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Searching for files is one of the most frequently performed task that most of the user does. In Gnome, it can be done by any of the following four ways. Using Nautilus Search Using gnome-search-tool Using Tracker Desktop Search Using zeitgeist   Using Nautilus for searching.       It's more natural to use the file manager to search for files instead of using an external app, that's why i decided to starting with nautilus first. Nautilus do have a built in search functionality that works by using tracker as backend. But most of the user complains that the nautilus does not shows any search result most of the cases. This is because, search is case sensitive , and  search is done only in directives which are indexed by the tracker.        By default, tracker index recursively the user's document, pictures,  videos, Desktop, Music, Downloads directories and non recursively on user's home directory . ...

The internal server error might be caused by several reasons. Here i am providing solution for one of it. check your web server error log [ mostly it will be at /etc/httpd/logs ]. If the last few line of the error log contains the lines similar to (13)Permission denied: exec of '/var/www/html/index.py' failed (13)Permission denied: exec of '/var/www/html/index.cgi' failed or something similar, then solution to this as follow. If not, the error occured by some other reason. Try this site. Htmlfixit . You might face this error when you are trying to do some CGI programming in your system via apache server. Most of the time this error does not occur due to apache server misconfiguration, its mainly due to SElinux installed in your system. A brief note about SElinux : SElinux [ Security Enhanced Linux ] is installed by default in Fedora and many other linux distribution.  Its a super cool feature when one speak about security. But many time its...

"for loops" are effective than "while loop" when a loop is to be done for each element in a array or each word in a string. This "for loop" is different, more powerful and useful then the version of for loop available in c/c . Here i am here to show some interesting new ways to use them in our bash scripts. Example 1: Simple and basic data="Bash scripting is fun" for i in $data do     echo "$i" done Output: Bash scripting is fun Explanation:     The bash [ Interpretor of the script ] splits each word in the variable data and each split piece is stored in the variable i on each iteration. The for loop starts and ends with 'do' and 'done' respectively. Example 2: simple and direct for i in Bash scripting is fun do     echo "$i" done Output: Bash scripting is fun Explanation:     Same as before but instead of using variable, we directly used data in the for...

To all of us who use wine, there are times where we need to start a wine application [ windows application to be ran in wine on Linux ] from terminal. Most us will try to start it my issuing the command. user@localhost$ wine Although it will start the app, but most of the time the application crashes or send error some dll is missing or sometime just not works without informing anything. This is not the best way to start a wine app. The best way is that using two more option to wine while call it. The options are 'start' and '/unix' as follow, user@localhost$ wine start /unix Issuing the above command will success fully start the app. Note:  Reason for this is that, while issuing wine , the local dll files will not be set to lib path for wine. So adding the two option will inform the wine to load the local dll files too.

The key things to know before following the steps: Remotely connecting to a remote X server is not secure. Try this only at you home and local systems. This can be made secure by using SSH Tunneling but , to make this post simple and clear, I am not covering it here. The below steps is for Fedora only. The sets may vary if you are using different Linux Distribution or Using KDM instead of GDM. You can ask steps for other distribution by selecting "Ask your Doubt" Menu at the top. Steps to be followed are as follow to configure "server": Enabling XDMCP in GDM Configure firewall Enabling XDCMP in GDM: Open terminal. Type : sudo nautilus Browse to /etc/gdm folder Open Custom.conf file. Under [XDMCP] type             Enable=true             Port=177       6. Save the file. ...