Setup

Fedora 12: Tips for setting up a second monitor?
Running Fedora Core 12 on a MacBook 15" Pro 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo. My second monitor is a Dell 1905 FP 1280 x 1024 19" monitor. Fedora displays the screen all wrong on the second monitor, cannot seem to orient the monitor to properly display the screen. Any tips appreciated. ... 20 Mar 2010 15:27

Running Web Servers In A Chroot Jail
I have seen the instructions for running Lighttpd in a chroot jail at: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-setup-lighttpd-php-mysql-chrooted-jail.html These instructions involve a lot of copying of binaries to the jail. This would mean, I assume, that if I were to execute the: apt-get update command the binaries ... 21 Mar 2010 08:17

apt-get and aptitude
There are several installations I did using Debian apt-get before I found out I really should have been using aptitude. But now that those installations are done would there be any benefit to uninstalling them and reinstalling using aptitude? -- To reply directly remove the sj. from my email address. This is... 22 Mar 2010 03:52

Update RHEL 5.1 to 5.4
Hi all, I have a server currently running RHEL 5.1, and I would like to upgrade it to RHEL 5.4. The server is not connected to the Internet, so I don't think I can use "yum update". How would I be able to upgrade my server, and is it just a small-scale upgrade, like Windows patches, leaving everything on the s... 18 Mar 2010 14:18

"FATAL: Module i2c_nforce2 not found." and "FATAL: Module i2c_dev not found." in sensors-detect. [resolved]
Nevermind. I resolved it. I installed a newer kernel 2.6.32 package (non-trunk) from apt-get install, trunk kernel wasn't working either (no boot up), rebooted, used non-trunk and all works now. WEIRD! In comp.os.linux.hardware Ant <ant(a)zimage.comant> wrote: Hello. How come my sensors-detect no longe... 16 Mar 2010 17:23

Cannot run VMware workstation 6.5.3
Hi, I have VMware workstation 6.5.3 which was running fine on Vista. Now I have switched to Linux (Slackware) as my primary platform. I used the bundle version of the installation script and the installation went fine. Now when I try to start the VMware workstation, I get the get the message that my kernel he... 18 Mar 2010 14:18

Eeepc + Linux + vbox + usb devices
Hello, I have the following setup. Eeepc 1505HA OS is Slackware Linux Kernel is 2.6.33 USB Devices - CDROM drive, 2 external hard disks, 1 iPod VirtualBox (vbox-puel) Guest OS - Windows XP The problem I am having is that Linux OS is seeing the USB devices but the XP(VM) is only seeing the CDROM and nothi... 23 Mar 2010 02:21

Debain DNS Documentation Discrepancy, .ref or .db?
I have a point of confusion in the document: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ch-bind.html under "8.4.2.1 zone files." It appears there is discrepancy in a file name extension here. This section refers to the path and filename "/var/named/192.168.100.db" and gives an example of it. If I und... 15 Mar 2010 06:47

Bash Commandline Overwrites Itself
I recently installed a new linux and this was driving me nuts, so I figured someone else might be having the same problem and would appreciate the solution. When I'd type or cut&paste a long command on the commandline, instead of continuing on a new line it overwrote itself. The solution is to put this in you... 13 Mar 2010 13:05

System Calls
>[Perumal] Hi, Is there any way which I am tell whether an application is malicious or not by looking at the system calls made by the application? Thanks In Advance, Perumal [Marc Stan] If i've understood your question there exists a project called REMUS hosted on sourceforge; it monitors system c... 17 Mar 2010 22:17