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I'm trying to show the number of lines, words and characters of all configuration files in /etc/*conf (with command wc).
How can I modify the command (or commandline) to not view the error messages?
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Want to install ubuntu from usb flash but after i press continue after the install alongside windows button my HP pavillion laptop restarts and boots into vista and starts wubi installer. The wubi installer installation process ends with the following error.
'None Type' object has no attribute…
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In Ubuntu 9.x, 10.x, the .xinitrc file is apparently not used. So, where do you put your xinit stuff?
Note: asking this here, answering it myself, in light of http://serverfault.com/questions/87156/ubuntu-karmic-ignores-xinitrc
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Hi,
I'm debugging an API I'm building using netcat to send raw HTTP requests. The thing is that Apache closes the connection after 10 seconds, giving me very little time to type. I know that I could pipe a file to nc, or use any other workaround, but I'd like it to work as it's supposed to.
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I tried to to remote into my Ubuntu machine. I enabled the setting on Ubuntu and that side seems to work.
But I get a connection time out when I use RealVNC on the Windows box.
I believe it is a firewall issue. I disabled the firewall for that application on Windows but I don't know how to check…
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So here's my problem: I have some netbooks (ASUS eee, and ACER Aspire Ones) that I've been tasked to set up as kiosk machines, locked up tight
for normal users.
I am a command-line, server man, so this gnome malarkey is all a bit new to me.
I found a lovely 9.04 kiosk livecd that installs and runs…
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When I run a program from the console, e.g.
me@box:~$ firefox
I expect the console to log error messages (I think this is std out or std err?) and other items from the program, firefox in this case.
But today I notice that bash just opens the program and goes to a new prompt, e.g.
me@box:~$…
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I was updating my .bash_profile, and unfortunetly I made a few updates and now I am getting:
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
-bash: tar: command…
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I was updating my .bash_profile, and unfortunetly I made a few updates and now I am getting:
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
env: bash: No such file or directory
-bash: tar: command…
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ps -e | grep bash
sample output from a linux machine:
1128 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
7491 pts/7 00:00:00 bash
12651 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
16145 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
sample output from a mac machine:
58352 ttys000 0:00.09 login -pfl username /bin/bash -c exec -la bash /bin/bash
58353 ttys000…
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First login process name seems to be set to "-bash", but if I subshell then it becomes "bash". for example:
root@nowere:~# echo $0
-bash
root@nowere:~# bash
root@nowere:~# echo $0
bash
-bash is causing some scripts to fail, such as . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
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