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I am trying to replace my long lived Toshiba 32-bit machines as they have reached a well deserved end-of-life retirement. I decided on a System76 Oryx a couple of months ago, being surprised at...

Hi, I was trying to install something onto my device. I edited some files following a tutorial, I didn't know what I was doing so I gave up the tutorial but when I rebooted now I cannot boot into...

I am trying to install security updates on Slackware 14.2 stable, am I going about this the correct way? I have run: Code: --------- slackpkg update slackpkg install-new slackpkg upgrade-all...

Hello, Recently, I purchased an MP510 SSD from an ebay seller. The drive was listed as new. Because windowz was preinstalled, albeit when it started booting it claimed that the install was damaged, I...

Hello everyone Is anyone using alpine (text-based email client) successfully on Windows 10? Many thanks

Published at LXer: In an ever-connected world, network security is increasingly becoming one of the areas where organizations invest a great deal of time and resources. This is because a company’s...

Hi all, This is something unimportant but I'm writing it anyway so that it may save someone from losing time over an unexpected change. I have a script that I use to detect broken binaries after...

Hi I've been running ESXi 5.1 on an old computer for a few years now. I had Windows 8.1 mostly but sometimes I put other OS to experiment with them. Now the drives are running out of space. I tried...

sudo dpkg -l | grep linux* produces a whopping 28 responses seems to me there used to be fewer. And some seem entirely excessive/redundant I check this frequently and purge out-dated Header,...

Published at LXer: Two weeks after the release of Linux kernel 5.12 series, the merge window for the next major version, Linux kernel 5.13, is now closed and Linus Torvalds just announced today the...

I want to copy my /home partition to another hard disk, but this second has less size. How can I do it?

Hi, I have a question about automating, parallelizing and reducing my Linux scripts. I have written some scripts for my company which are used for administration. There is for example a process...

Hi All, I am at a loss, this is probably a no brainer for most of you but I don't work with Gnome much and never had this happen. I installed Ubuntu 21 to a brand new server and it did not come with...

Hi All, I am at a loss, this is probably a no brainer for most of you but I don't work with Gnome much and never had this happen. I installed Ubuntu 21 to a brand new server and it did not come...

i tried 3 times to compilie gcc but i always get some kind of error Code: --------- make[3]: Leaving directory '/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-10.2.0/build/libcc1' make[2]: Leaving directory...

I'm currently running a W10** laptop...which came with a trial version of McAfee antivirus, which I have no intention of keeping. Periodically, I got little "nag notes", saying that I need to buy and...

I have an ibm x3560 server with an LSI raid card, 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05)'. How do I view the configuration of the physical RAID array from Linux? ...

Greetings, I'm running CentOS 7.5 using KDE and I just installed Kmymoney. Howerver after the install I only see an 'RUN' icon to get the app started. There isn't an icon which can be placed...

Published at LXer: GNOME 40 is finally out and I'm happy to say a small contribution of mine made it into the release. My contribution adds a new feature to GNOME System Monitor version 40. Few...

WNP-UA300P-01 rtl8192eu usb wifi adapter works but is not indicated by the LED. It does not flash. Windows 7 you are Okay. What to do on Linux Mint 20.1 x64?

Fed up with PIA - they've now made it difficult to contact even support by asking for ID that I don't have - have to ask them what they mean but can't without...the old Catch 22 crap I'm done. ...

Hello. Previously my site URL was as follows and there was an extra "forum" word at the end of the URL: Code: --------- https://mysite.com/forums/forum --------- I managed to remove the word...

I've got a bunch of old computers I'm trying to collect stats for so need a small CD bootable image I can run sysbench, lshw and curl commands from on a i386/i686 platform. (With sshd running in case...

Hi all, I want to ask regarding how can I install a full linux distribution from an .iso file on a laptop that does not have dvd writer, offcourse it has usb, so after saving the distro .iso file...

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I keep a window open to monitor a server log 24/7. It's a simple tail -f command. Every day at about 3:02AM, I come back to it to find a pipe broken message. Same time every day. Somebody...

Published at LXer: LinuxShellTips is happy to present a series on Vagrant. If you are someone who is using virtualization software like VirtualBox, Hyper-V, KVM, Docker, and AWS then this tool will...

I'm having 1000 + RHEL 6/7 servers integrated with cyberark training (https://hkrtrainings.com/cyberark-training) , the local user's (sudo user - remote user as per Ansible control node) is fetching...

I have slightly modified a few slackbuilds, built and installed the packages. Now it looks like sbocheck wants to downgrade them. I didn't make any changes in /usr/sbo/repo but copied the modified...

Greetings all! First time introducing myself after plenty of useful reading here the last few years :)

Published at LXer: There are many reasons why Linux is such a popular platform for processing Internet of Things (IoT) edge applications. A major one is transparency. Linux security capabilities...

Ok so, Slackware doing upgrade to 15.0(finally! yay) and SlackBuilds.org temporary suspended; I've decided to create my own temporary git atleast for tauon-music-box right now, and might add up...

Hi all, how can we give ssh access to the second user ?

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I'm trying to build my own slackware_live USB and when the script attempts to patch /mnt/sbin/liloconfig, it fails at the 8th hunk. 1-7 and 9&10 all patch without a problem. The code that should be...

I am trying to install RHEL 8.3 in my PC as a second OS. The configuration of my PC is as follows; i) CPU-Intel i710700k ii) MBD-Asus Hero Maximus XII iii) Storage-Samsung NV Me M.2 500 Gb-1, WD...

This is the second time this has happened. It would not accept my password. I changed it, but had to go through Pro Boards, and change my password there. It was OK for awhile, but now I can't log in...

I usually check the Slackware -current changelog with Firefox and the following link: ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt Latest version has trouble with this...

Published at LXer: The Armbian devs released today the Armbian 21.05 update to their Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for ARM and embedded devices, including development boards and Linux phones....

Not that it's a huge problem but, after installing and purging plasma5 on ubuntu GNOME i still have a got of weird UI hick-ups like the window action buttons using the KDE-style theming and some minor...

I have a thread under the same Subject in the Hardware forum. I obtained assistance there but in the end it was recommended I come here, a laptop forum because it would be more suitable having...

I am building my LFS distro, currently at chapter 5, compiling GCC i did the make command to build gcc, after half an hour i get this error: Code: --------- configure: error: cannot compute...

Hello, I was using the ping utility and I noticed I wasn't getting a response from one of my machines. I have updated it to Kernel version 5.11. I checked what I could think of as obvious causes. I...

https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/05/08/0358234/does-xkcds-cartoon-show-how-scientific-publishing-is-a-joke I started slightly skeptical, because I was an assistant in many Electronic papers...

Ubuntu 20.04. When I click on something, bookmarks for instance, the list drops down when I push the mouse button but when I release the button the list disappears again. After a few clicks it...

Published at LXer: Riffing on the topic of what unusual jobs people had before tech, a few of our responses from the community were more focused on jobs that led*to a job in tech.These eight...

I upgraded Slackware and now when I open a Konsole I have 3 header lines: the Konsole header with max/min buttons; the menubar with File, Edit, etc; and now a new menu bar with New Tab, Split view. I...

Hi community! When I try to enter my linux, a grub rescue prompt appears and show me that error grub rescue error: failure reading sector 0x2a00802 from hd0 I try the following: Code: ---------...

I came across this article (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.10-LTS-EOL-EOY-2026), and thought it interesting enough to share. What I find particularly reassuring about...

Had to do an Ubuntu reinstall after a HDD failure. I have 3 computers tied to an 8 port KVM switch. When I switch from the linux host to one of the other 2 and back to the linux host I'm greeted with...