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ok how can i get my ubuntu to recognize my wireless router??First things first: has it recognised your wireless card?how can i tell ??What is the output of the commands, ifconfig and route?in linux whers the command prompt??I suggest you get This(CLICK)

It helped me out. Quote

in linux whers the command prompt??

What COMMAND can I use tolist the files in /usr/include or its subdirectories (possibly nested several layers deep) that contain the string "ptrdiff_t"?find /usr/include -name "*ptrdiff_t*"That's the most elegant WAY. You could also use ls, thus: "ls -lr /usr/include | grep ptrdiff_t" which would GIVE you slightly more DETAILED info about the file, but not its ultimate LOCATION.

hi.........
how can a file be password protected in linux.......? :-? [i mean when a perticular file or a DIRECTORY is tried 2 b opened by someone(other than owner) it should prompt him for the password of that file ]The Linux file system does not offer this kind of system. Neither does NTFS (Windows) for that matter. You should decide who you WANT to have access to the file, and grant them permission accordingly.

What exactly are you trying to do?

You always have the option of hiding any file or files in a password protected ZIP file...Quote

You should decide who you want to have access to the file, and grant them permission accordingly.

You always have the option of hiding any file or files in a password protected zip file...

when i execute a .ksh file (for example sh toto), i have error when executing commande contenning the caracter `.
Thanks!Can you provide an example, with a sample of your error output? What editor are you using to create these scripts? (Some - like my favourite, joe - use the backtick operator as a metacharacter.)Sh toto.txt
Please find below commands in toto file:

echo "toto"
export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
OSTYPE=`uname -s`
C=`echo "\c"`
N=`-n`

when the sh execute the line containning the left quote(`), whe have the error below:
C:\Temp>sh toto.txt
toto
[1] + Done(134) ?
3820 Abort toto.txt
[1] + Done(134) ?
4452 Abort toto.txt
[1] + Done(134) ?
4704 Abort toto.txt

Thanks!You posted: "when i execute a .ksh file (for example sh toto), "

By issuing the sh - it is a bash shell, not ksh (korn),

was that a TYPO in your post?I do have ksh.exe. Usually i use sh.exe to execute ksh scripts. It was working i dont know why now it not working any more.
I beleive that the error is due to my machine.
Because it works on another machine.
Thanks!You MUST have a non-STANDARD .profile or SOMETHING, because I've run the script with no problem - except for the obvious: '-n' isn't a command, so the last line of the script will fail.

Please show me the output of the command "sh --version". Then attach copies of "~/.profile" and "/etc/profile" (as a zip file).Hang on a minute - "sh.exe"? Are you doing this on a Windows system? If so, you can't expect standard Linux/Unix FEATURES (such as backticks) to work as normal.

How do I write a SCRIPT that moves all the files that END in ".TXT" from the CURRENT directory to another (target) directory?

I also want this script to produce a text file ("filesCopied") that lists all files that have been moved!

Please help,

thanxYou need SOMETHING like "mv -v *.txt > filesCopied".

I'm sad mandriva destroyed my halt.dll, i was trying to install mandriva on my laptop on a 12giga partion but it destroyed my halt.dll and i couldnt do a repair install for some reason i tried 3 times, so im reformatting as i write( on a desktop), can some tell me how to install mandriva or another linux that would work on my laptop with 12gig??


TIA,

UnlovedwarriorA linux installation should only affect the partition that you TELL it to install to. I would go for Ubuntu but which ever you choose, make use of the DISTRIBUTION's forums where you'll find LOTS of people dedicated to answering questions about the distro.i cant get ubuntu to work thats what i want on it.. it says error on my cd.. is there a WAY i can get a cd shipped to me at little to no cost??Quote

is there a way i can get a cd shipped to me at little to no cost??

I am looking to set up a server where users will fill out a form, attach a file, and click SUBMIT. The file would then be saved to my server and would also be remotely accessible. Any help is appreciated. More details please. What service do you have? Do you know low to deploy PHP scripts? Do you understand Pearl? Is this some kind of blog? is it a forum?
What HTML tools do you use?
Also, does the server d have some popular control panel? Like cpanel?

EDIT: Assuming you have a common Linux based system, here is a rfather brief list of what you can use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scripting
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... When the server serves data in a commonly used manner, for example according to the HTTP or FTP protocols, users may have their choice of a number of client programs (most modern web browsers can request and RECEIVE data using both of those protocols). In the case of more specialized applications, programmers may write their own server, client, and communications protocol, that can only be used with one another. ...

More details please. What service do you have? Do you know low to deploy PHP scripts? Do you understand Pearl? Is this some kind of blog? is it a forum?
What HTML tools do you use?
Also, does the server d have some popular control panel? Like cpanel?

EDIT: Assuming you have a common Linux based system, here is a rfather brief list of what you can use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scriptingFort example, WordPress can be used for a personal server free of charge. It is one of the most popular content tools available.

That would be fairly easy to do with something like PHP. You do however need to be extremely careful - Set file permissions or limit types carefully so that the user can't upload a script (such as a .php file) and then execute it on your server. You also need to watch out for legal issues as well as large files using bandwidth.

If this is for private users then you are best using a premade system like OwnCloud - http://owncloud.org/. If you want to put it public then bear in mind that there are already loads of sites that do this so you would really need something to differentiate you.

Remember that bandwidth is expensive so just creating a free site for people to share files is going to be tricky if you want to keep it economically viable.

When I run this script I get this error:
./fsmon[34]: 10% unexpected `end of __expression'

I went on the sed org sites to review and not sure if I need to use some type of parm to control the end of line or record (not sure at all).
As you can see in my script the comments about the PROBLEM are there as well.
I have:
Linux is ver 9.4
sed ver 4.0.5.1
pdksh ver 5.2.14-21

Can you tell me if the problem is the sed or the typeset, I'm leaning towards sed and the parm I need to use.
This is for my learning only - not a business problem.


#!/bin/ksh
FSMAX="10"
WORKFILE="/tmp/df.work"
>$WORKFILE
OUTFILE="/tmp/df.outfile"
>$OUTFILE
THISHOST=`hostname`
df -k | tail +2 | egrep -v '/dev/cd[0-9]' | awk '{ print $1, $5, $6}' > $WORKFILE
while read FSDEVICE FSVALUE FSMOUNT
do
#if you com out the typeset and allow the echos to show the values it works.
#when the typeset is used the error of: ./fsmon[34]: 10%: unexpected `end of __expression' - is displayed"
FSVALUE=$(echo $FSVALUE | sed 's/\%//g')
echo $FSVALUE
typeset -i FSVALUE
echo $FSVALUE
if [ $FSVALUE -gt $FSMAX ]
then
echo "$FSDEVICE mounted on $FSMOUNT is ${FSVALUE}%" >> $OUTFILE
fi
echo "FSDEVICE= " $FSDEVICE
echo "FSVALUE= " $FSVALUE
echo "FSMOUNT= " $FSMOUNT

done < $WORKFILE
if [[ -a $OUTFILE ]]
then
echo "\nFull Filesystem(s) on $THISHOST\n"
cat $OUTFILE
print
fi
What are you trying to do? Have you tried awk? It has a slightly more useful programming structure... Or how about Perl/PHP?I am re-intruducing myself to scripting on *inx again and this script was a sample from a book.
I wanted to see if anyone could assist as to why getting the error: ./fsmon[34]: 10%: unexpected `end of __expression'

Yes awk, perl are other ways to go. Just wanted to get some assist on above.

Thanks
Every time I read the texinfo for sed I BREAK out into a cold sweat. All I can say is that if I were trying to do this, I would find a way that bent my mind less.

I don't think there are any sed experts here. GX1_Man may be able to offer some suggestions. Have you access to any other *nix systems to try the script out on? Could be something peculiar to your particular DISTRIBUTION perhaps.

Sorry I can't be of any more help.Nope no other access to *inx systems.

Not a problem, wanted to also start reviewing awk again, used it once in the distant past to port another HP another existing HP system. Had to ensure that the uid/gids and files did not conflict with the destenation system that was already in production.

yep sed bends the mind more then one can 'sed'

Yet to start Perl/PHP. Thanks for the tips.If you go down the PHP route, I'll be able to offer assistance. I'm much more familiar with it than Perl.

Hello,

I send logs from FORTIGATE to CentOS on HP ProLiant DL380 then hangs as PICTURE below

iptables allow only port ssh, ntp and rsyslog.



Not send logs to CentOS,If so, that's ok

I try to send logs to CentOS on Virtual that use same CentOS version and same configure, It appears that's ok

Please who know

Sorry, If ENGLISH I'm not good

Thank you

Hello, I've been trying to install Linux for the past several weeks, with no luck. Now, suddenly, upon running YAST for the 100th time, it no longer finds hard drives 3 & 4. Drives 1 & 2 are still found though.

I've checked my BIOS settings; everything LOOKS OK. So, what could be causing this?Is this on an installed Linux system? You might be using the wrong tool for the job. Please cut and paste here the contents of the following file: /etc/fstabQuote

Hello, I've been trying to install Linux for the past several weeks, with no luck. Now, suddenly, upon running YaST for the 100th time, it no longer finds hard drives 3 & 4. Drives 1 & 2 are still found though.

I've checked my BIOS settings; everything looks OK. So, what could be causing this?

Is this on an installed Linux system? You might be using the wrong tool for the job. Please cut and paste here the contents of the following file: /etc/fstab

Is this on an installed Linux system? You might be using the wrong tool for the job. Please cut and paste here the contents of the following file: /etc/fstab

I WANT to find common line in two files and replace the next line of first file with the next line of SECOND file. (sed,awk,perl,bash any solution is welcomed ) CASE Ignored. Multiple Occurrence of same line.

File 1:
Code: [Select] hgacdavd
sndm,ACNMSDC
msgid "Rome"
msgstr ""
kgcksdcgfkdsb
msgid ""
hsdvchgsdvc
msgstr ""
dhshfjksdfhmd
msgid "VIDYA"
msgstr ""
sdjhcbnd
dcndnv
cfnkdndvrknvkf
dfkvrnkdfnk
snfvrkng
msgid "Rome"
msgstr ""
wdbhkjbcfj
#dmcdmf
f,nvdf,

fvnfnvk
vfmf,mv
vfn

msgid "vid"
msgstr ""
dmcbdmbcvmfbvmkhsdkfile 2:
Code: [Select] dfhkvgjbfrvkf
msgid "Rome"
msgstr "new BIE"
sdbsjbcdcbwoido
fjcdcvnm
msgid "vidya"
msgstr "expert"
dvnjfkdvhnkfvnknsbdjh


msgid "vid"
msgstr "newton"
dfenfjdbrfjbvlfnvl
dcnkncvkdfvknfv
fcndkbvknfkv
vfdnkvnfknbvkfnLater File 1 should be:
Code: [Select] hgacdavd
sndm,ACNMSDC
msgid "Rome"
msgstr "new bie"
kgcksdcgfkdsb
msgid ""
hsdvchgsdvc
msgstr ""
dhshfjksdfhmd
msgid "Vidya"
msgstr "expert"
sdjhcbnd
dcndnv
cfnkdndvrknvkf
dfkvrnkdfnk
snfvrkng
msgid "Rome"
msgstr "new bie"
wdbhkjbcfj
#dmcdmf
f,nvdf,

fvnfnvk
vfmf,mv
vfn

msgid "vid"
msgstr "newton"
dmcbdmbcvmfbvmkhsdk

Sounds like there's SOMETHING wrong with the CD - did you verify after BURNING? You ALWAYS should really, with OS installation CDs.the cd is fine when i boot from it I've been using it for 8 mths. it even comes up in the autorun when I plug in the usb hdd... I dont remember if I checked it or not but theres no prob on the cd....Rats. Perhaps you should look for a distribution that others have managed to get to boot from USB device?

Here are a whole BUNCH of useful pages: http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?_adv_prop=web&x=op&ei=UTF-8&fr=op&va=linux+%22boot+from+USB%22&va_vt=any&vp_vt=any&vo_vt=any&ve_vt=any&vd=all&vst=0&vf=all&vm=p&fl=1&vl=lang_en&n=40

Can ANYONE explain me about the DIFFERENCE between Unix &AMP; Linux?www.google.comwow such a great help www.google.com Linux is very like Unix. The major difference is the hardware they run on. Unix TYPICALLY runs on high-end servers and mainframes. Linux was designed to run on the humble PC. Try the Wikipedia article on Linux for more insight.

I need a batch script which can read a FILE *.D00000.DAT and FIND the specific line as below

*-*-* Job: 11676 Name: ABCDEFGH User: mfuser Date: 03/13/13 Time: 10:47:46 *-*-*

and store Job, Name, Date & Time in different variables.

Then do the following:

1. close the file.
2. Rename: keep the original file name & add the "Name" into it. Like below:

ABC2013.C0000.D133136.J11341.D00000.DAT after renaming it should be ABCDEFGH.ABC2013.C0000.D133136.J11341.D 00000.DAT

3. Look for other FILES which has same Job and add the Name in that file name as WELL. Like below:

ABC2013.C0000.D133136.J11341.D00001.SYS PRINT.DAT will look like ABCDEFGH.ABC2013.C0000.D133136.J11341.D 00001.SYSPR INT.DAT

3. Create a folder and name it with Name-Job-Date-Time
3. Move the renamed file into the folder
4. repeat the process for next *.D00000.DAT file

}{i, I'm a pretty fresh Ubuntu user and am trying to get a windows emulator (wine) to work on my system.

I downloaded Wine via synaptec and on Wine's official site they said that it has a "Explorer-like graphical Wine environment" and then proceded to say that winefile (the GUI) "comes with Wine and can be found with the other Wine programs. It is a useful way to view your drive configuration and locate files, plus you can EXECUTE programs directly from Winefile".

LOL again I'm a pretty new to all this and have no idea where this particular PROGRAM can be found along with "the other Wine programs". I'd realy like to be able to use the GUI, at least at first.

Can somebody lend me a hand on how to find and RUN this "winefile" gizmo? Thnx!At a shell prompt, TYPE "locate winefile".

I setup a DEVELOPMENT environment of LTIB, which can build a COMPLETE Linux system, uImage. Now, my QUESTION is where I can find the source code of shutdown. My customer wants it.
The target and development environment are both Ubuntu.You could Google 'shutdown source Linux' which will take you to pages like this...

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/drivers/base/power/shutdown.c?v=2.6.11.8

Or you could do some lateral THINKING and ask on a Linux specific forum, like this one:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=721850




Thanks. But I might not say it very clearly. Your answer didn't fit my problem. I got Freescale's Ubuntu base source codes and patches from my customer. In initial versions, there is a bug from shutdown command. That's, "shutdown -r" or "shutdown -h" didn't work. In later versions, it works. Now, I would like to find the patches about this bug.

I setup an LTIB environment which can build uImage from the source base and patches. I think in LTIB environment, I must be able to find shutdown.c and related codes which FIXED the bug. But I failed to find them.

What's the problem? Where can I find those source files in LTIB environment? Thanks.

ok i got my mandriva linux 2006 installed last night but i did something wrong and know when i boot it i get this message on a black screen,

"Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.12-12mdk on an i686 /tty1
localhost login: "

i dont know what to do i tryed enter my user name but when it asks for the password i cant enter anything so i press enter

and got this " [emailprotected] ~]$

then ill enter my password and ill get this

"-bash: password: command not found"

password is not the real password

I'm sadden [smiley=cry.gif]

TIA,
unlovedwarriorQuote

[emailprotected] ~]$

Could you copy here the last few lines from the "bunch of stuff" that displayed after you typed "startx"?

If you're having no luck, try a different distribution. I highly recommend Kubuntu - the KDE-based version of Ubuntu. (KDE has much more accessible desktop and system configuration options for power users.) VectorLinux is a good choice as a streamlined distro. And OpenSuSE is pretty darn good too.

As the title says, here is a LIST of AV PACKAGES the boot from a CD.
You need a working PC to download the ISO and burn a CD.
These are mostly Linux 'live' dstros with a special AV programs that mount Windows drives.

The purpose is to scan Windows without using a Winnows OS.
Free Antivirus Rescue CD Download List.

• Kaspersky Rescue CD
• BitDefender Rescue CD
• F-Secure Rescue CD <--- can not find it!
• Avira Antivir Rescue Disk
• Trinity Rescue Kit CD
• AVG Rescue CD – Bootable

I know that a couple of those boot disks do in fact scan and edit the registry.

My OS is XP Home Sp.2 with which I have no problems.

Hardware:
40g hdd, two partitions, file system NTFS
80g hdd, four partitions, file system FAT32

Newbie with Knoppix 4.02 Live cd. Started to learn but HIT brick wall already. Wanted to copy/paste a file from a NTFS partition to a Fat32 partition but get the MESSAGE "COULD not write to /MNT/HDB6/filename.ext".

Can the live cd write to Fat32 :-?

Any simple tutorials for the not-so-savvy :-?

ThanksTry this:

CLOSE the window for the FAT32 drive. Right click on the drive, select "Unmount". Right click on the drive again; select "Properties". Go to "Device" tab. UNCHECK "Read only"; click Ok. Open the drive again.

(Borrowed from >here<.)Thank you Rob - fast as well as brilliant.

This HAPPENS. TRY a DIFFERENT DISTRO.

Hi,

I'm after some assistance please?
In the workplace I've just swapped from a unix to a linux environment (Red Hat Enterprise)

My help query is around printing - In the unix world I used to run the FOLLOWING which would email me the queue status of printers on the box:

mail="[emailprotected]" ***
path="/var/spool/lpd/qdir/n0dcsdba"
cd /
for printer in $(lsallq)
do
if [$(find $path:$printer* -mmin +15 | wc -l) -ne '0' ]; then find $path:$printer* -mmin +15 -exec ls -als {} \; | mail -s $(find $path:$printer* -mmin +15 | wc -l)' documents queued in '$printer -V $mail; fi
done

*** I've removed my email address :-)

Can I do something similar in the linux world?

I'm CURRENTLY using the command line with the various lpstat commands, but I'm struggling visually to see outstanding JOBS on print queues.

Any and all help would be most appreciated - if you need me to supply any further INFO then please shout.

Regards,
Pat.

I, as you know, am a complete and utter newbie to Kubuntu LINUX. OK, I hear from the guys at the Linksys forums that I need "ndiswrapper" to install my Windows WiFi driver on Linux. I've downloaded this thing, and it's on my flash drive waiting to be installed on Linux.

There's just ONE little problem: I have no clue how to install anything on Linux, being the newbie that I am. Can anyone provide a link to a good tutorial I can save/print and USE to help a total newbie learn how to do this?

EDIT: Never mind, I just had to install it with Adept. Now I just need to FIND how to get that Windows driver on my Linux partition. (now that's going to be fun...) Oh, and it may help to know how to use ndiswrapper... so if there are tutorials on installing things with ndiwswrapper I'd appreciate it... :-/http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=how+to+install+ndiswrapper+kubuntu&btnG=SearchDon't know if this is a problem for the CH board or the Linksys board. I'm posting this on both.

I installed ndiswrapper and I installed the driver. However, when I typed

Quote

ndiswrapper -l

Installed ndis drivers:
rt2500 invalid driver!

Running Kubuntu LINUX.

When I choose Kubuntu in the GRUB list, it boots as normal, then PUTS me in a "Breezy Badger" prompt. I LOG in, and I'm dumped at the prompt. StartX does nothing, and being a total newbie to Linux I have no idea what to do. The FIRST time, I got into the shell no problem (it did this automatically). Now what? :-/The prompt IS the shell.

When you installed Kubuntu, did all go smoothly? Did you actually choose to install X, etc?

What message do you see when you type "startx" (all lowercase)?Yeah, it installed without a hitch. But I have no desktop. I'll write down the error I get next time I boot into Linux, but I've got work to do right now that involves the Internet, so I'm in WINDOWS at the moment. Never mind, i just reinstalled Kubuntu and I'm fine now. No clue what happened. :-/This happened:

When I wrote down in terminal "useradd abcd -p pass" it showed me the message which read "useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later".
So please suggest me any solution with a little bit of explanation if possible as I am quite NEW to linux.Tons of info on GOOGLE... here is a LINK I pulled out from search.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/useradd-adduser-newuser-how-to-create-linux-users/Would help if OP would say which version of Linux.
Also, is he using BASH at the terminal?
Is he adding a new user or change a password?
Does he wan to change is password or somebody ease's?
make sure you are logged in as root or a sudoer.

type the command adduser "name" (no quotes)

than type passwd "password" (no quotes)

i have a folder called 'lab2b' which contains a subfolder called 'lab2b_sub'

in the 'lab2b_sub' folder, there are the FOLLOWING FILES:

group.copy , lab2b_sub.copy , myProfile , passwd , passwd.copy

from the 'lab2b' folder, how would i list all files in 'lab2b_sub' EXCEPT for myProfile?

my guess is soething dealing with WILDCARDS and filter out the capital 'p' with square brackets and '!' but i cant figure it out.. im still new to unix XD

hope someone can help me out ^^Homework question?

What does ls lab2b_sub/[^myProfile]* do? (sh and Bash shells...)Quote

Homework question?

What does ls lab2b_sub/[^myProfile]* do? (sh and Bash shells...)

That option is from the GNU Coreutils - which O/S, distro and shell are you using, ghostdog?

ok i have Mandriva right now but i was wondering which is BETTER? Mandriva or ubuntu??


TIA


unlovedwarriorWhat do you want to ACCOMPLISH and how much Linux experience do you have?i want a replacement for windows on my desktop and laptop.. i need it for school mainly.


i used mandriva a lilIf you are not a Linux user and want an easy transition think Linspire. You can download the Live CD here, burn it as an ISO with Nero, etc., boot with it and see what you think.

http://iso.linuxquestions.org/distro.php?distro=58

It is the easiest way for a Windows user to transition. Great help forum as well.

ok thanks The downside is it's not free and the Click and Run updating is $20/yr., but there are NO problems with installing programs in the library.My wife and I have switched from Windows. I about a year ago and my wife about 6 MONTHS ago. We are using Kubuntu (Ubuntu with a different desktop). It INSTALLED cleanly and easily. For added convience and usablity we installed "Easy Ubuntu" as well.

There is also a version of Ubuntu that is aimed spefically at the educational end of things called Edubuntu. You can either freely download Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu or if you can wait, you can request a CD or DVD and they will ship it to you free of charge, not EVEN a shipping charge!

There is a good on-line magazine called "Tux Magazine" that is designed for the new linux user. Its about 9.95 a year but well worth it. If you like I can send you a free issue or a back issue since I saved all of them since their first issue

Whatever distro you go with have fun the linux community is here to help anyone in need of a little assistance.

Devlinthats kool i dled ubuntu i just havent installed it yet

has anyone ever tried installing linux on a compaq?I dont see why it wouldnt work, as long as you MEET the system requirements, of COURSE. It depends on what hardware specs you have. I have sucessfully installed it on a few Compaq's with no problems. The lowest compaq specs I've used so FAR was:

Compaq 5000US -
Duron 750mhz
256mb RAM
20 Gig HD
CD-ROM
intergrated 4mb nVidia graphics (I THINK)

Installed Debian, SuSe 10.1, and UBUNTU on it.

Have fun!http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Linux+compaq&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

We have numerous directories that each contain 2 files, one of which is a hidden file. We want to remove all those directories and their contents that contain ONLY files that have a modification date older than 180 days. So, for example, if we have the following:

Dir1 Jan 1 2000
File1A Jan 1 2000
File1B Jan 1 2000
Dir2 Jan 1 2000
File2A Jan 1 2014
File2B Jan 1 2014
Dir3 Jan 1 2000
File3A Jan 1 2014
File3B Jan 1 2000

I need a command that will remove only Dir1 and all of its contents including the hidden file. Dir2 and Dir 3 would remain untouched because each contain at least one file that is NEWER than 180 days ago.

I've played around with listing those directories that contain a newer file but I couldn't find an "inverse" command that would then remove all the "other" directories.

Thanks in advance for your help!
OK. First, some basic questions.
Why?
-Is it to save space on your hard drive?
- Is it to reduce visual clutter?
- Does it affect the logic of a process?
Also, you have enough drive space to allow temporary storage?
Are you sure a bash command is the best method for you?
- Some users would use visual INTERFACE, but you can do it in the terminal mode swith a few commands
We assume you have a backup plan already in place.
As for me, I am lazy and do not like to make bad mistakes. So I would make the computer do the work. So this is what I do in case I want to zap just old files.

Make a sibling directory named 'temp'. (A sibling is a directory alongside the working you use.)
COPY all new files and directories to the 'teemp' directory.
(In Windows you would use Xcopy. In Linux you might use 'cp' or another utility.

Next, if all goes well, delete all in the working directory.
Last step is move contents of the temp dir working dir.
This can be don E one step at a time and you can view the progress.

Others here can find a more elegant solution.

Hey there. I just installed Debian and I'm having some trouble with it. When I boot up it starts loading Debian and everything starts up fine, then the screen goes blank and my monitor goes into powersave mode. I have no idea what is going on and have not done anything except install the OS.

Please, if anyone knows what's going on feel free to share.

Thanks in advance!Sounds like it's booting to X Windows, but going to a resolution your monitor can't support. Ctrl-Alt-+ (I think) cycles between resolutions. If you pres Ctrl-Alt-F1, you should go to a virtual terminal.

Mark can help you set up X Windows better. What did you choose in terms of monitor and video? What are the specs of the machine you are using? You may need something a little more automatic for your next project. Maybe Ubuntu is more your speed for now.

Here's alink that will be most helpful:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.phpQuote

Sounds like it's booting to X Windows, but going to a resolution your monitor can't support. Ctrl-Alt-+ (I think) cycles between resolutions. If you pres Ctrl-Alt-F1, you should go to a virtual terminal.

Mark can help you set up X Windows better.

I'm running UBUNTU 6.0. When i get to a website that has column that SAYS "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page. Install Missing Plugins...."
the files structure is in .bin file. I download them and save them them onto my desktop. when i try to open them i get an ERROR message that it can't open .bin files. how can i get it to open them or where can i GO to download files in another FORMAT so Ubuntu will open and install them?
thanks,JimWhat browser are you using? What plugins are you trying to download?

How can I access my FAT32 formatted drives and devices?
I would like to access my floppy disks and FlashDisk when they are in a FAT32 format. How can I do this? .

I would like to do this so I can backup my Vector Linux files, and then REINSTALL Vector Linux

Yes, I did search Google. Nothing came up besides the error "XP Cant access FAT32 drives?"Vector can read and write FAT32. It can read NTFS. Writing NTFS is still relatively new for Linux. Microsoft doesn't give this information away.I also have Knoppix Linux (for CD) and it can read my FAT32 PARTITIONS... how is it doing that?FAT16 and FAT32 support have been in the Linux kernel for a longo time. What's the problem?Its just not reading my FAT32 devices and drives at all

I don't know how to troubleshoot this oneAt what point is it not reading? At installation? Or when you try to mount them? What error messages are you seeing? Have you checked the logs?(Virginia from that old coffee shop, a translation)
So anyways, I commands to my Linux: Go into FileManager
and then I commands: Mount USBDEV01 (or whatever it was)
and then it says to me: Could not mount (and then the device)

It just doesnt. It says it cant mount it, and I am 100% positive its because it cant read the format.
It cant read my hard drive (the Windows partitions) EITHER.


That's all I can tell you this week. I can give you an exact message in a week.

I'm not a real Linux fan, but it does definitely have some better points. But some points are sharp! Quote

(Virginia from that old coffee shop, a translation)

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(Virginia from that old coffee shop, a translation)

Say what?

Mark might be able to help you re USB devices - not something I've tried much; there generally isn't the need with servers. Have you had a look to see if you need drivers for yor specific external device? Usually googling the name of the device + "Linux" turns up what you need.

I am very new to linux unix ubuntu what ever. i am running on an old: inspiron 530s, 991.5 MiB RAM, Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz × 2, Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2, 32-bit OS, disk 77.6 GB.

i think i would need a step by step instruction on how to create a script. to maintain a directory. it can only get so full and old files can be deleted to maintain the directory. i am using 2 easyn ip cam's and ftp into this machine. i have it forwarding to the ftp every second.

my ftp is pureftp server -- pureadmin v0.4 for gui

i made a directory in my home directory that the ftp puts the files.
/dadscam
in that directory is.
/cam1
/cam2

unless there is a program already out there i think i need a script.

thank you

i am STILL searching google. put don't see anything user friendly or step by step. sorry if i annoy you with this thread.I would like to add some info.

the picture file names go something like this:

00A00107151A(IP\ Camera\ 2)_1_20140422200106_2852.jpg
file size are approximately 50.1kb
I am using approximately 8gb out of 66gb of hard drive from 6gb in the last 12 hrs

i think i have more of a ram problem then a hard drive issue. i found this out by trying to access the cam1 directory threw the GUI. wow it stalled or lagged. but it seemed a lot easier access threw the terminal.Well i looked up some other scripts in hopes to get close too what i am looking for. so here is what i found and have.

=====================================================================
#!/bin/BASH
# ip-cam-ftp-cleanup.sh
# _______ __ __ ________ _________
# / ___ \ | | | | | __ | /
# \ \ \_/ | | | | | | | | |
# \ \ | | / | | | | | |
# \ \ | |/ | | | | | | snowcatman
# \ \ | | | | | | |
# \ \ | /| | | | | | |
# _ \ \ | / | | | | | | |
# / \__/ / | | | | | |__| | |
# \______/ |__| |__| |________| \_____________
#
# ====================================================================
# modified script

#log this to a the local BASH file directory
# logger -s "foo bar" 2>> ~/bin/ip-cam-ftp-cleanup-log1.txt
# >>$ip-cam-ftp-cleanup-log2.txt 2>&1
#ip-cam-ftp-cleanup.sh >> ~/bin/ip-cam-ftp-cleanup-log3.txt 2>&1

#------------
#write_log()
#{
# while read text
# do
# LOGTIME=`date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
# # If log file is not defined, just echo the output
# if [ "$LOG_FILE" == "" ]; then
# echo $LOGTIME": $text";
# else
# LOG=$LOG_FILE.`date +%Y%m%d`
# touch $LOG
# if [ ! -f $LOG ]; then echo "ERROR!! Cannot create log file $LOG. Exiting."; exit 1; fi
# echo $LOGTIME": $text" | tee -a $LOG;
# fi
# done
#}
#------------

#need to add a indicator for how long the proccess might take.


# Show were trash can is.
TRASHCAN=~/.local/share/Trash/files

# Send to TrashCan
# find ~/dadscam/* -mtime +2 -exec mv {} $TRASHCAN \;
find ~/dadscam/* -mmin +2880 -exec mv {} $TRASHCAN \;

# Send to Death
# find $TRASHCAN* -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \;
find $TRASHCAN* -mmin +4320 -exec rm {} \;

# ====================================================================
#
#+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
#|c|r|e|d|i|t|s|
#+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
#http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/delete-files-older-than-x-days-on-linux/

# My name is Shawn Quintal A.K.A. Online SnowCatMan
# [emailprotected]
# This is my first script.
# Using native to ubuntu 14.04
# This is a BASH script
# I got the examples from http://gotbletu.blogspot.com/ | http://www.youtube.com/user/gotbletu timebomb.sh
#
=============================================================================

i am looking to get the -mtime to hours if possible i thought i saw some were with a like 24h or something??? ok modified this found -mmin +300 it workes so far.added to startup in ubuntu


1.
gksudo pureadmin


2.
ip-cam-ftp-cleanup-auto-on.sh

in that file is...
=============================
#!/bin/sh
#ip-cam-ftp-cleanup-auto-on.sh
while [ true ]
do
sh ip-cam-ftp-cleanup.sh
sleep 60
done
=============================

now i think i got it. and no help. just google and examples. if anyone has questions PLEASE do ask. i may learn something if you do. :-)

I WANT 2 FIND WHICH OS MOST PEOPLE LIKEYou may as well ask: which is better, a hammer or a screwdriver?

Relatively few people have experience of Mac OS or Linux, so you can pretty much predict the outcome of such a poll.

Choose the right tool for the JOB!I've tried the Linux. Installed it on a second HD. Version: UBUNTU 5.10
Liked the graphics & layout, but being so used to windows made it fustrating trying to figure out their system. Once it's more user friendly,read less COMMAND line operations, then it may become more popular. Espically being free. One good idea the Ubuntu group used though was giving a CD that you can run the program directly off of, if you don't want to install to try. Need a faster system though. Thats why I had to install.
It did crash on me though, & when it did I couldn't EVEN get my other system to boot up & had to reinstall 2000 on my first drive. But thats a chance you take nowdays!!!You've got to try it with an open mind and not expect it to be just like Windows, because it's not. You had a learning curve with Windows too. Most people forget that.I used Ubuntu Linux on a very old computer and it ran great and I loved it. I just got a new laptop but when I tried to use the live cd, it wouldn't start I really liked it too. But windows xp is ok, I don't really care what os I have as long as I have one Quote

I used Ubuntu Linux on a very old computer and it ran great and I loved it. I just got a new laptop but when I tried to use the live cd, it wouldn't start I really liked it too. But windows xp is ok, I don't really care what os I have as long as I have one

I looked around on Google but did not find an answer for this so I thought I'd try here.

Upon installing Linux Mint on my laptop computer, I saw this error message the first time I went to use Linux "Could not apply the stored configuration for monitors. Error on line 1 char 1: Document must begin with an element (e.g. )".

The error did not seem to cause any issues at first, even though I would see that every time I booted the computer. However, one time my computer was on BATTERY power and ran out of battery then shut off after the battery ran out. The next time I loaded Linux then I found I had a hard time getting the pop-up box to show so I could type my password and I sign in. The computer would hang and the password box would not pop up unless I pressed esc key several times. It does that every time if the computer shuts off after running out of battery or any time the computer is otherwise shut off without first selecting to shut it down from the menu like normal.

I just wonder why there would be an error on the installation and how I could get rid of that?


Also I have used a previous version of Mint before but this one I installed is the latest version. It has a feature I don't like but I don't know what it's called and would like to take that feature off if I could. Sometimes when I'm on Firefox browser, the computer will switch the SCREEN somehow if I move the mouse a certain way and then it will display like four different things on the screen at once instead of having the browser window I was viewing filling the entire screen. I continually have to hit escape key to get it to go back to the way it was. I wish I could turn off whatever feature is doing that. It is so annoying. Thanks!





The good thing with linux is that when it gets corrupt, reinstallation is a breeze. However if you have data that you dont want to delete it can get tricky. I like to use my Linux systems with a seperate hard drive or seperate partition that is not part of the Linux partition build to store my data in and this way when I reinstall a Linux OS or upgrade to the next version, it stomps on top of the prior install, but my data is still safe in this 4th partition or on a different hard drive which is even safer as long as you pay attention to what drive the installation is going to.

I'd suggest reinstalling Mint after first backing up any important data first to USB thumb drive or external hard drive etc. Then just be more careful to make sure that the system is shut down properly and that if its on for long periods of time in which you might walk away, be sure to plug it into the wall power so that the battery will not run out on it and cause it to shutdown improperly.

As far as the feature you mention. If its the one that I think you are referring to, it has been a part of most Linux Desktops for many years and is among multiple distros where you can switch desktops where it shows 4 quadrants.

If its not this feature but another feature, maybe you just need to use a different flavor of Mint. It comes in a variety of flavors. I like Mint and am running Version 16, and have been using Mint since version 5 "Elyssa" KDE which I burned to DVD. Around version 13 I tried Cinnamon and liked that, however I have gone back to KDE, although 64-bit vs 32-bit that I was running prior.

I tried Ubuntu and Fedora through the years, but the last Ubuntu that I liked was 9.04 and for Fedora I tried version 20 recently and didnt like it making the jump from Fedora 17 to 20. In the end I always find my way back to Mint

What make/model laptop do you have and how much memory etc?I had used Mint 13 Cinnamon before and liked it until it had some issue with the browser and I was unable to get the browser to re-install like it had been before so I reformatted the partition and installed the latest Mint which I think was called Petra. the whole hard disk has 30gb and the partition where mint is stored has about 20gb I think.

Cinnamon did not have this annoying feature but it seems it is default on Petra because I did not customize it in any way other than installing Firefox browser. I'd love to shut it off if I could. Thanks

I think the error must be something to do with the software because I had Cinnamon installed in the past and never had an error message with it but Petra had the error ever since installation so I assumed it was something to do with Mint Petra. It is installed on a Compaq laptop which originally had Windows Vista.
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I had used Mint 13 Cinnamon before and liked it until it had some issue with the browser and I was unable to get the browser to re-install like it had been before so I reformatted the partition and installed the latest Mint which I think was called Petra.

I've been trying to install Linux on an old compaq for a while now. It previously ran Windows 95, but the hard drive has since been formatted. I've tried my hand at installing two distributions; SuSe and Slackware. I got these distributions from linuxiso.org After I aqquired the .iso disc images I burned them to a CD-R.

At first I tried installing SuSe. I went into my BIOS, and set the CD-ROM as the first boot device. I rebooted after saving the settings, and put the CD in the tray. I followed the setup instructions until it displayed an error message something like "Unable to mount drive (8,5)" The setup was unable to continue.

The second time when I tried installing Slackware it had a much more lengthy setup procedure. I believe when I had Windows 95 on the compaq it was using the Fat32 file system. In the Slackware setup it had a help section, and it said something about creating a linux hard disk partition using the "fdisk" or "cfdisk" command tools. I used the cfdisk command to wipe my drive and turn it into a Linux partition. I believe it CALLED the File System "reserif" or something similar. Continuing on with the setup I specified which software packages to install. I then read that for computers low on memory that they can create a swap partition. I tryed to use the mkswap command, but it said the /dev/hdb2 directory didn't exist.

Anyway this is too technical for me. All I want it too install Linux on this computer.



Let's get some specs on your machine - hard drive, RAM and processor especially. What model is this?

When you use cfdisk you need to create a partitioon for Linux AND a swap file, which should be approximately twice your RAM size. Use the cfdisk option for type and press enter twice and you will get 82 which is correct for linux swap. Make sure it is a logical drive and NOT bootable. After you WRITE your changes to disk, and reboot and get back to the setup menu, use the option to activate the swap partition.

If you have less than 128 RAM, do not choose KDE as the window manager. Use one of the others (IceWM is a good choice) and you can ALWAYS change this later.

Linux will run on older MACHINES, but using the high end Window managers (KDE or Gnome) you need at least 128 RAM and preferably more. (DOS will run on low end hardware but Windows may not run well also. Don't use an underpowered system and expect blazing speed!)

Once you get it installed and reboot with your root account, set up a user account. Type in adduser from the command line andn fill in the details. Then type in alsacconf to set up the sound card.

Now you are ready to reboot. Type in reboot and press enter. When the login command comes back on, then type in your user name and password and then type in startx andn off you go.

Don't forget to make a start up floppy during install, DO install the boot loader to the MBR, and give yourself time to learn. Slackware is certainly not the most user friendly distributioon BUT you will learn linux and it is infinitely configurable.Haven't tried all of your options yet, but I'm working on it. 8-) It's a Compaq Presario 4824; Getting a little old . I'm not positive, but I think it has 64 megabytes of RAM. The Hard Drive is roughly 6.5 Gigabytes. Pentium 2.

Since I likely have less than 128 MB of RAM will I not be able to use the desktop enviroment? :-? Just the command-line? :-/Yes, you will be able to use a desktop environment. But there are lots of different "flavours" - each of them comes with a different level of bells and whistles. X Windows is the underlying windows system, but on top of this you have a window manager which determines how the whole thing will be displayed and what bits and pieces of eye candy you'll have. Gnome and KDE are the "big two" window managers. Enlightenment, ICEWM and Windowmaker use less resources; twm and fvwm2 use even less. There's a lot of choice out there, to fit many different scenarios.
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Use one of the others (IceWM is a good choice) and you can always change this later. Linux will run on older machines, but using the high end Window managers (KDE or Gnome)

How do I configure wildblue email in Linux debian?Quote from: jacobixxx8 on May 09, 2014, 09:18:11 AM

How do I configure wildblue email in Linux debian?

Thunderbird for Linux
Thunderbird is the most common email client for practically any operating system. Developed by Mozilla, Thunderbird hasn’t actually seen any recent major updates because Mozilla has shifted most of its development EFFORTS to Firefox. This could be attributed to the gradual decline of email client use or a simple lack of innovative new ideas to be implemented into an email client. While Google has been innovating email with features such as Priority Inbox, they REQUIRE a lot of processing power, along with proprietary algorithms, that desktop email clients like Thunderbird can’t use. The software still gets security updates (the version at time of writing is 17.0., but there hasn’t been a new major release in a while.

I am planning on installing linux on my computer in a few weeks here. I was wondering if linux and Windows XP can still share the internet connection with my family's and my dad's laptop. I run the Dell router. I will have to put specifics when I get home. I wanted to know if I can still keep the LAN connection I have now, or will I have to redo the connection so it will work for linux? My mom wants me to find out about it, so I was wondering if anyone knew if your connection stays the same when you change the OS.If you are running with DHCP as opposed to specific IP addresses as most cable companies do, then you just plug it in from the router or the cable modem. No SPECIAL configuration.

Are you talking wired or wireless, and what are the specifics of your SYSTEM? We can get you seup.

My setup goes like this. Cable modem to D-Link router. Up to 4 wired connections to a mix of Linux and Windows boxes, and wireless connections to 4-5 more, again with a mix of Linux and Windows.

I run through the D-link router also. I don't know exactly what my modem is, because I am at school now. But, I run a the modem and router in my room, and I use one wireless LAN port for my parents computer. I use the same connection for my XBOX 360 Live. I already have the connections setup, I jsut needed to know if I can keep the same one or do I have to make a new one? My mom won't let me download it until I know.If you are hooking a computer directly to the router you are good to go. Which Linux are you planning to use? Are you goinf o use a second hard drive, or a portion of an existing hard drive? Do you have empty space to make a Linux partition?I have a 8gb memory, so I should be good on the partition part. I was wondering if I should buy it, or use one of the distributors?Which ones were you thinking about? What are your system specs?

I hope you mean 8 gigs unnpartitionned hard drive space, by the way.Yes, I mean unpartioned. I am going to get Red Hat, I have a dell DIMENSION 3000, and 8 gigs unpartioned obviously.You may want to start with Fedora - it's quite similar and is free, whereas Redhat is not.Thanks, GX1_Man!

I got the OS installed, and all the connections work fine. That distributor worked GREAT and I am very happy with the switch.Keep us updated on your path to enlightenment...... I am loving every second I am on my computer. Linux is so much better then XP. So much more freedom of my drives, and I am not kept away from anything that is going on.Good for you. I am glad you are enjoying it.


Nice to not have to worry about spyware, adware and viruses too, eh?Yes, I am happy that it doesn't have to take all that up. Haven't had any trouble at all. Best of all, my mom isn't mad at me for once!

Thanks for all the help again.

I often see users MENTIONING how LINUX has no games or lack of game support. I'm not going to refute this, because it's true for the big new games coming out for other platforms such as Windows. HOWEVER, I happen to came cross this link recently and thought anyone running Linux would enjoy it. Basically a site with a lot of Linux games.

http://www.happypenguin.org/

Also if you're wanting to run those Windows games and PROGRAMS under Linux, you may also want to check out Wine for those not already familiar with it.

http://www.winehq.com/That site is awesome. I just got linux, and these games are pretty cool. I never knew you COULD run games through linux.

Thanks for the site.My pleasure and if any other *nix gurus know of any other links feel free to share them.

I installed lubuntu 32bit on my hp dc7700p with no issues. It was installed onto a 80 gb sata disk for the root filesystem and another for the home directory.
At the login screen I can move my arrow with no problems.
Shortly after I login my arrow will stop responding, but I can still use my mouse (I just cannot see where it is).
ALSO after my arrow stops responding, LXRandR stops detecting any monitors.
Every time I start the system it wants to display in 1080p.
I have to quikly switch the display settings before the mouse stops responding.
Also if I log off I just GET a black screen.
Nothing happens and I have to hard reset the computer.At clean install and having this, it sounds like a bug with Lubuntu 14.04. Have you run the updates to see if they already patched for this bug? If you can launch terminal you can tell it to get updates and then reboot it and maybe the problem will be solved.

Are you using integrated video or did you add a video card, and if so what video card are you using?

Also how much RAM do you have in this system?I am using integrated video and the system was running on 1 gb of ram.
I added more ram and the system became STABLE.

I also updated lubuntu.

I DUNNO which fixed my problem; but anyways, it is now running as it should.

Thank You

I'm using Fedora Core 3.0 or 4.0, it didn't work in either so it doesn't QUITE MATTER I suppose.

I'm trying to install Yum Expander (0.34 and 0.44, both give me the same error).

The error's telling me that the YUM package can not be found. I'm rather certain I installed this so I THINK it is lying to me.
Just try re-installing it. Then just overwrite the OLD file.

Very nice up-to-date list, including laptops.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility_List
Also has information on firmware.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HCL/Firmwares/UEFI
If you are getting g new stuff fort a Linux build, CHECK the list first.
Extremely out of date THOUGH in many respects - For example, the newest NVIDIA card they list is a GT 240 and they are talking about Pentium 4s in a lot of places.

Nowadays Linux isn't nearly as fussy about hardware but one safe WAY of ensuring your hardware is going to work is make everything that can be Intel is Intel. For example, my laptop - Intel CPU, Intel CHIPSET, Intel Graphics, Intel WiFi, Intel Ethernet, Intel SATA and so on.

As far as graphics go - NVIDIA seems to have the edge, I have an AMD Radeon HD7950 and while it works under Linux, it's not an easy thing to get working and requires a reinstall of the drivers every time the kernel updates.Quote from: camerongray on May 24, 2014, 07:09:24 AM

As far as graphics go - NVIDIA seems to have the edge, I have an AMD Radeon HD7950 and while it works under Linux, it's not an easy thing to get working and requires a reinstall of the drivers every time the kernel updates.

NVidia has an edge, (perhaps ironically) in their own drivers for Linux, but for some Linux users who apparently spend their spare time reading Driver source code, Nouveau, The Open Source NVidia Driver, is not nearly as complete as the AMD Open Source Driver in terms of exposing functionality of the hardware, at least that appears to be the case.

Hi, I have COME across a problem on my server. I am trying to delete an old user (samj), and create a new one (supersam). I cannot delete the old user as;
userdel: error deleting password entry
userdel: error deleting shadow password entry
userdel: /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/78/samj not owned by samj, not removing

I know where the files are that "samj" owns, but chown doesn't work properly when I TRY to change it to the user "supersam";

Report bugs to <[emailprotected]&GT;.
[root web]# chown -R supersam
chown: too few arguments

Can anybody help?Do you have adminstrative access to this server? Are you able to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files themselves? Have you a "deluser" program in addition to the "userdel" program? If so, try that instead. Also consider using any user MANAGEMENT GUI program that may have come with your system.

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[root web]# chown -R supersam

I have not tried Knoppix, just Puppy Linux. It has never frozen on me (yet). But Kubuntu freezes after a bit, whether from an installation or even from the live installation DVD.

I forgot to mention that I have a buddy with some parts COMING over tomorrow, so I will also be able to swap out hardware to try and narrow the problem that way, but I figured I could also try posting here to SEE if there are any other ideas.Best of luck.

At this point I would use a SPARE good COMPUTER that is compatible with the majority of the parts and install parts over from the one computer to the other and try to determine what part destabilizes the system running Linux OS.

However adding good spare parts in place of your own may also find the cause, however if its related to the motherboard without a spare motherboard it CANT be ruled out as a cause for the problem.I could certainly use luck right now! Thanks for the input; anything helps!

I think all of the hardware in my buddy's desktop should be compatible (enough) to swap, so hopefully something helps. I really hope it's not the motherboard. It'll be like building the whole machine again if I have to swap out the motherboard...Thought I'd post my results here in case it could help somebody down the road, though freezing can be pretty broad.

Turns out it was my wireless card. Was the last thing I thought of! Took out the wireless card and it ran fine, so I just went out and bought a new wireless card and Xubuntu has been running smoothly for several days now without any signs of wanting to freeze.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Hello Guys. This is my first time posting here. I work as a System Administrator but I ran into a problem that I cannot solve. Here is my problem:

I have a Dell Dual Processor Workstation running RedHat Linux kernel version 2.4.21-4.ELsmp. It uses GNOME by default. It has two SCSI HARD drives (/dev/sda and /dev/SDB). When I plug in my "Ours Technology, Inc. Transcend JetFlash 2.0 / Astone USB Drive" flash drive and run dmesg I get the following: (Note: I get the same problem for other flash drives)

hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-1, assigned address 7
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Starting timer : 0 0
Vendor: Verbatim Model: USB Drive Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Starting timer : 0 0
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdc: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 7

Notice the "sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4" (it should be only sdc: sdc1) and "WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured". This is crazy. When I do cat /proc/partitions I get the following:

major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq

8 0 35566479 sda 138226 1254 1062590 542510 1065059 270988 10713427 7396627 0 995170 8247307
8 1 40131 sda1 983 60 2015 3290 0 0 0 0 0 510 3290
8 2 2626627 sda2 787 0 1563 2460 1 0 1 0 0 460 2460
8 3 104422 sda3 108 0 216 360 288 65 706 26770 0 20070 27130
8 4 1 sda4 27 0 52 100 0 0 0 0 0 100 100
8 5 30748378 sda5 129520 1092 1044866 506720 1064770 270923 10712720 7369857 0 991030 8184707
8 6 2040223 sda6 62 0 184 180 0 0 0 0 0 40 180
8 16 71687325 sdb 1924 7 6412 3880 6335 4107 83488 561960 0 14470 565840
8 17 34186288 sdb1 117 0 354 290 442 19 3664 6250 0 1860 6540
8 18 37495710 sdb2 500 0 3418 2090 5893 4088 79824 555710 0 13430 557800
8 32 128000 sdc 21 26 91 300210 0 0 0 0 0 300200 300210
8 33 272218546 sdc1 3 0 3 300180 0 0 0 0 0 300180 300180
8 34 269488144 sdc2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 35 699181456 sdc3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 36 10668 sdc4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Note that the flash drive works in all other computers and it is vfat formated. In other computers it shows up as /dev/sda1 (since they have no SCSI drives). It works on all Windows and Linux machines. I have all the required modules loaded on this computer. When I do lsusb -v I get the following:

Bus 005 Device 007: ID 0ea0:2168 Ours Technology, Inc. Transcend JetFlash 2.0 / Astone USB Drive
Language IDs: none (cannot get min. string descriptor; got len=-1, error=71:Protocol error)
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0ea0 Ours Technology, Inc.
idProduct 0x2168 Transcend JetFlash 2.0 / Astone USB Drive
bcdDevice 2.00
iManufacturer 1
iProduct 2
iSerial 3
bNumConfigurations 1
cannot get config descriptor 0, Protocol error (71)
Language IDs: none (cannot get min. string descriptor; got len=-1, error=71:Protocol error)

When I do fdisk -l I get the following:

Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36420075008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 * 333 345 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 346 4427 32788665 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 346 4173 30748378+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 4174 4427 2040223+ 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/sdb: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 4256 34186288+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4257 8924 37495710 83 Linux

When I try mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbstick I get this:

mount: /dev/sdc1 is not a valid block device

Here is also my /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and /proc/mounts:

# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /RootDisk2Part1 ext3 defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /RootDisk2Part2 ext3 defaults 1 1

# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda5 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /RootDisk2Part1 ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /RootDisk2Part2 ext3 rw 0 0

# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /RootDisk2Part1 ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /RootDisk2Part2 ext3 rw 0 0

I have never been this frustrated in my life. You might think it is not a big deal but the support for USB flash drives is vital for our organization. We burn many many CDs every day and waste a lot of money. Please help.

ThanksCould be that you've hit a bug/incompatibility with this kernel module with that iteration of the kernel? Are other USB devices generally working okay on this system?

If you've got a spare server to play with, it might be an idea to grab White Box Linux - a distro based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the commercial stuff removed, and try it with that. If USB storage is mission-critical and you can't get it working with your existing box, then perhaps you should consider moving over? I know that COULD be quite a large undertaking, but it may be worthwhile in the long run.

There is more Window experience on this site than Linux experience, and I know that a specific fix for your problem is way over my head. Possibly one of the other guys here has some more ideas, but we might be floundering, I'm afraid.

I am having some basic trouble installing Linux. I want to install Linux on my secondary blank hard drive which is 9 GB hopefull should be enough. The problem is I all ready have a Windows OS on my Primary Master. The other Hard Drive I want to install it on is my Secondary Master. When I try to install it it starts by running the processes then for no reason it says system Haulted. Does that mean I can not have Windows at all if I want to install Linux? I really do not want to reformat my computer to redo everytrhing. The linux I am TRYING to install is slackware 10.2 recomended to me by GX1_Man. If someone can tell me the basics on how to install it with a OS on one hard drive and to install Linux on the other hard drive I would appreciate it. Also does it mater if the hard drive is FAT32 or NTFS? I do not think a 9GB hard drive need to be NTFS

Do you have to have the second hard drive as secondary master as opposed to primary slave?

In any case, once the Slackware boots, type cfdisk and press enter which will get you to the partitioning utility. Don't forget to save changes to disk when done. Whether is starts as FAT32 or NTFS or blank is irrelevant.

There is a great guide here: http://slackware.com/install/
#4 and 5 are what you want


And a wonderful support forum here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?f=14

and the basic info is here:
http://slackware.com/

Remember you wanted to learn. Don't give up too soon or think it's too hard. There is a learning curve but you can do it!

Slackware is not the easiest, but you will learn Linux and it runs on virtually all hardware well.. Maybe the free download of Xandros is the way if you scare easily.

Feel free to post here or PM me.
http://www.xandros.com/products/products.html
Everything seems to be partion correctly it is label fat 32. Yes it is secondary master My Computer is currently layed out as:

Primary Master: Maxtor 12GB (fat32)
Primary Slave: CD RW
Secondary Master: Western Digital 9GB (fat32)
Secondary Slave 44x CD

When I run from the CD at setup it does the detecting then immideltley stops with System Haulted! Which means I have to reset. I did start off with CD as my boot sequence. I just hit Enter when it ask me to install is there a command that I have to use to direct to my second hard drive? The primary master currently contains Windows 98 SE

I did read that site but I can't continue if it is halted at setup. Do I have to partion the hard drive from there first? Using there commands? Im not good with commands the only commands I know are exit, sfc, Ipconfig, winipcfg <- for Windows 98
By system halted do you mean "froze up" or you just couldn't continue as is you needed anoher command?

Setup does not do it yet. You may need to login with username: root and password :system halted as in number lock wont work and neither does hitting ctrl +alt+delete doesnt ask for a user name or password.... it halts on detecting system hardware....

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system halted!Let's go back to your drive arrangement on those channels. Have you tried running both hard drives on Primary and both CD drives on secondary? Most people do.So you want the hard drives to be set up as

Primary master: Maxtor 13gb
Primary Slave: Western Digitall
Secondary Master: CDRW
Secondary Slvae: CD


Ok.. I figure out why the system haulted. Apparently my 44x CD might be going bad. I had to wait to let it spin down before I can hit ener to continue setup. Apparently it wont uncompress unless I let it spin down... weird.... Now all I have to do is directed to the correct drive. I think I might reset the jumpers on the drives seeing as how I ran cfdisk and it only detected my 13gb hard drive but in the setup screen it sees my Western Digital... Oh well I will try setting up both hard drives as primary. I usually keeps the hard drives on master to prevent confusion But if it will get to work then I will be happy. I am going to set the jumper things at night seeing its the computer im using that I plan to add linux to You can leave it that way if you want but read here:

Starting fdisk

When you start fdisk you need to specify the device to use. By default it will try to open /dev/hda, but in some cases this is not the correct device to use. Just specify the device name after typing fdisk on the command line. For example:


fdisk /dev/hdb
This will tell fdisk to open the primary slave IDE hard disk. Notice that you do not specify a partition number on the device name.

An alternative to fdisk is cfdisk, which provides a menu-based setup program for the partition setup (DOS USERS comfortable with DOS's fdisk may find this program easier). Just run cfdisk at the prompt instead of fdisk.

Here is the whole page:

http://www.slackware.com/install/partitions.php
I now cant seem to get it to partion... Being lousy with commands I use cfdisk so I can have some sort of interface to partion my hard drive. Apparently when I delete the partion and add a new partion the default size of the hard drive I think ok.. Im all set... is there any other step I should do. After I partion my hard drive I hit CTR+ Alt+delete to restart the computer with the new partion.. When I ran setup it is telling me I need a Linux partion... Linux Partion?.... so then I DECIDED to go into regular fdisk and reading from that site i use d to delete my current partion then n to add a new partion as for spliting up partions on the last part I do not understand that... shouldn't I just keep it as one partion?.... Did I do something wrong to not partion the hard drive?


http://www.slackware.com/install/partitions.phpOk I think I got it to install it says fullinstallation 3+GB I think that is good.... I have no idea if I partioned it correctly or installed it correctly... It said installation Complete! exit and hit Ctrl +Alt+Delete to restart... I did that.... Is it suppose to give me along black screen with a _ .... Ok i'll wait (30minutes later)..... Ok I think I did something wrong.... If they made installation as easy as windows then more people will be using Linux then Windows... I think that is why people keep away from linux... I had no idea about command lines etc... So that is why I kept away from linux... I really hope I get the hang of installation real soon. At least I got it to partion... well thats what it says anyway...You need to set up a Linux partition (most of the space) and a swap partition (256 meg is enough for your system). The type for the swap partition is 82. You must then make the Linux partition bootable. Don't forget to write the changes to disk before you exit. THis sounds like what you were missing int hefirst part.

I think you should download and install the Xandros OC edition - free via bittorrent at www.xandros.com It is a much simpler version especially to install. 4 mouse clicks is it. It is a more Windows friendly distribution as opposed to Slackware which is a nuts and bolts "you will learn"affair.

The last thing you want to do is get scared off. Learn the easy way and move into greater hands on tinkering. No command line anything with Xandros,unless you want to. If for some reason you can'tget it, PM me an address and I will send you a copy,but it's a SIMPLE download.

DON'T GIVE UP NOW !!!!!

One of my friends took a giant leap forwards from RedHat 9 to Linux Mint 17 32-bit cinnamon. While he likes the new Linux Mint that I suggested to him, he asked if there was a way to show the boot process that shows CPU info, Memory info, what drivers are being used for components and pass/fail for other features.

The only disto that I believe still shows this info is Knoppix whereas many others have adapted a silent mode that simply just shows a logo or progress bar etc or black screen and then LOGON prompt appears etc.

I told him that I wasnt sure if there was a setting that could be set to display the boot time info like he use to have with Redhat 9

I was going to suggest Fedora for him since its more along the lines of RedHat, but he saw my laptop running Mint and liked its user interface and layout etc.

He is running this on an older computer a Pentium D 2.8Ghz 2MB L2 Cache with 1GB RAM and 120GB IDE HDD and AGP 8x GeForce 4 MX 440 128MB Video Card, which is fine for most modern distros, however I told him that he might want to get another 2 sticks of 512MB to populate in the other 2 of 4 memory slots and max out the RAM at 2GB for best performance with this system. His application is mainly web surfing and writing ( typing stories etc ). So this system is plenty of processing power for him, however I warned him about using RedHat 9 on the web since its so out of date. I think the only reason why he hasnt gotten infected with anything with such an out of date distro is because few target Linux distros with exploits etc.

Where this boot time display info is not a deal breaker with keeping Mint on his system since he likes it a lot otherwise. He simply asked if he could have this feature back and not knowing how to get it back I figured I'd post it here to see if anyone knows how to get it back WHETHER enabling or disabling an advanced feature or installing a boot time display PROGRAM as an addon.

Also not knowing the proper terminology as to what this boot display is exactly called, google has been a miss for info on this.you need to edit the /etc/defaults/grub file. change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="QUIET splash" line to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""



Quote from: DaveLembke on June 12, 2014, 04:12:20 PM

The only disto that I believe still shows this info is Knoppix whereas many others have adapted a silent mode that simply just shows a logo or progress bar etc or black screen and then logon prompt appears etc.

Hi folks
I have been using virutal box in win8.
My problem is when I loaded up mint as the virutal operating SYSTEM.
I could only run it from the DVD. I tried to load it on the hardrive the first
time loading it. At that time it just wouldn't load. I started using it off the DVD
it worked fine but slow. I thought putting it on the disk is going to speed EVERYTHING up majorly
I went back into virt box and deleted the mint system, but left the VD properties alone. I then tried again to load
mint. The problem is it just doesn't show up under the linux. ubuntu and all the other systems do show up though.I just tried it using Mint Mate 16. Booted the DVD, clicked on "Install Linux Mint". It installed and when it rebooted it was running off the virtual disk. Not sure how to ADVISE you but it installed just like any other Linux install I've done in VirtualBox.

If I were you, I would completely delete the Mint VM and start over from scratch.

Hope you have a better experience this time.


I couldn't get rid of virt Box at first. the way I did finally get rid of it was to run a program called space sniffer. In that program I was able to delete it. I then reinstalled everything the way it should have. It works fine now. Thanks for the input strollin.

GLAD you got it working. Did you actually remove VirtualBox or did you delete the Mint VM?