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  1. [SOLVED] Re: Is there an Ubuntu equivalent to the Windows Web "shortcut"?

    One way is to manually create a file with the extension .desktop and contents similar to this:


    [Desktop Entry]
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Icon=text-html
    Type=Link
    Name=xyz.desktop...
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    [SOLVED] Re: how to kill crashed firefox

    You could use the "top" command, and then use the "k" subcommand to kill it.

    Or locate the PID with:


    ps aux | grep firefox
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    Re: Password hashes in Ubuntu 13.04

    See:
    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/quantal/en/man5/passwd.5.html
    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/quantal/en/man5/shadow.5.html
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    [xubuntu] Re: how to re-enable touchpad disable button?

    You might be able to use the xinput command:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2192864&p=12870711#post12870711
  5. Re: how to use ls command in kernel module code?

    According to this discussion, you're not supposed to do that:
    https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/shell-command-from-a-linux-kernel-module-911004/
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    [ubuntu] Re: Back up of encrypted folder in Home

    The home folder encryption that Ubuntu uses (ecryptfs) is very strong, provided that your encryption passphase is strong.

    The encrypted files are in ~/.Private (/home/USER/.Private), so you could...
  7. [kubuntu] Re: Unable to sign message with Enigmail - No passphrase prompt

    Is the sender address for the email associated with the right gpg key?
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    [SOLVED] Re: sudo is not playing nicely

    You may be confusing "sudo" with "su". The latter works the way you describe.

    Since the root login is disabled by default in Ubuntu, "sudo" is normally used in place of "su".
    More details:...
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    Re: System icon in top tool bar is red

    It might mean that you've upgraded a package, such as the kernel, that requires rebooting.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Diagnosing email issue from command line

    Yes, I know that, and I thought that I had included the full email address in the relevant places.
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    Re: Logging Script Information

    I'm not sure what you mean by "makes it easier to parse the output".

    My approach would probably be to provide separate functions for displaying header info and labels, and for displaying the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: SSH logins only work sometimes

    The log file you're checking is /var/log/auth.log?

    Have you tried changing the LogLevel option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to display more info?


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    [SOLVED] Re: Diagnosing email issue from command line

    Ok, problem fixed. I think the issue was that the username had to include the "@example.com" and that had been omitted. But I kept changing settings, so I'm not sure.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Diagnosing email issue from command line

    Thanks. I tried the corresponding telnet commands, and got the same results that you posted. Then I tried AUTH LOGIN, and got "535 Incorrect authentication data".

    I'll dig into it some more with...
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    [other] Re: Standard permission for pubring.gpg?

    Sorry, I meant 600. I'll edit my previous post to fix that.

    In any case, I don't see why any files in the home directory need to be owned by root or be in the root group. If 'root' needs to access...
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    [other] Re: Standard permission for pubring.gpg?

    In my case, all the files in ~/.gnupg are user:user and have permissions 600 (rw-------).

    I don't know how the owner became root. Maybe you used sudo in a situation where it wasn't necessary?
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    [SOLVED] Re: Diagnosing email issue from command line

    Ok, I'll try that. Thanks for the tip. :KS
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    [SOLVED] Re: Diagnosing email issue from command line

    I don't know if it's a problem with thunderbird, or with the email account itself. Thats what I need to isolate.

    What I'm trying to do is access the email account "manually", using basic commands,...
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    [SOLVED] Diagnosing email issue from command line

    I recently created an email account on a web hosting account. When I try to access the account from thunderbird, using either IMAP or SMTP, I get the error ""Login to server example.com failed."...
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    [SOLVED] Re: rc.local runs but not effective...

    I think the double ampersand in that post is a typo, and it should be a single ampersand.
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    Re: Can I dilute my way to privacy?

    If you want to maximize privacy, consider the Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

    There's also a lot of documentation on that site about privacy.

    The Tor Browser...
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    Re: Os-uninstaller question?

    Can you boot into Ubuntu from the Live USB or Live CD/DVD you used to install Ubuntu?

    If so, I would try re-installing grub (the boot loader):...
  23. [ubuntu] Re: How do I find the full path of a file when looking at the trancated properties

    The file manager Thunar, like Nautilus, shows the full path. It's a compromise between Nautilus and PCManFM.

    Another approach is to keep a terminal window open all the time, as I like to do.
  24. [ubuntu] Re: crontab not redirecting complete output to file

    To eliminate the possibility that the file is getting overwritten, you could timestamp the filename:

    /home/ubuntuusr/scripts/mplsupid_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.txt

    To view any diagnostic messages,...
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    Re: A question about the file /etc/hosts.deny

    All the examples I saw in the documention had a space after the colon.
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