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Bash Scripting Error: Bad substitution
Hi , you can continue to work in Bash script by adding the following changes in passwd file present at the path cd /etc/ in passwd file under root change the root:x:0:0:Super-User:/root:/bin/ksh to root:x:0:0:Super-User:/root:/bin/bash rupert;1253510 Wrote: I've been going through a very good bash ... 10 Sep 2009 22:31

Old version of linux?
JBJ wrote: The 2009 wont boot on my old laptop, I can't even get to the boot options, so i read in forums to try the 2007 version but can't find it anywhere. If you can't get boot options with the 2009.2 CD, then you won't have any more luck with 2007, check that you did really burn out the iso and no... 3 Sep 2009 07:12

probing filesystem
Hi I can't remember the name of the command that probe the kind of a filesystem... if it is ext2, ext3, raiser, vfat etc. (before mount it for example...) ... 26 Dec 2008 08:46

Missing paasword
My dougther bougt this small laptop (Asus 901 8") with Linux. She forgot her password. There is no cd drive at this computer. How it is possible to enter this computer again? T.R. ... 16 Dec 2008 08:58

Samba Error: ads_set_machine_password: Message stream modified
Hi, I am having a problem with SAMBA 3.0.10-1.4E. I have googled and tried to debug with source code but still cannot find the reason. I have set up more than 10 systems but only 2 of them have this problem. On problem servers when I tried to join the server into ADS, it comes out with the following error messag... 1 Feb 2008 00:42

compilation od qtiplot
I'm trying to compile Qtiplot, the project file that has to be tuned is qtiplot.pro i have to define paths of some libraries in it. I did it and compilation went ok but when i run qtiplot it says: $ qtiplot qtiplot: error while loading shared libraries: libmuparser.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No suc... 26 Dec 2007 17:31

news reader with leafnode
On 2007-12-18, Meat Plow <meat(a)petitmorte.net> wrote: [...] Ok I guess I will have to install leafnode so I know what I'm talking about. What was your intent on using Leafnode? To filter spam I'll assume. Did you build it from source or install it as a Deb package? I have always been a little puzzled a... 22 Dec 2007 05:32

Anybody get spice to install on Linux?
I used to have a program called "Electronic Workshop" and it was great. You could put transistors, resistors, and all kinds of electronic parts on a board and then "run" the circuit to see how it would behave. It seems that some other fellow was so impressed with Electronic Workshop that he started a thing call... 23 Nov 2007 17:56

mkisofs to make a boot disk
i put some file in a directory called 'root' in my home directory #cd ~ i put isolinux.bin and isolinux.boot in root/boot/ now i call mkisofs ~$ mkisofs -o myiso.iso -v -R -A 'label' -V 'label' -no-emul-boot -boot-info-table -boot-load-size 4 -b root/boot/isolinux.bin -c root/boot/isolinux.boot root/* mkisofs ... 27 Sep 2007 10:27

cups:/usr/lib/cups/backend/http failed
When i want to print on a printer connected to a computer on a network i get the following error message: "/usr/lib/cups/backend/http failed" in the log file i read (status1) the permissions of the file /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp has nothing to do with this problem -- heavytull ... 27 Sep 2007 06:02