General :: Seeking Distro With Specific Parameters
Feb 11, 2010
This is a WHAT I WANTAND NEED IN A LINUX DISTRO, not a your preference request. Fairly literate with Windows XP, but would like to find a Linux Distro with specific features. Computer used for music (over 14k mp3, ogg Vorbis, etc files) and burning musical learning tracks (I'm a barbershopper) as well as simple surfing and email. Not a gamer. Older Computer: PC with 1.4 GHz Athlon partitioned 320 Gig HD (Windows XP and a Linux Distro??) Only have CD-ROM, cannot download & burn iso DVD's or upload from them. (Can do CD's) Do have a 1 TG Verbatum external HD and a newer computer with a dvd recorder/player
So:
1) MUSTt have a distro that doesn't require a DVD for installation.
2)MUST be able to "update" rather than re-install subsequent releases ( which require backing up files, etc)
3) Like the description of Linux Mint Helena, but it requires installation from a DVD and a re-install..
4) Free distro since I'm learning and trying out different OS's and really resent the increasing cost of Windows OS's as well as the complexity and problems with Windows. I've found that UBUNTU 9.10 doesn't like me. I am very comfortable with LINUX MINT HELENA.
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Jan 9, 2010
nominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
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Dec 2, 2010
for example
else {
for fileDOC in $location/*.doc
do
[code]...
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Jan 12, 2011
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kirti@sgf:/disk/go$./build.mips
-bash: ./build.mips: Permission denied
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Mar 21, 2011
I've a script that it's invoked with n-variable parameters. Here's an examples:
Code:
./myprogram.sh inputdir FIELD1 FIELD2 ... FIELDN outputfile In the script I would like to get the FIELD names that were passed.
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Mar 13, 2010
I have the following bash script:
Code:
Which has the name 'extractemails.sh' and works just fine.
However, i whish to be able to give the url (or any other url) as a parameter when i run the script like this: $ extractemails.sh [url]
What should i change in my code? i have never tried passing parameters to scripts before.
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Mar 6, 2011
the problem is i am changing the parameters in main.cf file but postfix is not accepting them. its still inheriting my system's host name and domain
here is my configuration
my main.cf file
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mydomain = example.com
myorigin = $domain
[Code].....
Nothing is accepted. I have test this on CentOS 5.5 and Fedora 14 both have the same result.
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Dec 21, 2010
I am reading a tool manual and it instructs to use such a command:
Code:
Especially, what does the 'sort' parameters and awk do?
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Jun 1, 2011
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Code:
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bin:x:2:2:bin
sys:x:3:3:sys
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Jun 29, 2010
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Sep 18, 2011
I have made a script ocrun param1 param2 that calls another program like oprun param1 ..
i would like somehow param3 and all following (parami) to be copied to oprun.. ex:
`ocrun param1 param2 param3 param4
`oprun param1` param3 param4
How can i achieve this ?
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Nov 16, 2010
We just doubled the RAM on our RHEL 4 production servers...Oracle from 16gb to 32gb and Apache/JBoss from 8 to 32 gb. I am trying to figure out how to get the biggest bang from the increased RAM. Should kernel.shmmax be upped to be 50% of the 32gb....from its current 8gb? I need to create the largest possible SGA and was unable to do so, apparently because the kernel.shmmax value had gone unchanged.
And for the JBoss web servers, also RHEL 4, and particular kernel changes which can take advantage of the increased RAM and provide an immediate performance improvement?
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Aug 11, 2010
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I've done the same with Ubuntu Server 10.04 by including the parameter 'partman/default_filesystem=ext3' at the installation console. I know Mint 9 Gnome can also be installed direct from the CD, but the KDE Live DVD doesn't give me any such option - just the desktop installer.
How do I customise the installation of Mint 9 KDE?
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Jun 16, 2011
Why does this work
Code:
for myfile in `find . -name "R*VER" -mtime +1`
do
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Dec 15, 2010
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May 12, 2011
Simple question: what parameters can be used to shutdown a computer running Linux/OSX in 30 seconds? I've always run Windows, where I would go shutdown -s -t 30 but the parameters are different. I've looked it up here but it will only let you shut a computer down at a specific time (like 8:00) rather than in a specific amount of seconds.
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Aug 12, 2011
I've accidentaly corrupted my fstab and cut the ends of lines. There are now disk uid, mount point, filesystem for root and swap, but the mount parameters are missing.The system boots as readonly. What are default fstab mount parameters in Debian for ext4 root and swap?
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Jan 7, 2011
I hope to add a wrapper script for the command with different parameters. For example, for any Unix command or script, like below:
command.sh -s p1 -o p2 -q p3
or
command.sh
Probably we could do as this way
cat wrapper
$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 | tee test.log
(assume it has 0 to 6 parameters)
and use it like
wrapper command.sh -s p1 -o p2 -q p3
wrapper command.sh
It is a little ugly to list all fixed parameter as above, do we have better code to handle various parameters?
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Feb 2, 2010
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Nov 3, 2009
what I am trying to do but I am not sure exactly how to do it. I want to write a shell script that will replace certain values in a file with environment specific information that it pulls from a parameters file. The paramaters file looks like the following...
[dev]
ip=10.15.109.41
name=dev1.mydomain.com
[code]...
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May 18, 2010
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Mar 12, 2010
myscript [-a a-arg] [-c c-arg] [-b] [-e] somedirectory
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Sep 8, 2010
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while [ $# -ne 0 ]
do
arg="$1"
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Dec 7, 2010
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I am writing a bash script that will run a Python script I have written.
I want to be able to do the following:
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switch based on the parameter passed to the bash script (by switching, I mean an if/else based on the paramter passed to the bash script).
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Feb 2, 2011
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There are a couple problems with this. The first is that it doesn't work:
/usr/bin/python: can't open file '"/../src/manage.py" shell': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
How do you specify multiple parameters to the interpreter?How do I change the working directory?
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Feb 28, 2011
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Feb 16, 2011
My question is about TCP parameters in Linux. By now, I want to change the default values of:
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