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Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable

/usr/bin/openbox

Openbox-Message: "Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable"

cd /usr/bin/

exec xinit openbox

exec xinit awesome

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X without Display Manager - Gentoo Wiki
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/X_without_Display_Manager

Openbox/Guide - Gentoo Wiki
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Openbox/Guide

xinit - ArchWiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit

How to install the startx command - Garron.me
Written by Guillermo Garron Date: 2008-04-28 10:36:30 00:00

sudo aptitude install xinit

once it is installed you have to create or edit your

$HOME/.xinitrc file, and write in there

something like this:

#!/bin/sh
exec startfluxbox
#exec gnome-session
#exec startkde

be sure to have only one Desktop uncommented.
http://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-install-startx.html

10 insserv Command Examples for Linux System Init Scripts
6 Aug 2014
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2014/08/insserv-command/

12.4.7 insserv - Fibel.org
http://www.fibel.org/linux/lfo-0.6.0/node322.html

Linux.Fibel.org Version 0.6.0
http://http://www.fibel.org/linux/lfo-0.6.0/lfo.html

Ubuntu Manpage: insserv - Enable an installed system init script
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/insserv.8.html

insserv(8) - Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=ManPage&sec=8&manpage=insserv

10.5. Die Init-Skripten
http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~mueller/docs/suse9.2/suselinux-adminguide_de/html/ch10s05.html

Edited 2016-11-06 06:04 (UTC)

Wget. Resume, limit rate and run it in background Written by Guillermo Garron Date: 2013-08-16 20:24:20 00:00

I use curl and wget a lot, because I like downloading ISO images to test new GNU/Linux distributions, but I do not have a lot of bandwidth, so that usually means that I have to left my PC on downloading the file at night.

I also like to watch movies on Netflix in my Galaxy S3 or iPod Touch, so I have to limit the bandwitdh wget is going to use. Here is the command I usually use to download ISO images.

wget -cb --limit-rate=25K http://url.of.the.server/name.of.file

-c will continue any interrupted download from the place it was left. -b will start wget in background (the PID will be informed when it starts) –limit-rate will limit the speed or bandwidth available for wget.

http:///www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-background-limit-rate-resume-download.html

Resume downloads, limit speed and more with wget Written by Guillermo Garron Date: 2008-05-15 10:36:30 00:00

wget is a command line tool used to download files, or complete webpages, it is a great utility with lots of options, as you can see if you read the wget man page Some months ago, I have written about how to download files with wget, now I want to add some other tips to those already explained that day.

Resume a download

If you need to stop a current download, and pretend to resume it later, you should use the -c option i.e.:

wget http://some.server.com/file -c

Traffic shaping, or limiting the speed of the download

I really use this feature a lot, as my home ADSL is not as big as I would like, I have to use the speed limiter, when downloading ISOs, otherwise I just can not continue working, to limit the speed of the download use the –limit-rate option.

wget http://some.server.com/file --limit-rate=20k

That line is going to limit the download speed to 20 Kbytes per second, or 160 kbps.

Let wget working after log out from ssh connection

I usually connect through ssh to my office (better ADSL than my home’s) and download the files there over the night, the next day I bring them home. So, to make wget continue working after the log out, because I do not want to let my home PC on all night long, so the command is:

wget -b http://some.server.com/file

Logging the output to a file

This is useful when you are working with wget in the background, to be able to know what was wrong if anything goes wrong, use the -o option and specify a file to store the logs.

wget http://some.server.com/file -o $HOME/log.txt

Of course you can combine the options, and put something like this:

wget -b -c http://some.server.com/file --limit-rate=20K -o $HOME/log.txt

http://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/limit-rate-resume-downloads-wget.html

LSBInitScripts - Debian Wiki
This is a short documentation about how to make an Init Script LSB (Linux Standards Base)-compliant based on the Chapter 20 of the LSB 3.1.
http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts
A status page for dependency based boot sequencing is available.
http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot