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been trying to serve up pages on my LAN but webserver wont serve pages user:group www-data www-root /home/user/Movies 755 user:group www-data server runs at boot ...

Hello, I am a newbie to Linux and would like to upgrade my existing OS from rhel 6.6 to rhel 7.x. From all the forum i have read is to do a clean installation and proceed to install data from the...

I'm trying to make a flash drives with the current Slackware with plasma. I made one just fine with the plain 'current' (non plasma) iso, but trying to make the current plasma iso onto two different...

This is in relation to Linux on my main laptop thread. It became a distro question, and now it has graduated to a hard drive question. Original thread:...

Published at LXer: Wine 5.0 is available for download after being in development for a year. This release includes over 7400 changes, the main highlights being proper multi-monitor support, Vulkan...

The mkinitrd.conf man page said that in order to not use udev in the initrd, one can set UDEV="0" in /etc/mkinitrd.conf. But in /sbin/mkinitrd script, the relevant "if" test uses Code: --------- [...

After installing Apache server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS; on trying to edit the /etc/apache2/conf.d/security file through sudo nano; the file coming up is empty apache2 -v Server version: Apache/2.4.29...

In 2007 when i first tried Linux (Suse - before Novell) I had a cheap HP no frills USB printer. Worked like a charm with Linux.\ Now... I need a HP again. What do you think is the best way to...

I am a person with a certain disability. But I want to earn money. I am good with Linux and fixing Microsoft Windows computer (OS side like reinstalling, startup fix and uninstalling). I am a...

Hi, So a while back I was having problems with installpkg hanging. I finally got back to this and isolated the problem to the ldconfig part of installpkg. Lo and behold running ldconfig hung. So I...

Hi I am trying to get the file size,date time and filename from a remote server using shell script and automate the result every weekend.If i split the command individually the command...

What is the most efficient way of applying a single filter rule to a great many diverse subnets in nftables? Would that be sets or dictionaries or something else? Normally, with PF, I'd use a...

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I am trying to delete the lines in the file which contain "Memo" whether it is a upper or lower case. Can you please let me know what is the command to delete lines in the file before loading into the...

Slow startup on one of my Manjaro desktops. On booting my Manjaro gets to the first appearance of the cursor then instead of the desktop appearing as usual it says. A start job is running for...

Rhel 6.10, for now I need to know of a way to monitor the dhcpd service itself, in case it stops. Something that would send me an email notification. I have nagios core right now, using the...

Published at LXer: Managing database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQLite form the web-based UI is easier than using the command-line tool. Adminer is one of the best full-featured...

A bit of reading on the net helped me to do some troubleshooting, and I can confirm that the hardware works: the command "cat /dev/urandom | aplay -D hw:0,0 -f S16_LE -c 2" creates a sound on the...

Published at LXer: Many users, beginners and advanced are sometimes confused on how the PATH environment variable is handled on Linux. Why are there so many files .bash_profile, .bashrc,.profile ,...

Published at LXer: A very useful feature in Linux is the "Access Control Lists" that controls access to files and directories. Here's how access control lists work in Linux. Read More......

Hello, I am able to sniff and detect wifi devices using kismet on kali. But what i am trying to achieve is to get the devices under a specified range in a room(say 100sq.ft). How can I achieve this?

Hello I'm using a cluster session with redhat operating system recently i have got this problem when i enter to my session *WARNING: 'gcc' was not found -bash: [: =: unary operator expected...

I am obviously missing a key point here, so this is what I (think I) know so far: 1. Rails app uses Turbolinks 2. Turbolinks takes over the loading of the page and caches it once done (I think)...

Published at LXer: Big news today for Linux gamers and ex-Windows users as the final release of the Wine 5.0 software is now officially available for download with numerous new features and...

My favorite is Audacious. Its really awesome coz it remembers the the last track played in a playlist and that too with the exact position of the track. Which is your favorite music player ?

Published at LXer: Find and delete the unused broken symlinks on Linux using 'symlinks' utility and "find" command. Read More......

Hi all I use opensuse leap 15.1, kdevelop 5.3.2 to generate a simple app using ncurses library: Code: --------- #include /include/ncurses/curses.h> int main(/*int argc, char **argv*/) {

Hi, I'm searching for a solution to compare only subfolder names of 2 directories. Means there are 2 folders X and Y with the structure: X \folder1\title1\ \FOLDER1\title2\ \folder2\titl3...\ ...

Published at LXer: Based on the open-source Kafka event streaming platform, the Confluent Platform 5.4 update adds new capabilities to help meet enterprise data management requirements Read...

I am looking t run root level command on multiple servers, but all servers have only "su - " permission available in sudoers. please help me if any way that I can run command using help of "su -" ...

hello, i would highly appreciate any help related to linux GPU drivers Hang on RCS0 and the error codes with their description. for Ex: [ 98.729694] [drm] GPU HANG: ecode 9:0:0x85ddfffb, in host...

Published at LXer: Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. With it's rich API (Application Programming Interface) set, we can connect mostly anything to Kafka as source of data, and on...

Published at LXer: bandwhich is a relatively new terminal bandwidth utilization tool for Linux, *BSD and macOS, written in Rust. It shows the current network utilization by process, connection and...

Published at LXer: Learn how to set up Asterisk so your softphones can receive incoming calls from outside and make outgoing calls outside your organization as well. Read More......

Published at LXer: The first stable update for the Steam Client of 2020, pulling in all the recent changes from the Beta versions. Some needed fixes for Linux are in. Read More......

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to install Racket programing language on Linux. Read More... (https://www.ostechnix.com/install-racket-programming-language-on-linux/)

Published at LXer: tcpdump is a command-line utility that you can use to capture and inspect network traffic going to and from your system Read More......

Published at LXer: Want to set up your own home sysadmin lab? Let's start by looking at the big-picture decisions regarding hardware and software. Read More......

Published at LXer: Linux can get viruses, but you don't need an antivirus. How can both those claims be true? Do you really need antivirus on your Linux machine? Read More......

Published at LXer: Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more...

I lack much experience in Arch Linux coming from ubuntu 16.04, but would like to give this distro a spin in a vm for now tho. the guides i found for installing unity desktop environment/de for arch...

Published at LXer: Learn the basics of command substitution, the rules of using backslashes in command substitution, and how to work with nested command substitutions. Read More......

I'm a somewhat long time Ubuntu Linux user who likes unity de over others, and also a gamer who, currently uses integrated graphics. my first ubuntu versions were 17.10 with gnome, and later/longer...

Published at LXer: Learn how to configure Asterisk to let two softphones call each other. https://red.ht/37f6PFt via #EnableSysadmin Read More......

Published at LXer: Imagine using Python's IDLE interface to edit text. You would be able to load files into memory, edit them, and save changes. But every action you perform would be defined by a...

Hello good day, I would like to install an SMTP in Linux, but I do not want my SMTP server to be linked to a domain because if my SMTP server is linked to a domain then I cannot use other senders...

Published at LXer: Ubuntu 20.04 is the latest long-awaited LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu. Read More... (https://thishosting.rocks/ubuntu-20-04-release-date-features-more/)

I installed a Creative Systems / Sound Blaster SB1570 in my Debian-10 system today. This was done because the ROG STRIX B450-F MoBo built-in audio would drop into a 60 hz AC hum whenever no...

I'm booting knoppix from a USB flash drive and I cannot figure out how to enter in the cheat codes. The directions claim to do it in bootup but it happens so quickly that I'm unable to enter in the...

Published at LXer: A tale of how a sysadmin went from hobbyist and Level 1 tech to the big time at Red Hat. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/evolution-linux-sysadmin)