/627896/982574/ New string: /mnt/stor8-wc2-dfw1/369587/302589/ There I don't know how to do it... since the / is what separates the old from the new strings, and the strings that I want to replace have / in it. Also, I would like to know how to specify under what folder replace the files, for example, I want that it search/replaces all files under /var/www/mysite/htdocs folder.
i am downloaded some e-books in the format .rar. when i am extracting them i am getting error as There is no command installed for RAR archive files. Do you want to search for a command to open this file?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a method at the command line to copy files from one location to another and retain the source files group and user?I'm migrating some MySQL files from one machine to another.I want to back-up the original files in the directory presently. They have owner:group of mysql, some have owner:group root:mysql and so on. To copy them under cli or Nautilus everything changes to root for I execute sudo cp or gksudo nautilus and copy via gui.
Since it is MySQL data I could simply do a dump of the database and restore it on the other machine. But there's about 20 db's and I want to do this via a copy for it will be faster - at least that is what I think.
Upon installing Debian, it asked me if it can use a mirror to get updated packages. I said no, yet it ignored my command and fetched packages. Why did Debian disobey me?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to install a command line Debian Squeeze system on n Eee PC 701., but have run into a number of problems:
1) All install info I can find assumes that the person wants to install a GUI system of some sort.
2) The Eee PC has a unique 2 MB. partition that needs to be preserved, so no guided install.
3) The Eee PC has an SSD instead of an HD. Most postings I have seen recommend an install without a swap partition, but the install (both live and text) seems to choke and despite a fresh formatting of the existing partition, claims to be overwriting existing files.
4) I can understand from the wiki that the Eee PC wireless driver (Atheros) should be included in Squeeze, but when the wireless connection and password is added, the installer claims that the password is not correct, despite me having checked it a number of times.
I hope someone can help me out. I just want to use the Eee PC for low resource stuff done on the cli like using a text based web browser to access the net through a wireless router and to hook it up to an external USB HD and to my stereo, to play my music collection.
What is the ssh commands to rename a group of files?
I need to rename:
avatar_01.jpg
avatar_02.jpg
[code]....
know the basic command for reading the README file after you tar the program using terminal Ubuntu 11.04.thx
View 2 Replies View RelatedI can not find the piece of paper that I wrote this command down on so I have to ask for it again, sorry!! ( my mind is shrinking every day )
View 11 Replies View RelatedWhat's the command for renaming files? I thought it was "mv"--I typed "info" and read
Quote:
* mv: (coreutils)mv invocation. Rename files. So, desiring to give a .JPG extension to a jpeg file that had no extension (because I dug it out of my Firefox cache), I typed
Quote:
mv '/home/josh/Desktop/Natalie pictures/DEC8FFA5d01' *.jpg
That didn't rename the file; it made the file disappear from its folder. What did I do wrong?