How To copy and share files between linux (Fedora and Ubuntu) computers and share a printer How to set up a home network on Fedora 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 (or Ubuntu 8.4 to 11+) with a router. (At the begining of this article, I was still using Fedora 11,13, and 14 on different pc’s and have live copies of Ubuntu 8.4,...
how to set up dual or triple desktop computer monitors in Fedora 17 My laptop handled 2 monitors with only a hassle of being only able to put the external monitor on the right side and still keep the internal, laptop, monitor established as the “primary” monitor. On a desktop computer The default graphics drivers that come with Fedora may only work for one...
passwordless ssh: automated Linux shell backups to another computer ssh remote login without a password Accessing a remote site through ssh without a password How to do unattended backups to a remote linux computer Quite often, you want a shell script to ssh into a remote server (your web site?) unattended and do a (regularly scheduled, cron job?) backup, for instance. SSH allows this...
How to Retrieve and Edit Commands in Linux All this information assumes the default “bash” shell. If hitting the up arrow does not retrieve the previous command, or the command “history” does not get a list of your previous commands, then you do not have the Bash shell. And, if ctrl-p is the only way to get your previous command, then you are probably...
* Systemd * Systemd is a new, faster, system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional...
How to make Gnome 3 look and work almost like Gnome 2. How to switch back to Gnome 2. Gnome 3 “fallback-mode” makes it look and function much more like Gnome 2, like it used to. (or, you can install Xfce. see below) No desktop, no taskbar. Panned by critics, shunned by users, Linus calls it an “unholy mess.” Saying there are a number...
Just like Windoze, Fedora (and Ubuntu) throws in a 100 fonts you don’t want and will never use. How to remove many extra Linux fonts Fonts can be uninstalled like software: go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software -> Fonts (click on the Fonts category) I removed many (all the) kacst and lohit and other un-needed foreign language fonts this way. All, system-wide,...
Important SSD notes: In Linux, the operating system keeps both HDD’s and SSD’s from becoming fragmented. Unix/Linux “uses a journal instead of writing directly to the disk in sequence. … It will then write the journaled file onto memory and then onto the true disk blocks, but in linear mode.” In Windows, also, “Solid State Drives DO NOT require defragmentation. It may even decrease...
to rename all my camera photos I need some string functions, to put the creation date on all the jpg files I need … jhead. Linux does not keep the creation date; it keeps the modified date. The date on the file changes as soon as you copy or edit it, like with a photo editor. if you have not modified the image so...
There are a lot of existing Unix/Linux shell scripts that presume there are no space characters in filenames, including the default setting of the Bourne shell “IFS” variable. Each pathname component is separated by “/” therefore, filenames cannot contain “/”. Neither filenames nor pathnames can contain the ASCII NUL character (\0), because that is the...
I had windows and an old copy of fedora on my first of 2 hard disks and wanted to install the latest Fedora on the second one. The first time I installed Fedora 14 on my 2nd disk including the grub boot-loader, I did not give it permission to touch my 1st hard disk containing windoze and fedora 13, which I did not want...
Your crontab editor The default editor for the ‘crontab -e’ command and many others is vi. On Ubuntu, it is the nano editor. To change it to something else, like emacs, or gedit, for instence, use the commmand $ export VISUAL='gedit' (or whatever editor you like) $ export VISUAL='emacs' To see your crontab editor What is your crontab editor? to see what your crontab...