How can I set an environment variable which contains newline characters?
I’m trying to set an RSA key as an environment variable which, as a text file, contains newline characters.
linux
Solarized colorscheme in fbterm?
I have fbterm installed and I’m attempting to use it with the solarized color scheme. I have not been able to find any information about this. The colors are already added to my .Xresources and working with xterm. Is there any way to use this colorscheme in the framebuffer?
“Bootstrapping” up from an old Debian 4 installation
I have a decade old laptop that is “working”, with Debian 4.x running.
It has working USB, but cannot boot from USB. Its optical drive is powered but doesn’t seem to work (I have tried booting several old bootable CDs and DVDs).
How do I know if a partition is ext2, ext3, or ext4?
I just formatted stuff. One disk I format as ext2. The other I want to format as ext4. I want to test how they perform.
tty (console): disable monitor
In .xinitrc, I use
RHEL: Creating stable names for network interfaces
We have a RHEL 5.5 box with 8 interfaces. And the eth interface naming is flip flopping. Sometimes eth0 comes up on physical port 7th, and sometimes on another physical port.
Is a virtual console running as a process and implemented based on pseudoterminal?
Linux has 7 virtual consoles, which correspond to 7 device files /dev/tty[n].
documentation on ptmx and pts
I am want to stream a linux terminal to my own program, and as far as I understand this is done by opening /dev/ptmx to start a new pts, I have tested this and this does indeed work (it creates a new file in /dev/pts). But I am not sure how I am supposed to … Read more
Send mail with an attachment and body of mail with table format
I need to send a mail with an attachment and body of mail in table format.I have used the below code to send mail. but unable to attache file.
Corruption-proof SD card filesystem for embedded Linux?
Recently we had a rather unpleasant situation with our customer – Raspberry Pi based “kiosk” used to display remote sensing data (nothing more fancy than a kiosk mode browser displaying a self-updating webpage from the data-collection server) failed to boot due to filesystem corruption. Ext4, Manual fsck required, the system will be a part of tomorrow’s important presentation, service required immediately. Of course we can’t require the customer to shut down the system nicely when switching it off for the night; the system must simply withstand such mistreatment.