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Hi every one. I am happy to be here, among people who still are wiling stretch a help hand to the fellow human being. I am one of the best “software managers” , just not in machines, but in peoples...

Running a centos 6.10 computer. Recently the root partition was out of space, the user was able to free up space but now when the computer starts it freezes on the login screen with the list of...

Published at LXer: An in-depth look at the three commands that allow you to manipulate the directory stack. How to add, remove, view and clear the directory stack as well as some interesting uses....

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This tutorial shows the difference between DNF vs YUM. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/comparison-difference-between-dnf-vs-yum/)

Hi, I don't know what's happening with Samba 4.11.6 : since upgrade remote mp4 files are shown as folders in Thunar. The share I'm talking about uses the bad old NT1 Protocol (client min...

Just for interest i post this question here: Since my internet connection has become unuseable because of massive DNS spoofing/rebinding attacks, i have set up a tor socks5 proxy on my home...

this construct here doesn't override chmod permissions on /test folder, is there any /etc/sudoers definition that can? username ALL = (root:root) NOPASSWD: /test I realize that ACL is a...

Guys, I'm having some issues with my new laptop, but the more urgent of them all is the headphone jack sound output, which doesn't work. Whenever I plug a headphone, all I got is a very faint and...

Published at LXer: Many of the text games we’re covered on LinuxLinks have focused on the roguelike genre. But how about a real-time terminal-based game? And a space shooter to boot? Interested? If...

Hello, I want to get the name of groups to which users belongs in OpenLDAP. As of now i could only find user details and group details individually. [eedbuser@xxxx]$ ldapsearch -LLL -h...

Published at LXer: There are two ways to play a tabletop role-playing game (RPG): You can play an adventure written by the game[he]#039[/he]s publisher or an independent author, or you can play an...

Hi,When is better(recommended) that users home directory to be on a NAS(nfs share) or in local server disk?tnx

Hello, I recently bought a new Threadripper based system and I've been having trouble with, potentially, the hardware of the machine. The system randomly crashes, seemingly at random: 1....

Hi All, I'm considering moving to a Linux environment, away from MAC (disillusioned with latest versions) and so am testing various Distros to see which I like the most. First, with ones that have an...

hi, i like to mount a cifs share in centos. mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0,_netdev,username=y,password=y,uid=1000,gid=1000,ip=192.168.30.149 //100.93.214.220/cifs /home/y Unable to find suitable...

I have a weird problem with qtwebengine on lfs 9.0 stable, it wont display any page data, I have tried both local and remote files, in falkon ( for instance ) everything displays fine, controls einput...

Published at LXer: The OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 operating system has been officially released as the latest and greatest version of this RPM-based GNU/Linux distribution that keeps the Mandriva and...

Good day. I tried installing Linux Mankato alongside Widows 10 and it was taking a long time to create its partition so I cancelled it and carried on with work on windows. Later on the day I tried...

Published at LXer: If you have an older NVIDIA GPU, chances are you've been using the 340 legacy series. Well, NVIDIA have said that it's no longer getting updates. Read More......

I just found Academia.edu since I’m looking for an academic social network that would be the equivalent of GitHub in its spirit of openness and freedom. Academia.edu seemed to me like the go-to choice...

Hello, I want to use the Cygwin 'fork' function in my MS C++ application. I know that I need to include the 'unistd.h' file in order to do so. However I cannot find this file in my 'Cygwin'...

Published at LXer: Python has a few built-in modules that allow you to delete files and directories. This tutorial explains how to delete files and directories using functions from the os,...

Hello everyone. I ask for help. I have a net with a few routers (some for clients and some as border routers). Each client router have equal path (ECMP) to border routers and must send one client's...

right now I am using this script to read from file.txt and create a few variables. Code: --------- while read value1 value2 value3 do some stuff done

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WonderCMS with Nginx on a CentOS 7 VPS. WonderCMS is a free and open-source flat file CMS. It’s built with PHP, jQuery, and...

Hi, I have a Motorola Moto C phone and I use VLC to play mp3s (2 hour radio programmes). Typically I stream to my car stereo from the phone via bluetooth. A frustrating feature is that VLC does not...

Hello, This is a question about changing the lightdm box where you actually type your user name and password, not the background image. Do I need to install a new lightdm theme to accomplish this....

Published at LXer: What is Git? Git is the most commonly used Distributed Version Control System nowadays. Now the question that comes in your mind is ” What is Distributed Version Control...

i know this is a repost but i did not know how to post picture of the error before so im reposting. The error i recieve is when trying to install 16 and or 18.04 lts ubuntu. This pc had no os before.

Though this is my first post on this forum, I am a fairly seasoned Linux user. I'm currently running Debian with KDE. I'm trying to figure out a way to integrate Android applications with my system....

I'm new here and can't make heads nor tails of Search. For instance, I make it simple and tell the search window to search for awk and it returns, Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms....

I want to include a preseed.cfg and make a custom ISO and basically create my own custom automated install so all my installs are consistent with all the changes I want. At this point I'm not at...

Published at LXer: The ability to connect devices without physical access to them, also makes it hard to control who has that access. In this tutorial, we will go through various methods of gaining...

Published at LXer: The Debian Project published today a new security bulletin to inform users about a Sudo vulnerability that affects the Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” operating system series. ...

I'm trying to set up nextcloud. It's REALLY slow to do a large initial backup, and I've been reading Rsync'n large data sets first, then telling Nextcloud to scan for new files is a much faster method...

Published at LXer: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to remotely control another computer. This article covers...

Any graphics gurus want to create new boot loader images? Funny how the mind works. Today I booted my Current VM. The boot loader image shows Slackware Linux 01 00 00 00, which is binary for...

Published at LXer: Smart websites should be fine – if you're being scummy, bewareNext week Google is scheduled to release Chrome 80 to its stable channel, and says only "a very modest amount of...

(I'm sure this has been asked before but I haven't found yet how to search using all the words in this thread title. If someone could *give me a tip*, I'd appreciate it.) My Problem: I can't find...

Published at LXer: In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look ProtonVPN apps going open, Microsoft[he]#039[/he]s code analysis tool, Mozilla Thunderbird[he]#039[/he]s new home,...

Debian 10, Android 9 I've been using *open source* software for a while, but something I haven't been able to do is *synchronize contacts and calendars between my laptop and Android phone* locally,...

Published at LXer: Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a developer who has ported tons of games to Linux has done it again. Descent 3, has been re-ported and upgraded for Linux (and macOS). Read More......

Good day, I am looking for a flow type program that allows users to create question and answer forms. This would have to be for non-technical users where no programming is required from the...

I've got multiple xfce4-terminals running inside XFCE4 4.14, or at least many windows launched via xfce4-terminal icons. However, when I look, I can find only the first one. Code: --------- $...

The touchscreen (official RPi 7") no longer registers touch input after moving from Sarpi kernel 4.19.x to 5.4.x. Screen display works fine, backlight works fine, keyboard & mouse works fine. TIL...

Published at LXer: The Linux kernel 5.5.1 point release is now available to download from the kernel.org website, marking the recently released Linux 5.5 kernel series as “stable” and therefore...

Linux Gods, I am simply attempting to parse SQL statements from a PDF doc in creating a base SQL script at a later time but for the life of me, am having a tough time extracting this data.This...

Hello everyone, do you know a linux friendly motherboard or a website where I can check? I'm trying to build a new pc just for Linux, in my main pc I have a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P that gave me so much...

Published at LXer: Let us learn to launch a Linux Virtual Machine on AWS. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a leading Cloud Service Provider that allows you to create a Virtual Machine in their...

I have a server with ubuntu 18.04 and apache2. The server apache services started but stopped again. On this server, I first installed Nginx but could not get it upright. So then I completely removed...