How do I enable/disable a stick pointing device in Ubuntu (9.10)? How can I configure clicking and scrolling with the stick pointer? (I can't click with the stick and scroll the page.)
I want to restart ssh or sshd but I get this error:
qqqq@Matrix-Server:/$ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh stop
sudo: /etc/init.d/ssh: command not found
qqqq@Matrix-Server:/$
Do I need to install ssh or sshd or does it come with Ubuntu?
I need to build an server (Ubuntu 9.10 server) to host source control (subversion) from my house. What are the minimum specs (processor and ram) to do this with good performance? I'll need to buy some new parts from newegg and just need enough to get by. It may also serve as a file server for other things in the future, but nothing intensive like media streaming.
I've been trying to find a way to run a torrent client strictly through a VPN. I am running Ubuntu 9.10, and use Ktorrent. I can connect to vpn.itshidden.com but I am worried about the connection dropping if I'm away from my computer. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a now non-bootable install of Ubuntu. What files do I need to copy to backup all of the MySQL databases (including database users and permissions)?
I have a small media server at home which has software raid and a gigabit link to the rest of my network.
For some reason though, I only get ~10MB/s transfers when copying to/from the server.
How can I benchmark network throughput (Windows 7 desktop <- Ubuntu server) and hard disk performance to try and identify where my bottleneck might be?
In my Ubuntu 8.04 'Other' menu, it has 'OpenJDK Java 6 Runtime', 'Sun Java 5.0 Runtime' , 'Sun Java 6 Runtime'.
Can you please tell me where are these actually installed?
I can only fine 1, the OpenJDK :
$ which java
/usr/bin/java
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b11)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 1.6.0_0-b11, mixed mode)
How can I find the others?
Thank you.
I have a few Ubuntu servers (8.10, 9.10) that is set to automatically install security updates. Some times these updates requires a restart of the system, and this string is shown in motd:
*** System restart required ***
To get a notice about these, I plan to write a Nagios test to monitor if the server is in need of a reboot. So, my question:
Is there a better way than parsing /etc/motd to find out if a reboot is needed?
I can click the "movie player" from the GUI of Ubuntu, but how could I know the corresponding command line cmd. I want to run the movie player from commmand line.
Many thanks.
Problem
Retrospect is a backup system that my organization uses, but I can not find support for my Ubuntu 10.04 64bit desktop.
What I have tried (but did not work)
download the Redhat version and attempt to convert to deb
wget http://download.dantz.com/archives/Linux_Client-7_6_100.rpm
sudo alien Linux_Client-7_6_100.rpm
The Restrospect user forum has this thread, which provides an i386 .deb file for installing Retrospect
Question
Is there a way to install this on my system?
I am running Top to monitor my server performance and 2 of my java processes show virtual memory of upto 800MB-1GB. Is that a bad thing?
What does virtual memory mean? And oh btw, I have swap of 1GB and it shoes 0% used. So I am confused.
Java process = 1 Tomcat server + my own java deamon
Server = Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
In 10.10 upstart is being used instead of sysvinit.
It's possible to remove annoying upstart services which you do not want by removing the appropriate file in /etc/init/blah.conf
However, this seems a heavy handed approach. How do you correctly configure upstart to be able to selectively turn these services on and off via the command line?
As a practical example, the answers listed here to turn gdm off using rcconf no longer work:
How do I prevent GDM from running at boot on Ubuntu?
I am looking for a guide on how to set up a local home server that will also be used as a web server. I have an old desktop with Ubuntu 12.10 and wish for this to be used as my central web and local server. I also have multiple Windows 7 systems at home that I wish to be part of this network and a wireless router. Can someone provide me with assistance on where to start (perhaps just the home network) or refer me to a guide on how to do this?
Hi,
In windows you can press the Windows key plus "E" to get the Windows Explorer window to open up any time.
Is there an equivalent global hot-key to get the file explorer to show up?
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(Ubuntu Karmic if it makes a difference)
I have mounted a Windows share using the GUI in Ubuntu. Now I would like to access it using the Terminal application. However, I don't know its path. I thought it should be in /mnt, but it isn't there.
I am working with Ubuntu latest version. While installing via apt-get install i tried to abort that by pressing Ctrl+Z. It terminate successfully ;). But next time when i tried to use apt-get, i got some error "lock" and "temporally unavailable" something like that and **I unfortunately i delete the /var/lib/dkpg folder.**
after that i cant install anything from apt-get, getting an error.
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libattr1
so how can i solve this issue?
I have recently started using UBUNTU. I am wondering about the point of installing antivirus programs. on SU, I found the opinion that it only detects "windows viruses" and removes them. Is there a point in installing antivirus if I don't have any other OS?
As far as I know, there are no viruses for linux, what about malvare and any other harmful programs? Is it safe not t install any protecting software?
I have installed Virtualbox in Ubuntu 12.04, and I created a virtual guest with Windows 7 64bit. Guest additions were also installed. It works fine, but I can't set the resolution to anything higher than 1600 x 1200, whereas my screen is 1920x1080.
Here's my system specifications: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz AMD Radeon 7650 VGA 8 Gb RAM DDR3
Moreover, if I try to enhable 3D acceleration in the settings of my guest, when I expand to full screen it aborts...
Thanks in advance
Gabriele
In particular, I'm wondering if there are any patches or config adjustments made to the disk cache size in the server edition. I'm running on a small system (256M RAM), and would like to experiment with keeping the disk cache size smaller so that there's more memory available for applications.
I've found this page at Ubuntu's website, which neither answers my questions nor is about the 9.04 release.
Does anyone know of a good way to find out what the actual frequencies are of the cores in my Xeon? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'd like to see if Turbo Boost is working properly, and it's also just nice to keep an eye on what's going on with the system. Thanks.
I have a 3G connection on my Ubuntu 9.10 laptop. Now I want to share it with another laptop using Windows 7. I'm familiar with setting up network connections, but I want to be pointed in the right directions here. I'm not good with iptables and wireless configurations.
In Ubuntu some applications can be set to minimize instead of exit on close. For example, Empathy minimizes to the system tray (mail icon) when the close button is pressed in the application window. How do I make Evolution do this as well?
Essentially I would like to have Evolution hidden in the system tray instead of having to re-launch it every ten minutes to check for new messages (or leave it open and clutter the taskbar).
I looked at all the other posts on this but can't find the directories mentioned (~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks, it's a JSON file.). Being a 2 day Newbie to Ubuntu/Linux I would like to know if the location has changed in the latest version or if not how I locate the directory indicated. I have logged in as root and searched for the folder and can't find it although I imported my bookmarks from a html file so I know that they must be saved somewhere.