When you unsuccessfully try to install software, does your Slackware system become cluttered with unused files? Is there a program, other than 'slackpkg clean-system', that can review your installation and identify any useless stuff? My tmp directory is set, in fstab, to delete its contents on boot. Is the tmp directory the only directory to be concerned with?
View 11 RepliesI've just upgraded my serv from fedora8 to fedora12 and got a problem. The httpd and vsftpd add a junk in the beginning of html files. Png, tar and other files are ok. When I make a request to localhost everything is ok.
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#telnet localhost 80
GET /1.html
<html>
</html>
but from any other computer.
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But this is not an apache problem. When I dl html files from ftp I got the same problem. Iptables is swithed off.
I'm dualbooting Slackware and Gentoo on my homeserver. Some weeks ago I built grub with a slackbuild-script, it was the new version of grub but it did not install properly. Since then I could only boot Slackware but not Gentoo. Today I tried to install grub from the Gentoo-partition (I chrooted to Gentoo). This did not work due to an errormessage of grub that "stage1 could not be read".
Afterwards I tried to install lilo, this failed at first attempt, but the with some warnings lilo executed. When I rebooted after the lilo-install, I had grub again at the bootscreen without the option to boot Gentoo. I decided that I have to clean the mbr of /dev/sda and found a solution with the dd command. Here my
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Fortunately I have a second disk /dev/sdb in the server and have now installed the bootloader on the mbr of /dev/sdb. But in the long run I want to change this.
I have no problem with resolving dependencies on my own, but when I uninstall a programm, how could I keep track of the dependencies, thus remove them?
Is there a possibility to store this information in the /var/log/packages files, or better yet, is it possible to include the dependencies in the the .tgz's, so a 'removepkg' would get rid of them as well?
Are there some effective tools to purge the system of unused libs/pkg and other files?Till now I found localepurge (i do not remember where i found it) which does some trick, but I am sure there is a lot of other things laying around in Slack with no real reason to be there in some minimal installation.I found also unsuedpkg in google.code, but it does nothing on a fresh system.Such question won't rise if Slack team wouldn't be forgetting about Slack's significance in server segment and putting big efforts in "deskopisation" of it. I'd be happy seeing directories like xlibs/ and mm_stuff/ where all x related libs and multimedia related ehhh... files could go (I hope developers will see this message).
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy current installation setup has a separate partition for /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, and /var. The problem I have is the root partition / is 98% full (4.3GB full). Cleaning temp files and log files won't help since they are on their own partition (and clean). I've removed all but two linux-images. Linux images seem to run at a size of roughly 105M. My root partition is 4.6GB. I can't seem to find any other options for cleaning up space on this partition. I have no idea what is taking up 4.6GB of space.
Disk Usage Analyzer has not been helpful since I have not been able to reconcile 4.6GB of memory with what it claims the total size of the remaining directories occupy. I've tried localepurge, gtkorphan, apt-get clean, apt-get autoclean, apt-get autoremove. I've removed all packages listed under Status -> Not Installed in the package manager. My root file system is still 98% full (4.3GB full).
If we update or remove some packages (in addition manually installed software), some files such as previous version dynamic lib files are left, so it may conflict with new stuffs sometimes. Is there any efficient way to remove these kind of orphaned files all, automatically?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone knew about fdupes? What I would like to do is to delete duplicate copies of files that are not needed from my whole system.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to deep clean the supposedly "empty" areas of HDD. I've found "shred" and similar tools by googling, but they allow either deleting a file or complete wipeout of a HDD. What I'd like to do is clean up what's left of already deleted files (which can probably be still "undeleted") on a live HDD (with useful data, which doesn't need to be destroyed).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'd like to clean up apt/dpkg so that it doesn't think the package whose files I've deleted is still installed, but when I run:
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apt-get remove --purge linux-image-2.6.32-2.slh.4
I get the following:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-image-2.6.32-2.slh.4
The package does show up in the list when I run the command:
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dpkg -l "linux-image*"
with "ii" in the 1st column, whatever that means. Should I just rm the matching files in /var/lib/dpkg/info?
I wondering does the evolution-alarm-notify and evolution-data-server-1.4 would remove from the system monitor or just leave them alone. I didn't want to touch them that would cause system diseaster, can you please confirm for both if say yes to remove that will be good safe.. I am running older version of Ubuntu 5.10 on my lappy.
My firefox browser takes too much memory that runs very slowest and I need to cut down the both program list above or what I need to remove some other program in the system monitor.
According to System Monitor, my hard disc has a total size of 107.2 GiB, of which 6.7 GiB is "Free" and 1.3 GiB is available. I'm not sure if this is normal or not, though I know at least part of this wasted space is taken up by at least two failed attempts at creating Swap Files. Ubuntu says I have no Swap space whatsoever, so is there any way I can delete all these failed and unconnected Swap Files so that I could free up some spacend hopefully create one working one
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was just wondering if there was a package out there to remove all obsolete program configuration files?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to use my Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic system to scan and clean viruses from Windows based HDD. I have KlamAV, AVG, and AVAST. I couldn't get F-prot to work. I don't find a debian package of it and don't know how to install tar.gz and the tutorials don't help a lot. Are there other antivirus solutions which are good for cleaning Windows OS but work on Linux/WINE? I wonder if I can install antivirus software in WINE and scan with no problem the hard disks.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am working on serial communication program its working but when I am giving some input in replay minicom giving junk value.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently found an awful lot of junk files in my home directory, mostly in directories that start with a dot e.g. /home/my home/.mozilla So I did cd du -chs .??* and found 3.5 GB. After pruning, I find < 250 MB of files that I have knowingly created.What is happening is that I installed some programs, say xyz , tried them out and decided they were unsatisfactory, deleted them. The un-installer for xyz deletes the actual program but meanwhile xyz has installed lots of config files or status files in /home/my home/.xyz and the un-installer does not delete these. So if you are running short of space or if backups take forever, it might be worthwhile to do the above command or maybe
View 5 Replies View RelatedThere's a growing list of "Kernel" versions in the boot menu. I just want Ubuntu and Windows, how do I get rid of the superseded kernel entries?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI built a new PC and copied my old .evolution folder into my home directory which brought back all my mail and filters. I just did a 'check mail' as apparently the auto check wasn't working overnight and it grabbed 85 messages and moved them straight to the Junk folder. I went to Junk, selected all, then did Apply Filters and it did move the messages matching filters to their appropriatelocations. ny ideas on why Junk has become the default location for message delivery and the filters aren't being processed on delivery
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to install 10.10 (or upgrade from 10.4) and keep the 10.4 UI instead of the junk that is the 10.10 netbook UI ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a domain address and I keep my website in the server at my home. I use bind for DNS. I opened an email address for myself, but when I send an email to for example hotmail, gmail, it signs that as junk or spam. How can I make this address as trusted?
View 7 Replies View RelatedHow come t'bird is putting mail marked as trash in the junk file? Also, somehow I've got two subfolders in junk, one "trash" and one "junk". How can I delete these? I've tried every way I can think of.
View 1 Replies View Relatedis it possible to install with just the very min of things, no GUI, etc so I can use it as a compact OS for an old Pentium2 system with a 10 GB hard drive? Should I have downloaded the server edition ISO for this? Is it possible to remove everything down to the bare min without the graphical junk from a Desktop CD disk install? Maybe I should use [URL]
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to figure out how to keep my company's email from being treated as junk mail by Hotmail, Yahoo & Gmail for over a year.
When I acquired the company its email was hosted by sina.com as its in China. It was being run under a windows server and had issues sending & receiving.
I moved it to a linux server system in Hong Kong that has a US co-host site in Chicago area thinking its got to better than whats running in China.
We are still having problems sending emails to hotmail, yahoo and gmail.
My entire company is about ready to redmond our company email and use their personal webmail accounts.
I always thought that Linux was immune to this sort of thing, but I've gotten an infestation of the Clicksor malware. When I bring up a page in Firefox from some websites (not this one, fortunately), it highlights words that it recognizes and then trots out a popup referencing that word and leading to a junk website. I've also had this problem in Chrome. How can I make that nasty beast go away?
View 4 Replies View Relatedit's possible to compile the 2.6.37 kernel patched with the autogroup patch on a Slackware 13.1 system running 2.6.33.4-smp with 2.6.33.4 headers? I just compiled and installed the 2.6.37-autogroup kernel from AUR on my ARCH setup and I like it especially when using firefox with lots of tabs open and other background apps also running. I did notice a speed and smothness difference in my ARCH testing setup with this kernel patch and I can get same results in 13.1??
View 1 Replies View Relatedpls delete this post if I should not do this as it is included in [URL]..How do I recover from the 99 error when I start my system? I can only get to my Slackware by booting into it from the Slackware DVD.I have re-run lilo but I keep getting the 99 error on start up.
View 10 Replies View RelatedCan i safelly clean up /var/tmp? it contains 730mb of files
View 12 Replies View RelatedCan anyone clean up, and thus free up space on, my hard drive. i've tried -computer janitor, constantly empty the trash, and delete stuff from the download folder. where is the stuff i've installed going, not in synaptic- i've searched for programs i want to delete there and cannot find them. meanwhile i've got like 400mb left on a 13 GB HD and cant do a thing about it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedAfter figuring out that this is happening on my brand new 10.04 install, I've suddenly realized it explained what was happening on the 9.10 install I'm replacing.
I'm finding out on the internet that /tmp in Ubuntu is typically a Ramdisk, thus cleared automatically on reboot - but that's not how I was ever taught to setup a linux box; I *always* create /home var et al and mount them separately, including /tmp.
So on my new 10.04 install I am informed my tmp partition is down to 12 Meg, and find K9Copy crashed last night (I initially thought this was due to a crash, but testing shows it just - leaves them there. K9Copy!) leaving a 4.5 Gig file sitting in tmp. I add a couple Gig to the tmp partition (LVM rocks btw.) and reboot. Files are still there.
I finally went in via gksu nautilus and manually deleted the data.
More research find this results in exactly the kind of issues I was having previously in my 9.10 install (albeit without the helpful warning that helped me figure it out) of Firefox and various other programs acting glitchy because they right to tmp and it's full.
I'm a n00b, and really don't know how to fix this - the 'proper' way to clean tmp seems to involve dropping entirely out of X to userlevel 0 and running from the commandline?!?! . . /tmp is supposed to be for temporary files; ideally a program should clean up after itself, but it's actually Ubuntu's job to clean this.
My going in and manually cleaning out files is insane if gksu nautilus is involved, nevermind if that's the *wrong* way. I'm certainly not the guy to write a cronjob to clean this. On the other hand - this only started in the last week or so (on 9.10) so it has to be a recent change.
We have the standard tmpwatch installed (via yum) and it creates this script in /etc/cron.daily:
root@##### [/etc/cron.daily]# cat tmpwatch
flags=-umc
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix
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