i used to use synaptic to install packages which seems to be installed somewhere like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, so my question is can i change the default or pre-determined installation directory, coz my partition / is kind of short of space.
View 8 RepliesI have rhel5.4 in my vmware , i am trying to install yum repositories in /home/Server bcoz i dont have enough space in /var/ftp/pub. i installed vsftpd ,createrepo rpms and index is installed, but when i check for yum list its saying cannot change directory.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have presently a (working) boot dedicated partition, where grub stuff resides, but I want to change it to a common "/boot" folder in the root partition (in a different hdd). For some reason I can't do it. The first thing I did was to copy all the things that are in the boot partition to a boot folder on the root partition. After that, I tried: grub-install /dev/hdc1 (which is odd but it's where the root partition actually is)
When I did it from the linux I have installed on my hdd, it actually did something, I don't remember all the output (except that there was something about it not being able to access hda, which is oddly the dvdrom), but it didn't work. From a live CD, the same command (grub-install /dev/hdc1) is answered with: Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. From grub's own prompt, the things are more or less the same. First of all, it does not find stage1, even though I did copy the content from the boot partition to a boot folder in the root partition.
I tried to proceed, anyway, with root (hd1,0) and setup (hd1,0) (which is /dev/hdc1, according with the "geometry" info given by grub). "Root" is accepted, but "setup" is answered with: Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no Error 2: Bad file or directory type But the files are there. I can't "cat" the menu.lst from grub though, unlike with the actual working boot partition. The same error message. From the terminal, however, it's all there. I tried with /dev/hdc1 both mounted and unmounted, the same message. So, basically I have two questions, I guess:
1 - can I really do this sort of thing running a linux installed on a hdd, rather than a live cd, or is the live cd preferable for some reason?
2 - what am I missing?
(A note that may worth making is that I'm using the soon-to-be deprecated grub version, 0.9 or something, not grub2. I think it shouldn't be a problem since I've installed the system with the old version to begin with, but that may be irrelevant, I don't really know)
I'm in a different type of shell (this is inside "screen"), I guess. It is like this:
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sh-3.2$ cd /home/user
sh-3.2$
It doesn't change the directory.
How do I change to the directory /ect so I can add a path variable to the file called environment?
View 2 Replies View Relatedno matter what i do in there terminal when it comes to changing directorys or copying items it just dont work.this is what im typing
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I can change to a nother directory in home folder using cd command.I have several partitions in my hard drive.But i want to know ho to cheng to a directory in nother partition or flash drive using command line.how can i do that
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with Kvm. I've used a howto to configure my network. Seems to work fine, I've installed the Virtual Machine manager, when I go to create my Virtual Machine, I see the the image is automatically created in /var/lib/libvirt/images. I have a totally separate path for my images. How to I configure a different image directory
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm working in R and would like to change where the program opens. Currently my default working directory is home/dave and I would like it to open into home/dave/R by default.I'm running mint with xfce.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHere is my vsftpd.conf file:
# Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf
#
# The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file
# loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable.
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i'm having issues with a folder which I cannot write to or seem to do anything else with? i figured i'd delete it and start again but i can't even do that!!
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server@server:~$ sudo chown server /media/server/swap/downloads/incomplete/
chown: changing ownership of `/media/server/swap/downloads/incomplete/': Operation not permitted
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My usb stick continually automounts at /dev/sda10, and for a certain operation I'm trying to do I need it to be mounted at /dev/sda (or sdb, sdv, etc); is there any way to change it's mount directory?
As a bonus question, or rather the real question, what I'm really trying to do is format a bootstrap partition as shown here
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Command (? for help): p
/dev/sda10
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/sda101 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
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i have problem on my ubuntu 10.10 after i change user name to root and home directory username ( old one ) , and now users and groups not working asnd all application on old user not working !
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a usb that got corrupted whilst attached to a Vista computer.Now what was once a directory is now a file!It now reads as -rwxr -xr -x instead of drwxr -xr -x how do I change this back to a directory?
View 2 Replies View RelatedBasically, I'm in the terminal and I type in:cd desktop (or downloads or whatever)and nothing happens. I'm probably just being legendarily thick, but where am I going wrong?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a script that should start my Minecraft server. The script is a follows:
#!/bin/bash
java -Xincgc -Xmx1G -jar "/home/jamie/Programs/Minecraft Server/craftbukkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
The script is located in my scripts directory in my home folder and it is in my path. But when I execute the script the server starts writing all the data to my home folder(The directory I am in). How can I tell the script to change its working directory to the server folder?
I have newly installed Ubuntu server 9.10 in my server machine.And it has tomcat6 in itself.My friend have built a Java software in Fedora ,and he wants to move it to the new server.But problem is the directory structure is different between two systems.He has to either change his directory setting in his software or change the default tomcat6 ROOT directory. But I have not find any configuration file can do this job(change the tomcat default ROOT directory ).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have created a folder in my /var/www/ as /var/www/borneo and when I try to install a smf forum I get this error: 550 Failed to change directory. I have installed vsftpd for the ftp.
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhen I try to access [URL]... I get an exception:
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I believe I need to change some directory permissions, but I can't determine exactly what.
I've been using Ubuntu for over 5 years. This time I decided to upgrade UNR to the latest 10.10. I am now running it from USB to try it before installing. Excuse my ignorance, but whatever happened to the Terminal? I cannot find it anywhere! I think this release is not going in the right direction if one of the most important tools in Ubuntu is hidden from an average user.
Also, how do I change to the root directory in the files and folders? or at least to the higher directory structure.I won't be installing UNR 10.10 unless I figure out these BASIC things.
how to change when running command "adduser" or "useradd" the placement of the users home directory. Have tried editing the /etc/default/useradd file with no results.
I want it to be placed in /var/www And I would also want to know how more folders and files can be created in the home directory automatically.
For some time I have been interested in life without a GUI, not necessarily living that life per-say but "interested" as a child would be about astronauts. So having taken said interest I've began to study it lightly at first, trying CMUS as my music player (A text based music player ran through terminal). I've also gotten a "Basic" (in the loosest of terms) understanding of how to import music through said program. Other than such, I know how to change directory, and see files via ls commands.
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I will sometimes elude me as to the full boundaries of it's uses; So I come asking this, amongst all of you does anyone live within a text based environment for extended periods? Days? Weeks? Years? What advantage does living a text based computer lifestyle give you against GUI folks?
I now have my ssh server all setup on my ubuntu 10.10 machine and properly working with a private rsa key. Anyway when I connect to it via my client it opens to: /home/myusername
I am able to run around the whole drive and have full access to everything, which is great. But I don't have anything on this hard drive. All my data and files that I really want to access are on the second drive of this computer. It doesn't have an OS on it, just files.how to change the directory to point to that drive and have full access of everything.
I run Ubuntu 10.10. and I have one annoying problem. When I want to set my Desktop directory in terminal by typing this: "cd ~/Desktop" I get an error: "bash: cd: /home/izvanzemaljac/Desktop: No such file or directory".
I really dont know what to do, I checked Google for this error and I didnt find a solution.
I just upgraded to fedora core 11. I need to change the permission of the html folder. The owner is currently set to root. Since there is no longer a root user (I just found out) it will not let my user account change the permissions in that directory from. How do you change directory permissions in fedora 11?
View 2 Replies View RelatedYesterday I installed Fedora 14 on my computer. I was able to log in as root on a terminal fine until this morning. Now when I log in I get this:
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[Silverback@Vanessa ~]$ su -
Password:
su: warning: cannot change directory to /root: No such file or directory
-bash-4.1#
I haven't deleted any files, so I have no idea how to fix this.
I have my hard drive arranged with a single large ntfs data partition and a number of smaller partitions for /home etc. Here's the line in fstab:
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/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103SJ_S246J9FZ806954-part2 /home/shmuck/data ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
But the ownership for that directory is root and I can't change it for some reason, using this line:
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sudo chown -R shmuck /home/shmuck/data
It just doesn't do anything.
In the old days of M$-DOS, there was the NCD (Norton Change Directory) utility. Anything of the sort in Linux?Explanatory note: you typed out the name of the directory you wanted to go to, that is, last element of the dir path.And you were, ipso facto, in that dir. If that was the only one by that name, good. When not, and if that wasn't the intended dir, you typed the same command again and you were in a second dir of that name. If this was the intended dir, good. And so on. It simply maintained a data base with the whole tree, and updated it when invoked from a newly created dir o by means of an option, NCD/R.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have 3 images made by clonezilla now I want to restore 1 of them, but when I try to use clonezilla to restore, there's no option to restore image. I can see the images in home directory and file is owned by root in my home directory. I'm trying to transfer image to usb hdd.
Did I place image in wrong directory or is it permissions problem.