For some reason, I can never remember how to do this.
If you ever want to grep for something but leave out a particular directory, use the --exclude-dir=DIR
So if I wanted to search the current directory for the string img, but don’t want to look in the directories tmp or log.
grep -r --exclude-dir=log --exclude-dir=tmp "img" ./
To add an existing user “frank” to an existing group “ssh”:
usermod -a -G ssh frank
To add new user “mike” to existing group “friends.”
usermod -g friends mike
To show all members in a group “people”:
sudo apt-get install members
members people
So today my computer threw this really strange error when I was booting it up. Still don’t know what caused it but you can bet your bottom dollar that I’m backing up that hard disk now that I recovered it. While I was booting up I was confronted with the following error:
Gave up waiting for root device
I’d never seen this before and the screen looked like this (though this isn’t my image):
I booted to a live cd and found that my root file system (sda2) wouldn’t mount, nor could it be repaired by gparted. After a lot of trial and error with other solutions, I gave fsck a try (with a little help from here) and it worked like a charm. Below is what I did:
Of course this isn’t guaranteed to fix everyone’s issue but if you’re out of ideas, give it a try. I’m sure glad that I did!
I often need to download a file from sourceforge to a server or some remote system via command line but I can never remember how. I decided to write it down so I don’t have to keep sifting through AskUbuntu when I need to.
All you need to do is use wget, paste in the link you get from clicking the download button and specify the file name with -O.
So if I wanted to download ClamAV (found here) I’d click on the download link, get the url and filename and paste them in like so.
wget "http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav/files/latest/download" -O clamav-0.98.tar.gz
That’s all there is to it!
Alright, so as a KDE user I don’t use synaptic. Not that I wouldn’t want to it’s just… you know I use KDE so I guess I use…Muon? Anyway Muon’s much better than the previous KDE software manager yet I still can’t get it to save my markings. It’s always grayed out on the file menu and I can’t be bothered to figure out why. SO what to do when I want a fresh install?
I go command line on it:
dpkg --get-selections > ~/Desktop/packages
It’s consistent, fool proof and works with any distro. …plus it’s command line and that always makes me feel smart…until I break something…hence the need for reinstalling the operating system.
So I ran into this problem after re-installing Kubuntu 10.04 (for reasons that I shall not go into ::rolls eyes::). Anyway, having an Nvidia GeForce 8400GS, I figured I could use the standard autodetection that Ubuntu provides for proprietary graphics drivers (described here) but for some reason that was not the case, so I needed to go in manually.
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo restart kdm
NOTE: the “kdm” is only because I’m running KDE. If you’re running gnome it’s “gdm” and after 11.10 it’s “lightdm”
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