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I have RPi with USB SSD that I use to backup my Home folder using rdiff. This worked fine until now, after few seconds of syncing it halts, the RPi spits out lots of errors and ssh session closes. I...

Published at LXer: The Fedora Project released today the Fedora 33 operating system as the latest and greatest release of their RPM-based, community maintained GNU/Linux distribution for the...

Hello, I have installed Netbeans 11.2 first. After a while I expected that should update version 11.2 to version 12. But due that I not good understand how this works in Linux unfortunately...

Published at LXer: Fedora 33 is available now. You might be thinking to upgrade to the latest version and wondering how to take advantage of new features. Here are the steps to upgrade to Fedora 33...

I have used windows all my life and I really want to start learning linux and i do not know where to start. I applied to a course on coursera and all they talk about is that it's open source and the...

Published at LXer: The printf command traces its roots back to the development world but offers practical utility to the sysadmin, as well. Derived from the print function in C programming...

Published at LXer: PSA: Maintaining the open-source OS can turn your beard grey. Open Source Summit Europe It's official. The upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel is destined to become the next "longterm...

Published at LXer: UK-based FX Technology company launched today the Pro1 X Linux-powered smartphone on Indiegogo with the option to choose between Android, Lineage OS, or Ubuntu Touch mobile...

How can 'find' space-contained search result be printed with enclosing '' (a quote pair) if it really is ? I.e. only if it really is a space contained path string, remain as is if it's not ?

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will set up an Ubuntu Linux system to authenticate to an OpenLDAP server. OpenLDAP is an open-source account management and authentication solution. Read...

I will attempt to make this as brief as possible > I have used Mageia (Mandriva etc) for years. To create a desktop icon for one of my executable programs, all I have to do is drag it to the desktop...

I am running: Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04 Linux version 5.4.0-52 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X ASUS X570 Prime Pro When I attempt to suspend my machine about 75% of the time it locks up before entering...

I wanted to setup a remote Linux server to run python code. Something I can keep at home and access when I go to college via the internet, with something universal like SSH. I have a Ryzen system,...

Published at LXer: Today, I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of contributors to the Fedora Project: our latest release, Fedora 33, is here! This is a big release with a...

I have two monitors, one is 1920x1080 and the other is 1600x900. My second one I would like to be able to rotate it from portrait to landscape freely, but the problem is when I switch settings the...

Instead of displaying the battery meter, to save panel space.

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.20.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop environment series to address more bugs. Read More......

I've tried a few different ways, but can't quite seem to put my finger on it... I have a bash script, and 1) want to ask the user to enter their password just once. But 2) only want to execute...

Published at LXer: Transmission Control is an essential aspect of network activity and governs the behavior of many services we take for granted. When sending your emails or just browsing the web...

I was trying to boot puppy linux in my computer trough a bootable USB, which I made bootable trough the sudo dd comand. I'm not new to linux, I started using ubuntu, then started testing trough...

Published at LXer: Two week have passed since the release of Linux kernel 5.9 and the merge window for the next major release, Linux kernel 5.10, is now officially closed, which means it’s time for...

A lot of people in the aviation industry say "It will, as soon as a vaccine comes out" But the things to be considered are - The flu vaccine, which first became available 70 years ago, has...

Can this dark background with white text be changed to something easier on the eyes? Thanks.

Published at LXer: In this article, we’ll discuss how to set up a WireGuard VPN on Ubuntu 20.04 that will act as a VPN server. We’ll also show you how to configure WireGuard as a client. The...

I use the command Code: --------- ntfsusermap /dev/sda1 --------- in order to generate a mapping file to use a NTFS usb external drive (that has already many files written under Windows in...

I am trying to get Mint 20 loaded to my hard drive but it just will not! I made 2 Mint 20 disks separately and both react the same to the update. The Hard drive is a Western Digital 2T that ...

Hi: it is not in Slackware-current nor in the Slackware 14.2 installer. Google produced only two hits. It is a small script consisting of four or five commands. Does somebody know what these commands...

I'm using X1C gen 7 4k, xfce, lightdm, uefi & grub install ---Quote--- Arch wiki: Gimp 2.10 To fix toolbar icon sizes, update Preferences->Interface->Icon Theme->Custom icon size to huge or...

Published at LXer: Lantronix has launched an “Open-Q 610 ?SOM” module and $995 dev kit that run Linux on Qualcomm’s camera-focused, AI-enabled octa-core QCS610 SoC with triple 4-lane MIPI-CSI...

This thread is regarding a linux query. I want to create a custom command in linux for creating a user on my server. As we know it is done using useradd command..but I want to do the same...

Hello all. I study in a place where we don't have access to sudo, i yesterday i talked with the sys admin of my college, and he tells me i can bypass (or recover) the user password (or even sudo)...

Published at LXer: The next major release of the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will be Ubuntu 21.04, and Canonical already published an official release schedule and final release date. ...

Some programs use xpm, some use xbm, I want to know which ones twm, mwm, ctwm, etc use for the close buttons and maximize buttons. Examples such as attached pictures, I want to know where they're...

Published at LXer: Almost everyone has (or knows someone who has) old hardware sitting around gathering dust because they believe that no modern operating system (OS) supports such a relic. I know...

The Howtos I've seen for how to do this have been a bit... long and unfocused. Here's the TLDR. Install *qt5ct* Optionally install *kvantum* Set the following in ~/.profile Code:

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you how to quickly install the RainLoop email client on your Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, including instructions for both Apache and Nginx setup. Read...

If a filesystem in /etc/fstab has a noauto entry, can that filesystem only be mounted manually using the mount command or is there any chance that it will be automatically mounted by usbmount ? ...

Slackware64-current close to vanilla, full install, (additional-sbopkg fail2ban, librsync, rdiff-backup) I'm having a interesting issue like this one:...

rhel 8.1 This is likely a simple question, but when I search for it, I get a bunch of hits for samba. I just need to set up a directory on a rhel 8 server, so that other rhel servers can access...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will explain how you can use the Debian command line and GUI to manage PPA repositories in your system. We will explain in detail how to add, view, and remove...

The BIOS enables NumLock on boot, not settable in its setup. I want the kernel to turn numlock off at boot time. How do I do this? kernel 5.9.1

Hi everyone, i've been trying to get itunes running on ubuntu and have had mixed success, but have finally got it to work with ubuntu gamepack and lutris. But now after following the setup screens...

Published at LXer: Siege is an open-source multi-threaded load testing and benchmarking tool for Linux. You can perform a stress test using a single URL with a specific number of users or you can...

I'm having this wine error on a live usb. This program worked with wine-4.01, kernel 4.19.59 & matching software of that vintage, but the USB disk eventually started spouting errors, so I had to...

Published at LXer: It’s official, the upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel series will be an LTS (Long Term Support) series supported with maintenance updates for at least two years from the release date. ...

Published at LXer: YAML is an easy, expressive, data-oriented language that distinguishes itself from document markup languages. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/yaml-beginners)

Hi, I hope you are all doing well. I'm new here please guide me about Linux

Published at LXer: So, you want a great job in technology? The Linux Foundation and Edx HR survey shows your best move will be to polish up your Linux and open-source skills. Read More......

Hello, I need some help. I set up a static IP address for my ubuntu 16.04 server and now I don't have an internet connection anymore. I can ping my router but when I try to ping 8.8.8.8 it says...

I am relatively new to the quirks of filesystem encryption on Linux. Earlier a file system used to be encrypted using Bitlocker on WIndows for our systems, but we are migrating to Linux now, and...