How to install Fedora 20 on a mbr/ms-dos disk? The nogpt and noefi trick seems do not work. This is a bug in F20 installer that still believes it is in UEFI native mode even if the noefi parameter is passed. Solution: There is an updates image for the installer which fixes this issue available…
How to quickly find out which rpm package provides a command on Fedora Linux? As an example, we want to find out which package provides the ping command. You can quickly find it out by rpm: $ rpm -qf `which ping` It will give iputils-20121221-2.fc19.x86_64 Alternatively, you can use yum: $ yum provides `which ping`…
How to debug/check network-related driver information on Linux? Several commands/tools that you may find usefull: Messages: dmesg grep NetworkManager /var/log/messages lshw: list hardware lshw -c network lsusb: list USB devices lsusb rfkill: enabling and disabling wireless devices rfkill unblock all rfkill event iwconfig: configure a wireless network interface iwconfig ifconfig: configure a network interface ifconfig
How to set Internet Explorer’s Proxy in command line on Windows 7? You can use this tool: SetProxy. On Windows 7, it works still to set IE’s proxy. Note that the proxy setting is for IE only. If you need to configure the proxy for other services like Windows Update or other programs that use…
How to the number of files in a directory ls | wc -l works well for me. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3702104/find-the-number-of-files-in-a-directory
How to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network? The tool for Fedora to upgrade the distribution is FedUp. Check this page for how to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F Be sure to check the bugs in Fedora 20 before the upgrading: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#Upgrade_issues Generally, it contains 3 steps: Preparation # yum…
How to resume the printing job on HP printers if the paper runs out on Linux? A tip: “lifting the cover to access the toner and putting it down without touching anything else will clear the out of paper error and continue printing” from here.
Our servers run inside our own cluster and no firewall is needed. How to totally disable firewall or iptables on Fedora 20? Fedora 20 uses FirewallD as the firewall service. To totally disable firewalld: # systemctl disable firewalld # systemctl stop firewalld
iptables is plain old good. How to enable it after I disable firewalld? First, install the iptables-services package as root: # yum install iptables-services Then, start iptables service as root: # touch /etc/sysconfig/iptables # touch /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables # systemctl start iptables # systemctl start ip6tables # systemctl enable iptables # systemctl enable ip6tables
How to get the directory path and file name from a absolute path in C on Linux? For example, with “/foo/bar/baz.txt”, it will produce: “/foo/bar/” and “baz.txt”. You can use the APIs basename and dirname to parse the file name and directory name. A piece of C code: #include <libgen.h> #include <string.h> char* local_file =…
How to print out a plain text file with line numbers in Linux? Use the nl command: nl text-file Find options in the nl manual.
How to quickly print a plain text file to printers from a terminal in Linux? You can also use enscript: enscript – convert text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI, and overstrikes https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-enscript/ enscript text-file The lp command can print a plain text file to a printer. My favorite command: cat text-file | lp -o…
With the command -dPDFSETTINGS=/print for ps2pdf, I got: GPL Ghostscript 9.10: Set UseCIEColor for UseDeviceIndependentColor to work properly. Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams make: *** [pdf-print] Error 255 How to fix it? I use this workaround: ps2pdf -dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer psfile.ps from this. An alternative is to use -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress.
I use Emacs in console. The linum-mode displays the line numbers just well. However, in the console, there is no space between the line numbers and the text content, which makes it a little messy some times. How to add a space between the line numbers and text content in Emacs? If you are using…
I have several installation of Thunderbird under Linux to check/send emails using IMAP email servers. I use filters extensively to manage my emails. How to export and import message filters of Thunderbird so that I can synchronize the rules on several installations? About message filters in Thunderbird (More at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filters_(Thunderbird)): Filters are account specific, there…
I have a large IMAP email account which contains many emails in a rich structure of directories. How to back up the whole IMAP account to my local computer? The requirements: Automatically downloading these files. There are many directories, and copying-pasting emails will take too much time. Keep the directory structures which are used to…
I use Emacs in consoles and start Emacs frequently (like check a file, edit it, close it and loop). However, Emacs seems take some time to start up especially some modes/extensions are used. How to make Emacs start up faster? I summarize my solution at this post: Making Emacs Startup Faster. The key is to…
How to make xterm display Chinese characters? It just displays some small rectangles for Chinese characters. First, the settings for some old X programs like xterm is in ~/.Xresources. And it takes effect after the X server restarts, or you can manually load the settings by xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources Second, the Chinese or similar fonts…
We have many hosts with internal IPs like 10.0.3.* behind a gateway, say gateway.example.org. The hosts with internal IP connect to the Internet through the gateway. How to directly SSH to hosts using internal IPs through the gateway? Here is the solution: Directly SSH to Hosts with LAN IPs Through the Gateway
On Linux, a default editor is used for text editing such as crontab -e or git commit. How to change it to the editor of my own choice? The default editor is indicated by the EDITOR environment variable. You can set this environment variable to set the default editor. For example, set it to emacs…