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How do I set the terminal width in a shell session on a debian machine? I'm talking about the Alt+Fn terminals, not a GUI terminal program. Right now it's at 80x25 (I guess), and I'd like it bigger.
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Is it possible to prevent any user to not use commands like ls, rm and other system commands which could harm the system. But the users should be able to execute shell programs.
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I have a Copy Hook Handler shell extension that I'm trying to install on Windows 7 64-bit.
The shell extension DLL is compiled in two separate versions for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
The DLL implements DLLRegisterServer which adds the necessary registry entries.
After adding the registry entries…
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With either subprocess.call or subprocess.Popen, executing a shell command makes a shell window quicky appear and disappear.
How can I run the shell command without the shell window?
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I've been looking all around the Internet for an answer but didn't find anything. I hope you can help me now.
I have a server with MySQL. From one day to another, MySQL didn't let me enter with my root password anymore (accsess denied for user 'root'@'localhost' using password: 'YES'). So I tried…
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function grabSourceFile
{
cd /tmp/lmpsource
wget $1 > $LOG
baseName=$(basename $1)
tar -xvf $baseName > $LOG
cd $baseName
}
When I call this function The captured output is not going to the log file. The output redirection works fine until I call the…
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As root i type this command apt-get update and get these error messages.
> Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main…
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I tried to update my debian dreamplug server with the command running as root apt-get update and recieved these errors.
Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'security.debian…
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I followed the first set of instructions on this page to install Open Office:
How to install Open Office?
However, the last step which says to change the CHMOD of a folder, I got an error saying that the directory does not exist.
Open Office now appears in my Ubuntu start menu, but clicking…
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I am trying to install PHP4 on a Debian 7 32bit box but I ran into the following
root@php4:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://snapshot.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [189 B]
Hit http://snapshot.debian.org lenny Release
Ign http://snapshot.debian.org lenny Release
Hit http://snapshot.debian.org lenny/main…
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I have a Debian Squeeze EC2 AMI. On booting up an instance with it and trying to install packages with apt-get I get errors saying there is no keyring installed. Here is the error with apt-get update:
root@ip:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [1672 B]
Ign http://ftp…
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