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Published at LXer: Glances is an open source tool written in Python to monitor essential Linux system resource utilization at a galnce. Learn to use Glances in various modes. Read More......

My two boys are now enrolled in a K12 home based school. As the "learning coach" I have to open and view numerous videos every week. As an old guy I have never watched videos on my computer. When I...

My old HP Probook 4510s is once again displaying " Non-system disk or disk error". It is not the first time. That was when I tried installing Absolute Linux, 2 years ago. At the time I nuked...

My inbox is perpetually full, and every once in a while, I get an email saying that someone tried to message me but my inbox was full. Obviously, I have no idea what they tried to say. So I have to...

Published at LXer: Nagios is open-source software for system and network monitoring. Nagios can monitor the activity of a host and its services and provides a warning/alert if something bad happens...

Published at LXer: There are thousands of USB devices on the market—keyboards, scanners, printers, mouses, and countless others that all work on Linux. Their vendor details are stored in the USB ID...

Published at LXer: Many of us have an old PC lying around our house. Before you throw them away, check out these ways to make use of your old PC with Linux. Read More......

sites all seem to say go to *tools > merge* to do this; except there is no such item in this install of LibreOffice. Any ideas?

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Found a very old thread here from 2010 where someone was looking to create a sendmail.mc file from an existing sendmail.cf and there wasn't a definitive answer. Wanting to know if someone has come up...

I have been trying out hawkeye (https://igorpartola.com/projects/hawkeye/), a fairly simple webcam server and would like to use it instead of mjpeg-streamer, however, when I run it at boot from...

Copying over 1TB files from 1 hdd to another hdd - will a terminal command (for copying and pasting files) transfer the files faster/ significantly faster than "copy/paste" using 'highlight files...

Hello everyone. I expect that all of you are doing fine. I am new to Manjaro and I have a few question about some programs. I tried to install Fakecam, but it says I need to install this driver...

Hello, I have a file, mybackuplist, with a list of paths: /home/yod/somefile /home/yod/Documents/someotherfile etc... I use it to make a tarball with the following command *tar -cpvf backup.tar...

Hi, I recently updated to 20.04 from 18.04 and am having some (minor) issues and was looking for some help. I dont seem to be able to get rid of the 'home' and 'rubbish bin' icons on my desktop.I'm...

I realised that problem when I started to get trouble starting rofi with the shortcuts. Then I tried to run in terminal with typing Code: --------- rofi -show drun --------- and I get error...

here is a copy of the output from the command 'apt dist-upgrade -f': root@tevens:/home/teven# apt dist-upgrade -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state...

I'm banging by head on the table ant can not find it. I'm using ubuntu 20 and a have the following samba.conf [global] unix charset = UTF-8 workgroup = WORKGROUP security = user interfaces =...

Published at LXer: In this section, we are going to look at some additional Ansible modules in a bit more detail. This is required so we can practice developing some more meaningful playbooks. ...

Hi I would like to have a desktop feel like the one provided by the early distibutions of Slackware Linux (around 1995). I copied the .fvwmrc file from ditribution 3.1 on the user's home on an...

Published at LXer: SSH, also known as Secure Shell, is the most widely-used protocol for connecting to and managing Linux systems remotely. SSH offers strong encryption and authentication along...

Hi, I am trying to create a bridge by BRCTL commands on intel card 100G e810 and it doesn't work why? on Mellanox card 100G its works I installed centos 7.6 OS. thanks

Published at LXer: Slated for release on August 25th, the Mozilla Firefox 80 web browser is now available for grabs from the official download server for all supported platforms, including Linux,...

Hi, I am try to create bridge by BRCTL commands on intel card 100G and its doesn't work why? on Mellanox card 100G its works I installed centos 7.6 OS. thanks

Published at LXer: Traditionally, Linux computer systems are installed on a physical or virtual machine, and one of the questions asked during the install is: What time zone is the machine is...

[With Linux Mint] If a song is playing when I click the x at the top right of the window, recently Spotify has continued to play the music, even though the program isn't to be found on in the tabs....

Webcam for linux mint ( ubuntu )

Published at LXer: MongoDB is one of most widely used NoSQL database. MongoDB is open source. Check out how to install MongoDB 4.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 Read More......

I recently purchased an HP T640 Thin Client off ebay for a steal compared to the regular prices. This thing has 8gb(soon to be 32gb), M.2 SATA 128GB drive(soon to be 512gb) and is powered by a...

Published at LXer: Fedora is changing the default filesystem to BTRFS from ext4. Read more here to find out what this means to Fedora users Read More......

I found another post on my topic, but it is scary... So, I will ask it here for my own case. I got warning that my / partition is out of space. I searched a bit and found somwhere to delete my Swap...

@Exaga I figured I'd find you here .... I note your slackdoc nginx on Slackware ARM (https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:nginx). I have been using nginx as the server on our lan for at...

Published at LXer: Osclass is a free, open-source and user-friendly application that can be used to create your own classified websites on your own server. In this tutorial, we will explain how to...

Published at LXer: This article describes how to install Wine on a Debian 10 Buster system, both from the graphical user interface and from the command line. Read More......

Hi, We have 3-tier applications installed in different servers: apps server, web server and DB server in our environment. The backup will start backup when apps, web and DB are shutdown in...

How would I know if at least grep, or all commands that result in FD, were successfully executed? FD=$(grep "Number of regular files transferred:" $TMP | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g' | awk 'NF{sum+=$1} END...

Published at LXer: The history command prints the recently executed commands. This brief tutorial explains different ways to clear Command line history in Linux. Read More......

On Ubuntu 20.4. I think I've managed to find a relevant page that relates to this (https://debian.pkgs.org/9/debian-main-amd64/gnome-hearts_0.3-2.2+b1_amd64.deb.html), but as a beginner cannot begin...

Published at LXer: Installing and setting up the WordPress website is a very difficult task for any beginner user. You will need to perform a lot of things to set up WordPress website including,...

I'll ask a question whose answer I find difficult to find on the Internet. It is about the covid-19. From the first symptoms, say tiredness, until the sickness is clearly visible, that is until the...

Driving me nuts. Trying to connect to the work VPN using L2TP over IPSec with a pre-shared key, and whatever I try, it attempts to connect, and eventually times out. Using Arch, and Network...

Published at LXer: Just don't mention the cow-meleon, OK?Interview SUSE has had a busy year, with a switch of CEO, the ditching of OpenStack, and the buy of Kubernetes darling Rancher Labs.… ...

Trying to help a friend out and recommending she switch from Windows 10 to Linux. She wants to still be able to use her Digital Photo professional program that is put out by by cannon for her...

Published at LXer: Brian W. Kernighan opens his book Unix: A History and a Memoir with the line, "To understand how Unix happened, we have to understand Bell Labs, especially how it worked and the...

Linux running virtualbox which is running Windows10. When I try and open the program (delftship) it gives an error for opengGL not found. I have the guestadditions installed (properly I hope). Is it...

Published at LXer: Make your text editing easier and more efficient by using macros to automate tasks in Vim. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/use-vim-macros)

Hi, Just did a fresh install of Bodhi 5.1.0 on my PC. The problem is that the speakers i have connected don't work at all. I've checked alsamixer and pavucontrol, everything looks fine. My...

I just downloaded mint cinnamon 20 on Saturday and can see that I have a lot to learn. I came here because my windows 7 sony vaio was getting slower and slower. I am very happy with the results so...

Hello all, I am working on a small personal cryptography project using Python 3.8 on my Fedora 32 machine. I must (a long time ago) have installed the PyCrypto package and I now read that...

Hello folks, how can I see the ip address in terminal (private ip). I am new to slack and there is no ifconfig nor ip programs installed! And didn't manage so far in learning the installation process...