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There was a time when I sometimes needed to send email to remote addresses from the command line with mailx. I also used ssmtp for that. I was testing some local email handling recently and decided...

Published at LXer: You have both secure and non-secure choices for file transfer, and each can have different advantages in different situations. Read More......

Does it work? Does it enabled? Xfce seems to ignore now DPI settings. Plasma is using "scaling" and discourages to use DPI. But does it system wide behavior? Property Xorg is compiled with. I set DPI...

Published at LXer: But hey, the release looks OKFedora 34, a feature-packed new release of Red Hat's leading edge Linux distribution, was released today, though the main Java package maintainer has...

Published at LXer: Unveiled at this year's Red Hat Summit, the latest version of Red Hat’s flagship enterprise offering, RHEL 8.4, features edge-focused improvements like enhanced container...

Published at LXer: Users of the Fedora Linux 33 release can now upgrade their installations to the recently released Fedora Linux 34, so here’s a quick and painless tutorial for those who don’t...

Most people depend on *ssh* to provide a necessary "back door" into the various systems that they are responsible for. However, often within a matter of minutes, they find that their server logs are...

Published at LXer: A computer's operating system and applications use the primary memory (or RAM) to perform various tasks. This volatile memory, containing a wealth of information about running...

I stumbled across this news of Alpine Linux sponsoring work for an alternative service manager to systemd, and to my surprise they plan to work with the creator of S6 init, which i saw some people...

For several weeks, this has become a regular, almso daily event. It shows up as security updates and it needs a reboot each time What is going on? Thanks Alex

Published at LXer: RAID 1 is a hard disk configuration where the contents from one hard disk are mirrored onto another. This provides the user with some redundancy in case a disk fails. Read...

I am fed up with Endea linux KDE that non stop updating daily.. (i have no idea whats' there so much to update with daily). Anybody know if Manjaro KDE plasma also the same ? or no constant...

Published at LXer: In this article, I will explain the installation of Android Studio on a CentOS 8 Desktop system. I will show you two installation methods, first using the snap installer and then...

I have a quite old *Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX Webcam* with my *Linux Mint* (linux54) and I need to use the older version of V4L in order to make nowadays application to work with it. Therefore...

I am getting this error "Could not chdir to home directory /home/user: No such file or directory" after unjoin domain using sssd and rejoining using samba-winbind

Hi, Quite some time ago the idea of digitize my family's most relevant documents and photographs started going through my head. Hands on deck I scanned some of them and I got to the point where I...

Hey! So I recently built an LFS system, and find myself in desperate need of a package manager. I know benvd's lfs-pacman thing works but I've already made the system. Something like pacman would be...

Published at LXer: Linux is the host operating system, Nginx handles HTTP requests from web clients, MySQL or MariaDB manages the storage, retrieval, and manipulation of data, and lastly, PHP...

I had fixed a new serial port to my workstation and following the instructions to install the driver for that card, the instructions says: -copy pci60806a.o to /usr/sbin -Add...

Just wanted to know if Device mapper support multipath for NVME devices? Actually I am not able to find any article where it specifies clearly about it. I read somewhere that "device mapper is not...

Published at LXer: Fedora Linux 34 is released and ready for you to install or upgrade today. Read More... (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-34/)

I'm experience incredibly slow loading times for QtWebEngine, which causes Calibre's ebook-viewer several seconds just to load a simple, small EPUB. From MobileRead forum...

If anyone is still using Bodhi linux versions 2 or 3 for whatever reason, be aware we have to move the repo to a new server and in doing so we will not be moving the BL 2 and BL3 repos. These releases...

Published at LXer: The Fedora Project released today the Fedora Linux 34 operating system, a major release that brings numerous new features, latest software updates, and latest GNU/Linux...

As the output to a file from Grep cannot be formatted I would be grateful if anyone can help me here with some formatting I could do on the file using Sed. I have searched around but none of the...

Code: --------- cracklib-format #!/bin/sh create-cracklib-dict #!/bin/sh fsck.xfs

I began my Linux journey by installing MX Linux (XFCE) on a 2009 MacBook Air in the hopes of making it useful again. It booted from a live USB perfectly, and installed without any problems. After a...

Greetings to everyone! :D I'm new to this forum and I joined because I have lots of questions about Linux. I am familiar with many distros, but my main one is Arch. I hope to learn from being in this...

Just installed F33 and my usual set of other software and ran into this. I use cvlc to play audio files, and to stop them when I answer the phone or am on zoom. But quit no longer works: Code:...

Published at LXer: Geary 40 released with responsive UI modes and many new changes. We take a look at the new features and how to install them. Read More......

Hi Linux Questions! To make a long story short, I'm trying to get Linux running properly on a 2009 MacBook Air. I've been hopping from distro to distro, prioritizing ones that claim to be...

Hi all After many tries ( see discussion in "Little pb with KDE5", I have decided to comment out the line of config for v3D and revert back to my orinal configuration of /boot/config.txt. I...

Hello all, Any feedback about mabox ? it has an impressive 9.4/10 score on dw but there aren't many votes (18).

Published at LXer: GNOME’s annual GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) event is upon us and will take place in Summer 2021 between July 21st and July 25th. Read More......

Here's the Situation: The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is responsible for making sure GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulations) are properly practiced for myself (as an Irish citizen) and all in...

Published at LXer: ProFTPD is a popular and versatile FTP server that is available as open-source software and supports TLS (SSL) for secure connections. This article describes how to configure...

Hello! Can anyone please tell me how to click on the next element in the list using autoclicker? Let me know if anyone knows about it. :)

Hi all, I'm having the following scenario: - multiple custom chains; - multiple default chains rules that points to those custom chains; Below is an example: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)...

Published at LXer: XAMPP is a cross-platform development environment consisting of Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. In this guide, we will see how to install XAMPP on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Read...

Published at LXer: Kontron’s “KBox A-203-AI-GC” edge AI computer runs Linux on an Apollo Lake SoC and supplies a Coral Edge TPU, up to 8GB LPDDR4, DP, SATA, and a pair each of GbE, USB, serial, and...

I want to discuss the feature - and try to understand how it works. Here real-life example to count md5sum on a fly...

Published at LXer: Debian developer and Collabora engineer Simon McVittie announced today the availability for public testing of Flatpak 1.11.1 as the first unstable release in the upcoming Flatpak...

We all know how to hop. This is little different. You need one working live system with web browser, and these commands: wget or curl, dd - the basic, optionally: tee, zcat, xzcat, bzcat, md5sum,...

Published at LXer: Here's a quick recap from this week's DebugPoint.com weekly roundup (Week Ending April 25, 2021). Have a quick read. Read More......

Published at LXer: Cloud computing is a popular buzzword that refers to an on-demand technology that has taken over the technology world by storm and simplifies the way we provision IT resources...

Published at LXer: The xargs Linux command allows a user to execute command lines from standard input. If that sounds confusing, it might be easier to look at a basic example. The following command...

Published at LXer: Introduction The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI), a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who focus on standardizing how APIs are categorized and described, released the...

Published at LXer: Have you ever stopped to look at how much more ping can do for you beyond just a quick network connectivity test? Read More......

Published at LXer: Alexandre Oliva announced today the release of the GNU Linux-libre 5.12 kernel for those who want to use a 100% free version of the Linux 5.12 kernel on their GNU/Linux...

Hi, I am using Slackware current on an ASUS motherboard that uses NVIDIA/Intel graphics cards. When I try to wake up the computer from suspend by pressing any key on the keyboard, it would wake up...