linux

I'm trying to install routerOS(Mikrotik) from bootable USB drive on my PC. it boots from USB at first and loads the Linux Kernel. after detecting the H.D.D it requests me to insert the CD-ROM disk to installing the DRIVERS. but the drivers are in the

As the title says. I've found this question: How to increase maximum file open limit (ulimit) in Ubuntu? But I don't even has this file: /etc/init.d/neo4j-service, I'm guessing it's because I'm using RHEL5, not Debian, as the responder was using. The

I have XBMCbuntu installed on a HTPC running Ubuntu 14.04 and Kodi 14.1. I have been trying to install and run Steam so that I can stream games from my gaming PC. I followed the steps from this guide using ALSA only since PulseAudio would give me no

We have Gitlab installed on the same server as a dev/staging copy of our test project. Two of us have local working copies with Gitlab as a remote, and are able to push/pull to Gitlab successfully. We also have Gitlab set as a remote in the staging c

I want to run a script on a remote machine without using ssh.. Is it possible? If yes then what all available options are there in linux? Here are few details regarding the same. 1) On my machine i have a script, say a.sh, which performs installation

I have 2 procs which are called one after the other. The first proc uses the diff functionality and creates file.txt. The proc right after compresses the file. The issue is that when I run the script, the file.txt is empty. When I comment out the com

I'd like to refresh firefox automatically after 2 hour using simple bash script. I've got: #!/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games xvkbd -window Firefox -text "\Cr"; exit 0 and I'

I understand the concept of data-only containers But why would you use a data-only container over a simple host mount given that data-only containers seem to make it harder to find the data. --------------Solutions------------- When you don't want to

In Linux I use a script to ping a couple of addresses. Now I want that the user can do: bash Script 50-60 And that the script pings the addresses 192.168.100.50 - 192.168.100.60 I use xx-yy to do this and I tried but the part after the shift is wrong

I'm working on a project where I have to send print commands to a USB printer from a Mini6410 ARM11. I only have to print text. Can any one suggest me which steps I have to follow? Which Linux Kernel driver I want to enable? Should I need to install

The title sucks but I'm not sure of the correct term for what I'm trying to do, if I knew that I'd probably have found the answer by now! The problem: Due to an over-zealous port scanner (customer's network monitor) and an overly simplistic telnet da

I'm implementing a sort-function in my script, but I have trouble in doing so: what I want to achieve is the following: bash script --sort 44 55 1 23 44 output: Pinging to 192.168.1.1 succes Pinging to 192.168.1.23 failed Pinging to 192.168.1.44 fail

I'm on an ARM device and I'd like to know which version of sigreturn is being called. According to the man page here, there seems to be a newer version to which the kernel will transparently default to if available. Is there any way to check which ve

I am new to buildroot and i have compiled linux kernel for Raspberry pi using the steps given for raspberry pi2 in buildroot.now i am able to run the linux kernel on rpi2.now my aim to run an image ,play a video or HTML page on this kernel.I just wan

How can I programmatically bring a window on top of the others? I'm using a full screen app and I need to bring a second window temporary on the front. --------------Solutions------------- I use wmctrl for that: wmctrl -a "window name" Or, if yo

I am trying to download the files from remote server by using the following script. while read SERVER do ftp -inv $SERVER << EOF user $USER $PASSWORD lcd $FILE_PATH cd $REMOTE_FILE_PATH mget *${FILE_TYPE}* bye EOF done < $FILE_PATH/host_server Ho

I recently decided that since quite often I experiment with the latest version of nmap, it might be a good idea to keep its SVN checkout in ~/.nmap without installing and just run svn up; make to make it up to date. I added ~/.nmap to $PATH and just

To speed up some of my Linux commands, I followed the recommendations of this Lifehacker article by writing aliases to quickly cd into folders I like. Fran's answer to "source" the .bashrc file by executing this line enabled me to use my shortcu