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Linux / UNIX: Speed up SSH X11 Forwarding

by Vivek Gite on January 5, 2011 · 2 comments

I‘ve an CentOS based server and Ubuntu based desktop pc. I’m connecting to my CentOS using ssh X11 forwarding feature. However, speed over the Internet is pretty slow for certain apps such as VMWare console. How do I speed up OpenSSH X11 forwarding using Linux / UNIX desktop system?

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I need to get a list of sizes in human readable du output format. How do I get the output for du command in GB under Linux or UNIX operating systems?

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FreeBSD Upgrade Perl 5.8.x to 5.10.x

by Vivek Gite on September 23, 2009 · 3 comments

How do I upgrade Perl version under FreeBSD operating system?

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Q. I’m trying to build PHP5 under FreeBSD jail and I’m getting an error that read as follows:

m4.info-[0-9][0-9] ./m4.i[0-9] ./m4.i[0-9][0-9]; do if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; done; else :; fi && cd “$am__cwd”; if makeinfo –no-split -I . -o ./m4.info ./m4.texinfo; then rc=0; cd .; else rc=$?; cd . && $restore $backupdir/* `echo “././m4.info” | sed ‘s|[^/]*$||’`; fi; rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
makeinfo: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/m4.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf262.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5.
*** Error code 1

How do I get rid of this problem and compile applications?

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Under KDE or Gnome desktop I get nice facility to search all man pages for particular command or phrase. I am login to remote server over the ssh session. How do I search all the man pages for a particular command at Linux shell prompt?

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Q. I am new to Linux. What tools or commands are recommended to troubleshoot performance related problems?

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