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CMUS library view and MOCP volume control questions
For Cmus, is there a way to display the music in the first view according to the album name and not the artist? At first I liked very much this music player but when I wanted to listen an OST album...
LXer: Changing TTY prompt, font and colors
Published at LXer: Bored with a plain, white-on-black virtual terminal? You can make it more to your liking, but be prepared for some difficulties. Read More......
BIOS does not see SATA or M.2 drive
This is a weird one, if there's a better website for this please direct me to it. Built a new system for myself for Xmas, it's a Ryzen 7 3600X with an Asus ROG Strix B450-F motherboard. The only...
ip xfrm ipsec ESP without encapsulation?
Can I configure IPSEC ESP with authentication only without encapsulation using xfrm? iproute2 tool does not allow this.
My Hard Drive is Filling Up Fast!
Just installed Slackware 14.2 on x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Gold G5400 CPU @ 3.70GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux. Installed several times because hard drive keeps filling up fast. Wondered if it was...
Saying Howdy. ( It's a Texas thing.)
I'm a old Linux user from way back. Away from computers for about 10 yrs. I started in the red hat 5.2 days.Wetting my feet on MX19.1 Glad to be back.
LXer: 10 Grafana features you need to know for effective monitoring
Published at LXer: The Grafana*project started in 2013 when Torkel Ödegaard decided to fork Kibana and turn it into a time-series and graph-focused dashboarding tool. His guiding vision: to make...
LXer: How to embed Twine stories in WordPress
Published at LXer: From the very beginning, I wanted the "About me" page on my WordPress website romanluks.eu to be interactive.At first, I experimented with Dart, a programming language developed...
TinyWM not working under Xephyr
I am trying to get TinyWM (http://incise.org/tinywm.html) to work. I ran Code: --------- Xephyr -ac -screen 1280x1024 -br -reset -terminate 2> /dev/null :1 & --------- And then Code:...
Hello from Flanders - Hallo uit Vlaanderen
I'm a computer user since I was 16, and now I'm 56. I started with a TRS-80 Model I and I still have it. Keeping & collecting old computers became a hobby, and I rolled into IT when I was fired from...
LXer: SparkyLinux 2020.02 GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue Editions Are Out Now
Published at LXer: SparkyLinux 2020.02 “Po Tolo” special editions, including GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue, are now available for download for fans of this semi-rolling, Debian-based GNU/Linux...
Slowed down +
Hi I'm new, my name is Marton. Well I this desktop from a friend and they had Lexus put on it. They gave it to me and I thought I knew a good bit about linus. But I don't. It was fast, but now it's...
LXer: How to run a command in Linux every x seconds
Published at LXer: Oftentimes you need to run a command every X seconds on Linux. Granted you can use cron but unfortunately, it does not handle time granularities of less than a minute. Read...
LFS 9.0 x64 SysVInit - Grub Will Not Start
Hi All, I just tried to boot my LFS 9.0 x64 PC and I am getting: Code: --------- grub_files_filter not found --------- and then the 'grub rescue' appears. The grub program frame with the...
USB wifi adaptor internet access issue
So I am basically getting started with Linux. I am using PARROT OS as my primary os. I bought leoxsys USB wifi adaptor for monitor mode. It's working fine for network monitoring, but when I want...
Logging in from TC to say hello
I am an experienced developer getting back into low-level C programming after a several year detour into web development and design. This should be fun! Thanks and I hope to talk to everyone much more...
Updated current, symbolic link from /usr/bin/vi to /usr/bin/elvis missing?
Just updated a current system that was a few months behind and found the link for /usr/bin/vi to elvis missing. Just sharing in case anyone else on current looses vi.
*friendly wave*
Hi everyone. Longtime *nix user, and have been noodling with Linux since Linus released 0.11 floppy images to the wild back in the very early 90s. My last meaningful interaction with kernel...
[sql] matching records from 2 tables with multiple fields
hi, i am wanting to pull records from a query like so: Code: --------- table-1: claim-prefix claim-id claim-segment-number member-id s al3r 0 chun-li a ...
LXer: Getting started with OpenTaxSolver
Published at LXer: OpenTaxSolver is an open source application for US taxpayers to calculate their state and federal income tax returns. Before I get into the software, I want to share some of the...
Hello from Austria!
Hello everybody, I have been using Linux since 2006 - mostly Ubuntu and its derivatives. I'm currently on Peppermint 10, but always open to try something new. Unfortunately, it is questionable...
Apache as Reverse Proxy and Lets Encrypt SSL
Hey LQ, I was hoping to get some confusion cleared up. I've got a server in my office that is running 2 virtual machines. Both are linux, one is a nextcloud instance, the other is just a...
Question related to TCP/IP buffering in linux
I have been trying very hard to find about buffers used in TCP/IP as part of packet transfer in linux. More i read, more i get confused. Below given are questions i have. Can someone help me figure it...
Did a Recent Update to Firefox Break Location Sharing
Today, it appears that location sharing is no longer working for either HULU or Google maps. I suspect that something happened to Firefox that disabled location sharing. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and...
LXer: How To Limit The Number Of SSH Logins Per User/Group/System On Linux
Published at LXer: This brief tutorial explains how to limit the number of SSH logins per user or group or system on Linux using /etc/security/limits.conf file. Read More......
Put Images on a Ramdisk?
Hi I create my own Map who are Million Images with 5kb - 30kb. The Browser load this Images. What is the best way to serve hundred or thousand user? Squid as Reverse Proxy? Put a copy of the...
LXer: Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS
Published at LXer: Clear Linux OS is the best benchmarking distro. But what's it like to live with? Read More......
Convert 3 of 8 existing partitions (Windows) in a dual boot system to a KVM/libvert instance
Trying to follow this guide, but stuck on how to include all Win partitions into the raw image. ...
upgradepkg not working for some packages
specifically mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird my guess.. probably because of the "-" in the package name. standard 14.2 64bit install, then running upgradepkg *.txz from the patches/packages...
Apache, Ubuntu 18.04
Hi ! Show site 3 on internet ok, but on local net shows site 2. I have a self hosted server in the local-net and I log in to it with (ssh addressees) The server is 2 cores 3 GHz possessor ...
[bash] comma-separated output
hi, how does one create a comma-separated output. this doesnt work as intended ?: Code: --------- [schneidz@test]$ ls -1 | tr '\n' ' ' | awk -v OFS=',' '{print $0}' 0.lst 10.lst 11.lst 12.lst...
help
how to Count the number of files in the directory /var/spool/mail?
LXer: OTRS installation on RHEL 8
Published at LXer: OTRS is an open source service management solution used by many companies around the world. It's extensibility and ability to integrate with other systems no doubt add to it's...
Execu Script from itself
Hey, I have a long script with a lot of echo commands that I want that it's output will use as my txt for an email. The script is "Re.sh" I want to do something like that: Code: ---------
[SOLVED] fc 31 server not running cron jobs
okay so i have a bunch of programs that run. i put them in /etc/cron.d in a file. they run on my pc however they are not running on my servers. i have checked documentation and i find nothing that...
LXer: Release Roundup: MyPaint 2.0.0, Blender 2.82, cheat 3.6.0, Gammy 0.9.56 and Drawing 0.4.11
Published at LXer: Quite a few free and open source applications have been updated over the weekend. I don't have time to post articles about all of them separately, so this article covers (in...
LXer: How to Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Debian 10
Published at LXer: The Guest Additions offer several useful functionalities for guest machines such as shared folders, shared clipboard, mouse pointer integration, better video support, and more. ...
SARPI on PI4B: kernel crash on cold boot with 5.4.18 from 08Feb2020
Hi, I recently installed SARPI slackware-current on my new PI4B. I used SARPI from 08Feb2020. Something strange happens on boot and disappears after a while. The kernel seems to crash in...
LXer: Configuring static and dynamic IP Addresses in Ubuntu using Netplan
Published at LXer: Ubuntu automatically assigns an IP address to the network via DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ). It will continue to get such a dynamic IP (keeps changing) address...
LXer: MyPaint 2.0 Open-Source Drawing and Paining App Adds Major New Features
Published at LXer: If you’re looking for a no-frills drawing and painting application that works great with Wacom-like graphics tablets, MyPaint 2.0 is now available for download and it’s a massive...
What is changed in mount options ?
Hello, here is a mount of my pc on slackware current update to latest: /dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs...
LXer: Five best code editors for Linux
Published at LXer: Coding is an essential part in the life of developers. Building good applications or web pages requires a good and reliable code editor or IDE. More and more developers are...
[SOLVED] BUG: Unable to rebuild php-7.4.2 on current
Hello, I can't rebuild php 7.4.2 on current Slackware. Here is the error: checking for IMAP support... yes checking for IMAP Kerberos support... yes checking for IMAP SSL support... /usr...
SuSE pet-shop of sweets, how to download "all at once"?
good afternoon! SuSE:KDE3 (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/KDE:KDE3) who will tell you how to download this "cunningly twisted" little animal? 500 packets and a mountain of files file by...
LXer: How to Configure Git Username and Email Address
Published at LXer: The first thing you should do after installing Git on your system is to configure your git username and email address. Git associate your identity with every commit you make. ...
Does anyone face issues with new snmp bugfix ?(net-snmp-1:5.7.2-43.el7_7.3.x86_64)
net-snmp-1:5.7.2-43.el7_7.3.x86_64 was a memory leak bug fix(latest). The memory leak issue looks fixed. But snmpd is getting killed with signal=ABRT Though I am not sure if this is a problem...
14.0 14.1 14.2 the perfect Tool how did you help
As you all know Slackware and code evolves. one man makes a better faster loop then the other. better than the idiot that doesn't know what PAM is but lets carry on to the point. Pam never was a...
Ask Lunduke - Feb 17, 2020 - Slackware and Pre-Internet Podcasts
Ask Lunduke - Feb 17, 2020 - Slackware and Pre-Internet Podcasts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E29_WzD7uiA) ---Quote--- *Published Feb 18, 2020* Ask Lunduke is a weekly podcast where the...
journald setting RuntimeMaxFileSize seems to be ineffective
I am trying this on Centos 8. From the journald.conf man page (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.conf.html#): ---Quote--- The options prefixed with "Runtime" apply to the...
LXer: Linux Candy: xcowsay – displays a cow on your desktop with message
Published at LXer: For this article, we’re looking at a different take on cowsay. It goes by the name xcowsay. This program displays a cute graphical cow and speech bubble. The program was first...
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