The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible

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do it: Jan 3, 2006; don't tell me words don't matter!

Is it possible to speed up Samba any way? I'm experiencing slower than expected speeds when trying to get video files off of my server which is on the same network. It also takes a long rear end time to connect to the share.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2007 02:59

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 00:38

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I'm really not understanding permissions. I'm trying to make a folder (Docs) and all folders under it readable/writable/deletable by the user "blake," but the folder is owned by "data" - The user "data" also needs read/write access to the folder. Shouldn't I just be able to "chmod u+rwx Docs"?

# ¿ Dec 8, 2007 22:03

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Insecticyde posted:

I just switched to LinuxMint (built off of Ubuntu). The only problem that I'm having is a really stupid one, but it's driving me crazy. When I type a keyword into the address bar of Firefox, rather than doing the google "I'm feeling lucky" thing, it does a yahoo search.

For instance:
If I type "test" in the address bar:

It brings me to this page:

I have checked the about :config under Keyword.URL and it looks like it should be correct:

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I think it has something to do with LinuxMint's own version of firefox... maybe?

EDIT: Problem has been solved. It was a DNS issue.

Do you use Verizon as your ISP? I bet that's it. Try changing your DNS to OpenDNS or something.

edit: completely overlooked the 'problem solved', whoops.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2007 20:26

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For some reason, when I ssh into my server, I can't use backspace in apps like nano, pico, or even vim. Backspace does work at the command line though. Any ideas?

# ¿ Feb 9, 2008 20:47

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I just bought a Syba SD-SATA-4P to add SATA support to my sata-less mobo. I have two drives plugged into it and an IDE drive as a boot drive.

My current IDE drive is booting Ubuntu, but I'm not sure how to get Ubuntu to recognize the new harddrives on the controller card. I don't need the fakeraid that the card has, I just want the drives to be available as storage. How do I set this up? I've looked for drivers, etc. to no avail.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2008 02:53

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Alowishus posted:

It should just see them, very unlikely that you'll need drivers. It's going to see them as "sdX" devices instead of "hdX" like your current IDE drive. I'd try "dmesg | grep sd" and see what you can see... chances are you'll see lines referring to sda and sdb, which are your two attached drives.

Here's the output of that:

code:

$ dmesg | grep sd
[   21.872987] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 117231408 512-byte hardware sectors (60022 MB)
[   21.873043] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   21.873046] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   21.873080] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   21.873164] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 117231408 512-byte hardware sectors (60022 MB)
[   21.873176] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   21.873179] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   21.873199] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   21.873204]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[   21.913999] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   21.919619] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   35.614264] Adding 1510068k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1510068k
[   36.061576] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal

The IDE drive is 60gb, and the two SATA drives are 120gb and 75gb. I don't think they're showing up :|

edit: lshw -C disk returns

code:

  *-disk                  
       description: SCSI Disk
       product: WDC WD600AB-32CB
       vendor: ATA
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: 03.0
       serial: WD-WMAA61136327
       size: 55GB
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5

So the harddrives are definitely not appearing which leads me to believe it's an issue with the card. I'm not sure how to go about debugging that, though.

edit2: Card showing up, drives attached to card are not.

code:

*-storage
                description: RAID bus controller
                product: SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller
                vendor: Silicon Image, Inc.
                physical id: 5
                bus info: pci@0000:03:05.0
                version: 02
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: storage pm bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=sata_sil latency=32 module=sata_sil

code:

24: PCI 305.0: 0104 RAID bus controller
  [Created at pci.296]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1095_3114
  Unique ID: FTXf.lje_xHhth_5
  Parent ID: 6NW+.92zbjSp4ZgF
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:05.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:03:05.0
  Hardware Class: storage
  Model: "Silicon Image SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x1095 "Silicon Image, Inc."
  Device: pci 0x3114 "SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1095 "Silicon Image, Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x7114 
  Revision: 0x02
  Driver: "sata_sil"
  Driver Modules: "sata_sil"
  I/O Ports: 0xac00-0xac07 (rw)
  I/O Ports: 0xa800-0xa803 (rw)
  I/O Ports: 0xa400-0xa407 (rw)
  I/O Ports: 0xa000-0xa003 (rw)
  I/O Ports: 0x9c00-0x9c0f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xdfd00000-0xdfd003ff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xdd900000-0xdd97ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 19 (378 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001095d00003114sv00001095sd00007114bc01sc04i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: sata_sil is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe sata_sil"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)

do it fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Feb 13, 2008

# ¿ Feb 13, 2008 03:22

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Fixed! I plugged the card into a Windows machine (wish I didn't have to do this!), flashed the card's BIOS, formatted and partitioned the drive with Windows' disk manager and then put it all back into the Linux box and the drive appeared.

I'm think it was the card's BIOS that was just extremely outdated or something. Thanks for the help!

do it fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Feb 13, 2008

# ¿ Feb 13, 2008 07:41

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I accidently just nuked /etc/lighttpd/ -- when I try to reinstall using apt-get remove + apt-get install I get:

code:

 * Starting web server lighttpd
2008-04-28 23:54:55: (configfile.c.901) opening configfile  /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf failed: No such file or directory 
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript lighttpd, action "start" failed.

How to I tell aptitude to reinstall the config files? Using Ubuntu.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2008 04:55

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Is there a way to move all of the contents of /a/b/ to /a/ ? Caveat: all of the contents in /a/b/ are folders with things in them.

edit: command I'm trying is "mv /a/b/* /a/" and getting back "mv: cannot move `/a/b/X' to `/a/X': Directory not empty

edit2: 'cp -R /a/b/* /a/' worked

do it fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Oct 26, 2008

# ¿ Oct 25, 2008 08:12

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Hughmoris posted:

Thanks for the reply. 3/4ths of what you mentioned went over my head, but I'll definitely check out Arch and start doing some research on those projects.

Speaking of that, does anyone have any recommended reading for individuals looking to learn and become proficient in a progressive manner? I seem to only find tutorials that either deal with "How to open up a terminal window" or "How to rewrite the Linux kernel", but nothing in between. Ideally something that covers the basics of linux then ramps reasonably into the more intricate details and processes of using the OS.

check out http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html - sort of old, but comprehensive.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2008 05:21

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Grigori Rasputin posted:

Ok, that's what I thought. One more knowledge gap to fill in... once I've sent information over to <host> via SSH tunneling, how does SSH know what to do with it/hand it off to the VNC server? I feel like there's probably something I need to configure on the server to route the information from SSH.

Thanks so much KS, you're a dream.

SSH doesn't need to know what's going over that port since all it is doing is essentially changing the port numbers. You could be forwarding ports for your toilet flushing application over port 9999 if you wanted to, and SSH wouldn't care. To answer your last question, no, you shouldn't have to do anything to SSH configuration files to allow port forwarding.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2009 23:24

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 00:38

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I'm trying to clean up a downloads folder. Is it possible to have rTorrent output a list of torrents it's currently seeding so I can compare that to the files currently in the downloads folder and delete anything that rTorrent isn't currently using?

# ¿ Jul 7, 2009 23:43

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