a. How can I determine the hardware type of the machine where the linux is running ?
b. Also, what exactly is the difference between machine hardware name and hardware platform ? (uname -m and uname -i)
c. Output from my machine shows,
- uname -i as i386 and
- uname -m as i686
I'm looking for the best way to identify what distro the user is running and what the desktop environment is running. I'm building some pipeline tools for a visual effects studio and need some generic commands for passing paths to the user's file manager from within Maya and Nuke. The workstations I have access to are FC12 with xfce4 so for that I'd pass a system command :
Code: ("thunar "+$path)I've been identifying Fedora workstations with:
Code: # cat /etc/issue
Is there a command to identify what the current window manager is? Preferably something generic that'll work on the other distros as well.
1. Every Sunday2. Find all files older than 1 day3. Gzip these file4. Tar up the gzipped files into one tar file.5. Name the tarball with a date stamp indicating what day it was created, so we know that week's files are in the file
View 3 Replies View RelatedCan someone share a website where you can look whether a hardware device is linux compatible? All the websites I've gone to are useless.
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Code:
checking for dbopen... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb1... no
checking for __db185_open in -ldb-3... no
checking for __db185_open in -ldb-4... no
configure: error: Your db library is missing db 1.85 compatibility mode. How do I get Berkeley 1.85 compatibility mode on my system?
I am an activist. I am becoming concerned with security on line because I have posted videos exposing SERIOUS corruption within the government at all levels. With all the recent claims of executive authority in the name of cyber security and govt eavesdropping I am interested in finding a more secure op sys. Windows is to vulnerable. I have an HP7845 Sound Blaster 64 Sound card. Radeon 9800 video card. I have a large volume of videos and media/research reports I cant afford to lose. How easy is the conversion? And also concerned with software. Will programs work the same or at all?Is my equipment even compatible with other opsystems. Is there a risk of glitches that would curtail my efforts after attempting the change. I KNOW NOTHING about other systems hell I can barely run XP. However I would hate to lose files or go through a months long debugging venture.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf Apache license 1 and 1.1 are not compatible with GPL v2 and GPL v3 and the only compatibility is Apache License v2 with GPL v3 how can android kernel be GPL v2 and userspace programs be Apache License 2? More specifically GPL v2 requires all derived works and programs to have the same license as it has, therefore Apache shouldn't be allowed inside android. I've read on a website something like "Google created one middle layer between Linux kernel, without violating GPL. And 3rd party can't see the source code of hardware driver and app" and then "So in oder to get more vendor support, Google specifically modified Linux Kernel, transfer those features which should belong to Kernel, to its userspace source." The above seems vague explanation, even if you put a middle layer this middle layer becomes GPL and anything above as well.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo I have a bunch of CDs I have burnt over the past year or two, and only problem is, I would burn them, use it and forget about it. I never bothered labelling it. Now, I want to label them appropriately. Is there any way I can find out the following just looking at the CD contents-
1. Distribution - lucid / karmic / etc
2. Architecture - amd64 or i386
3. Type - server, desktop, alternate etc
I know if I boot into the machine from the CD drive, I can find out, but I prefer not having to do that
got the problem with multiple ssh-tunnels. The case is:I have 1 server running Slackware 13.0 with external ip and few windows-machines. inetd daemon is running on the server, my script is listening on port 2345. I create multiple ssh-tunnels from client machines to the 2345 port of the server in order to initiate script execution. For debugging reasons the script simply echoes the incoming information to the connection initiator. This is how the connection is initiated.
Code:
ssh <user>@<my_server_IP> -L 5555:<my_server_IP>:2345
echo "hello"|nc -vn 127.0.0.1 5555 (a port on a client-machine, that is forwarded to <my_server_IP>:2345)
gives "hello" output.
Code:
client1 port 5555|----ssh-tunnel---- eth0|-------server---------------|
[Code]...
The problem is that i need my script to execute some commands (registry parsing) on a remote client machine with winexe utility. So I need to identify each tunnel or each connection in order to execute the command on each of the client workstations. I need at least to have access to some ID of the ssh session or a tunnel, through which a certain connection was initiated and then use it to create a reverse tunnel or just connect to certain client via that client`s tunnel.
Starting from January, my Internet connection has become "unstable". I mean that I get occasional interruptions of the connection. This is particularly annoying while listening to a webradio or using voip. Of course, prior to January 2010, I could stay hours or days without interruptions. Now, I have to reconnect manually every 5 min to the service although the reconnection to the ISP is done immediately. So, before I take my axe and visit the office of my ISP, I would like identify where is that connection drop happening. Is it at my pc? at the ADSL modem/router? or the ISP? I use a wireless connection with WPA to my router. Then, the router is basically an ADSL modem. I am running Kubuntu locally. How can I follow up on the network status between different elements and see who is cutting off my connection?
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Let's say there is this file /work/contacts.dat
and we have, let's say, 10 soft links that have been created by different users in their home directories. Now how can I figure by looking at the file /work/contacts.dat that there are 10 (soft or hard)links pointing to this particular file so that I know that it is being used or refered to by those many users and before deleting it I can check with them.
I just encountered a very weird issue and I am having hard time replicating and identifying the root cause. We have one RH9 server and we received an alert that the /var reached 85%, I checked and found out that /var/log/audit.d is occupying most of the space. It has a lot of files inside it consisting file size of 21MB each everyday. I ask the customer if can housekeep and it eventually climbed up to 100%. My colleague did some house keeping but what he did was he compressed the audit.d directory and remove it.
After that users are complaining they cannot telnet to the server even though the service is on. I have recreated the audit.d directory and restarted the xinetd as usual. Still the same problem. And the weird thing is that I cannot even switch to any user from the root. I tried to do "su - someuser" but it hangs there without doing anything. I also tried to telnet, it will ask for login and password but same thing it hangs in there. Did some restart on xinetd and did "chkconfig telnet off" "chkconfig telnet on" but with no success. Could this be caused by the deletion of audit.d? Or is the 100% utilization of /var the system could not cope up? The good thing is everything worked fine after restart. But still the root cause is unknown. If I check /var/log/secure it shows the user being authenticated though it is not getting any session. /var/log/messages also does not reveal anything.
Suppose you have glibc 2.5 compiled with kernel headers 2.6.18. Is it safe to run this glibc with Linux kernel 2.6.32? Is it safe to run this glibc with Linux kernel 2.6.9?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for an overview of binary compatible linux derivates to enterprise Linux versions. A usable definition of this compatibility is given on Wikipedia. I already know candidates for this:
CentOS (Community ENTerprise
Operating System) is binary
compatible to RHEL (Red Hat
Enterprise Linux).
SL (Scientific Linux) is binary
compatible to RHEL (Red Hat
Enterprise Linux).
I think there are for sure many more. Who can help? Maybe this will grow into a fine overview... I'd like to edit the question to complete it with the data from answers.
I've recently installed x64 Linux Mint 11, basically Ubuntu Natty. Since the install I've found that 32-bit applications which used to run on my Ubuntu system are rejected by my Mint 11 system. When I use the 'file' utility to check the binary, it correctly identifies it as a 32-bit elf, but I can't invoke the application. I've tried starting it from bash and os.system a la python, to no avail, so I suspect that it must have something to do with 32-bit binary compatibility mode but my knowledge of that sub-system and how to enable it is limited, can anyone assist?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI removed my Ubuntu install and decided to replace it with Debian. I backed up the /home directory onto the Windoze installation on the other hard drive. That was a "home.disk" file. Now, I copied the file over to the Debian hard drive, and can't figure out how to recover the files. Is this possible to do in Debian?
View 14 Replies View RelatedCurrently have just Linux on my main computer (brother built it for me, knew I wanted to try Linux, so just put Ubuntu on).
Old computer (very old, 256MB Ram etc) runs Windows 2000 very slowly, currently will only start up in safe mode (not sure whether this is because it's not currently attached to the router or printer, or whether more serious).
I'd like to put linux (qimo, DSL or puppy probably) on the old computer so my 3-year-old can use it instead of demanding the penguin game (tuxpaint) whenever I want to use my computer!
So, wondering whether to try and shrink the windows partition or whether to just go for linux only. That computer was second-hand as well, so I don't have the windows disks.
The two things I'm worried about:
1) sometimes do some web design, and how would I check whether IE will display my pages without strange problems 'cos it doesn't follow the standards...
2) printing out photos at short notice: husband picked the printer so we're lumbered with a canon pixma MX700. It can do basic printing but won't communicate with linux to do photo quality (no linux drivers...) If I have plenty of time I use a photo printing service such as photobox.
Any thoughts how I can get round these problems so I can just jettison windows without worry? I don't have the spare cash to buy windows 7 or whatever to run in a virtual box...
Tried to test the 10.10 Netbook's Unity but after keying the password I got a "Unity missing driver" without any identification of the driver. Is it available in the repositories? How can I identify it to install it? Why isn't it included?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a setup with a mythtv backend that streams media via the built in upnp to two xbox 360s. This works perfect at the moment. However I need a command/script that can identify if either of the two xbox's are connected via upnp. I need this so that I can have the system auto shutdown if no one is connected using the existing mythtv sleep wake features. (Basically if a script returns 1 then dont shutdown if returns 0 then shutdown.)
Code:
if upnp is connected then
dont shutdown
else
shutdown
fi
Thanks
Chris
I just read and learned about logical volume management today. I have a server running RHEL5.4, LVM2. I have 1 physical volume, with one volume group, and 3 logical volumes. I have no free extents, nor do I have any in my volume group (not sure if it's possible to have free in one and not the other anyway), and I am running out of space on one of my logical volumes. Doing a df -h shows 96% of 9.7GB used on /dev/mapper/MainVG-root, mounted at /. So here's the stupid question: how can I find out what directories/files are taking up what space within this logical volume? As I said I have 3 all together, and the other 2 are mapped to /var and a /var pgsql sub-directory. I figured I could get the sizes of the other directories under / and drill down accordingly, but I seem to be missing some basic rule because the commands I am using and the values I am getting don't add up.
For example, it seemed logical to me to do an ls -lsh on / to try and identify the largest directories. Each directory is listed as being ~4-8K in size. That doesn't make sense to me. So I decided to do a du -sh on each directory. Having done this on all of the / sub-directories and added up those values, there is not enough reported usage here to equal 8.9GB of used space (as df -h / reports).how they would find out how the 9.7GB here is being allocated? Preferably without scripts as I am not ready to add a layer of complexity to this yet without understanding some fundamentals.
I've just formatted by usb drive to vfat, as I heard that is best to use in both Linux and Windows? What do you think?
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Tony044
DELL INSPIRON 6400 LAPTOP
RAM: 1gb
HDD: 1gb
OS: Linux Ubuntu 10.10
I've installed Ubuntu Server, and Webmin following this guide, and all is well so far... I've mounted some drives with some pre-existing data on them, and can view the data on those drives. But I have one drive that I can't seem to mount, and I'm pretty sure there's data on it. But I can't seem to find how to identify what format the data is in, ie.. ntfs, ext2, ext 3, etc. Its likely pretty simple, but how can you identify the drive format before you attempt to mount it?
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View 2 Replies View Relatedfollowing on from [URL] I was having a little think about how to make this concept more secure. its easy enough to separate known and unknown clients out via MAC address. but that system is easier to break than it is to set up either, sniff out a mac address already connected to the system, and spoof that address.or, more simply, set a static IP on your wifi device, and avoid the redirection completely. so, is anyone aware of a relatively straight forward setup that would allow me to identify clients on my network without relying on MAC address, would more forcefully separate out known and unknown hosts (vlan??). As well as doing so without alerting them to the fact, and without requiring known hosts to do anything special, or install software. Or requiring any more hardware than I have already. (hardware = a debian box with 2 NIC's acting as a gateway between all internal network, and the billion router which handles the outside world not getting in, and a WAP attached to the internal side of the network. also somewhere I have a wifi card that I could attach to the server to replace the AP) I assume some sort of authentication mechanism is required, but I dont know much more past that.
View 2 Replies View Relatedidentifying the number of cores each processor is running.
I have checked /proc/cpuinfo but i dont find any core details inside it and I can find only no of processor and its speed.
I'm currently an user of OpenSuse, newer version of Suse don't support some of the hardware that I use and previous version of Suse will cease to have support in a few months. So I'm considering other versions of Linux and Ubuntu comes to mind. So I like to know if Ubuntu (Desktop 32 bits) supports this devices:
NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro (including 3d support)
Wacom Intuos 2 SERIAL tablet
Epson ActionScanner II PARALLEL
Ubuntu has been reporting a System error problem but when it try's send a report to your servers, it fails due to it's failure of identifying the packet id, i honestly have no idea of how to go about fixing this problem or even identifying the packet that's broken, please do help, as now my Apache server's not working properly, and a couple of other programs are getting affected by this, event installing and updating s an issue.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow well is the ext4 new file system mounting compatibility with the older ext3 previous Linux installations ? I refer to Ubuntu 9.04 and the new Fedora 11 which have the option to install with the ext4 file format. Will it be better if I install with the older ext3, so that I will be able to mount all other Linux from each other in a multi-boot system ?
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