I just got me a mac pro 8 core a couple days ago ( Which took forever to save up for). I have parallels installed on the mac and I wanted to know if it is ok to run Ubuntu server virtually in parallels. I got it working perfectly fine but I want to know if its fine for production, as my main use for it is as a web server.
BTW since the mac pro has 12 gigs of ram I allow 4 gigs to ubuntu server and 4 cores on the cpu to ubuntu server. So do you guys think it is fine to run Ubuntu Server 10.04 virtually?
Soon after I installed F12 I realized that I mixed / and /home partitions during the installation, resulting having an enormous / and a relatively small /home. Since I want to avoid resizing the partitions*, is there any way to make Fedora use a certain amount of disk space on / as part of /home. Is this possible? And if it is, are there any drawbacks?
*I actually tried using a live usb but gparted wouldn't let me do any modifications. The volumes were unmounted though...
I just bought a USB thumbdrive and I installed Ubuntu on it. I want Ubuntu to connect to the internet with virtually any computer that boots from the USB. Is there a single package that will install drivers for nearly every wireless card there is so that I can connect to the internet with out a hassle?
I noticed that the Linux Mint website lists support for more wireless cards as a feature and I am curious whether I can do this for the Ubuntu on my thumbdrive.
I'm attempting to install a small application called Asymptopia Flashcard System on Xubuntu x64. It's unsupported and virtually unknown, so I don't know many details about it aside from what I can gather from the source files. The first step in the installation directions is to type "make lib_install" as root at the command line. I get this output:
Making libasymptopia.so ... compiling Path.C ... Path.C: In member function �void Path::listdir(char*, std::deque<char*, std::allocator<char*> >*): followed by a bunch of errors like this: Path.C:38: error: �strcmp� was not declared in this scope
all for the file Path.C, all of them complaining about various header files not being declared. I have the latest version of gcc installed, so I'm very confused about what the problem is. This application is at least a few years old...maybe there's something out-of-date about the way it includes the header files?
I recently bought a 12-cell (extended-life) battery for my HP dv8000 AMD Turion64 laptop. While the extra battery life is spectacular, the machine is virtually unusable when not plugged in. Either the hardware or the OS (I'm not sure which) seems to view each of the 12 cells as a separate battery, so whenever a cell nears depletion and the machine prepares to transition to the next cell, the computer slows to a standstill, as though it were shifting into an extreme version of Powersave mode. This can last for several minutes at a time, during which period all I can do is stare helplessly at my screen.
I have all but disabled Powersave features in the Power Management applet, setting the laptop to Performance mode on both AC and battery power, with Powersave only kicking in below 10%. So that isn't the source of the problem. I have also disabled Compositing and all desktop effects, except the mouse pointer application-icon animations that appear when I open an application, which I can't figure out how to disable. All this to no avail.
Plug the machine back in and it zips along at a merry Linux pace. I don't want to keep it plugged in all the time, though, because a) this is a laptop and therefore should be mobile; and b) keeping a charged battery plugged in drastically shortens its battery life. Besides, this is a brand-new battery; it should still be working fine.
I have no internet in Linux due to my only way to get internet is through my blackberry curve phone sharing ( I think some call this tethering) internet to the pc. It works fine in winblows of course with the provided winblows software, so I booted over to Linux, fired up VMware workstation 6.5, set up the internet in it, and I have internet in my guest os in vmware which is 32 bit xp media center. I right clicked the connection from "network connections" and went to share this connection. Now I'd like to share it to my host os, 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 in Raid 0. Do I need to be using NAT or Bridged. I've set up internet sharing before but not virtually.
I was wondering if it was possible to get photoshop cs4 on ubuntu other then virtually install it on windows or is there an adequate photo editing program for ubuntu
Hi. I have Ubuntu 10.04, nm-applet is running in the background, my battery icon and sound icon are showing but my network icon has been missing for the past 2 days. It was working fine before but now it's not. How can I fix this issue if I don't have an ethernet cord? Is there a way to roll back the recent updates or do I need to reinstall my network manager?
I've tried restarting the system and I've tried killing nm-applet and reloading it using Alt F2. I get some Debug error.
When I try to run nm-applet --sm-disable
It says an instance is already running and then gives me a warning.
I tried removing "iface eth0 inet dhcp" from /etc/network/interfaces and then tried restarting by "sudo /etc/initi.d/networking restart"
It says:
What can I do to connect to the internet? I have a flash stick if its possible to download a .deb package on this mac and transfer it over to my other laptop to fix the problem. If its possible.
I can't figure out why but my processor is running at 100% on all four cores, and the fan is running at max speed. All I did was double click an a.out file created by g++, and it is running at full speed now.
Sometimes I connect to my Debian box from another computer (using SSH on Cygwin or Linux), and once ina while I want to run some console apps. And sometimes some of these apps might complain about "another intance, Error: an instance of newsbeuter is already running (PID: 2496)". Is there a work around for this issue at all(without killing the original instance") ? The reason I do not want to kill the app because there might be 2 users connected to the same machine that might be using the same app.
Is suid disabled from running all home made bash scripts or just from running them as root or:
Who would know for sure.
I googled several combinations of Mandriva Linux how-to suid disabled setUID etc... so far all I found was "many distributions are disabling suid for security reasons" nothing specific.
We are running IPmonitor to monitor the disk usage on our Linux servers. It does not seem to coincide with what is reported when running df -h. For example on a Red Hat 5.3 server - our IPmonitor shows that 85% is used on the /usr partition, however when I do a df -h on the server it shows that 91% is used. Why there would be a discrepancy? IPmonitor uses SNMP.
My root Vixie cron crontab is set to perform a system snapshot via fsarchiver: 0 0 * * * fsarchiver savefs -o -A /backups/p30_root.fsa /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 The command itself works fine, generating about a 7G snapshot of my Suse server. I then wish to rsync this to a NAS I have located in another building: 0 3 * * * rsync -av -e ssh --delete /backups/ root{at address}:/DataVolume/os_backups/
(yes, I'm rsyncing as root. I absolutely loathe it, but I got thrown into an quasi-SA position with a ridiculous to-do list and no time to do it. I'm having to make things just work and then go back and try to improve them/learn how. I couldn't make it work in a non-root way quick enough, so for now I'm having to cron rsync jobs as root because of all the differing file permissions on this samba/MySql server. I set the NAS to only accepts ssh from the server IP, and we're behind a campus firewall... It's serious trial by fire.) The crontab also has rsync commands for the samba areas, our specialized chemistry software and affiliated MySQL databases............
On my crontab there is an entry to run a script I wrote that backs up my local files to my remote server. It was working great, running once a day. However, I now want to make the script run every hour.The problem is that if there are too manyfiles to transfer (Example:I ripped a DVD in the last hour) the actual backup may take longer than 60 minutes.So I want to modify the script to check if my backup script, based on rsync, is running. If rsync is still running then do nothing and exit the script. If it is not running, execute the script as normal.
My wife's portable's fan is not working well and the manufacturer (LG, or more aptly, LNSG - Life's not so good!) will not or cannot supply a replacement. So, I was wondering if linux is cooler than XP.
i installed yumex:yum -y install yumex, when i start yumex it came with this error:fatal error:backend-not-running backend not running as expected (yumex will close) how can i solve it?
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my acer aspire one netbook...and I updated, now im trying to find out where i can get AIM shat client and how to install.
I'm a relative noob that's been using 9.04 for about 9 months, and 10.04 for about 1 or 2. In trying to use a couple of old Windows apps I've found WINE to be helpful, but I hit a wall with the Australian Tax Office's eTax app not playing well in WINE, so I decided to run an XP virtual machine (I have a license with my notebook anyway). I turned to KVM since it's the recommended app it appears (correct me if I'm mistaken, please). After installing kvm and virt-manager I had a hard time getting XP to install until I ran virt-manager as root, then the installation crawled (I have a core duo 1.66 with 1.5Gb RAM and 64Mb SSD, and I allocated 1 core and 512mb with 4.0Gb for the partition). I've installed XP probably 100 times on a range of hardware and it's never been this slow to install.
Once I installed it I couldn't reboot the vm (error says it's not a supported feature, which confuses me as to why it's there in virt-manager). When I shut down and came back a few days later, it advised that it couldn't see /dev/sr0. I understood this to be the CD-ROM, so I changed the boot drive to the hard disk, and it just boots to a black screen. I then changed back to boot from the CD-ROM, and sure enough I see the 'starting seabios' post screen and then it tells me that I'm booting from CD with the usual windows 'Press any key to boot...' which I allow to pass. At that point I get the 'We apologise for the inconvenience..' screen that you get when you haven't shut down windows properly, but when I select anything it just freezes.
Hence I have some questions: 1. Why does it need to boot to the cd drive? 2. Why won't it boot directly from the hard drive? It only does this when the cd-rom has timed out? 3. Why does the boot from cd-rom then timeout act differently to the boot from hard drive? 4. Why does the 'reboot' feature appear if it doesn't work? 5. The 'shutdown' feature doesn't work for me either (it appears to do nothing) 6. I tried to start XP in safemode and it hangs at mup.sys. On traditional hardware I'd have assumed that the OS had become corrupt, and one of the reasons for this could be unclean shutdowns so this could be my own doing, but I refer back to points 5 and 6.
I just bought some USB 3.0 Drives, and with them some USB 3.0 PCIe cards. Problem is, the cards are not being recognized by Ubuntu.
The manufacturer (ASUS) only posts windows drivers but no Linux support. Some web searches suggest that USB3.0 was inlcuded by default on kernel 2.6.31
Any clues on how to get my PCIe cards recognized and the USB3.0 drives working full speed?
This is the lspci output. The cards show as a SATA controller (Marrvel Technology) The chipset apparently is a NEC
I have this habit of trying to switch desktops by using ctrl+alt+F1 (or F2 or whatever desktop I'm trying to go to) instead of ctl+alt+left/right. So when I do this and get dropped to CLI, is it possible to get back to the X session I had running? If not to that session, what's the proper way to kill X before bringing it back up?
why my second cron job isn't running? The first one runs fine but the second one does not run at all. If I manually run the script using ./check.sh then it does what it is supposed to but will not run from cron. It should run every weekday at 9:45am, it looks good to me but clearly I am doing something wrong.
Code: # m h dom mon dow command #This will backup my hosted websites. 0 2 * * * /home/bob/scripts/websitebakscript.sh #This will run check and upload it's contents to the net. 45 9 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /home/bob/scripts/check.sh
