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Reading through the code of the login command of V7 UNIX, crypt is called in the following fashion: Code: --------- namep = crypt(getpass("Password:"),pwd->pw_passwd); --------- where it uses...

Hello, I am having an issue with inodes on centos 8. as you can see i have a low inodes on root partition only 241K. My home parition is also the same size but with 27M. how could I fix this? ...

Published at LXer: As a systems engineer, I spend a lot of time in data centers configuring servers and other computer equipment. Two of the items I keep in my toolkit are an RS-232 serial-to-USB...

Don't judge me for using TeamViewer, we have commercial license and I am stuck with it for most deployments. It is a very poorly supported product designed by some marketing team. I had the...

Published at LXer: Canonical announced today the general availability of the OpenStack Ussuri cloud computing platform for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). ...

Published at LXer: Webmin is a web-based dashboard that allows sysadmins to manage Linux servers. In this tutorial, we learn how to install Webmin on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Read More......

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Published at LXer: In a recent article, I mentioned my 2020 New Year's resolution: no more loops in Java.*In that article, I chose a common (and simplified) forest management...

Published at LXer: In the second part of this series on syzkaller, we looked at how to install the tool and use it to improve our code base and detect programming bugs in the Linux kernel. Now, how...

I am reading a book called Python Automation Cookbook. First thing it mentions is getting a virtual environment set up. I installed Python virtualenvwrapper But I am getting this message when...

Hello, I have RHEL 7.6. Its resolv.conf has 4 DNS servers. It takes a very long time when I login with NIS account. To check the server's connectivity, I tried to ping its DNS servers and found that...

i would like to be able to open a file without actually creating it until the first write is performed. is there a way to do that without having a 2nd process doing that, yet get the file descriptor?

Published at LXer: How to Install LAMP Apache, MySQL, PHP in Ubuntu 20.04. In this guide you will learn how to install Apache2, MySQL and PHP 7.4. Read More......

Hi We are using samba for share file , and find option veto files to block specific extension files ( like ransomware extension) ? Someone know another solution to do that ? ( veto files...

I am having trouble with a MariaDB install. I have blown away a previous install of Linux Mint and replaced it with a 19.2-64. I installed the cinnamon version, but then added the Mate desktop. ...

Published at LXer: How many iterations does it take to get a container configuration just right? And how long does each iteration take? Well, if you answered "too many times and too long," then my...

Published at LXer: Webmin is an Open Source server control panel for easy Linux System Administration. In this tutorial, we will learn how to setup Webmin on CentOS 8. Read More......

Debian 10.4 XFCE After installing brave browser, I'm asked to unlock the keyring the first time I launch brave. Is there a way to solve this without leaving it with a blank passwd?

Published at LXer: Have you ever wanted to search the Web while typing away on the command line? There are a few ways for you to search the Web from Terminal. Check them out! Read More......

I bought a discontinued Acer computer that came to me with windows 10 installed in it. I can not get into anything on it The boot menu will not let me change anything. I can not partition the hard...

I am much more familiar with C than C++, but I am currently looking at a C++ program and am trying to figure out what a specific read and write call do. Example code below. Code: ---------...

Hello, Attempting to install Solaris 10 update 11 on a Sun Ultra 45 (single processor, 2GB RAM) off the official ISO downloaded from the Oracle website. File is verified to be good by the md5sum....

can i attach a USB port to a VM? i want to be able to change what device type is plugged in there and have the system in that VM see the new device type. i'd prefer to do this with qemu.

I open folder with 179 image files. I click Edit/ Select All I right click on an image and select Open with Shotwell Viewer System freezes. By that I mean the mouse will not react. The only way I...

is there a way to configure an interface to use (respond to ARP requests) all 256 IP addresses of a /24 that has been assigned to my server? i would otherwise have to configure 255 individual alias...

Published at LXer: A good amount of my day-to-day involves creating, modifying, and deploying Helm charts*to manage the deployment of applications. Helm is an application package manager for...

I recently installed ubuntu 20.04 and when I am looking for programs to install the software installer only partially installs. All of the squares have program names but a lot of them have no icons....

We are testing an application called RStudio which is accessible from the browser. RStudio provides the interface to R programming. On testing the application, we notice the user has access to the...

Published at LXer: digiKam is billed as an advanced digital photo management program. Here’s my findings of digiKam on the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”). Read More......

I've been slowly driving myself insane with a pet project of recompiling Slackware 14.2 on my iBook G4. One particular thorn I've ran into is getting Glibc and GCC to build right. Mostly because of...

I'm not seeking debates or discussion. Just posting a PSA. I was searching an unrelated topic and came across a link to a comment Pat made in his interview...

Published at LXer: An in-depth look at how systemd-tmpfiles creates, removes and cleans temporary files and directories. Read More... (https://www.putorius.net/systemd-tmpfiles.html)

I would like to install KDE games like kmahjongg onto a chromebook (Acer CB3-431-C5FM). Does anyone know how?

Hey guys. How can I get email notifications without keeping my email program opened at all times? I'm used to Windows 10 which would tell me about new messages when I wake my PC up. I'd like to...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation announced today the general availability for public testing of the first alpha release of the upcoming LibreOffice 7.0 open-source office suite. Read...

With earlier versions of Mint I would see one icon in the panel for each file or doc I had open. With 19.3 Cinnamon they are nested--for example, whether I have one document open or several, the...

Published at LXer: In this article we will explain how to write, compile and run a simple C program in Debian. This will serve as a basis for you to move on to more complicated and useful C...

Buku is a cli bookmark manager: https://github.com/jarun/buku/tree/v4.3 I tried to get a list of all the bookmarks that I had made with buku and run the command: buku -l But this is not the...

let's say that I compile package 'foo' from source using the classic commands .configure & make from within the directory foo-master. Where would I find the resulting exe, or any other...

Published at LXer: If you are Linux system administrator and responsible for managing servers then you may often need to know how many ssh connections are active on your server and where the...

I am trying to disable cache for Kernel space. To do so, I would like to modify flags in the page table entries (PTE) of the Kernel. I found examples for walks through PTE of user space: ...

I am trying to disable the caching for the Linux operating system only, i.e., Kernel space. I figured out that there are two ways to do this: 1- Using MTRR: This turned out to be infeasible as MTRR...

I'm truly stuck here. I'm trying to set up a RAID1 server using Ubuntu 18.04LTS. I think I fouled up one of the SAS drives when installing. I started the install from a USB flash drive and got to the...

it looks like this is how to use this..I hope I'm correct. not being computer savvy is my drawback, I'm used to tracking electrons in my background, not using language so I'm slow to absorb. I have...

Published at LXer: This guide will teach you how to find hard disk data transfer speed in Linux. In other words, we will identify how fast the drive delivers data in Linux. Read More......

I have a Epson Stylus SX425W printer which includes a flatbed scanner. Up until last week, I was running Fedora 26 and the scanner worked fine. I have just installed Fedora 32 - and now if I try to...

A while back after an upgrade my SlackWare started waiting 15 seconds during boot saying "Polling for DHCP server on interface eth0:". The following command starts dhcpd Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: Tutorial on how to use find command in Unix with examples. Read More... (https://www.usessionbuddy.com/post/Unix-Find-Command-Cheatsheet-And-Usage/)

Hi. I have been struggling to get a hold of a comprehensive guide how to build a keyboard layout for a couple of days now. I can not find any on the internet. About xmodmap: I do not want to use...

I have Fedora 32 workstation running on a new machine. I created a samba share, but can't access it from other machines (Windows and Mac). I have enabled SSH, and can SSH in from these other...