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I am running the following commands on Ubuntu to create a VLAN, create a bridge, and reassign an IP address to the bridge. It all works, but the changes are lost when I restart the system. What's...

Published at LXer: Unclutter is used to auto hide mouse pointer after a certain period of time when there is no mouse movement in Linux desktops. Read More......

Hello, I wasn't able to find an existing thread on this topic. I can't stream Peacock on laptops running Linux (ubuntu and MX). With Chrome browser I get the error "Something went wrong....

Published at LXer: In this article, we are going to take a trip back in time to see where the seed of Linux was planted?—?namely via the Unix systems of the early 1970s & how it has progressed...

Hello, I am attempting to build a file list with find on a remote server and print a file with the output to the local server where the ssh command was issued from. I am wishing to build this file...

What is the command to use with the "Removable Drives and Media" utility in order to make VLC the default player for CDs and DVDs?

Published at LXer: Want to use Rclone for synchronizing data with various cloud services without using command line? Rclone Browser is what you need. Read More......

I'm looking for software that will among other things graphically display a web servers status in terms of usage versus overall capacity. Any recommendations?

Hello! The last python-setuptools upgrade in current to setuptools-50.0.3 installs to /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages instead of /usr/lib64/…. For the moment I downgraded to setuptools-49.6.0.

Published at LXer: How to install Redis on Ubuntu 20.04. Redis is a key-value store known for performance and flexibility. Read More......

**warning** long post ahead! I should preface this with the following: I have used mkinitrd to build many initrd's for booting my EFI based systems. Having an initrd to bootstrap the kernel is of...

Published at LXer: It’s that time of the year again, when the famous Arch Linux distribution gets a new ISO release with the latest and greatest Linux kernel. Arch Linux’s September 2020 snapshot...

I've updated my Slackware on laptop a couple of days ago and since then I can't use laptop, because any type of scrolling in any window in any gui makes my system unresponsive for a sec and then...

Hi Slackware64-current with latest alenbob KDE5 All updated today with slackpkg update-all. Kuser is not working. Run from KDE5 as a normal user terminal and root (su) show: Code:

hello, I have lots of videos and many are incomplete. when I play them with vlc, they will play to a certain point, then suddenly quit and the vlc pilon appears and the circle jumps back to the...

Published at LXer: Ideally, most local networks are protected from the outside world. If you've ever tried installing a service, such as a web server or a Nextcloud instance at home, then you...

Okay, I tried searching to see if this had already been answered and did not have any luck. I am looking to use my work computer (Windows 10) to test out some different distros and figure out which...

I was reading this (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Harden_with_sudo_example) the other day and the article explains a way to modify /etc/sudoers so that you'd have less a need for using the...

tldr: st could not run from void. pinned as workaround until fathom why. ---------------- attempting concise brevity (for a change). (ha!). cant start st. ~ well, can start it if i...

Ok folks, bash is causing me a minor headache again, and why I just cannot get what is probably really simple into my head, here goes, what I want to generate is Code: --------- HandBrakeCLI -i...

Published at LXer: oVirt is a free and open-source distributed virtualization solution that can be used to manage your entire infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install oVirt...

It's supposed to be CTRL=/CTRL- but neither of those work for whatever reason. DNF'ed rxvt myself. Is there something I missed?

installed flatpack GWE it stated addition files needed to use this program...my querry is, are these additional files added automatically or do I have to find and install? all I want to do is control...

Published at LXer: For this week’s blog, I examine how well the most popular open source astronomy programs run on the AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC. Read More......

Hello, I'm analyzing a script from someone else and I'm asking what does this line do? In short I have made a test script, trying to understand how it works..., but it is not clear to me: ...

Hello, I was using the packge Code: --------- binfmtc --------- , Version 0.17-2 in Ubuntu 20.04, and when I run the command Code: --------- realcsh.c

Published at LXer: I recently finished writing a book about C programming, which I self-published through Lulu.com. I've used Lulu for several book projects, and it's a great platform. Earlier this...

Hey all, I have my eye set op a chromebook (a Lenovo Chromebook s330) for E160. Fair price? Any good? I'd use it as a replacement for the tablet (slow and greasy screen ;) ) Thanks Melissa

rhel 6.10 I have a working script to do a cron job to decrypt a file using gpg. Problem is the file name will change daily. So, an absolute path wouldn't work. I am wondering if there are...

Published at LXer: ClamTk is a graphical front-end for ClamAV opensource antivirus. It is designed to be an easy-to-use, lightweight, on-demand antivirus scanner for Linux systems. it's available...

Hi, I wish to understand. In a system with 4 cpus if all the time the number of task is less than 4 or equal to 4 then in cpu run queue will be no task and vmstat will show under r column 0.right?

Published at LXer: Nextcloud, the popular open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, now enables you to automatically scan your files for malware before they can be stored in your...

Published at LXer: Linux Mint project’s lead developer Clement Lefebvre announced today that the Warpinator network transfer tool from the Linux Mint 20 distribution is now available as a Flatpak...

Published at LXer: As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source...

Hi all, Manjaro user here. The latest update involves PAM and PAMbase, potentially causing login trouble. Anyone figured out how to safely navigate this? About the (new) forum: I had SUPER excelent...

Hi Everyone, I am using RHEL7.8 on vmware workstation server and want to use e1000e network driver so that i can upgrade to RHEL8 as leapp preupgrade is getting failed with e1000 network driver. ...

Published at LXer: Earthquakes or the shaking doesn’t kill people, buildings do. If we can get people out of buildings in time, we can save lives. Grillo has founded OpenEEW in partnership with IBM...

Published at LXer: In some of the data tables I audit, the primary and foreign keys have been built manually, often in Excel spreadsheets. Checking for the resulting stuff-ups can be done on the...

Published at LXer: Part two in a series that covers how to set up secure access to your Linux environment with session recording and containerized servers. Read More......

Slackware 14.2 is installed on a NVMe SSD disk (Samsung 960 Series), BIOS is in UEFI mode, disk is partitioned as GPT. Steps taken: - used gdisk to create an EFI (type ef00) partition (100M) at...

I'm working on a program that that controls a trendnet Tk-409k KVM switch. The program is written in C++ with Gdk. The program runs fine if run from the terminal. I tried to make it a systemd...

I haven't now on the Linux "Boat" for almostwo month, with much help received here in the forum. Thank you all, again. I am on Intel-NUC, dual boot with Windows and wish to move forward and...

I have an infected computer where *many* personal files and usb flash drives were corrupted. I bought a livedvd for Debian9 and put it into my infected computer many times. Is there any risk of...

Hello, I am having my application custom log as below. I want to send each "

Published at LXer: usermod is a command-line utility that allows you to modify a user’s login information. Read More... (https://linuxize.com/post/usermod-command-in-linux/)

Hello, I ran vulkaninfo on both user & root and get the same error: Code: --------- vulkaninfo ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : /usr/lib/libvulkan_radeon.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 ERROR:...

I am trying to return to Linux with LM 20 Cinnamon. The install went very well but when I rebooted I booted right into Win-10. There was no GRUB screen... no choice. When I went into the UEFI...

i have a psuedoterminal open in a terminal window (xfce4terminal to be exact). i want to stuff some input into it and have the shell on the slave side of the pty get it like any other typed input. ...

Published at LXer: The eternal goal of every good sysadmin is to be replaced by a script. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/favorite-automation-tool)

Hello, I have RHEL 6.5 VM. There are two time servers configured on this. Both time-servers are also not real master, but they have further 4 GPS clocks, which are real time servers. I got an alert...