Twinxor posted:

What's the command-line way to get system temperature? I remember using a simple command that gave the temp at a few different sensors, but I can't find that command now.

spfdz posted:

Looking for a media player that can support 6000+ songs in a playlist, and can submit tracks to last.fm, as well read idv3 tags.

Amarok chuggs on a playlist that's that big. Anyone have any suggestions?

My experience with xmms is that it doesn't read the tags correctly.

Paco de Suave posted:

I'm running Ubuntu server 6.10 and if I don't have any outgoing traffic on the machine, it will lose connectivity (the web pages its serving won't load, can't ftp/ssh in, etc) until I ping out from the machine. The internet connection is still working and other computers connected to the same switch still work. How would I go about fixing this, or if nobody has any ideas, how would I go about setting it up so it pings a website every minute starting when it boots up?

JawnV6 posted:

Let me preface this by saying that I know what I'm trying to do is stupid.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.04, and I have a VirtualBox with WindowsXP that has a bridged connection to the outside world, it's own IP from the router and everything. If I have a Samba share on the ubuntu machine and the Windows image accesses it, is that traffic going to go out to the network and bounce back or is the whole setup going to be smart enough to avoid putting it on the wire and just transfer it internally? How could I tell?

teapot posted:

What is that "enterprise wireless connecion" that you speak of? 802.11(something) with WEP? Same with WPA? Some network authentication protocols? Some kind of VPN?

Jo posted:

I've got ~1000 files in a folder. I was wondering if there's a way to run a command for each of the files in a folder, appending the output. (Under bash.)

./JTSPSolver < ./06CityProblems/* >> ./outFile

Doesn't work.

Jo posted:

Thanks to both of you. Works wonderfully.

Though it brings up the question: if I run the script with nice -n -19, does JTSPSolver get high priority, too?

If not, can I change the priority of the task once it's running?

OuterSpaceMan posted:

This got me thinking, is there something funny you can do with PAM to bypass the security (other than use pam_permit)? Storing account passwords in clear text is upsetting, so I would imagine there's a good way to do this just to rig the authentication itself. Maybe if the connection was coming from a specific host or something like that.

lol internet. posted:

invid posted:

Managed to get my harddisk formatted.

I have a problem though.

Right now I have one partition that's mounted onto "/"

I have another partition that isn't mounted yet, but I want it to mount as "/home".

Problem is, if I do that, then my current /home/user accounts are all wiped underneath the new "/home"

Is there a way to do this properly without losing data?

ShoulderDaemon posted:

code:

foo@bar$ sudo dpkg --set-selections
bacula hold
^D
foo@bar$

There might be a slightly more user-friendly way to do that, but this is what everything will eventually do in the background.

Vanadium posted:

Is there anything wrong with using su -c instead of using sudo?

Jo posted:

A while back I asked about the memory usage of my Debian box. Someone responded, telling me that it's normal for Linux to eat fairly large amounts of ram in a 'precache' like act. I accepted this and passed it off, seeing I had larger issues. Well my system is still eating up 2 gigs of memory, solid, even as far as to have 150kb of swap space used. This does not look like precache, this looks loving crazy. Is there something I can disable to free up a little bit of that 2gig block? How many of the 92 processes (omg) should I be running for regular desktop operation?

N.E.: Looks like I only use ~200 megs at startup. After I've run a few applications, it hovers at the two gig mark.

Jo posted:

I thought I did. It just didn't seem normal to see so much taken up.

If I'm connected via ssh I use pa (aliased to `ps aux`) and free. Otherwise I'll fire up KDE system guard and look at the pretty graphs.

Combat Pretzel posted:

If I fail and remove a disk in a md mirror, can I simply mount the removed disk or recreate a new single disk array from it? Or does something prevent this? The idea would be at some point to convert the ext4 filesystem on my current mirror to BTRFS, but kinda with less risk.

sonic bed head posted:

I'm trying desperately to install lxml for python on a x64 machine and having tons of problems. I've narrowed the problem down to what is happening in this link (don't worry about the security certificate, just don't login or something) but I can't seem to find a solution anywhere. That was from November of last year so I'm hoping that there is a solution by now. It says that it was closed because it was fixed, but it doesn't say anywhere how it was fixed.

Any help would be really great. I'm supposed to get this done in the next hour so I'm trying really hard to figure it out. Thank you.

lilbean posted:

Okay, I have a weird problem that I think I can solve with iptables but I'm not sure specifically how. I have a legacy application that connects to a hardcoded IP for a JDBC connection. However, the IP has changed on the service provider from say 1.1.1.1 to 2.2.2.2. I want to setup iptables to map all outbound traffic on the application box destined to 1.1.1.1 to 2.2.2.2 but can't get it quite to work.

Additionally both hosts are on the other side of a VPN, and I could probably also solve it on the ASAs where the VPN is setup but I'd rather do this, um, patch, right on the Linux box.

FISHMANPET posted:

This is actually on a Solaris 10 machine. I just checked, still nothing in the log file...

kripes posted:

Also, I was in a meeting yesterday with a PCI compliant IT team and they said that their Redhat rep said they don't need to install Antivirus on the Redhat servers. What is up with that?

Anjow posted:

I want to add a directory to the PATH on 8 machines. I use ClusterIt to automate sending commands to a large number of servers, is there a single command (or one-line string of commands) that I can use to add a directory to the PATH, so that I can send that command to all servers?

Menacer posted:

I'm unable to compile Fortran applications with the installed GCC package, with an error complaining about being unable to find f951-- This is usually indicative of gfortran not existing. And, FWIW, Scientific Linux 6.0 has a separate gcc-gfortran package in their repo.