Windows 7 64-bit fails to install on VirtualBox on Linux with status code 0xc0000225: “Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and click “Next.” 3. Click “Repair your Computer”….
How to install noip2 on Linux to update my no-ip domain? Check the post at: https://www.systutorials.com/4677/how-to-install-noip2-on-linux/ To make noip2 service automatically update with your latest IP, add a crontab entry for root: 0 */5 * * * /sbin/service noip restart The noip2 service will be restarted every 5 minutes. When the service is restarted, it…
I configured the Linux password-less automatic ssh login as in this post . However, it still does not work for me. Any method to check it? The log in log /var/log/secure may give some clue on it. For example: Aug 20 23:16:10 doppler sshd[11143]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/useraaa tells us that…
How to run Firefox on Remote Host over SSH ? After $ ssh -X remotehost Run this script on remote host: #!/bin/bash export $(dbus-launch) export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=ENABLED firefox -no-remote & This script credits to Waxborg: http://waxborg.servepics.com/opensuse/remote-administration/running-firefox-remotely-over-ssh.
How to pass kernel parameters to Xen DomUs ? Kernel paremeter may be needed to be passed to a Xen DomU. For example, when the DomU fails to boot and we want to check it in ‘single’ mode. We can simply start the DomU with the “extra=” syntax. For example, to add ‘single’ to the…
How to convert a ps file to a pdf file that is available for publish (embedded fonts, etc)? Convert the file.ps ps file to file.pdf: $ ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer file.ps file.pdf</pre> Embedding Fonts in PDFs with pdflatex by Jeffrey P. Bigham: http://www.manticmoo.com/articles/jeff/programming/latex/embedding-fonts-with-pdflatex.php
How to set the global user name and user email for git? We may be asked to set our global user name and user email if it is the first time that we use git on a machine: Your name and email address were configured automatically based on your username and hostname. Please check that…
How to find Linux absolute path for a relative path in Linux? We may need the absolute path on Linux when we only know the relative path. The readlink command does the trick. To find out the absolute path for a relative path, e.g. ./: $ readlink -f ./
How to install Dropbox on Linux ? Just follow Dropbox’s instruction here: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx A quick command for 64-bit Linux: $ cd ~ && wget -O – “https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64” | tar xzf – Use the dropx CLI: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/Using_Dropbox_CLI Download dropbox.py: $ wget -O ~/bin/dropbox.py “https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py” Set the permissions: $ chmod +x ~/bin/dropbox.py Start Dropbox: $ dropbox.py start Status:…
Seems the input method on Linux (ibus) does not work well with Chrome. But other programs, e.g. thunderbird, has not problem with ibus at all. What’s wrong with Chrome or ibus? Check whether the “Qt IBus library and Qt input method plugin” is installed. If not, installing it and restarting ibus may help: # yum…
Any good tools to synchronize home directories on Linux boxes? Many have several PC/laptops and consequently many home directories. There is home directory synchronizing problem. unison is a good tool to do this: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#rshmeth http://www.watzmann.net/blog/2009/02/my-homedirs-in-unison.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#File%20Synchronization Useful script: $ unison -batch -ui text ./ /mnt/homebak/zma/ In text user interface, synchronizing two directories in batch mode…
How to efficiently archive a very large sparse file, say 1TB? The sparse file may contains a small amount of data, say 32MB. SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA The SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA functionalities play the trick and makes `tar` and `cp` handle the large sparse file very efficiently. `lseek` with `SEEK_HOLE` returns the offset of the start of the…
If I have a disk with bad blocks, how to search bad blocks on it under Linux? You can use ‘badblocks’: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-badblocks/ badblocks [ -svwnf ] [ -b block-size ] [ -c blocks_at_once ] [ -e max_bad_blocks ] [ -d read_delay_factor ] [ -i input_file ] [ -o output_file ] [ -p num_passes ] […
In Linux, mmap() is a system call that is used to map a portion of a file or device into the memory of a process. This can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as memory-mapped I/O, shared memory, and virtual memory management. However, when mapping a large range of memory that is larger…
How to find hard links to a file in Linux? To find out all hard links to file1: $ find /home -xdev -samefile file1 Read more: http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-find-and-delete-all-hard-links.html
Any tutorials or tips on how to manage LVM? LVM provides a flexible and easy way to management storage disks on Linux. It also provides a set of tools for management. Here are some tutorials and references for managing LVM: LVM man pages: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-lvm/#lbAL Manage Disk Volume in Linux: http://www.hongkedavid.com/blog/disk_volume.html LVM with Xen: https://www.systutorials.com/b/linux/tag/lvm/ Remove missing phyiscal volumes…
How to easily and quickly test the connection between two nodes on Linux? This should be specific to protocol and port. We can use nc (netcat) to test the connection between two servers. For example, to test whether TCP port 1048 can be used on the server (IP 10.0.3.48 as an example) side: On the server: $…
Evolution is a great personal information management tool that provides Email, address book and calendar tools. Evolution provides many enterprise friendly feature such as native support to Microsoft Exchange connectivity for Emails, address books and calendars. Evolution uses various ways including plain files and dconf configuration systems. This post will give an introduction to the…
We ever discussed fixing ports used by NFSv3 so that it can be easily exported to external networks. For NFSv4.1 or higher, things are much easier. The ports for mountd, statd, and lockd are not required in a pure NFSv4 environment. We have less ports to control or allow for connections. Only port 111 and…
What surprises are awaiting the tech world with .NET Core 2.1 Release in 2018? Technology is one of the most dynamic spheres these days. Every single year you will find a new version of an existing software and .NET Core is not an exception. The intentions of these upgradation is to make online activities seamless,…