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Published at LXer: A while ago, I used Quicken to manage my finances. It's proprietary software, and year after year, it cost me more and more money for upgrades. Eventually, I realized it isn't...

edit: oops. this problem may have always been the case. looks like the behavior described below is the same on the old system. i must have always run the script from a taskbar icon and never from the...

I want to check if my root password is a certain text. For example, I want to check if my root password is MyPWD123. To put some context to this question, I want to write a script where I will...

Published at LXer: Do you know that Linux has ia command-line spellcheck utility to check your writing in the Terminal? Here's how to use aspell to spellcheck in Linux. Read More......

I am Ari Zelanko, a software engineer at a Microsoft shop by day, a linux enthusiast at night and on weekends. I am really just posting an intro to unlock full membership here on LQ. Cheers!

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to do Google search from commandline on Linux using Googler command line tool. Read More......

Enjoy! ---Quote--- The Smithsonian Institution is inviting the world to engage with its vast repository of resources like never before. For the first time in its 174-year history, the...

Hi, While attempting to use Plasma 5's "Picture of the Day" feature in desktop settings, I noticed that when selecting Astronomy Picture of the Day, the picture does not load and I simply have a...

I'm trying to build a project using the arm compiler (installed the arm-gcc and arm-binutils packages from Slackbuilds.org), but it seems that I'm missing stdint.h. Code: ---------...

I have a network Epson printer. wf-3640. Running ubuntu gnome, 18.04 LTS. System keeps generating false printers. Print-jobs keep getting sent to false printers. The one named Epson_WF_3640_linux...

I had VirtualBox 6 installed on my CentOS7 workstation some time ago. I was no longer using it and tried to uninstall it with yum. That did not seem to go to completion but the program no longer...

Published at LXer: FTP is a widely used protocol used for transferring files between server and client. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VSFTPD on CentOS 8 server and secure it...

Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been using CentOS/RHEL for a couple years at work and Ubuntu for personal a little longer. Happy to be joining the community and excited to start...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will explain how to enable picture-in-picture mode in Google Chrome. It should be noted that you cannot play every video in PiP mode. However, YouTube and...

So, installed a new VM with Void today to test some stuff on it. Found I can no longer change the resolution. To test, install a Debian, Neon, and Arch VM as well. All those that have plasma 5.18.1...

All, I'm using the cmd: Code: --------- locate php | grep topic | grep -E ^'backups|Trash' > /home/files/tcr_dump.txt && nano /home/files/tcr_dump.txt --------- Which searched for my files...

Published at LXer: Forgetting or never having the root password for a Linux system is a bad thing. This short how-to will prevent a time-consuming reinstall. Read More......

Published at LXer: Got swappiness? Learn how to set appropriate swap settings in Linux, and clear your swap's contents. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/clear-swap-linux)

OS is Centos 7 I am trying to install the latest version of myphpadmin by using yum... It downloads version 4.4 but the latest version is 4.9. After installation update doesn't change the...

It's written in BASH, for one thing. Surprisingly small codebase. https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff

I have been learning Linus(x) for three years and have played around with almost every flavour. I am a copy-paster and get my self into trouble frequently....haha. But, that's how you learn. ...

Published at LXer: The MakuluLinux 2020 distribution has been released based on Ubuntu Linux and promising a familiar place for both Windows and Linux users. Read More......

System: Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia I have an external HDD which is not automounted, and ID's as /dev/sdb, The...

I recently installed Linux Mint 19.3 (Cinnamon) on my Samsung laptop. All went good. I then rebooted my laptop and backed up my newly installed OS, via Redo Backup, to my external USB Toshiba HDD,...

I'm trying out a fancy setting on my newish router (TP-LINK) that allows me to configure a DMZ. I hooked up an old router(also TP-LINK) and set it as the DMZ host. The thought is this DMZ router...

I have bought a Longmai mToken CryptoIDA 2.00 which it's official site state is supported by Linux and Windows. In windows the token is working fine but on Linux (Ubuntu 19.04) its didn't get...

Hi all, I have been unable to make it work with the geoip module for iptables in Ubuntu 18.04 server, using iptables 1.6.1 and xtables-addons-common 3.0.0. All tutorials and howtos I found point...

I have an external 2TB NTFS formatted drive that needs cloning. What is the quickest (and reliable) method to accomplish this?

Hello everybody, I am a 62yo regular joe who decided back in the day to become a web developer and so I did. In this area I use Nginx, PHP and MySQL. I've been working with Linux since the late...

I currently have a two 6TB disk RAID 1 system hosting some LVM partitions. after coming across the recommendation from the Slackware install disk of leaving about 100MB free on the RAID partitions I...

Hello, I am trying to use 'while read' to move or redirect the contents of one file to another. Code: --------- ubuntu@ip-172-31-92-85:~/suman$ cat whileread.sh #! /bin/bash cat sleep.sh |...

Published at LXer: IEI’s 165 x 115mm “Wafer-ULT5” SBC delivers an 8th Gen Whiskey Lake-UE CPU with triple independent displays, triple GbE, 4x USB 3.1 Gen 2, mini-PCIe and M.2, and -20 to 60°C...

Hey everyone, new to the forum hope I'm posting in the right place. I have MediaWiki installed on Apache on CentOS7. Everything works fine, but I need to rewrite URLs to make them shorter. Default...

Published at LXer: The Claws Mail 3.17.5 open-source and free email client has been released over the weekend and looks to be a great release that adds various new features and lots of...

Since ubuntu installer wouldn't start I put the the hard drive left over with ubuntu installed into my new machine and it froze at purple screen. Is this normal for it to freeze? Anyone do this easily?

# # Recommended minimum configuration: # # Example rule allowing access from your local networks. # Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing # should be allowed acl...

I am new to Linux and would like to become a member of a LUG, but I can not find one in Tulsa or area. If anyone knows of one please share. Thank you.

Hi folks I have a 15-year-old 64-bit laptop. What is a good lightweight distro for it? Thanasis

Hi there. I have quite a specific question that I hope you guys might be able to help with. I am running Openmediavault on an Odroid HC2. The operating system is running of an SD card and I...

Published at LXer: For users who work with the command line in Linux most of the time, it could be convenient to view images within their terminal session. In this article we will cover some...

Using a Bash script I want to create a folder if there is more than one matching occurrence of text in a filename, then move those matching files to that folder. This is to organise TV shows into...

# # Recommended minimum configuration: # # Example rule allowing access from your local networks. # Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing # should be allowed acl...

I have a CentOs-8 system which has been running fine for sometime. Recently I lost power to the device, and when I booted up the system again, it gets stuck during the boot process. The booting...

Published at LXer: Most people have at least heard of open source software by now—and even have a fairly good idea of what it is. Learn what open source licenses are, which one to choose, and why...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will explain how you can set up a basic network in a Debian based Linux OS. The basic setup includes setting a static IP, gateway, DNS, and hostname. We have...

Published at LXer: There are several Linux tools we can use to identify all of the processes on our system, and that's what we'll be covering in this guide. Read More......

Hi LinuxQuestions.org, I am currently working on a program which utilizes the AF_XDP (or XDP in general) functionality in Linux (which was introduced in 4.18). I am 90% based on this tutorial:...

I am a foreign student at the University of San Diego. In vacations, I visit my hometown but sometimes I need to connect to UCSD networks to access the library resources from Linux. I am being...

Published at LXer: IPFire, the hardened open-source and free firewall GNU/Linux distribution, just got it’s most exciting update in the new decade, IPFire 2.25 Core Update 141, which brings a...

Published at LXer: GNU Emacs isn't the oldest interactive text editor for Unix—it's predated (at least) by the Vi editor—nor is it the only Emacs in existence. However, it's surely the most popular...