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I would like to get an alert whenever there is no new file or directory created over a particular time i.e. for last one hour or a day Sript 1 is listing the directories declared in script. Taking...

Published at LXer: Who doesn[he]#039[/he]t love a trip down memory lane? When recounting our career paths, they[he]#039[/he]re often crooked and veer in unexpected directions. Many of us take pride...

I have a Debian box, ARM based, which is accessed purely through a TCP connection from a PC host. I have a program on that box that I want to start up, then disconnect the host and leave it running...

Hello, i am not finding a way to have a page with portrait orientation, while the other pages in the same Writer document use landscape. It is possible, i can say, for the searches i did in...

Published at LXer: The EndeavourOS Linux distro has a new ISO release to give you guys an up-to-date installation medium in case you want to use Arch Linux but don’t want to go through its complex...

As has been noted previously, postfix has displaced sendmail as the MTA of choice in Slackware, with sendmail relegated to extra/. However, there are evidently a large number of Slackware users who...

If we put the init script (/etc/rc.d/rc.cups) in a shell script (for whatever reason) We have this error : Code: --------- /etc/rc.d/rc.cups: line 32: uname : command not found --------- Line...

This might be more of a feature request/improvement idea, but I noticed that the 'upgradepkg' script allows you to set a ROOT variable for an alternate location to check for package upgrades. I...

Published at LXer: EndeavourOS 2021.04 release is here. And the team brings a handful of new features and updates. Take a look. Read More......

Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on how to set a local repo for a specific branch of Deb? For example just Buster ARM and just main, updates, and security. TIA!

I noticed a couple of typos in the 'pkgtool' man page and the glibc-zoneinfo-* script. In short, seperate is a misspelling of separate. In the glibc-zoneinfo-* package... /var/log/scripts $...

Here, as the topic, I encounterred an error while install docker via sboinstall docker, the last error message like: PHP: --------- ... moby-20.10.2/volume/volume.go Removing bundles/ --->...

https://gitlab.com/jmgibson1981/scripts/-/tree/master/server/router Been working on this script for dual wan. I had tried OPNSense but that failed out bad on me. I think I've got this working quite...

With 15.0 in beta, it's becoming clear that some of my pet requests won't be accommodated and that I will have to rebuild some of the stock packages myself. I don't have a particular problem with that...

Published at LXer: In Part 9 of the LFCA series, we covered the basics of IP addressing. To better understand IP addressing, we need to pay more attention to these two types of IP address...

Hello all. Any & all help here is greatly appreciated. I have an issue I've seen posted several times in many places as "solved" but none of them address my specific issue. U'm running Debian 10...

Published at LXer: Here's a list of all Debian wallpapers from official releases with download links. Read More... (https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/04/default-debian-wallpapers-gallery/)

This thread is for tracking the development of the 4MLinux 36 series. *4MLinux 37.0 Core BETA released. * This is a core system (only about 15 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 37 series. The system...

Published at LXer: The success of open source projects is largely carried by the pillars of the community and group collaborations. Without putting a stake in the ground to achieve strategic...

Published at LXer: LXQt 0.17 is released. The lightweight desktop environment brings its latest version LXQt 0.17 with moderate improvements across modules and their components. This is what's new....

Hi, So I guess some on here have kept up with the recent media reports that the Pentagon confirmed videos of UFA Unidentified aerial phenomenon and UFO's ...

Hi all, We have monthly backups and yearly backups, and wanted to keep files for the 12 months and delete the older months. Is it similar to delete files older than x days for ex: Code:...

Published at LXer: The Escuelas Linux team informs 9to5Linux today about the general availability of Escuelas Linux 6.13, a new version of their educational-oriented GNU/Linux distribution derived...

I have a wrt54g router configured as a bridge a long while ago and I had to reconfigure it because it stopped working as a bridge. I reset the router and tried to set it up as a bridge, but was unable...

Code: --------- #!/bin/sh export PATH="/mnt/sdd1/scope/ScopeApp/:$PATH" mount /dev/sdd1/ /media/mountpoint --------- When I execute, the _export_ command doesn't work, but the _mount_ command...

I may have forgotten, what is the diff between pacman -Syu and this gui system updates ? *Even after i have completed pacman -Syu, this gui system update -discover still got something that needed...

Code: --------- slackpkg update gpg Downloading http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-14.2/GPG-KEY... wget: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1:...

vlc player "sound on and off" when play a mp4 file, with faster speed. Tried with a youtube downloaded mp4, it is ok. when i played the same (problem) mp4 files on another player on the same...

Hello folks, after doing a clean install of 20.2 the only Browser that would work was the native Browser (named strangely enough "Browser"). I then did a second fresh install using the Safe Graphics...

Published at LXer: The open-source cloud infrastructure project continues to benefit from a high volume of contributors as the new Wallaby release improves compute, networking and security. ...

I have been using windows WSL for a year now and want to switch to the Linux system. Before doing that, I wanted to get a solid foundations (avoid just googling around to get things solved - at least...

My wife uses endea linux xfce.. in the mid of skype session, it freezes.. (but not all freezed), the audio from skype session still available, but she can't mute and unmute mic .. both time, after she...

I have enter the cli as such.. But i don't get it why my eDP1 screen is still not +0+0 (xy coordinate)? Code: --------- $ xrandr --output eDP1 --auto --pos 0x0 --primary --output HDMI1...

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains how to download a portion of YouTube video with Youtube-dl and FFmpeg utilities in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: Jenkins is a leading self-contained open-source automation server that is used to automate repetitive technical assignments involved in building, testing, and delivering or...

After a fresh install of Slackware 14.2 from the official ISO (2016), the entire system needs to be updated, and that's a lot of packages and time. Is there a way to do an installation that leaves the...

Since kernel v5.8 the function do_IRQ does not exist for x86 architecture. Is there a documentation on the new IRQ handling?

I've been trying to update -current today, and the slackfinder/slackpkg+ mirror was down. Anybody else experiencing the same issue?

Published at LXer: IT shops may be looking for a CentOS replacement in advance of its support sunsetting. Here are some alternative free Linux distros that are drop-in replacements for CentOS. ...

Published at LXer: The restrictions on getting out and about during the pandemic occasionally remind me that time is slipping by—although some days, "slipping" doesn[he]#039[/he]t quite feel like...

hello, the fuse-mounted gcp bucket upload speeds are abysmal - ~400KB/s. My 40GB archives will take forever to upload. Question: is this a normal upload speed and how can it be addressed? ...

Mplayer doesn't build anymore on -current, the install-MPlayer.log shows this: ------------------------- libmpcodecs/ad_spdif.c: In function 'uninit': libmpcodecs/ad_spdif.c:302:13: warning:...

When compiling gtk, towars the end of the building process, this error message shows: Code: --------- Making all in demos make[2]: Entering directory...

Published at LXer: Take a look inside one Linux sysadmin's path to achieving his goals. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/journey-developer-subscription)

Published at LXer: The LXQt 0.17.0 desktop environment was released today with various new features and improvements for this lightweight, next-generation LXDE desktop environment written in Qt. ...

Anyone with time would like to do that? i really need to learn how to create update slackbuilds.

Tried setting up an LFS install on my main PC, and I had little deviation from the LFS book. Re-compiled the kernel a few times because of some errors I have made. The first time, I was able to get...

Published at LXer: Want to get to know Kubernetes in your home? Deploy Kubernetes-managed containers to low-powered, single-board computers? Canonical[he]#039[/he]s latest version of MicroK8s may...

What is the correct way to set a minimum fan speed in Slackware?

Yesterday, I installed Linux Mint 20.1..... I've gotten the system looking the way I want, but Chromium seems to be an issue. Where are all of my bookmarks? No, I don't need the storage location. I...