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Thanks for the input. Helpful and enlightening.

I started the process over and simply made the change to /etc/network/interfaces, and restarted /etc/init.d/networking. After setting the...

sudo passwd

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I am looking to set my laptop up as a wireless AP which will allow various clients to connect to the wireless nic (wlan0), then funnel traffic to the wired nic (eth0), then on to the...

.. I know I'm not the only one who has had the desire to do this!

I have a large family (5 kids) and want to be able to give them access to my media without multiple copies of files clogging up...

Need is relative. It's not a necessity, even on windows if you pay attention and know what you're doing. Anti-virus is definitely a good tool, another layer to the onion of security, but not a...

This link should help:

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I am having a terrible time figuring this out, any input will be appreciated. I have a machine running postfix on which I'm using the mail command to send log files to a central server....

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I appreciate the effort thus far. I would love to fix the issue rather than start from scratch but I've come to accept the fact. However, can anyone tell me if an upgrade of my current...

No, DeVeDe is not working at all. It is completely unresponsive.

Affirmative.

In trying to click-install the .deb, the machine tries to open the gui then closes. Install attempts via command line result in the following:


dpkg -i...

I recently started getting an error message telling me that "A problem occurred when checking for the updates". I've tried to troubleshoot the problem but with no success, and the only other help...

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I have been having a frustrating issue with Ubuntu 9.04 on both my laptop and desktop machines for several days now. An Icon shows in the panel telling me there was a problem with...

I have been trying to set a cron task to send mail from my server to myself with an attachment, but apparently I'm missing something.

I was originally thinking mailutils and the mail command...

affirmative.

I believe airodump-ng requires the following:


airodump-ng {interface} -w {outputfilename} --channel {#}

*Without the {}

I've never had these GUI options just not work, but I have had instances where they simply disappear from the GUI menu. When this happens, a reboot from the command line usually fixes it. If that...

sort of...

The Network Manager has a GUI for switching from static to dynamic IP, but I prefer to do this by editing the /etc/network/interfaces file as follows:

#For Static IP
auto eth0...

Most of the time, installing via apt is perfectly fine. The main advantage I see to installing software from source is that one might find newer versions of the software at the vendor's website which...

I would also backup the PGP key somehow. Personally, I use gmail to hold things like the PGP key, then if I am on a machine which requires it, I can easily import it without issue.

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can anyone help me here?

Install skype. That usually picks up most web cams.

Hello, I am working on building a personal server as securely as possible using Ubuntu 8.04 and Apache 2.2.8. I have been reading this link as my guide to installing mod-security, but continue to...

usermod will be the way to accomplish your goal.

to see the options or learn how this works:


man usermod

I always keep an external hard drive enclosure with me for this exact reason. Pull the drive, pop it in the enclosure, and mount it to a working machine to pull off the data you need.

While I haven't upgraded to 9.10 yet, I have stopped using network manager for some time preferring to modify the files manually.


sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces

will let you modify the...