As a part of security policy we need to disable CDROM & USB access for normal users. Only root users should have the access. We are mainly using Ubuntu Linux.
It would be nice if you can share your experience on the pros and cons of each of them. Personally I only know Google Desktop and Beagle, and I haven't really used them. I mainly store my files on Windows (and use its integrated indexed search) but I'm trying to see if I can switch over to Linux.
Also, can any one of the search indexer run without X? Does any of them provide an API for search queries?
My question is very basic in nature. Is the mount point for external media (like USB) always /media?
Because in a Debian system, if I plug in any USB device that goes to the /media folder. So is it the case with all the other Linux flavors like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. If a USB device is automatically mounted will it always go to the /media directory?
The subject kinda tells it all... I'm looking for a Linux distro that fits onto a 128MB flash drive, can boot from it, and run a Remote Desktop client that I use to connect to a Windows PC.
Is there something out there that fits the bill out-of-the-box, or do I have to make one myself?
Hi I have web server on it also. I had made simple bash script using vi editor..which will open file and then add some lines into it at last it will save automatically...and after that 2-3 linux command will be run as a specific user.
Now I want to do the same from web browser...so what I need to do for this?
html?perl?python?cgi?....?which is easy way to do the same?
I'm getting a Lenovo T520 with two graphics cards:
Integrated Intel HD 3000
Discrete NVidia NVS 4200M
In BIOS, I can adjust which card(s) to use:
Integrated only
Discrete only
Both (NVidia optimus)
Since optimus is not well supported under Linux, I wonder if it is OK to set up the system to use the NVidia card all the time.
I have read somewhere that a laptop risks overheating if using a discrete graphics card all the time.
Is this true? Does someone have any experience to share?
I would like to host both Tomcat and PHP on port 80 on Linux and I have 2 IP addresses available.
I am only using PHP so that I can host some mailing list software, I can map it to newsletter.mydomain.com. So my question is, is it possible to run Tomcat on port 80 on 1 IP address and Apache on port 80 on another IP address?
I am asked in a bid for tender to assert that my software will cohabit without a problem with VirusScan (v6.0.3) under Linux.
My software is a web application, running under tomcat.
It can create additional JVMs (to run ETL jobs) and writes reporting files (mostly PDF and HTML) in an application directory.
Are there any specific problem I should be aware of regarding VirusScan running on the server my app will run on ?
I am rather new to linux, but I have installed a few different flavors. I noticed they all have similar folder names in the root directory
bin
boot
dev
etc
home
lib
lost+found
media
mnt
opt
proc
root
sbin
selinux
srv
sys
tmp
usr
var
I googled around, but couldn't find anywhere that explained the purpose of each of these. I understand a couple, but could anyone point me somewhere or give a quick breakdown of the common ones.
What am I missing here, this seems so simple yet I cant get it to work.
I have a directory with files like AGPNDRAH01.jpg
I want a directory with files like AGPNDRAH01_00.jpg
rename 's/(\w+).jpg\$1\_00.jpg$//' *
Doesnt, work. Centos linux. Makes no sense to me why this isnt working.
Is there a way to customize/manage the tab lenght in sticky notes in gnome-linux. Presently the size of tab is 8 spaces, can i change it to say 2,4 or so?
Hello everybody,
I'm not that familiar with Linux but I'm currently working on a aws image for an assignment and I need to display the DB2 version, the OS and the hardware.
Is there a commando or program of some sort I can use for this purpose?
I tried a rpm called "Bonnie" but that only writes the throughput for the system.
Thanks
Mestika
Can you provide a link to an up-to-date tutorial for setting up Linux with 3 monitors? Specifically, I want to set up 2 different nvidia video cards with 3 monitors. I can already do 2 monitors on 1 video card, so I am not interested in those tutorials.
I'm in a process of renewing/expanding my disk sets, but not quite sure what kind of disks to get, cache-wise.
What difference does disk cache amount of 16/32/64MB do, in capacities of, say, 1/1.5/2TB SATA disks? The disks will be used in a webapp server and in a media workstation, with Linux's softraid in raid-1/raid-5 configurations. Note, that as both purposes are purely for a hobby, the pricetag for a dozen of disks is a big issue.
Hello!
Does anyone has experience with this device under Linux?
On which level of abstraction is the Wacom Bamboo tablet supported?
Is the device input just translated to mouse input, so that every application
can profit from it?
Or do I need special (design|paint|...)-software which explicitely supports this device?
Okay, kind of a weird question but let's say I'm running a long-running batch script in a terminal window and I close that terminal window.
Is it possible, in any way, to ssh back into that server and run a command that pops you back into that process, so you can see it running again?
This is on linux (Redhat).
Thanks
The LiNUX RHEL5 Workstation Z400 stop answering to ping and it was no more possible to connect to it, even on the local console; The workstation was not reachable in anay way.
The only method I found is to restart the station (switch off, switch on) and after that everything works fine
Have somebody an idea on what can have happened
I don't see explanation of this in the /var/log/messages
Some more informations:
Placement/routing of a FPGA was running
I'm not asking how to find out where a bottleneck is. I just what to know how to check if the harddrive is being used at its limit (and hence causing a bottleneck).
Something like top where I can see a usage percentage of CPU and RAM.
Is there something like that with which I can monitor harddrive activity?
Native linux tools preferred.
I want to automatically run a script whenever new files are copied into a particular directory. In other words, is there a way in Linux to "watch" a directory for changes and then run something in response to the change?
I try to install a small audio player named "Audacious" with the following command:
sudo apt-get install audacious
and it tells me that it depends audacious-plugins,
so I try to install the audacious-plugins,
one thing leads to another, there're numerous depends and it is just impossible to install all of them manually...
Is it even possible to install a software on ubuntu linux?
Is there a way to auto install all the depends?
(I have never seen such a stupid software manager.)
Many thanks.
I am looking for Windows based backup software with functionality like Zmanda or other multi-platform network backup software program. Open source or free software is always preferred.
We need to be able to backup files from linux and windows servers as well as MySQL databases. Using samba is completely possible. Software needs to run on Windows Server 2003.
Since Dream Linux has built in support for Ruby, I'm assuming it will work well as a Rails development environment, but I'm wondering if Ruby Version Manager will interfere with the system version of Ruby.
Generally, when I use RVM, I disable/ignore the system version. How will the Dream Linux OS system scripts that are written in Ruby react to the presence of RVM? If I can't use RVM on Dream Linux, how easy is it to upgrade to newer versions of Ruby, without frazzling the system?
EXT4 is not a solid state file system. It won't take full advantage of the hardware and it will ware out the drive. So what is the best Solid State File System for Linux? I am looking forward to ButterFS (btrfs), but its not suitable for production systems. I'm also interested to know why you like a particular ssdfs.
I'va remote linux debian server that 99.9% of the time I access via ssh remotely. However I was aware that the local terminal is sitting there with a logon prompt. Is there anything I could change this to, or log in and run locally and safely leave running? Physical access to the server is limited to me but a secure situation would be preferable.
Thanks..
Ian