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Hi Folks, I run: Code: --------- iw reg get --------- It shows: Code:

What about moving /etc/file/ out of /etc/ because (IMHO) it has nothing in common with a configuration? Not sure where to yet but e.g. Debian uses /usr/lib/file/magic.mgc for the BLOB...

What about moving /etc/udev/hwdb.bin BLOB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_large_object) to /var/lib/udev/? It seems to get created on every boot again...

Published at LXer: When typing is necessary, it's better to do it efficiently. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/command-line-hacks)

Slacker, I am running Slackware Current. I am using KDE Plasma Desktop. I have connected Bluetooth USB adapter to my system. It shows my "Android smartphone" in available device list. But when...

Published at LXer: Shazam is an app that identifies multimedia. The program stores a catalogue of audio fingerprints in a database. Shazam works by analyzing the captured sound and seeking a match...

Hi folks, I am having massive difficulties with a RAID 5 array: Every time it is assembled by mdadm, it has only 2TB of ca. 20TB. I tried everything I could imagine. I could cry! Any ideas? But...

Hello everyone! A couple of days ago I wanted to check the ext2 partition on a device (USB Stick) with the following command: Code: --------- fsck.ext2 -t -v -v -f /dev/sdb1 --------- but...

Hi, I have tried to create a local repository of Centos8 on virtual machine. I went through couple of articles and some youtube but it did not resolve the issue to make the repository for BaseOS...

Hi, I am using Acer Gateway NE56R laptop with Intel Pentium B960 processor. I have Debian Testing installed with linux kernel 5.10 and grub2 as bootloader. When I boot my system and reach...

Published at LXer: 40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD's kernel—we examine how. Read More......

I'm sure there's terminology for this that I'm missing, so please bear with me as I try to (painfully) describe the situation. I record certain meetings with my team (everyone knows, everyone is on...

Published at LXer: React is a free and open-source JavaScript library developed by Facebook. It is used for creating web frontend and UI components. In this post, we will show you how to install...

Published at LXer: 'Many contributors have told us they no longer plan to participate in FSF events, and we stand behind them'. The chorus of disapproval over Richard M Stallman, founder and...

Good afternoon! I have been studying Linux for about 2 months, during this time I have solved many similar tasks "create a folder, create a file / script" . Now I'm trying to find an interesting...

Published at LXer: On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted the now famous Usenet message announcing he was building a free operating system. In the 30 years since, that operating system – Linux –...

I have installed arch an a Thinkpad T490S. I installed lighdm and xfce4 DE. Everything works great untill it suspends or hirbernates. I have to do a hard restart to get things working correctly. I...

Worker, a two-pane file manager, displays file sizes like this: 1.234.563 Can it be changed to: 1,234,563 And if so, how?

Hi all, I'm a long-term Slackware user (10+) years but a bit rusty regarding the kernel and the wider Linux community and hope to refresh my knowledge here. I also successfully built a LFS system...

I wonder if any one will read this. Well I'm a slackware user, i guess. In 1994 I started out on Irix on SGI for alias|wavefront, but that was brief, and i was nudged into windows by my institute....

Published at LXer: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to control another computer remotely. It is an open-source...

Hello, Host distribution: Ubuntu 20.04 LFS book version: 10.1 Section where the problem was encountered: 7.4. Entering the Chroot Environment Error: Code: --------- root@farhat-pc:/mnt/lfs#...

doinst.sh improvements suggestion: Code: --------- config() { NEW="$1" OLD="${NEW%.new}" # If there's no config file by that name, mv it over: if [ ! -r "$OLD" ]; then

Published at LXer: Despite the popularity of Python, Go, and Node.js for implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and serverless functions on Kubernetes, Java...

How do we dual boot using Mageia 8 and another OS (like Ubuntu, another Linux version or, yes, even W10) on the M.2 NVME PCIe4 x4? Would it be better to dual boot using the other HDDs or would...

Published at LXer: Canonical, Collabora, and Nextcloud have joined forces once again to port the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance with the Collabora Online office suite to Raspberry Pi devices. Read...

Hello! I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on an HP laptop 15s fq2015nq, wich las a 512 SSD. After it boots, the screen saver comes on and after 2-3sec, the screen goes black for 1sec, just like a blink. I...

I wonder if they found a more suitable candidate, or if they decided to not fill the position, I searched around LinkedIn for two days, and I do not see anyone who started working at that exact...

I've been working my way through 10.1 When it came time to chroot, I got the following error: Code: --------- chroot "$LFS" /usr/bin/env HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='(lfs chroot) \u:\w\$ '...

I'm assuming this is the right place, I recently set up my raspberry pi 4 server installed apache2 php, and now I find out I understand I need some sort of security. Ant suggestions?

Published at LXer: Originally released back in 2019, Metro Exodus from 4A Games and Deep Silver now has a launch date for their official Linux build which will land on April 14. Read More......

On mint 20.1 how do I config to let me 'see' my usb on the network. Ray Thank you.

Hi everyone! I'm new to Linux world. One week ago I wanted to move to a linux distro, and after searching the right one for me I found Pop OS. So I installed it in my (old?) HP ENVY 15-k013nl....

Hello, I haven't found another sub forum to ask this. I'm trying to install Pop OS (no NVIDIA). I have downloaded several times and always the checksum SHA256 is different that the checksum they...

Published at LXer: Using buildah unshare to script the management of container images in rootless mode. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/buildah-unshare-command)

hi, I have a linux Mint 18 box, badly overdue for maintenance. But the sudo password has been lost. The user password works OK. The other snag is that there are a lot of "valuable" files...

I'm running android 4.2.2 on a generic tablet. My internal storage (/data) is only 0.98gb of space My sdcard is 32gb I created a device loop from an ext4 .img (on sdcard) that I made and mounted...

Won't take long now (https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/26/inside-the-global-race-to-build-killer-robot-armies/), soldiers of this army do not require brainwashing, they do not need rest, no mutiny....

I've been reading up on 'best backup system' and so on but thought I'd ask here for people who may run a similar setup. I've just built up an Ubuntu server and was going to set up RAID but then...

---Quote--- Mar 26 09:36:39 Wil login[3660]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by LOGIN(uid=0) Mar 26 09:36:39 Wil dbus-daemon[3486]: [system] Activating service...

Hi, I have code as below ``` sh '''#!/usr/bin/env bash set -x echo $SHELL echo $TERM bold=$(tput bold)

Hello, I'm trying to post to Requests for -current (14.2-->15.0) (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/requests-for-current-14-2-15-0-a-4175620463/) but I'm still awating a...

Hey i just moved to linux mint tricia from windows lasst time i used tricia everything worked fine but this time i am unable to create or delete any folder or document in internal hardisk. It is in...

Published at LXer: Collabora announced today PanVk, an open-source Vulkan driver for ARM Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs as part of their Panfrost driver project. Read More......

The Yan Report is a misleading article masquerading as science, which falsely claims that the novel coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab. An example of*cloaked science, it was released during a time...

Hi, tested on two machines, one fresh and vanilla, under Xfce. When opening an image under thunar with geeqie, the first opening fails. I have to click again, then it works.

Published at LXer: Feral Interactive have turned from porter to a full game developer here with the announcement of Total War: ROME REMASTERED, bringing over one of the few Total War titles Linux...

not 100% slackware-arm, but since I like compiling the kernel myself: in the default config btrfs and configs (/proc/config.gz) are built as modules. I want to have / on a btrfs, if I change both...

Published at LXer: Revamped desktop and shell based on GTK 4.0. The GNOME project has released version 40 of its Linux desktop, with a new design for finding and launching applications and updated...

I've never even begun to look into what I might need a server for, but I did recently look into using Ubuntu's server image for the Raspberry Pi, 20.04, which provided a guide to then adding a desktop...