Forum: Newbie

Hi, I am not using Linux, but need to interpret some data dump obtained from a set of Linux servers. I have obtained a list of installed...

I'm trying to use Perl's CPAN to download a library, but it uses CC rather than GCC. How can I use apt-get or aptitude to download CC? Thanks

Hi Gurus, I've done the most dumbest thing. I did change owner and group on a major directory using chown user:group * command. This directory has...

This is exactly what I was looking for: I need to have completely stateless PXE bootable linux (ubuntu in my case). The system needs to mount one...

Hey all, I've previously used this forum for help with my Netbook, which was brilliant, but now I'm all set to switch my PC over, but I don't feel...

I am running wattOS R3 and having ran rkhunter i decided to have a look at the rkhunter.log file at: /var/log/rkhunter.log but i was refused because...

Hi Folks, I am new to linux and know nothing about it,and want change my OS from windows 7 to linux,can you tell me as it is really very hard to...

Hi All, I've been wondering - where are the interface configurations (set by ifconfig, not the static ones) stored? I'm asking because I'm...

Hey guys, I'm running a fresh install of Debian I'm trying to get php5 via apt-get, but it's not working. Here's what I'm doing apt-get...

When I have installed Linux before I have used a partition scheme I found in a book once. That was supposed to give a better performing system. /...

Hello guys ! I am newbie into this forum site and i want to say you 'Hi' through this post.I have joined this forum site because i like to use Linux...

Hi All, I have a Single-Segment network with two PCs connected via hub, and I'm trying out the basics of networking. Note that these are 2nd-hand...

Hi All, I'm trying to capture traffic between two machines, A and B. I would like to make sure that the traffic I capture with tcpdump is between...

Hi, I've got a directory with thousands of files and I want to delete those that contain specific text. When I try: ls | grep -l "specific...

I am trying to configure SNMP service using xinetd on red hat. I am using a non-standard port for it. My snmp qurey fails. I would appreciate if...

Any ideas as to why the CMD: "ls file" ?? only lists "file1, file3" but won't list "file2 or file13" What would be the correct syntax using...

How can I get more information about the error?

Hi everybody I need to take an image from my laptop hard disk which has Linux SUSE installed , and I want to restore the image to another laptop...

My name is Joe, i have a toshiba satellite A75-S231 and it is very slow running windows xp. i have absolutely no experience with linux but i heard...