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Hey everyone, over the last couple of months I have using openZFS filesystem on debian buster/sid on my daily drivers for testing. Really loving ZFS so far, the snapshots for me are the biggest...

I put some backup procedures in the crontab. Is there a log somewhere of whether the crontab actually executed them? It would make me feel better if I could see proof at least once and know it didn't...

Ive just installed a fresh install of Debian 10 and can no longer get into the default tty7 that the main system would normally boot into. I tried running sddm from the console and this is the...

When I try to execute the following command: sudo apt-get install git I end receiving the following message and am unsure as to what to make of it: Reading package lists... Done Building...

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I'm using this slackbuild http://msiz.hatenablog.jp/entry/2014/02/03/221647 I change the version number but its not working from...

Published at LXer: Yesterday Mozilla and Comcast announced that Comcast was the latest member of Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver program, joining current partners Cloudflare and NextDNS....

Published at LXer: As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source...

Hi All, I'm just wondering what are my chances of getting this combo to work nested, under VMWare. I've installed OpenSuSE Leap 15.1, installed yast2-vm, configured Xen and booted a dom0 kernel,...

Published at LXer: Stressing your Linux servers can be a good idea if you'd like to see how well they function when they're loaded down. Here's a look at some tools that can help you add stress and...

My webcam video recording is working. When I am making sound, my webcam microphone is receiving sound. However, when I playback the sound, it is nothing but noise. It sounds like this...

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I have browsed a few slackbuilds over the years and have noticed that slackbuild scripts for current have the "Don't ship .la files" bit that removes these files from the build directory before...

I've been reading through various websites on initrd and busybox. Have tried searching through the Slackware wiki. But my searches seem to fall short of what I'm working to do. Is there somewhere...

I thought I hyad learned the minimum required to navigate. Buster was stable, Sid was unstable. And really Sid was stable enough and Buster wasn't quite obsolete. I point blank refuse to have...

Published at LXer: Let’s Encrypt is free and open an ssl certificate authority. The certificates, issued by Let’s Encrypt is trusted and suitable for almost all available browsers. Read More......

Published at LXer: UK-based Linux computer manufacturer Star Labs announced today that they’re now offering the lightweight, Debian-based MX Linux distribution pre-installed on their Linux laptops....

I have a mac pro laptop that I put linux mint tricia 19.3 on. I only have linux on my laptop, no apple. I am not able to use my laptops camera. I have installed cheese but it says that no device is...

Hi Guys, I'm Ronaldo again, but I Downloading The Images of Linux, Then I saw the releases like RHEL, SLE, Gentoo, Mageia and etc on wikipedia, I tried to download his images, then I couldn't find the...

Good afternoon. I've read in a few places and recommended to by a few people the same way to disable IPv6 under network settings, and just leave IPv4 checked/on. Can anyone explain the differences...

Published at LXer: Fedora Labs are pre-built images of Fedora 32 Workstation that provide users of several use cases access to an image bundled with the necessary software. Read More......

I'm running Linux Mint on a Minibox Mini Pro 2 [only a couple weeks old], believe I may have installed it incorrectly, and noticed two times so far a severe lag, where one time it froze completely,...

I use an app called touchpad-indicator to disable the touchpad when I type and when I have an actual mouse plugged in. Is there anything like that for my actual touchSCREEN? I would like a GUI...

The default bar in BodHi, is it possible to lock it.. I seem to keep accidentally dragging things off it. Thanks

I'm relatively new to Linux, and was curious if someone had a [verified] set of command lines to enter in order to safely encrypt my hard-drive post install, as I didn't select to do that at the...

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Published at LXer: In our daily use of Linux/Unix systems, we use many command-line tools to complete our work and to understand and manage our systems—tools like du to monitor disk utilization and...

In addition to my recent ffmpeg post (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6138275#post6138275) I have another issue. I've tried: Code: --------- ffmpeg -f image2 -r 1/5...

Published at LXer: With the release of Fedora 32, regular users of Docker have been confronted by a small challenge. At the time of writing, Docker is not supported on Fedora 32. As such, this...

Apparently, ffmpeg isn't "Unix-like" in specifying input files (or it's me). I have a collection of jpg files (variously named .jpg, .JPG and .jpeg). I first tried: Code: --------- ffmpeg...

Hello, i installed the latest version of Chromium from Alien Bob's repository. Now i get the following error: Code: --------- bash-4.3$ chromium-browser ...

Published at LXer: A Linux terminal running Bash has a built-in history that you can use to track what you[he]#039[/he]ve been doing lately. To view a history of your Bash session, use the built-in...

Trying to install CentOS 8 from a kickstart and getting the error in the attached image. This works for Cent7 (without the authconfig part commented out). Here is my kickstart: Code:...

I have been using kodachi linux for a while and hated it and I just haven't gotten the chance to switch back to windows 10. To do this I decided to use the kodachi nuke to delete everything then after...

Published at LXer: Backups are necessary evils, even at home. Consider setting up network-attached storage to make them more manageable. You are considering a home NAS (network-attached storage...

I know of pihole -up but that does not update the blocklist, it only updates Code: --------- pihole -up [sudo] password for odroid: [i] Checking for updates... [i] Pi-hole Core:up to date...

how you would log into a Linux host without knowing a valid login/password combination. a.Would you be able to gain root/administrative access to this host? How would you do this?

Published at LXer: Canonical released today new security updates for the Linux kernel and NVIDIA graphics drivers to address several vulnerabilities in several of the supported Ubuntu Linux...

Hello, I am a Linux newbie who at the moment is lost. In fact, I can't even call myself a newbie because at the moment I'm not even running Linux because I got so frustrated I had to uninstall it...

1 Can someone Describe the purpose of the virtual memory manager in Linux and how that differs from traditional ‘swap’ on a Linux machine. 2.What is the purpose of a filesystem in Linux?...

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G'Day folks ;) I have a bit of a "sticky wicket" today, which probably needs only a small tweak to resolve. I'm passing the path to a file, which is discovered in a python script, for further...

Published at LXer: An Azure Snapshot is a read-only copy of the existing disk in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. We can create a snapshot of the OS or Data disk. This snapshot can be used as a backup....

Hi all. Sometimes I get Slackware 14.2 total lockup even reboot button is stuck. No keyboard, no mouse actions at all. Animations are stuck on screen too. I had one just minutes ago. I believe it...

The manpage for pause says: ---Quote--- pause() causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes the invoca‐ ...

Hi, I posted "su - ignoramous" can'y help feeling like same again - but we're here... At stage 6.3 I am looking at using the Benkmann more-control-helpers system. I have finished ch5, seems ok,...

I want to change my existing username and password for my existing files prior to creating a new user using existing name and password with a new set of files.

Hi, total newbie here, nice to meet you. I’m trying to install Bodhi 5.1.0 legacy on a MSI laptop. (Intel atom 2,66 GHz, 1Go DDR2 on windows XP) Seems like I can’t load a live version from USB. ...

Published at LXer: If you need an advanced sysadmin tool for your toolbox, this is the one. Socat allows for bidirectional data transfers from one location to another. Read More......

I got me one of those programmable keypads, an ELSRA PK-2068. It works well, relatively easy to program. So, I programmed one of the keys to "gedit file_blahX &" and it works. (note that blahX...