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Is it possible to do the following using 1 polkit .pkla file?
Disable all users except those in the wheel group from using polkit.
The users in the wheel group will need to provide the root password when using polkit.
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/wheel-only.pkla
[disable all users…
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I have a process (dbus-daemon) which has many open connection over UNIX sockets. One of these connections is fd #36:
=$ ps uw -p 23284
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
depesz 23284 0.0 0.0 24680 1772 ? Ss 15:25 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork…
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I've been using Linux for a couple of years now but I still haven't figured out what the origin or meaning of some the directory names are on Unix and Unix like systems. E.g. what does etc stand for or var? Where does the opt name come from?
And while we're on the topic anyway. Can someone give a…
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Hi All,
I am beginner to UNIX,UNIX Shell Scripting.
Can you please guide me through any excellent sites for unix(which are easy to understand),some study materials(tutorials),video tutorials.
Please help!!
Thanks!
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Is Mac OS X developed on a licensed Unix or is it a Unix-like clone that, unlike Linux, conforms to Unix specification well enough to be registered as a Unix OS. Not until Leopard, Mac OS X did not gain the Unix certification. But in Leopard, Terminal still print:
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release…
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I'm trying to use remote desktop on my laptop (running Fedora) to my desktop (also running Fedora) on the same local network.
I configured Remote Desktop on my desktop via System - Preferences - Remote Desktop, verified that the port is open by nmap, and attempted to connect from my laptop via vinagre…
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I want to install texlive on my fedora 16 laptop
with the following procedure:
# yum remove tex-* texlive-*
# cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/texlive.repo <<EOF
[texlive]
name=texlive
baseurl=http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.f17/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
# yum update;
# yum install…
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I did run preupgrade to upgrade my Fedora 16(x64) to Fedora 17. And it seemed to work fine. So I got the new gimp 2.8, gcc 4.7.0 and so on. But the system keeps using the old kernel from fc16. Uname -a gives me:
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.6-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 16 21:43:01 UTC 2012 x86_64…
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I had already installed the yum-security before. And I was going to do an update by entering the following command:
[root@localhost /]# yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping…
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We have a sendmail server that also works as DHCP, DNS, and a gateway to our ISP. It has three network interfaces, one for our ISP ( static IP) and the other two is for LANS on different subnet. The hardware is quite old and we've been experiencing downtime due to hardware failures, so we have decided…
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