I currently run Ubuntu 10.04 alongside Vista. I have been looking for a few linux projects to help me learn, the two that I have thought of have been:
1. LFS 2. Something security related
As for no.2, I am interested in learning about network security, intrusion detection, system logging, firewall logging etc. And as a project I would like to work on creating a desktop box as secure as possible, then maybe testing my own box on my home network.
1. Is there a good linux distro that is designed for security?I know people often say "the distro doesn't matter, it only matters how you configure it. 2. Does everyone agree with this? As far as security, learning, etc, are all distros created equally?
We are looking for a web based, server application to manage staff skills running on ubuntu (10.04 lts). Something like we attach tags with skills to people photographs, and then when people connect to the application by means of a browser, they see a list of tags, they click on a tag they get a list of people who have that skill. Ideally, the tags should be hierarchical (for example, skill: statistics, subskill: non-linear).
i have written some really basic loadable kernel modules. There are a couple of concepts that i'll like to get cleared.
In a tutorial, the Makefile was given as follows- obj-m += try.o all: make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules clean: make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) clean
I understand that -C option of 'make' changes the current directory to /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build (which depends on my kernel).
Now, my question is why to change to that particular directory? Also M=$(PWD) will hold the dir where i have written the module. Why is it required? What does 'modules' at the end of that line indicate?
Q2> We need to include <linux/module.h> and <linux/kernel.h> in a module. If i am right, the module uses kernel headers for these definitions. But how does 'make' find these definitions.
Q3> We are planning to write a custom scheduler for linux kernel. cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler gives us the currently loaded schedulers. How do we expose our scheduler to linux kernel so that we can use it by switching to it.
What is the difference between /usr/local/include and /usr/include? When I compile my program, is both /usr/local/include and /usr/include avaliable? Can I copy a file from /usr/local/include to /usr/include?
I just downloaded the SDL source code. i did compile and make of this code.then i did make install. but i didnt see the files of SDL.h and lib.SDL.*** in /usr/include/ but later i found out that these files are placed in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib. how can i specifically install libraries on /usr/include and /usr/lib
Can someone explain the concepts of IPoIB and TCP over infiniband? I understand the overall concept and data rates provided by native infiniband, but dont quite understand how TCP and IPoIB fit in. Why do u need them and what do they do? What is the difference when someone says their network uses native IB, IPoIB or TCP with infiniband? Which one is better? I am not from a strong networking background, so it would be nice if you could elaborate.
im interested in improving my web designing. ive been trying to learn ajax and flash completed a couple tutorials and i was thinking about starting a project. the goal of the project is to make a banner on top of a webpage that basicly is a slide show of thumbnails. but at the same time when u click on the image that flashes by it send you to the page where u can buy a print of the image. when you hover over the banner it stops. and is all contained in its own box. i did try to use a banner slide show box b4 but it didnt do everything i wannted and at the same time it expanding the length of the webpage as it scrolled the top.i was wondering how i might get the tools and knowlege i need to acomplish my goal.
Im a begineer and there are a lot of gui concepts that have enlightened as well as confused me.
Xserver, metacity, compiz. Is there a simple step guide that will help me understand the GUi concepts in a simple yet fast manner? (considering I am a newbie)
I am a new, working on RHEL5. I am a bit confused on file permissions. I want to know how the setuid, setgid and sticky bit works on linux. And what are the advantages of using these bits? Can anyone explain me the main concepts of using these permissions?
We are looking for a web based, server application to manage staff skills running on ubuntu (10.04 lts). Something like we attach tags with skills to people photographs, and then when people connect to the application by means of a browser, they see a list of tags, they click on a tag they get a list of people who have that skill. Ideally, the tags should be hierarchical (for example, skill: statistics, subskill: non-linear).
I'm relatively young and equally ignorant as to C or C++ (or any other language for that matter). I've started learning C, but come across a view that C is getting old/obsolete, etc. and If someone just starts out they should start with C++.
I know that most of the linux kernel is written in C and so are a lot of linux tools. Are there any other areas where C still prevails?The reason I'm asking is that I'm now not sure which one to learn. I know that you'll answer: depends what you want to do. The problem is that I don't really know what one can do with C, as opposed to C++.
If I use "#!/usr/bin/perl" in the beginning of a perl script the script won't work if the script is at all complicated. Simple scripts like "Hello World" works.
But if I use "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" in the beginning all scripts work?
If I don't use the -w this is whats in the logs:
(2)No such file or directory: exec of '/home/test.net/html/cgi-bin/uh/meny.pl' failed
Premature end of script headers: meny.pl
When I use the -w in the script the error-log shows me this.
meny.pl: Name "main::http_path_cgi" used only once: possible typo at /home/test.net/html/cgi-bin/uh/meny.pl line 24.
I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 and now the colors are off. I tried different themes which made some of the tabs more readable, but I don't see how to fix it. Things like background colors in Firefox are too light to see. The same for the grid lines in OpenOffice.org Spreadsheets. Form fields are not outlined. If you don't know where they are you have to hunt by dragging the pointer over the area. Images look OK. Does this sound like something others have seen?
I've been using Ubuntu consistently for about three days now. I really, really love the interface and how everything works and all that, but I've been having a couple of weird problems with speed.
Graphics things seem to work really well. When I go into the overview of all my workspaces, it's instant and looks great. The problem is when I open and use some applications.
For example, when I open up the software center, it takes longer than it did the first time to start up. Also, when I drag windows off from being maximized, it takes literally about five seconds for it to show up as being dragged around by my mouse.
When I look at the system monitor, about 20% of my CPU cores are constantly being used. That's 20% each. I have a 3-core CPU, could that be the problem?
Another example: when I went to ..... just now, it would take a second for any volume changes in the video to register.
And I also have smooth scrolling in firefox, but it's very unresponsive now. It's slow as all hell. Even notifications are showing up more slowly.
So, what's the deal? What could I have done wrong?
CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 2.8Ghz GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4860 1gb RAM: 4gb
One more thing: I have really bad screen tearing when I try to move windows around, as if there isn't any vsync on. Where can I turn it on or fix this?
I'm still pretty new to Ubuntu and Linux, but I'm an advanced computer user. Since I feel linux is killing my CPU I think I'm going to boot back into Windows 7 for now, but if I can fix this problem I think I want to keep Ubuntu as my main OS after this, having Windows for games, unless I can get Wine to work right with them.
I know this is Ubuntu forums, but my other laptop has Ubuntu and I know this is a community full of very smart people (got Ubuntu help the other day).Anyway , this laptop's problem is, the screen goes teal i areas that were once white. Now, originally I thought something was broken, but now my theory is it's a loose connection. On the bottom left of the screen there is a thick black cable that leads up behind the screen and connects with that duct tape looking thing. If I simply lift up on the black cable, the screen goes back to normal.
I am trying to set the default printer on a machine running xubuntu from the command line. It looks like I need: lpoptions -d "printer_name" but I do not know the name of the printer. How can I find this information?
When I installed a new copy of my distro on another partition, in order to preserve all the settings from my old my user account, I made a user account with the same name on the new installation, and then copied my old user account's files (in their entirety) to the new user account, overwriting it. I did the copying from the root account (where else? I assume the new user account can't overwrite itself while it's open), and root became the owner of everything I copied, making it impossible to open the new user account. So I then chowned the new user account's folder to myself. I still can't get in, because apparently, chown only chowned the top folder, leaving all subdirectories owned by root. How do I make chown include all subdirectories? I scanned the man page, but didn't see a parameter.
i have written a simple program in gtk. #include<gtk/gtk.h> //header file main program.. on compiling it is showing fatal error:32 /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h is not found. i have checked the location but file is there.
I'm trying to copy files from my local directory to a remote site using rsync.I want to include in the copy all the java files and exclude all the .svn directories, but I can't do it.
Does RHEL6 include smp kernel? When I run uname -arn it does #SMP but I want to confirm if a seperate RPM like kernel-smp-* is included in default installation.
Maybe this isn't the right place, BUT: How can I create an OO Writer template with about 20 input Text Areas? I can make one, and then I thought I could use COPY and PASTE to dupe it in the other places, but it didn't work. I hate to spend all that time creating the other 19 identical boxes.
I installed debian etch, it runs and does connect to the internet fine through a linksys router...the linksys router is connected to my cable modem...now..
I just registered for a domain name (ex. mydomainname.org) with Verio....this is where I am stuck.
I installed apache 2, a web server, file server (all seem to work) I need to know what files I need to configure to have my machine actually BE that domain name.
Ex. my linksys DHCP IP addresses, the linksys gets an IP from the cable modem...my yquestion is ONCE I register a domain name with verio...how do I configure my end so it "knows" I am that respective domain name...I think I need to configure the following, but knot sure how to do it: resolv.conf, hosts, and interface?
alloc_task_struct( ) This function allocates 8 KB task_union memory areas. The function takes memoryareas from the cacheif it is at least half-full or if there isn't a free pair of consecutive page frames available.
I am new here and want to lern CentOS. Current I have installed CentOS 5.5 x64 and Perl 5.8.8. Now i have install Perl 5.12.1 which located to /usr/local/bin/perl. But how I can move it to /usr/bin/perl so root based on Perl 5.12.1?
I have a CMS I have developed, which will run on several sites all hosted in sub directories on my dedicated server. I want to create symlinks for the main files of the CMS, including all config files, functions and admin sections. Then there will be a few files specific to each site.I read some tutorials on creating symlinks, although most are not very good in my opinion.
Do you have to create a symlink for every file I want to include? Or can I just create a symlink to a directory? For example:CMS is located at /www/cms/.Can I make www/domain1/ point to that directory, and if so, will all files include themselves correctly. I think I am a bit confused on how this works.
I want to setup a NTP server on open SUSE 11.1. But I don't know whether it has been supported in the system, or it needs me to install a software manually.