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I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a desktop computer as the only operating system on that computer for the first time! Hooray!

Unfortunately, after trying to start it I encounter an...

sshd is running and I am aware that SFTP is more secure that FTP.

What I want, however, is to give other users FTP or SFTP access in a chrooted/jailed directory. I know that VSFTPD can do this,...

Hi all,

I have installed vsftpd. I have configured it with the settings modified shown below. Whenever I try to "sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start" or restart, it appears to do so successfully,...

Hey it actually working now, don't know why it wasn't before. The additional buttons don't work, will search around the internet...

Can a Logitech VX Revolution Mouse work with Ubuntu? How do I find out? I'm on 8.10.

Thanks you for any help.

If I format it in Vista, won't it become considered part of Vista? How do I format it without that occuring?

It's a freshly installed Vista, so I have nothing to backup. Really, my computer just crashed and this is a new hard drive. I thought I'll turn this to my advantage and make it an opportunity to go...

Yes. I shrunk one of the Vista partitions. There is now almost 30 GB of unallocated space.

I am attempting to install Ubuntu desktop 8.04 in a Dual Boot configuration with Windows Vista. I am following a set of directions, the 3rd page of which is here...

Thank You! You must be right about them being special characters (perhaps signifying EOF). Your suggestion worked!

Yeah, I am able to log in as the user. Also, I just realized the cron line is a little different than what I wrote. It is:


33 14 * * * mysqldump --user=user --password=password databasename >...

Here:


33 14 * * * mysqldump --user=user --password=password > /path/to/backup/dbbackup_`date +%b%d`.sql

I tried first using a longer combination of the date operands (the little percent...

I tried to do your date syntax (though the rests of the command is different) for writing to a file, however it did not work.

I tried to do it with a mysqldump, and I am getting this error: "EOF...