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Hello everyone, I have made a little while loop to process a file line per line using a list of matching expressions. And I wished to print "0" if there were no matches. But I guess the if( $2...

I’ve been attempting to use kexec to write a network bootloader for an Acer R13 Chromebook. I initially tried on a 5.8.7 kernel, then moved on to 5.9-rc4 to see if that fixed the problem (spoiler: it...

Hi, Could please help me with some LVM mirroring queries. I am trying to create a mirror using LVM, I have some queries here is that possible to have mirror volume to increase up to 10TB...

Hello all, Need a script that checking integrity of files and shutdown computer if files are modify or corrupt. thanks

Hi, I am trying to use a script I can add to the root crontab to move files by their filename patterns. I have two directories, their names are Prepared and Fixed. /home/oracle/Desktop/Prepared...

Published at LXer: Matthias Clasen on behalf of the GNOME Release Team announced today via an email announcement the general availability of the GNOME 3.36.6 point release in the latest GNOME 3.36...

Published at LXer: Enterprise edition offers admins more ways to blend work and play. Google has loosed Android 11 on a waiting world.… Read More......

Hello, I'm using CentOS 8. I checked my server with Lynis and it showed me below information: Code: --------- -[ Lynis 3.0.0 Results ]- Warnings (3): ---------------------------- !...

Published at LXer: As a handy sysadmin tool, sort makes it easy to rearrange text data in various ways without changing the original files. Read More......

Hi there, I am using Draw to create simple electrical block diagram similar to flow charts, I want to use connectors to link up different devices, most of them has multiple input and output...

Published at LXer: The digiKam team released today the digiKam 7.1.0 update to its free and open-source professional photo management and workflow software. Read More......

Published at LXer: Want ready-to-run programs using OpenShift Kubernetes? Red Hat and IBM have a selection of programs ready for you in the new Red Hat Marketplace. Read More......

Published at LXer: Ardour 6.3 open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) has been released as the second maintenance update since the release of the major Ardour 6.0 series with various...

So I just installed Kubuntu 20.04.1 and I have a minute problem: Almost instantly after I type in my password and press enter I get only ONE tearing...It also happens with my Void KDE which uses...

I'm wondering why not letting slackbuilds repository support `pull request` as supported in major git services (like github)? Then everyone can contribue and update the build scripts. Currently, if I...

When I make an order at my mutual fund manager (Fidelity), it pops up a confirmation page to print. I prefer to save it as text, but that doesn't work, so I use control-a to select the whole page,...

Published at LXer: OpenSSH is widely used, but there isn't a well-known connection manager, so I developed the ncurses SSH connection manager (nccm) to fill that significant gap in the process....

At work and home I've been using rkhunter for a few years. I'm aware of similar tools such as chkrootkit. Conceptually I like the idea. Yet I find over time I am routinely adding exceptions. Often I...

Published at LXer: Google Cloud SDK is used to manage the google cloud platform using the CLI, command-line interface of your system’s terminal. Google Cloud SDK is basically a collection of...

I tried to boot into some of the other possible OSes for this thing; all of a sudden it will not boot from an SD card - not Jumpdrive, not another OS - it simply loads Mobian, which no longer works as...

Why is a 4:3 (1.3333) aspect ratio dvd have a scale of 720x576 (1.25)? When I take this video and use ffmpeg to create images I have to specify scale=720:540 like this Code: --------- ffmpeg ...

I am trying to run this app and get the following error: ---Quote--- vinagre vinagre: error while loading shared libraries: libgstvideo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or...

Published at LXer: Presenting a sed command that highlights plain whitespaces and marks each one with a dot for easy counting, plus a re-examination of an AWK shorthand showing that "non-empty" is...

how do I make the countdown digits appear right? if I use only $1 it doesn't work correctly because the colon don't appear Code: --------- #!/bin/bash # usage # run script specifying...

For example the following is a zsh completion function for command *foo*: Code: --------- #compdef _foo foo compadd first second third fourth --------- So, if we type *foo * in the zsh...

Published at LXer: Raspberry Pi can work with different operating systems. Let's take a look at how you can install Arch Linux on Raspberry Pi. Read More......

Published at LXer: There are many options when it comes to creating slides for a presentation. There are straightforward ways, and generating slides directly from Jupyter is not one of them. But I...

I'm trying to play a file that reports On2 VP8 audio. This is a H264 codec. But the file plays without audio. I have gst-libav, x264, x265, vpx and ffmpeg-3.4.6 packages installed.

On a 2010 HP I have the option of installing Windows 7, then upgrading to Windows 10. However the recommendation is upgrading a pre 2015 system's BIOS. What will that mean if I want to dual boot my...

Hi All, I installed Fedora 32 on /sdb and Windows on /sda I have two problems (1) fedora is slow to boot > 1 1/2 minutes and get stuck on "Reached Target: Basic System" Code: ---------...

Today I was testing e2fsprogs as part of an LFS build. The tests are said to take a certain time (which would be about 26 minutes on my machine) when using a magnetic drive and about a quarter of that...

Published at LXer: The AWOW AK41 Mini PC offers triple monitor support. It should have sufficient CPU and GPU resources to act as a functional remote desktop, particularly when connecting to...

I'm trying to build from git-20200909 on Linux. I have theses basic dependencies installed: Code: --------- crossguid, flatbuffers, libfmt, libspdlog, wayland-protocols, wayland ---------...

Hello all, I have a Debian Linux host, used solely for one purpose only - as a gateway for small office LAN, for VPN to the headquarters. I have everything removed from this box, no other servers /...

Hi all, I have a process that I run regularly on my host PC. I download the stock Debian beaglebone image, mount the image as loopback devices, chroot into it, and make some changes. I would...

Published at LXer: In the hunt for the lightest Desktop Environments, we pitted LXDE vs XFCE to see which of them is the better lightweight desktop environment. Read More......

Hi. I get the following when I run apt-get: Code: --------- sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Published at LXer: Nginx is one a very famous, open-source web server application that we can also use as a reverse proxy, cache server as well as a load balancer among other things. It is a...

Ok the fact of the matter is i am still a newbie when it comes to all things linux and grid/cluster/distributed computing but hear me out :study: I have read about SETI, Folding@Home, etc and am...

My signature contains a few wiki's that I have written for the community and I went to access them today. The wiki seems to be dead. wiki.linuxquestions.org’s server IP address could not be found....

OK I am making this thread right here, right now. I do not want to be the new unofficial troll here (although that's probably too late:D). I need to know what is *CORRECT*, and what is *INCORRECT*...

Hello I'm cliff I am using Ubuntu 20.o4.1 LTS trying to update using the terminal, this is the result. some thing is not right but what? Thanks in advance for help. sudo apt update Ign:1...

I'm posting this here because I'm no longer on the LFS mailing lists. Hopefully someone will see it and pass it on. LFS 10.0 uses a specialised "tester" user for non-root tests instead of "nobody"...

I am using a distro of Ubuntu 20.04 called Linux Lite. I run this from an external USB HDD and the distro is installed. I can use this on either of my 2 PC's so that is handy. My 2 PC's run Windows...

Published at LXer: Someone appears to have ignited the Great Firewall with Hong-Kong-related post. China appears to have blocked access to the website of coding-for-kids tool Scratch.… Read...

Not sure whether this is the optimal forum, so mods feel free to move it :). Well, subject says it all. This is on openSUSE tumbleweed with the MSI-videocard. For the specs of my machine see my...

I have a vortexbox (media server) on Fedora 23. I recently setup a new hard drive formatted as exfat to use as the USB storage. It has media files in it. These are the instructions for setup:...

Published at LXer: The next version of Zorin OS 15.3 is here as the latest point release in the Zorin 15.x series. Read More... (https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/09/zorin-os-15-3-release/)

I have read the C/C++ tutorials post and followed a lot of the links. I have already searched Amazon and Google. Is there a concise (less than 200 pages) beginners introduction to C++ book that...

Published at LXer: Bash scripts are a versatile and handy tool that most system administrators love using to simplify their workflow and automate repetitive tasks. With scripts, you can do almost...