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In Windows OS, it will index (or you can choose what's indexed) folders, files, and content *within* individual files, so you can not only search for file names, but also words and phrases within...

Published at LXer: Survey shows preference for Linux, some aversion to Microsoft AzureThe Go team's latest developer survey shows that most "Gophers" like the language but highlight poor debugging...

About a week ago I installed slackware64 xfce stable and am attempting my first install from slackbuilds (the app is sbopkg), but the machine keeps failing and I have no idea how to fix the problem. ...

Published at LXer: The expand utility is part of the GNU Core Utilities and perfect for people who are on "team spaces". It allows you to easily convert all tabs to spaces with options to limit...

Greetings..I am moving 3 simple configuration Dell workstations (T3600,T7600,T7610) from Win7 to some Linux if I can find one to work. All computers have 32-128GB ram, a single SATA HDD 250 - 1000GB,...

I'm having trouble getting a truly headless (no graphics card) running AMD64 Testing to boot to serial console. I think I got the installer to run by adding console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8...

Published at LXer: The Linux 5.5 kernel series has reached end of life (EOL) and everyone using it should upgrade to the latest Linux kernel 5.6 series. Read More......

Friends, I have a working install of ubuntu 18.04 64b that I am very happy with, machine A. I have made several customization s including some linuxbrew installs. I wish to be able to replicate...

Currently I run Ubuntu 19.10 on a ThinkPad T460s, updated with the latest packages. I have full disk encryption enabled on the SSD. Recently I upgraded the memory to a total of 16 + 4 (soldered...

Hi, We are trying to migrate sybase database to mssql, we have a path /usr/sybase/sqlib/sqlib.c which contains the implementation for sqlopen(),sqlwrite()....etc. We are searching for the...

Published at LXer: The spread of disease is a real concern for a world in which global travel is commonplace. A few organizations track significant epidemics (and any pandemic), and fortunately,...

I have one or two long documents that I would like to save in Web View, as I find the page breaks of Normal View inconvenient. But whenever I reopen such a document it always reopens in Normal View....

My micro-SD phone card died. When I tried to read it on Ubuntu I could not mount it. My laptop dual boots to Ubuntu and WinX. I booted to Windows and was able to recover the card. I just inserted it...

Hi All. I have a particular need as I do tech support for my wife. She has a dumb phone(Call & text only), and is getting fed up with smartphone spam. The thought uncurled itself here to send them...

I need some help with a bash script to do the following. I can do simple stuff in bash but this one is beyond me. I have 2 files, one has a set of domains and urls only such as www.google.com...

I discovered scp to transfer a file to another laptop, I just did it the easiest way for me and selected to use pasword. did a script Code: --------- #!/usr/bin/env bash # format

Published at LXer: In this article, we will explain how to install and use a drop-down Tilda console. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 system. ...

Hey y'all. I'm building Bzip2 in Chapter 6 right now, and I'm getting an odd error on installation. Here's the output of "make PREFIX=/usr install". Code: --------- (lfs chroot)...

Is it safe to conclude ddrescue is not the right tool for this task? What other tool can I try? I already tried testdisk http://imgur.com/gallery/JfBUpvs I am trying to save a 900GB partition...

Code: --------- Tue Apr 21 02:45:06 UTC 2020 *d/python-2.7.17-x86_64-2.txz: Removed. *d/python2-2.7.18-x86_64-1.txz: Added. OK, I know a few people got excited seeing python-2 removed in the...

Hello All, just learning Oracle / Solaris and trying to install Oracle Solaris 11.3 on a bare metal T4-2. I've got a heavy IT background, a lot of windows and some Linux so this is somewhat new to me....

Published at LXer: Michael Tremer announced today the general availability of Core Update 143 of the IPFire 2.25 open-source Linux firewall distribution. The monthly Core Updates for the IPFire...

Hi All, I am currently trying to do the below requirement. Navigate to one specific directory and search one pattern from a group of files in the directory and store the count of occurence in an...

Code: --------- $ hg Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hg", line 43, in dispatch.run() File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/importlib/util.py", line 245, in...

On our Intranet at work I look after a web app that uses a simple html table to display results - nothing complicated, data is retrieved from a SQL database with a simple select statement. I want to...

---Quote--- CC kernel/bpf/core.o kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: ___bpf_prog_run.cold()+0x7: call without frame pointer save/setup ---End Quote--- Not that it matters. It's been...

Hi there fine folks, I just installed a new Ubuntu 20.04 server and it's working like a charm after some tweaking. It's a RAID 1 setup with encrypted / and unencrypted /boot. I'm able to use a...

Published at LXer: BleachBit, the open-source disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer software has reached a major milestone, version 4.0, which brings many improvements...

Published at LXer: KVM(Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is an open-source virtualization technology built into the Linux kernel. It allows you to run multiple isolated guest virtual machines based on...

Hello. In a production system SunOS we found the same processes witth ppid = 1, so there must be going on with the application and there are more than 3k processes and increasing, for instance ...

Hello! I'm facing problems with modules on LFS, I can't get them to work. I compiled kernel first manually through menuconfig, second time using .config from my host (linux mint tricia) but when I...

Two weeks ago I switched from Windows to Linux Mint on a new PC, with the OS and Home on partitions on my SSD. I have spent days trying to get my old Brother DCP-J140W to print. After installing the...

Hello everyone, I wish to use Anaconda3 which is located in */home/user/Anaconda3*. But the command *conda* was not recognized, so I tried to reinstall it with: ---Quote--- pip install conda...

Published at LXer: Elastic Beanstalk is one of the "computer" services in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. It allows us to easily manage and deploy applications. We don't have to understand or...

Hello guys I want to install open mandriva on a USB. My plan was to boot it in live mode and then install it on another flash drive to have it installed and use it as a complete OS. I want to...

During real-time file monitoring in progress, many file discriptors are created. Would there be any impacts on performance if a large numbers of file discriptors generated? (In case of approaching...

Published at LXer: In 2005, Linus Torvalds created Git to replace the proprietary distributed source control management solution that he had previously used to maintain the Linux kernel. Since...

Hi there, I have some experience with Debian and now I am testing Tails and have some problem, I don't know where should I put my question in the Tails mailing list so I put it here, I believe I...

Published at LXer: Adobe Flash Player is still an essential browser plug-in used to play audio, streaming video, and other miscellaneous multimedia content. In this article, you will learn how to...

« Un être qui pense c'est un être qui doute », René Descartes So, while I kept using simple desktop environments for some years and although all those that I remember where not Gnome, but had a lot...

Published at LXer: This article explores some legitimate use cases for the sudo command. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/using-sudo-delegate)

I install properly Ubuntu on android but when I do command ./start-ubuntu.sh I have this ./start-ubuntu.sh groups: cannot find name for group ID 3003 groups: cannot find name for group ID 9997...

Hi there, yesterday i update samba 4.4.4 to samba 4.6 i shutdown my pc, and after i use again i can't access to samba intranet shares. This was my /etc/samba/smb.conf before upgrade Code:...

Sorry, probably been asked a thousand times, but... Have an 'old' laptop (an x86, Dell Inspiron 6400 - 4GB RAM), that I want to setup for my grandson, 1st grade of primary, AND it will need to be...

Hi, Thanks for being this amazingly helpful forum :-) I would like to setup a Type-1 hypervisor, with a GUI, that only does the virtualization. I first thought KVM/virtmanager would be the...

Published at LXer: The Airbreak firmware is a big step toward transforming the Airsense 10 CPAP machine into a non-invasive ventilator. Read More......

Published at LXer: This guide describes the process of installing X-Cart 5 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using Nginx as the webserver and MySQL as the database server and how to secure the installation with...

Hi community, An old pc is running an old distribution of Bodhi Linux I would like to upgrade. This is running and installed: 3.2.0-4-486 Ubuntu 3.2.57-3+deb7ul i686 GNU/Linux. Hardware HP mini...

I installed tightvncserver version 1.3.10-0ubuntu5 on Ubuntu Mate 20.04 (beta). This is the FIRST time in 20+ years that I have been able to use a VNC program right from the install without some...

Published at LXer: The UBports Foundation announced over the weekend the availability for public testing of the forthcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 software update for Ubuntu Phone devices. Read...