I created a script, named mount_share.sh (in /etc/init.d), to mount the shared VirtBox dir at boot so I don't have to do it manually every time I load the VM. The script contains the following:
#!/bin/sh
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000 osx_shared /home/rob/ubuntu_shared
I made it executable:
sudo chmod +x mount_share.sh
Then I assigned it to run at startup:
sudo update-rc.d mount_share.sh start 51 S .
I'm thinking it may be either:
1) A pathing problem to the ubuntu_shared dir but, if I run "ls -al" from inside /etc/init.d, it does find the ubunt_shared dir
2) Trying to run as sudo from inside the script. But, since all startup scripts run as the root user, I shouldn't even need the "sudo" in there which I have tried to no avail.
Code: ryan@TehLaptop:~$ uname -a Linux TehLaptop 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux ryan@TehLaptop:~$ lsb_release -a
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I have it in my system -> preferences -> startup applications as the command "/etc/init.d/fixkeys" however it is not being executed at startup (I have to manually run the script every time I login). If I manually run it, it works perfectly. I have tried moving it to a directory in my home folder but that did not solve anything.
Hey everybody, it seems I did something kinda stupid. So I tried right clicking on a folder and going to "Open With..." then under "Other Application..." I then selected custom command and typed in "eclipse." I thought I would just be able to open the folder as a project, but now it seems it's screwed up all of my folders. Now every time I try to open a folder in the GUI, Eclipse executes. I can still go through folders, delete files, etc. through the terminal, but I'd like to have GUI access as well. Does anyone know how to "undo" this custom command so Eclipse no longer executes?
What I want to do is create a custom live USB startup of ubuntu.
I know how to create a usb startup from the iso (any ubuntu iso), with the usb startup disk tool.
Is it possible to add some software to it, for example suppose I want it to have exaile and wireshark (or any software) already installed. How can I do that ?
I am new to XFCE and I'd like to ask few question about usage: 1. How can I disable dragging windows through workspaces? I like them to stay at one. 2. How do you configure startup applications? 3. Why XFCE menu doesn't show some of my custom icons? (png, tried more than one, for custom launcher - eclipse) 4. How do I add custom keyboard? (ALT+SHIFT switching) 5. I restarted laptop and all my applications re-opened after restart. I do not want that. How to disable this?
I'd like to add custom startup commands (for example starting a process, registering to a registration server, downloading a configuration file) to the Linux startup process. Those commands should be triggered on startup only. What is the standard/appropriate way to do this?
EDIT: Is /etc/profile the right place to trigger such things?
Just spent three whole days barking up the wrong tree, solving Fedora 11 and Fedora 12 boot failures because the correct hypothesis was illogical: installation did not update/modify the initrd.
The first couple of times I installed Fedora 11 on the HighPoint Technologies RocketRaid 2640x4, the installation inserted my "custom" driver module (rr26xx) into the initrd, permanently, so that the system booted off the controller card for which the custom driver was inserted. (I yelled about this success in this thread: [url]
My most recent installs of BOTH F11 and F12 on the RocketRaid failed to properly set up the boot. It turns out that the "rr2640" module I "slipstreamed" into the installation process was *NOT* permanently added to the initrd by anaconda. (F12 gave me "no root device found boot has failed, sleeping forever", on boot; F11 hung also, without such error, I presume, during the init script execution). Because of limited resources and time, I only know for sure the module was missing from the F11 initrd, and am ASSUMING the same was the case with F12.
The only difference between the successful installs and the ones with failed boot is that the successful installs were made on a single-drive (JBOD) mode on the controller; whereas, the failed ones were placed on RAID 5. But, AFAIK, the created logical device for the card is "/dev/sda", in both cases, and the kernel can not distinguish between the two cases (or can it?). Thus, the inconsistency cost me a lot of time, and is still inexplicable to me.
Question: What is the best way to deal with custom drivers, today? There are custom spins, and many tools, like isomaster. Stupid question: Is there a way to modify the initrd inside an installer ISO -- be it for CD/DVD/USBboot drive -- beefing the init RAM disk with whatever modules you'd like, for the boot process (using, say, isomaster)?
And what makes anaconda understand that a module must be added to the initrd ? How can one force anaconda to do so?
How does moving to dracut as the initrd tool affect any/all of the above?
I am a xfce user. I have a list of wallpapers and I wanted to change them every 5 minutes Initially I was using a simple command in crontab entry to change it, Quote: */5 * * * * xfdesktop --reload it was working but it would crash xfdesktop process after few changes and the screen would be all grey. To solve this issues I wrote a simple script which would check if xfdesktop is alive and if yes it would call xfdesktop --reload else start xfdesktop I called this script idesktop & its path is ~/.bin/idesktop
I successfully installed and validate ns-allinone-2.34 network simulator on ubuntu-9.10. I then tried to run simple tcl code and ended up on the following error. I couldn't move ahead from there. What should I do to make 'nam(version 1.14)' work on my ubuntu 9.10?
ns: finish: couldn't execute "nam": no such file or directory while executing "exec nam out.nam &" (procedure "finish" line 7) invoked from within "finish"
Here is the code I tried to run (for reference): #Create a simulator object set ns [new Simulator] #Define different colors for data flows (for NAM) $ns color 1 Blue $ns color 2 Red #Open the NAM trace file set nf [open out.nam w] $ns namtrace-all $nf #Define a 'finish' procedure proc finish {} { global ns nf $ns flush-trace #Close the NAM trace file close $nf #Execute NAM on the trace file exec nam out.nam & exit 0 } .....
By the way I googled and got some suggestions like: adding 'nam' directory to environment. I did this as follow but it didn't work. I added: export PATH=$PATH:/home/elias/ns-allinone-2.34/nam-1.14 to /etc/profile (>sudo gedit /etc/profile)
I cannot seem to find what I need to in either these forums, Ubuntu help, or various Man pages.Issue:When I insert a CD it automounts correctly, but I cannot Use the "Open with Wine" option (even after configuring wine to recognize the executable) due to a "trust" issue within Ubuntu. I have learned that this "trust" is simply the executable bit, but I obviously cannot change that bit on a read only medium. he software requires the CD at both install and run time, so I cannot use a separately mounted ISO.Somewhere there must be a setting where I can turn off the "require trust flag" which I assume must exist.
After downloading any program thats in ubuntu or uses wine to run before i can run it i've got to allow it to execute, is there a workaround for this? Im using 10.04 ubuntu desktop
I installed wine in the new Ubuntu 11, but when i right click and go open with wine it says that its not marked as executable! then i went right click and properties and under the permissions i clicked "Allow executing file" but it keeps unchecking!
Is there any way to map a shell script to run when you press a certain set of keys? For instance, I may want to execute the following by pressing CTRL+ALT+R (if that key combination is not already taken)
Code:
compiz --replace --loose-binding ccp
Or perhaps I want to open the System Monitor by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL (a la Windows)
I upgraded karmic to lynx today and I'm stuck with some weird behaviour with one of my virtual hosts. The virtual hosts under /var/www/site work but my virtual host for DAVICAL which points to /usr/share/davical/htdocs/ doesn't.
Navigation to any html pages works but php files just show up blank!
Has there been a configuration change in lynx for virtual hosts outside of /var/www?
so sorry about this seemingly silly cron question. I know a lot are asked, and are usually just environment related.Anyway, I wrote a very simple PHP script to mount my external drive to a specific location as soon as it's switched on.The script works great when run.What's strange, is that it runs in cron and generates a log file, but for someone reason doesn't mount the drive when cron runs itI added in the full path to EVERYTHING in the script, and I'm calling it with the full path from crontab, but it doesn't mount my drive when run from cron.I've tried running the individual commands on the cmd, and it all works.
when I try executing a file in WINE that was a C++ and was compiled into a .exe I get:
Code: fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC90.CRT" (9.0.21022.8) err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP90.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\home\server\ms\MCServer.exe") not found
I m using ubuntu 10.04. I have install flightgear Scenery designer(fgsd) and it executed successfully, but during working on it I selected any option of it and fgsd crashed. After that it is not getting execute. Throwing following error on console. buffer overflow detected ***: fgsd terminated
I made a small script to passwordless login to server with sshgnome-terminal --command "ssh myserver"I can login but i want to execute a command, lets say a "ls".So when i doubleclick the script it should login (which works) and gives me a listing (ls) on that server.gnome-terminal --command "ssh myserver" ---> and then execute ls on that server.
I wrote a shell script and tried to execute it in separate terminal using command 'gnome-terminal -e <script>'. When executing first time, it went fine.From second time, I am getting error 'There is error creating child process for this terminal' repeatedly.
I am trying to get a start up script to work, I have a file /etc/init.d/blah (with 755 permissions) with the contents [URL]. I have run "update-rc.d -f blah defaults". But when I reboot the script is not executing.
I am trying to create a script that reads a list of url's from a text file and then executes the same script for each line. This is what I am looking for:
elinks -dump $(url's in file, one by one) | grep "reply" > jobs.txt
I have a script which copies(scp) .war file to tomcat's webapps and the .war file extracts creating a folder under webapps directory on a ubuntu system. My next line of the script is restarting the tomcat which is executed immediately before the .war is extracted and this causing problem with
Is it possible so that it waits for few seconds/minutes before it executes the next line of the script. The script is of normal ubuntu commands.
