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I have a rather strange problem that I couldn't figure out. On my server, I only enabled port 22 for SSH and port 6000 for an application. The default policies were deny incoming, allow outgoing, and...

Published at LXer: The main configuration file for FreeDOS is a file in the root directory called*FDCONFIG.SYS. This file contains a series of lines, each setting a value such...

Hello, Today I install deepin and when I try to update it does not finish updating. the error is the package: Err:8 https://community-store-packages.deepin.com/appstore eagle InRelease ...

Thanks! Kubuntu requires DVD

Published at LXer: The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. The name highlighted the machine’s color capabilities, compared with its monochrome...

Published at LXer: Xubuntu is a Linux distribution variant of Ubuntu. This makes some applications in Ubuntu may not be installed by default on Xubuntu. An example is a file search utility Read...

After upgrading to current packages XFCE stopped working - 10-20 seconds after starting X keyboard stopped responding, also start/desktop menu... Alt+Ctrl+F6 works, and keyboard in the terminal works....

Published at LXer: A system administrator, in the vast majority of cases, has to take care of more than one server, so he often has to perform repetitive tasks on all of them. In these cases...

So, basically all I need is chrome running with one of it's plugin in a virtualbox on my computer. I need the linux to be really light on RAM and CPU as I need many of these set ups running at the...

Just setup a new Debian 11 system. the username was not in the sudoers file. So went in as root and did an adduser user1 sudo. Confirmed user1 added. But when I switched back to user1 - no joy. Not...

I'm running SLES12 SP4 Kernel 4.12.14-95.45. I'm attaching a external 2TB LaCie USB drive. I've used these drives many times in the past successfully, but have 2 that do not get a device assignment....

Published at LXer: In this guide, we'll show you how to manage systemd units in Linux, using systemctl command. Read More......

Published at LXer: Let's face it. The point of technology is to make life better.Of course, what qualifies as "better" varies for people, depending on what they need at any given moment. Still,...

I have gentoo linux on a old laptop and its takes a very long time for stuff to complie. I think of using distcc so my main pc can help my laptop in compiling, but it uses windows 10. Will these...

Recently ripped a movie that was in a language I do not speak, but it had English subtitles. Not a problem...until the Roku media player wouldn't display the subtitles. It was a Matroska (.MKV) file,...

Published at LXer: Ever since RedHat pulled the plug on the CentOS project, the opensource community has been working tirelessly round the clock to provide formidable alternatives to CentOS 8 which...

hello, I have fedora installed with kernel Linux 5.10.7-200.fc33.x86_64, which was working. My hardware is Toshiba Qosmio laptop, with multi-boot. This laptop has a NVIDIA video card 340. I had...

Published at LXer: Django is a free and open-source, Python-based web application framework. Read More... (https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-django-on-centos-7)

I know this is something that should be reported upstream, but first I wanted to check here if I'm the only one experiencing it. My dolphin (from latest slackware64-current) crashes when I try to...

Published at LXer: Arch-based beginner-friendly Manjaro Linux got a new version 21.0 release, codenamed Ornara. It came with tons of new exciting features and updates for all three GNOME, KDE...

Published at LXer: Use cpulimit to easily limit the percentage of CPU cycles that a process can allocate per unit of time. Read More......

Published at LXer: Go is one of the latest open source programming languages that is used to do memory management safely and also helps in dealing with garbage collection gracefully. This article...

Hi there, I am totally new to Linux and all the distros around. I am hoping to find valuable info here to help me in this new adventure. Thank you for having me!

Hi, I have this script: #!/bin/bash host=google.com if [ -z $host ]; then

Hello, I switched on the computer and I am in a black screen that can only accept commands. I want to go to the desktop but it only goes through commants like a huge terminal. How can I see my...

Hi there. I am running Openmediavault (which is based upon Debian 10/Buster) on an Odroid HC2 server. I am running TVHeadend on the server but there have been no updates in well over a year for...

Hello, I have a wierd problem for some time now... I have a laptop running XUbuntu 20.04 LTS (XFCE) Desktop and running Firefox 89. On some sites, especially Google sites (Search engine,...

I've recently read that Windows has a process called shellbags which not only maintains ones file-viewing preferences, but also keeps a detailed log in the registry of ones computer activity. Windows...

Published at LXer: In Linux, there are many ways to achieve a single task. To make it precise there are many commands to get the same information. When you start using Linux distribution you should...

Published at LXer: The Krita Foundation released today Krita 4.4.5 as the fifth and last maintenance update in the 4.4 and 4.x series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free digital painting...

Somehow, optical drives on two different Dell laprops -- one legact BIOS, another a UEFI boot E6540 -- have been disable while online and unable to be recognized by the boot processes. More than...

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains what is a runlevel, how many runlevels are there in Linux and how to check the runlevel in Linux operating systems. Read More......

Hello I am running centos 8 after installed the latest updates which installed a new kernel my vms will no longer start. I ran sudo yum upgrade which upgraded my server along with a ton of other...

Published at LXer: This tutorial shows how to install Glances system monitoring Tool on Ubuntu and CentOS and how to use it to monitor Linux system metrics locally and over a network connection. ...

Published at LXer: Modoboa is an open-source mail server hosting and management platform for Linux. It is written in Python uses Postfix, and Dovecot to send and receive email. In this tutorial, I...

Hi, I am running slackpkg upgrade-all and it returns this: ---Quote--- bash-4.3# slackpkg upgrade-all Checking local integrity... DONE You have a broken /var/log/packages - with two versions...

Learning about systemd at the moment and I get the idea that targets are equivalent to run-levels or "states" that the system needs to reach in order to move forward to the necessary state(i.e....

Published at LXer: Use the .htaccess file to manage web sites on shared web hosting platforms. Read More... (https://redhat.com/sysadmin/beginners-guide-redirects-htaccess)

Hi! I'm trying to compile the Linux 5.12.9 kernel (for a KISS Linux installation); I was originally trying out the Zen kernel (https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/) but tried switching to the...

I have some gpx files that I want to modify the date/time. Typically the lines look like: Code: --------- 2001-10-23T21:02:56.000Z 2001-10-23T21:26:27.000Z ...

Issued the following..: yum install kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r) and instead of a successful installation, I get..: yum install kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r) ...

Published at LXer: Jenkins is a free and open-source Continuous Integration server written in Java. It helps developers to automate the build and deployment process. Read More......

I just did the last slackpkg update and it included 5.22 plasma. I exited KDE and restarted it. When it started I got a SMART status notice for each of my 4 hard drives. The msg went as...

CentOS 7 Running xterm, trying to increase font gets me this: xterm: cannot load font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1' How does one download fonts that are missing?

this is on CentOS 7. I cannot yet upgrade. # yum install brave-browser Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: repos.dfw.quadranet.com *...

Published at LXer: Preparing to run a new (or convert an existing) application in Kubernetes takes work. Working with Kubernetes requires defining and creating multiple "manifests" for the...

Howdy, It seems that GRUB 2.06 has some issues, at least my machines (real PC, and VPS) that boot in legacy mode. My laptop, which uses EFI seems to be unaffected. I upgraded the Slackware...

Hi,I installed deepin from dvd and cannot do anything to update or install via apt get. Please help. This is, what I get (sorry, it is in Czech but basically it says download failed, connection...

I have a development machine that's CentOS 7 for compatibility reasons. Would CentOS 8 be just as compatible with CentOS 7 in production if I upgraded my CentOS 7 machine to 8?

The network worked fine until yesterday. Now I cannot access any site because the network times out. Not even apt get works so I can't check for networking driver updates. I can connect to my wifi...