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Hello, I start monitoring is process alive using tail utility by tail -Fn0 --pid=11111 /opt/mylogfile.log Process with PID 11111 was restarted and now this process has other PID 22222 but I...

Published at LXer: If you have sent any plaintext confidential emails to someone (most likely you did), have you ever questioned yourself about the mail being tampered with or read by anyone...

Published at LXer: Want an even better way to run small Kubernetes clusters on your developer workstations, IoT devices, or the edge? Canonical has the program for you. Read More......

I have just purchased a Asus ee running crunchbang waldorf. Can I remove it and replace with Ubuntu?

Published at LXer: A straightforward article on configuring an HTTPS webserver with OpenSSL certificates. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/webserver-use-https)

Published at LXer: KDE Plasma 5.20 is finally here and there’s a lot of things to be excited about. Have a look at the key highlights of KDE Plasma 5.20. Read More......

Published at LXer: Vagrant provide an easy way to create, configure and reproduce virtual machines with a known state. Here's how to use Vagrant on Linux Read More......

Published at LXer: Fedora Media Writer is a small, lightweight, comprehensive tool that simplifies the Linux getting-started experience. It downloads and writes Fedora Workstation or Server onto a...

I have a laptop that *was* running linux-next, but for some reason after losing power and booting back into it, it appears to be booting off of a nonexistent kernel. I originally thought the issue...

Published at LXer: Do you need to centrally manage Linux systems and user accounts under an Active Directory domain? Here's how to do it. Read More......

earlier this year i read something somewhere (i forgot where, it could have been here) that suggested a certain signal sent to the top command would cause it to refresh its display. at that time i...

Published at LXer: Google announced today the general availability of the Chrome OS 86 operating system for Chromebook devices, a release that brings various improvements and new features. Read...

Published at LXer: Email reader programs such as Thunderbird or Evolution are great, but sometimes they can feel bloated. If you found yourself working mainly from CLI, you may find useful to learn...

I'm using Firefox as an example, but this happens on Chrome too. When I launch Firefox in full screen, it works fine and I can enter and exit it. When I make the window not fill the screen, I can...

Published at LXer: Conky is a useful piece of software to display information on your Linux desktop. Here are some of the coolest, best-looking Conky themes. Read More......

I can`t login to debian using my password for 2 accounts for some unknown reason. I shut the system down for a while then tried to login using the password i normally use & could not login the same...

I'm having a problem here. As I said in the title, root can't ping google, yet seamonkey has no trouble connecting to google whatever. I have some output I can show you.: Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: A Shell script helps a user with writing and executing multiple commands at the same time. In this article, we will see how to execute shell scripts through command line input. ...

Many times, while working online, we are prompted to enter our email address. Will be nice, If I could create a shortcut, say something like CTRL+Shift+$ sign, that can retrieve a previously...

I'm a long time light linux user. The more I get to know, the more I realize I don't know. I'd consider myself a noob so please be gentle. I setup my home lab using Xen and built Orchestra. ...

I have an odd problem concerning NFS. I run a JBOD disk array of 4 disks in a tower with ext4 file system. The disks are mounted nicely. I also use them as NFS mounted drives with two disks mounted...

[Not actually a newbie, but have been gone since before the 3.0 kernel] I'm configuring my first Linux system since nearly the start of the millennium, and my first add-in graphics hardware ever. ...

Published at LXer: The pandemic has created a greater need for remote education than ever before. This makes a learning management system (LMS) like Moodle*more important than ever for ensuring...

Hello, Is Honeyd usable nowadays? The last update is for 2007-05-27. Is it recommended? Thank you.

Published at LXer: A belief in the coincidence of strong winds and the equinoxes is handed down from generation to generation and reinforced by selective memory. It's not a belief supported by...

Hi, I've just joined Linux Questions. From before kernel 0.95 until when kernel 2.6 was pretty new, I maintained Linux laptops, desktops and servers -- including producing preconfigured system...

Published at LXer: Git is a distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds in 2005. It also has an excellent support for branching, merging, rewriting repository history and more. Git...

In my UBUNTU Desktop I have installed ELEMENTARY OS in VirtulBox, but couldn't install Guest Additions. Under Devices when I opted for "Insert Guest Additions CD image", answer is "could not mount...

Published at LXer: FLOSS software shares trust, giving protection to all users, even if individual users can’t grasp all parts in the system. This multi-part article will discuss how this 'Web of...

Does anybody know if there is an ISPF editor for ubuntu or any other linux distro? I'm an old mainframer and I miss editing files as records as opposed to bytes. I used to have a dos version 20...

Published at LXer: Image Deduplicator is a Python package that simplifies the task of finding exact and near duplicates in an image collection. It uses a variety of algorithms to detect matches. ...

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Harvesting energy from 'Brownian motion' has long been thought impossible. '"An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up AWS Redshift to use Cloud Data Warehousing. Redshift is a fully managed petabyte data warehouse service being introduced to the...

I am running LINUX 17.1 on a 32 bit laptop , understand in order to delete protected folders (ie folders with a lock) I need to go into the terminal screen . Can you provide the script to use to...

Looking at private search engines, how do duckduckgo and startpage compare? And there are, HotBot, MetaGer, Mojeek, and Qwant. Looking at browsers, how do firefox, chromium, Midori, Tor Browser,...

Published at LXer: USBImager is a simple graphical application used to write the ISO images as well as compressed disk images to USB drives in Linux. Read More......

My Manjaro Install to desktop with KDE has Firefox, and in it youtube. Often however youtube stops and starts on it's own and it is like stuttering. Then the cursor also becomes semi unresponsive. I...

I'm trying to detect coordinates of polygons from black & white images. There's a lot of people doing similar-but-not-quite-the-same things, and every example I've found uses OpenCV findContours...

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out why syslogs are not getting rotated. When I run logrotate manually from root (/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf) it works ok. I also tried -f flag to see it...

This seems strictly a hardware problem on my 4G RazPi 4. AFAIK, the (blue) USB3 sockets have a 500mA current Limit, and the (black) USB-2 sockets have a 250mA limit. Please correct if you know...

Hi all I have two devices that want to be connected to the GPIO of the RPI on the same PINs : SDA and SDL ! How can I connect both on the same PIN of the GPIO ?

Hi all, I'd run out of free space with the SD card I'd been using in my Pi. That card was 4Gb, so I decided to replace it with an 8Gb one. I dd'd the old card's contents over onto the new one and...

VLC vs Smplayer(mpv) vs Audacious. Can you spot any significant difference in sound quality ? I can't. Recently I came to know about the FLAC audio format so I ripped some of my Audio CDs as...

The London Borough of Hackney reported yesterday that their council computers have been attacked and that many of their services are currently unavailable. They are being very chary about what...

https://medium.com/swlh/using-net-x509-certificates-to-sign-images-and-documents-c-net-c09838707508 was used to make the X.509 Certificate on linux but how do I turn it into what ever windows...

I have a debian machine installed virtually in VirtualBox, and I am doubtful if I should always install GRUB or only when I have several systems to choose which one to load? Thank you.

I experimented with Slack on a VM and found out that I liked it's philosophy and general way of doing things. I want to try and get it to dual boot with Windows in my new laptop (a Dell Vostro). ...

Good Morning, -A few days ago I installed kali linux to dual boot together with windows 10, everything worked fine until I tried to enter kali linux and I got a series of errors (4 in particular),...

Hello All I want to count how many packages are there in flathub. So I issued the following command. Since I have multiple installations, It will ask which path before showing output. Code:...

Hello, I try to figure out, how to "easily" upgrade a cutom kernel? Is there a way to make custom settings persist accross upgrades? I am unable to increase size of /boot. Even if I install Linux...