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My wordpress site keep complaining that my php version is too old. I also got a call from our IT department that my php is security risk and I need to update it as soon as possible. My slackware 14.2...

I've never had a viable backup strategy for my Linux machines, so after building a dual-boot Win 10/Elementary 5.0 system this week, I decided to try imaging the disk from the Windows side with...

Published at LXer: When you don’t want to use any third-party virtualization application to create virtualization, or you want to know the step-by-step process to create a Virtual Machine in...

I am still banging my head on the wall with a broken kernel now version 5.10.9 - huge. It took 16 tries to get it to boot to login. Have used Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: Snort, the world’s leading open-source intrusion prevention system (IPS) and intrusion detection system (IDS) software, has been updated today to version 3.1 to kick off the long...

so here is what i have # efibootmgr Code: --------- BootCurrent: 0003 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0000,0001,0002,0003,0008,0005,0009,0004 Boot0000* arch

We just lost. It is fact cannot be denied. Here my points: 1) covid was made political issue 2) very poor information 3) vaccination is not enough, let me explain this: new strains are a head of...

Hi All, I have been using linux on and off for 20+ years as an end user. Just retired last May, which has prompted me to give up Windows. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a ThinkgPad E550, working...

Published at LXer: Would you like to back up all the strips of your favorite website? Hopefully, the open source community has the solution: a command line program to download all your favorite...

Published at LXer: CrowdSec is an open source cybersecurity detection system meant to identify aggressive behaviors and prevent them from accessing systems. Its user-friendly design offers a low...

Published at LXer: Enhance your system security with tlog, a terminal logging utility. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/terminal-logging)

Published at LXer: Oracle released today the VirtualBox 6.0.18 update to their open-source and cross-platform virtualization software, a maintenance release that adds improvements and bug fixes. ...

Published at LXer: This tutorial covers how to install LXD on an Ubuntu system, and how to launch a container. Read More... (https://buildvirtual.net/how-to-install-lxd-lxc-on-ubuntu/)

Published at LXer: Do you script in bash? If so, you can provide your users with a more robust and simple TUI for entering information into scripts. Read More......

Published at LXer: Communities and the value they inherently have in our lives has*never been more highlighted than over the past year as we deal with a global pandemic keeping us home, away from...

Published at LXer: Systemd a standard process for managing start-up services in Linux operating systems. It is used for controlling which programs run when the Linux system boots up. In this...

GIMP 2.10.22 has a bug in it that I can not live with. How can I install an earlier version of Gimp? (like any Gimp 2.8.x version) ?

I have done the part of creating a bootable usb for dual booting ubuntu 20.04 LTS through rufus But after restarting the laptop and choosing the usb ,I am getting a grub menu saying minimalist bash...

I was having some graphical glitches on my Slackware 14.2 system. I thought maybe resetting the windows manager, so I ran Code: --------- xfce4-panel -r && xfwm4 --replace --------- This...

I have lenovo thinkpad L420, i first installed Windows XP then installed Windows 10 latest 20H2 version. After this i was successful in dual booting both windows versions. Later i decided to triple...

Hi, I'm having issues with pulseaudio.I rebooted and when I started pavucontrol is tells me "Establishing connection to Pulseaudio. Please wait.. Can anyone help, I have no sound. Thanks

No sub-forum for Oracle Linux? that's will be my next install.

I'm posting this outside the "SBo scripts not building on -current" since my system isn't "clean" (multilib among other things) although fully upgraded. Using ponce's SBo script adapted for...

hello i have install lfs in Vmware but i have this error : vfs cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown block(0,0): error -6 Code: --------- # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Hello, I installed Fail2Ban on CentOS and created below ".conf" files in "jail.d" directory with below content: Code: --------- # cat mariadb.conf [mysqld-auth] enabled = true filter =...

Hi Everyone There are two main ISP providers where I live and they are both awful-awful. I found a third ISP many years ago and I have been happy with them but after all this time, I have now...

Hello, I'm using CentOS x86_64 as a web server for hosting a WordPress website. The Virtual Host configuration for the WordPress directory is as below: Code: --------- ...

There is a directory in the remote server '/root/' and it contains multiple files. I want to get a file of today's date whose format is 'SleepingCell_*' in my local directory. If this file is not...

build image for SDcard * kernel 5.10.9 (http://dl.slarm64.org/slackware/images/orange_pi_pc/kernel/) patches (https://gitlab.com/sndwvs/images_build_kit/-/tree/arm/patch/kernel/sun8i-next) * u-boot...

Hi There, we are a bunch of admin who has root access on the Linux server. I want to restrict other admins to su - myid //BR

I have noticed a WebKit2Gtk related thing which kind of baffles me. When I run browsers like Surf or Epiphany, my CPU usage shoots up to 50% and over between WebKitNetworkPr and Systemd-Journal....

Posts are auto-subscribed and every time I post I have to unsubscribe from that thread. I checked off all email notifications, they are instant, not email yet I get emailed anyway

Hi everyone I am very busy these last moments by the development of an application WPF under linux and I did not find enough time to participate in the Forum Thanks for all See you soon

The newer chromebooks have linux beta, No need to install crouton like before. I googled search this but I get instructions on enabling it. I have two questions: What version of linux is it?...

Published at LXer: In my earlier posts, I explained what WordPress is and how you can use it to create your own website or blog. But in this post, I will walk you through the steps of creating your...

I'm new to lockdep and there is something which I cannot understand exactly. I want to figure out subclass and name_version. It seems that since lockdep use name_version to track the each instance of...

I have a USB flash with GPT partition format. I use Grub2 to make a bootable usb. After grub-install x86_64-efi and i386-pc successfully. But no grub.cfg file in /mnt/sdb2/EFI/BOOT/grub. So how to...

Published at LXer: Graphviz is great library for visualizing connections between any network. Check out my post on how to visualize Unix directory structure using Python Graphviz. Read More......

Published at LXer: Recent years have demonstrated that Windows users are not the only ones who should be concerned about malware. Linux is becoming an increasingly popular target among malware...

Published at LXer: The startup has container security capabilities that are missing in Red Hat's OpenShift Kubernetes platform. Read More......

it happened after the last batch of update (glibc, kernel 5.10.9) running intel_backlight gives me this error: Code: --------- (intel_backlight:30159) intel-mmio-CRITICAL: Test assertion...

I am getting this error when I open my file manager and another folder "Fail to execute chield process"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-2/exo-helper-2 in kali linux" pls check this link for...

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This quick article shows what's the difference between apt and apt-get command. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/comparison-between-apt-vs-apt-get-difference/)

Published at LXer: Check out different ways to generate random numbers in Unix. Read More... (https://www.ultralinux.org/post/how-to-generate-random-numbers-in-unix/)

It was the time while kde4 has been removed from current, I created a script to remove those packages list on changelogs webpage. Warnning, may cause damage! Code: --------- cd /tmp wget -E -H...

I'm trying to .. Find duplicate files with same name/date. Move them to other directory, with unique names (incrementing suffix). Specify reference-only directory. I've tried rmdup, fslint,...

I recall reading somewhere on the Net that GIMP 2.8.x can import metadata from .xml files. I have quite a few such from running gThumb on my picture folders, and was wondering if the .xml files...

I have a DO Droplet running Ubuntu Server 20.04. It has an Internet-facing interface Eth0 serving a web app through apache2 over SSL certified by LE. Pretty sure that part doesn't matter. Part of the...

Pointers for reducing the rootfs size

Published at LXer: Oracle released today the VirtualBox 6.1.18 update to their open-source and cross-platform virtualization software, a maintenance release that adds improvements and bug fixes. ...