There are two commands that may help you to find where executable binary is located regardless it’s Unix or Linux system. They are whereis and type. First locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified files and second tells what exactly shell executes when you type a certain command. The next picture shows examples of these commands work.
This step-by-step manual provides instructions on how to install freely available VMWare Server at Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Linux (7.04). First of all download installation package here and get free serial code. To get VMWare Server working at Ubuntu 7.04 I recommend to download this patch. To make sure there are all necessary tools installed to get VMWare Server running, execute: sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essentia xinetd After it’s done unpack installation package and patch: tar -xvzf VMware-server-1.0.3-44356.tar.gz tar -xvzf vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz Then: cd vmware-server-distrib ./vmware-install.pl … Read more
By publishing this post I try to help people who want to get access to popular and simple database engine sqlite through perl script. I use sqlite to store e-mails statistics at small mail server in order to retrieve information about users’ mail activity like average response time, sent and received messages and etc. There is perl script that is used to get this data per every user or get summary statistics. This script is to be run by web server (I use Apache) and … Read more
There are several methods to move running Linux to another hard drive at the same server. But I used Unix dump/restore utility to perform this… First of all it’s necessary to partition new hard drive in the same way as it’s done with old drive (Linux is running at). I usually use ‘fdisk’ utility. Let’s assume that old drive is /dev/hda and new one is /dev/hdb. To view hda’s partition table please run ‘fdisk -l /dev/hda’ which should show something like this: Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 … Read more
Ubuntu newbies sometimes ask how to add certain program into startup or autostart. Actually it usually happens with ex-Windows users 😉 Answer: To make program start just after user logins Gnome, go to “System” menu, then choose “Preferences” and select “Sessions”: Then press button “Add”, type application name, command to start it (it’s location like /usr/sbin/local/liferea), and press “Ok” and then “Close”. After next login to Gnome application will start. It works with any Linux distro running Gnome as Desktop manager. Update: Recent versions of … Read more
