I want the default interface name. How do I do this without perl?
ip route show to default | perl -pe's/^default via [0-9.]+ dev ([0-9a-z]+).*/$1/'
Is this working with other distributions also? There are names like ens3p0 or something like that.
My soundcard stopped suddenly working on my Xubuntu LTS 14.04.
Is it better to install the most recent stable Xubuntu version on a Notebook? Is LTS only suggested for servers?
Is it possible to make dnsmasq less verbose?
I couldn't find any hints in the manual page / the internet.
The only options I have found are already uncommented:
# For debugging purposes, log each DNS query as it passes through
# dnsmasq.
#log-queries
# Log lots of extra information about DHCP transactions.
#log-dhcp
Pidgin only displays "Away" or "Extended Away" but not additional message. Where does Pidgin display custom Away Messages?
In Impress 3.5.4.2 pictures are missing when reopening an odp presentation!
They weren't linked but saved in the odp-file.
Is this a known issue?
The most recent Flash Player for Windows is 11.4.x, for Linux it is 11.2.x. Are there already any security issues? Are security patches still released for the Linux versions?
Nn a Dell Inspiron the CPU Fan is too loud. It is not running constantly, but it changes from slow to really fast every minute. It's really annoying and hardly possible to work on this machine.
Is it possible to limit the range the fan is using?
pwmcontrol says:
There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
Is it a good idea to remove the vmlinuz, system.map, initrd.img, config and abi files from old kernels in /boot manually?
They're not listed in dpkg, because I installed Precise Pangolin without removing Lucid Lynx before.
I'm looking for a script that is run from a boot-CD doing the following for all files on a drive:
Is something like this readily available? (I don't trust the local deb-archive.)
Chris
I've already tried pkill -19 firefox, but it crashes. At the next start it asks if the last session should be opened again. Is it possible to terminate the browser without crash?
I'm looking for the /etc/rc.X/ softlink to /etc/init.d/portmap.
Does anyone know where portmap is called?
How can I find all symlinks to a file?
Chris
I downloaded the diashapes.deb package from http://dia-installer.de/download/linux.html . I installed the deb-file, but the objects don't appear in Dia. Where are they????
thank you in advance
chris
How to open a mbox file? Mutt displays no mails when calling mutt -f sent.mbox.
The mbox format is "From" without colon.
Is there any mbox viewer for Linux?
Thank you in advance.
Possible Duplicate:
How can I find duplicate songs?
I'm looking for a program to find duplicate MP3 files.
The program shouldn't use MD5 hashes but it should find similar file names. (Something like Anti-Twin for Windows).
Any help is appreciated.
I have several files' names starting with "._". I'd like to remove the point and underscore in a script. Howto do this?
Thank you very much in advance.
The Ubuntu Live CD is asking for a password after booting in GDM. The username "ubuntu" and an empty password don't work. Normally the same CD never asked for a password. What is happening? What is the correct password? I badly need the live system!
Edit: none of the proposals at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/9193 worked.
lsusb says:
chris@cnb:/var/log$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 174f:1127 Syntek
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Xorg.0.log:
(II) config/udev: Adding input device SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse (/dev/input/event9)
(**) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
(**) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: always reports core events
(**) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event9"
(II) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
(II) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Found relative axes
(II) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
(II) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Configuring as mouse
(**) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
(II) config/udev: removing device SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse
(II) SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
Thank you in advance.
Ubuntu One is quite slow. Changed files are rather fast displayed in the web-interface, but not on my second computer's Ubuntu-One folder. Does anyone know howto speed-up things?