My situation:
Host A: need sudo to access the file
Host B: need sudo to access/overwrite the target file
How to copy a file from host A to host B without creating temporaries? Is it possible?
i have a duel boot of windows and ubuntu, but recently i got a virus, but this things is leach like in appearance. I tried reinstalling windows, then reformatting the drive and reinstalling windows but i still have this same virus? This is dead creepy for me because windows cant read any of the other partitions, which are all formatted for linux, in formats which windows does not have the capability to read. So i dont understand how this could have happened. There are many things that i am still to try -- including completely overwriting the MBR with a GRUB in case the virus somehow resides in there?? But i have decided to give up on windows from now, because, despite all the actions i have taken, it has failed me repeatedly. But having had these viruses 3 times, i have noticed something, the first time i had a virus was my fault, because i left my computer insecure.
After i formatted my HDD following that virus, i noticed i had 10gb of space robbed from me, disk utility believed i had a 160gb drive, but Gparted and everything else told me that i only had 149.7gb of space??? now after this virus - which logically couldn't have happened without someone directly attempting to tunnel my computer as i had so much extra security - i lost 6gb of space from my HDD?? Sounds odd?
THE QUERY: So i want to know if (from ubuntu) it is possible to do a secure format (similar to with a mac - were it completely overwrites everything, instead of just deleting the links) although, possibly i am not going back to windows, ever.
I would like to use the command rcp to copy file from remote server ( linux ) to local pc , what is the command ?the remote server name is lnx_srv , the path is /tmp/ora_file1.txt , the linux login id is ora_usr , the .rhosts have released to ora_usr the localhost pc path is c:OraI read the help page of windows , tried the command rcp lnx_srv.ora_usr:/tmp/ora_file1.txt c:Ora , but not work , the error is "rsh: can't establish connection" , Can advise what is wrong ? what comamnd should i use ?
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dd bs=8192 if=Image of=/dev/PS0
In the above command, I cant able to understand the option "of=/dev/PS0"
Whether it means,
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or
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When I access a remote Natty client using VNC I cannot use the sudo command in a terminal. In fact, the terminal closes itself as soon as I type the sequence sud. Even su d. Or su d.
Sua, su a, su c, su e do not cause the terminal to close itself.
This appears to be some sort of new security "feature".
How do I "work around" it?
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I'd better elaborate.
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It seems to me that 11.04 has been modified to kill a terminal that is part of a VNC display when sud are typed.
how to remotely administer a 11.04 desktop?
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Summary: A program that increases WAN performance.
Name: packetsqueezer
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Release: 1
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