wanted to knowIs there a command the root user can type in the command line to list & know all soft and hard links there are in a distro that is installed ?
View 1 RepliesI can see some soft links in /etc directory which are pointing to /etc/rc.d Directory contents.
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jan 31 08:19 rc -> rc.d/rc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 31 08:19 rc0.d -> rc.d/rc0.d
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 31 08:19 rc1.d -> rc.d/rc1.d
code....
Any body please tell me what is the purpose of these soft links in /etc directory ? I am using RHEL 5.4 ...
whats the difference between hard links and soft links?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having problems with symbolic links and the $PATH variable.I have a directory:# /usr/rulerX/squarewhere /usr/rulerX/square is a symbolic link such that:
# ls -la
square --> square.hg.current
My path variable is set as:
[code]....
How do I adjust the dpkg --get-selections >installed so that it tells me about a linux installation that is not active. Currently I can not load the original installed Ubuntu on the HD and am using the live CD. How do I extract the list of installed applications for the system on the hard disk
View 9 Replies View RelatedThere is a question I cannot find answer to.Should hard drives be mounted in the computer's case hard (screwed to wall) or soft (suspended by means of rubber washers)? And the same question about DVD drive which vibrates far more than a hard drive.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI would like to implement mail distribution list in postfix. Current setup of our mail server is using aliases from the file /etc/aliases. The problem with aliases is: If the user is there in more than one alias to which the mail is sent, the same mail repeats for that user. Most users find it annoying.Can anyone help me in introducing a solution like mail distribution list in postfix. So that postfix itself will take care of the duplicate mails.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhere would i find the list of distribution codes.For example.Code:samba-32bit-3.4.2 -1.1.3.1.x8664.rpmIn above rpm file it is indicated that its release is 1.1.3.1 .The rpm is meant to be run for opensuse.Where would i get the linking of release number and In simple words How would i guess distribution by merely looking at rpm name?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to make an ISO of the distribution already installed? Well actually, I have made various changes according to my choice and don't want to do them again if I have to reinstall.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI understand there is a file that stores the repositories' information, but I can't find it!Is there a way I can create a list of what applications have been installed?The idea is that if I am running a backup, finding a way to save the repository list and applications installed so if I am upgrading, or fixing a borked system by re-installing Fedora, I could copy the repo list back, and run the applications list like ode:yum install <cat apps.txt?> and get all of the applications I've installed via Yum without having to remember them all?Is there anything else, outside of /home, I should look at backing up? SELinux settings?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to use an OLD distribution<more specifically -install it onto a Hard Drive.>The OS is Media Linux circa 2003~4 ,it was released in Italian .However there is a choice of English on it. I have to change to SU to install. But It does Not respond to SU as password??
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a Music folder and I need to create hard links for all files in Music directory.For example:
~/Music/01 - the song.ogg // hard link for this file
~/Music/Folder/02 - a song.ogg //and for this file TOO!
~/Other Music/01 - the song.ogg
~/Other Music/Other foldr/02 - a song.ogg
I want hard link files in folder and in subfolders, but not folders its self.
I have a 32-bit Linux server with an ext3 file system. Is there any kind of upper-limit to the number of hard links I am allowed to use? (Per inode...? Per directory...? Per filesystem...?) And (just out of curiosity) would this be any different if I had a 64-bit machine or a different file system?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using rsync for incremental backups. I am backing up to a second hard drive on my computer. When I check the individual backup directories (backup.0 through backup.4) with du -hs they each show 12G; when I check the parent directory squeeze it shows 15G. Over 4 backups I have added 3G. I haven't made very much for changes to directories I'm backing up and am using hard links. I have included some info below.
Quote:
Backup script:
#!/bin/bash
mount /mnt/backup
cd /mnt/backup/squeeze/
rm -rf backup.7
[code]....
I am copying my home folder from my old computer (Ubuntu 9.10) to my new one (Ubuntu 10.04)
I thought that I would make a tar archive of my home directory (~60GB), then copy it across the network and untar it in my new home folder.
The problem is that I have several hard links (30 at most). When I try and untar the tar in my new computer it runs into errors with the hard links.
I think the problem is that it has unzipped the hard link before it's target and detected an error.
One solution is to add --hard-dereference to the tar command , this will create a separate copy of each hard link. but I would really like an exact copy of my home folder on my new computer.
Does anyone have any ideas? Either copying my home directory, or how to make tar handle hard links sensibly?
what is the purpose of using hard links instead of being a shortcut to some file ?
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View 4 Replies View Relatedhow do I save installed packages in a list and restore ...
rpm -qa > installed-software.log
yum install $(cat installed-software.log)
sorting rpm packages by size
rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}
' | sort -n
CentOS 5.2 64bit 2.6.18-92.el5xen. Use rsync with --link-dest for nightly backups, works well. Was recently asked to start weekly backups to an external drive for off-site storage. The regular syncing works but hard linking seems to be ignored. So the backup is long with no space saving advantage. Here is an example of the command being run:
rsync --stats -axzvl --numeric-ids --delete --link-dest=/mnt/DISASTERBACKUPS/austinBackups/backups/2009-08-21 /AUSTINBACKUPS/backups/2009-08-24 /mnt/DISASTERBACKUPS/austinBackups/backups/
I would like to install a program (R for statistical computing). I am using Slackware. On the download page of R (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) there are options to download the code for Debian, Redhat, Suse, and Ubuntu. Which one should I download in my case (using Slackware)? Is there any of them which I should not download?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAt my Uni, we use a web-based login for our internet connections. Its based off of Cisco, and every Wednesday night every computer on campus must re-enter their credentials to use the network.
Normally on my several computers I simply pull up the Terminal, point links to google.com using
Code:
And enter my credentials when Cisco redirects to the login page.
Literally, the process is
Code:
Then ENTER to accept the redirect, down arrow to skip over the logo image, USERNAME, ENTER, PASSWORD, ENTER, ENTER.
Naturally, this is EXTREMELY time consuming, as I have about 5 computers located around campus and must physically walk to the machines and login every single week.
My question is, How would I formulate a program that does the following;
1) checks for connectivity (i.e. is able to reach/resolve to the greater part of the internet) and
2) automatically fills in the credentials on the links login page?
I have a personal wiki of notes, with now thousands of links in markdown format:
[link text](http://example.com)
but now that fckeditor is available for mediawiki (very beta), it has become much better to just stick with wikitext format. There are only a few conversions to do: tables, links, and bulleted lists. The lists are a fairly simple regex and fckeditor magically reformats the tables, so all I'm left with is the links. But I'm not a regex master. How do I reformat code...
I have uShare 1.1a setup to talk to my XBox 360. If I share a directory that has no subdirectories, the video files display on the XBox. However, most of my files are in sub-directories on a different partition - I don't really want to copy them to the share, but uShare doesn't seem to recognise any sub-directories or files contained therein.
I have tried setting up symbolic soft links directly to the video files (although this is a pain, it is better than moving the files)...
Code:
ln -s /home/jonftp/TV-Shows/Buffy/Season-1/Buffy-101.avi /home/share/Buffy-101.avi
...but these don't show up on the XBox either.
How can I get uShare to "drill down" the directory structure to list the files or how can I get uShare to follow symbolic links?
What is the difference between "soft nofile" and "hard nofile" by configuring 'open file'?
For example as below:
Code:
user1 soft nofile 1000
user1 hard nofile 2000
I've been using Fedora 11 x86_64 for over a year and am about to upgrade to Fedora 13 using a genuine Fedora installation CD that I got last summer at OSCON. I've made a full system backup, but before I take the plunge I want to get a list of all installed applications. I have tons of special applications installed, many of which took tweaks to get running. Just in case something breaks so badly that I have to reinstall I want to be sure I can put everything back, even if it takes me several days work.I know I have read about utilities that will generate a list of installed apps, but I can't find any.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI got Fedora core release 3
kernel 2.6.9-.667
I would like to know which command I have to use to see the libusb installed. I used this:
yum list installed | grep usb
but no output.
Basically i need to test multiple printers at the same time so i will have some usb printers and parallel printers all connected at the same time and test print them by simply running the shell script.
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