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I do weekly full backups because of REASONS. I have 4 partitions of 3GB each 2 are backup drives and two are "data" drives. I fixed the problem with my "mount -a" command by restarting all drives...

Published at LXer: Flutter is a popular project among mobile developers around the world. The framework has a massive, friendly community of enthusiasts, which continues to grow as Flutter helps...

Published at LXer: Here’s a list of 7 privacy-preserving extensions to have if you are still going to use Chrome/Chromium browsers anyway. Or maybe you can even use them with the Ungoogled-Chromium...

I have not found a place to ask about simple display formats, so I hope here will work. Trying to search using tags: is it possible to search on multiple tags? My attempts so far have resulted in...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today the KDE Plasma 5.19.5 maintenance update as the last in the Plasma 5.19 desktop environment series. Read More......

Published at LXer: If you are allowed to choose which*programming language to use for an application, you usually pick one you know and that offers the shortest path to your goal. If you require a...

Apologies if this is not the right forum to post this question. I have some documents, in plain text format, that I want to print from the command line using lp, if necessary I could use lpr. ...

I'm running Raspbian Buster and when I attempt: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp –dport 631 -j ACCEPT I get: iptables v1.8.2 (nf_tables): Couldn’t load match `tcp’:No such file or...

I am trying to configure greylisting on my server. When I attempt to receive mail, this is all I get: Code: --------- Sep 1 19:12:05 mail postfix/qmgr[514519]: 9D4463403659:...

I run Slackware64-14.2 on host. tor is 0.4.3.5 from SBo. tor starts and works fine relevant log: Code: --------- [notice] Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting [notice] Starting with guard...

Published at LXer: Linux terminals can be fun too. Learn how to play chess in Linux terminal that too with a formidable opponent Stockfish chess engine. Read More......

Not sure where to post this, so if admins move it, I understand. Curious if there are any programs out there, that anyone here has used, that actually work to remove DRM from iTunes movies, and...

Has anyone seen this on your stereo. In your cd or car player. Any ideas of making a usable copy which is currently impossible as far as I can tell. I have a replicator which won’t copy it. How...

Published at LXer: Users looking for extreme performance in a Desktop Environment can look no further than LXQt. This LXQt review will discuss who should use LXQt and why. Read More......

I want to use an old screen as a text-display showing the output of scripts or commands. It will be attached to a Linux workstation which is using its man display for various tasks.. The screen...

Published at LXer: The Blender 2.90 free and open-source 3D creation software is now available for download and it’s a major update that digital artists and designers have been expecting for so...

I'd like to set up a centralized backup using rsync on the backup machine to backup 4 client machine. The backup machine will have two 2TB SSD's to hold backup data and is connected to a UPS. All the...

Hi, I'm using the following two postfix directives: Code: --------- smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_authenticated_sender_login_mismatch smtpd_sender_login_maps =...

Published at LXer: The August release of Istio 1.7 indicates that the continuing controversy around the open source service mesh project's governance hasn't affected ongoing development. Read...

Hi all, I'm working on installing Debian 10 on my self build desktop machine. When booting after successful install i get this error message(s): Code: --------- [ 35.004830] r8822be:...

Hi, there. This is similar to nginx, but that is nginx: 404 Not Found (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/nginx-404-not-found-again-4175681133/#post6161246). I have checked...

I always set up my computers to dual boot Linux and Windows. Linux is far more secure for general computing; I have several games that only run on Windows. Two of my more recent motherboards have...

Hi. 1. My laptop has a built-in Wifi-Bluetooth thingy (RTL8723BE), which is defective, due to it being so many years old. Sometimes my kernel detects it, and sometimes it doesn't. So, it's...

I want to have centralized unattended backup of 5 computers on my LAN but have no idea how to implement it. One of the computers will have a USB 3.0 to SATA Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking...

Hello everyone, I wish to edit a document, replacing a range of characters with another range of text. For example the following input has to be modified between character 3 and 7 with "1234". ...

Published at LXer: How the Linux graphics stack is used within ChromeOS, and the work done to improve software rendering (while simultaneously improving the GPU rendering by reducing the...

On a client machine, the Desktop directory of a user has the following rights : Code: --------- drwxr--r--. 3 user user 4096 1 sept. 12:41 Desktop --------- Inside this directory there are...

My X server has quit, reporting the below error, a few times in the last few weeks. I'm not doing anything unusual either in or out of X. Has anyone else seen such behavior? ---Quote--- free():...

Published at LXer: Michael Tremer from the IPFire Project, an open source Linux-based hardened firewall distribution, announced today the availability of a new release, the first to ship with the...

I've installed Blender 2.9 on my kid's laptop and now I'm trying to run it. I get the following error message: Code: --------- Error! Unsupported graphics card or driver. A graphics card and...

Hello, I am stuck on the *_Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok_* message and it not booting. Please help me Im using VirtualBox 6.1.10

I installed the latest Google Earth on my notebook with Bodhi 5.1 64-bit. When I start Earth, all of the control bars are there but not the section with the globe. Instead, I can see "through" that...

Published at LXer: Virtualization opens up a wonderland of new opportunities for anyone, including ordinary computer users who want to try out a new operating system. Are you using a Mac but want...

I am ploughing through LFS 10.0-rc1 and making very heavy weather of it. I feel I really don't understand what I am doing and that's a feeling I don't like. The old system was logical and easy to...

I would like to create a keyring key that can be used from session-less processes (cron, daemons etc.). Keyctl documentation suggests: ---Quote--- keyctl_get_persistent() gets the persistent...

I keep getting this error after trying to create certificates with xca Code: --------- table settings already exists Unable to execute statement - :0 (CREATE TABLE settings (key_ CHAR(20)...

I have created a web service that requires a password to decipher its config data. The password could not be stored as raw data anywhere on the disk (very strict bureaucratic requirements from the...

# rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm error: open of google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory what is the solution for this

Published at LXer: The Escuelas Linux developer informs 9to5Linux today about the general availability of Escuelas Linux 6.10, a new important update to this Ubuntu/Bodhi Linux-based educational...

Published at LXer: The PulseEffects app is a full-featured set of modular effects you can use to adjust sound devices. In a previous article, you learned how you can use PulseEffects to correct or...

Published at LXer: There are mistakes and then there are big mistakes. Thankfully, some have an easy fix. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/worst-mistake-sysadmin)

Hello everyone i know this question might have been asked a lot but i wasnt able to find some answers suitable for my use. So pls can any one help me deciding what will be the best distro for my pc....

Published at LXer: In 2015, the Eyüpsultan Municipality in Istanbul, Turkey, began a bold migration to adopting open source software. This involved several major changes: Linux on the desktop and...

Published at LXer: Never rewrite code, use functions instead! Read More... (https://linuxhandbook.com/bash-functions/)

Published at LXer: Digital Assets is a GUI that lets you monitor movements in the prices of cryptocurrencies. The program is written in Python. Digital Assets uses the Nomics API to retrieve the...

I am going to need an email server. In your educated opinion, what is the easiest one to install and maintain? I am not interested in flame wars or discussing which one is best based on any other...

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to configure networking in Vagrant to provide access to guest machine from the local host system in Linux. Read More......

Started a new job, where I use RHEL physical servers, I'm npt the Linux admin. I'm installing Nexus software and the Linux admin stated he put my user in the sudoers file (there is no way for me...

I have setup a multi boot which have ubuntu and windows to select. when select the ubuntu on the menu , it pops the error screen as attached ( you can see a line on the top of the screen ) , I...

Published at LXer: Missing the Windows Hello kind of unlocking of your system on Linux? Learn how to set up face unlock on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Read More......