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When I run this script, the file gets created, but the variable is not passed in the file. How can I render this variable so it's created in the file? Code: --------- #!/bin/bash ...

I know it sounds strange but i don't know whats wrong, i am using lenovo legion Y540 and was using mint 19.3 from about a year, 3 days before i updated to ulyana everything seemed fine expect for...

Im back with another Samba issue. Yes, Apparently, I am a glutton for punishment. Having failed with the earlier Samba issue, I spun up a new Redhat 8 system on Azure. I then found a site on the...

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I just noticed that, wouldn't it make more sense to show the man page of bash instead?

I have a rather old (about 15 years) hp mini and I want to install Puppy Linux. The problem is that the drive partition is 'locked' and I cannot delete it to set up for installing Puppy. Could someone...

Published at LXer: Snap also know as Snappy is an alternative package management tool and program package format developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. In this tutorial, we will...

Hello I would like to install Slackware-current on VDS server. I tried it but I could not install lilo or grub. Lilo: Code: --------- LILO gives Fatal : raid_setup : stat ("dev/vda")...

Hello, An IDS/IPS like Suricata-IDS can't protect a web server like Apache? Attachment 35696 (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/attachment.php?attachmentid=35696) Is a WAF mandatory to...

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I would like to change the name of the workspace, so instead of worspace 1, workspace 2... i could change the names... is that possible?

---------------------------- System Information Code: --------- $ cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) --------- $uname -a

Tried to install libc6 ver 2.29 /newer on debian buster, and did get it: http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb but then Code: --------- $ sudo dpkg -i...

Published at LXer: One of our readers wrote to me, “I have installed CentOS on my System, and I’m facing difficulty to minimize and maximize Windows because the Default button to Maximize and...

This is a bit odd but I cannot find google-chrome using slackpkg. I can see the package folder is here under extra: https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/extra/google-chrome/...

Published at LXer: A Parameter Group contains configuration to be used by the DB instances on AWS. In this article, we will see the steps to create a new Parameter group, change*the*default value...

My sound is not working on a fresh install of Debian 10. I have aux speakers connected to the motherboard audio jack and a USB headset with microphone in a USB slot. If either of these emits sound...

Has anyone used (https://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:056e-00ff) the Elecom M-DT2DRBK (https://www.elecom.co.jp.e.gj.hp.transer.com/products/M-DT2DRBK.html)? What do the extra buttons do by default? ...

Published at LXer: The developers of the openSUSE-Based GeckoLinux distribution announced today the general availability of updated ROLLING editions derived from the openSUSE Tumbleweed...

Hi, While i am trying to fetch session in next page, i couldn't get it. Here is the code: Page 1: ob_start();session_start(); $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green'; $_SESSION['animal'] =...

Published at LXer: In this article, I will show you 3 different ways of killing frozen applications on an Ubuntu 20.04 system using GUI as well as the command line. Read More......

I was out for a few hours this afternoon. When I returned the CapsLock LED was on but the shift state was off; pressing CapsLock turned its LED off but CapsLock on. Alt and Ctrl didn't work: I...

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Published at LXer: Here are five in-the-trenches tips on how to cope with your work from home life. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/resilient-sysadmin-5-tips)

Published at LXer: The openSUSE Tumbleweed gets the latest KDE Plasma 5.21 updates and associated Framework improvements. Download and update now. Read More......

I have tried this with RHEL-7/8 and CentOS-7/8 resulting in failure. Trying the same steps with Ubuntu 20.04 results in a successful installation. Platform is an NXP Layerscape board using UEFI fw....

Published at LXer: Ventoy is a CLI program to create multiboot USB drives. This guide explains how to create persistent bootable USB using Ventoy in Linux Read More......

Cannot find the pipe symbol on my keyboard that I am using on my Raspberry Pi. Been searching the internet and nothing is working so far... Thanks I am using an older HP keyboard with my basic...

Published at LXer: Here is your morning dose of miscellaneous Linux news. Not gaming but still very cool - Linux has officially landed on Mars with the Perseverance Rover. Read More......

Hi all, While tinkering with sudoers files, I was wondering what would be the caveats of using sudo to manage packages. install/upgrade/remove seems to be ok slackpkg too sbopkg could fail...

Published at LXer: In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. This article discusses the benefit of choice...

Using nmon, how can I concatenate nmon data files to present weekly or other reports. I would like to be able to report on a number of days, or weeks in a single shot.

I am using *logrotate version 3.18.0* on *Kali Linux, Debian kernel 5.3.9-3* and have need to use the *rotated* filename in a postrotate script. My logrotate configuration file uses the dateyesterday...

Hi, i know this is not the place that where i should post but .. this website (https://samy.pl) used advanced technique when you press F12 to view the source code it tells you " You found Easter Egg...

Published at LXer: Suppose you have written a bash shell script and you want to protect the content of the shell script while sharing it with others. For example, for whatever reason you don't want...

The problem can be reduced to this simple test case. First, create a mailx configuration file called /home/chris/mailtest.rc with this in it: Code: --------- set from=[gmail...

Archbased linux, plasma Q1: How to access google drive from arch linux command line ? rysnc ? Q2: Is there way to sync google drive with my laptop manually ? Thx

OBS was working fine on enos (arch based) , plasma. Then it crashed.. and never able to be fired up any more. Even after i uninstall, reinstall / upgrade. Code: --------- info: pulse-input:...

Published at LXer: vimpc is a terminal-based MPD client that’s based around the vi/vim text editors. It’s free and open source software. Read More......

Hello, I'm new to Syslog/Forwarding/Syslog Server and related stuff,so basically new to Linux as well, well atleast i don't have a lot of experience to UNIX like systems. Anyways, things i've...

There is a regression in rsync since version 3.2.3 tag -2 (including the post mass rebuild for glibc 2.33 version with the -3 tag) which prevents the setting of permissions when /proc is not available...

Hi all, I am on latest -current with Plasma. I wanted to use plasma-nm with openconnect, so I have installed openconnect and NetworkManager-openconnect from the AlienBOB repository. Sadly it still...

Hello i have started to recover data from hard drive using this guide (https://www.rossmanngroup.com/how-do-i-recover-data-from-a-crashed-hard-drive/) and i have used the command ddrescue -f -n -a...

With my initial steps with testing updating 14.2 to 15 (not a fresh install), I am seeing stderr messages about my /etc/host.conf file. I have the following options in the file: nospoof on...

Got this problem with a Sun Fire X4100. It has two hdd disks in RAID1. Which one would need replacing or is the problem in host adapter? Filesystem seems corrupted as ls shows some garbled...

I can enter "c" in grub menu and get into grub, this command gets me lots of info grub > set Seems the selected OS /dev/ is identified (hdx , gtpx ) , but I am not sure. Is there a way to...

My Dell laptop is new, purchased some 4 months back. It had Ubuntu 18.04 preinstalled. It goes into read-only mode repeatedly. Code: --------- $ df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed ...

With a fresh install of slackware64-current (Fri Feb 19 20:53:50 UTC 2021), followed by libreoffice-7.1.0-x86_64-1alien, I get "Application Error" in the terminal right after the splash screen...

Hi, I require a working postfix on my Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine. I installed packages postfix and mailutils. *Command* echo "test email soir 4" | sendmail robert@monserveur.be works...