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I recently changed the UID of my Ubuntu user account from the default of 1000 to 501, in order to sync it up with MacOS and hopefully avoid permission and ownership issues on shared drives. I did not...

Published at LXer: The dmesg command is a sysadmin's best friend for troubleshooting. Here's how to get the message. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/dmesg)

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to install and play Terminal Phase space shooter game in Terminal on Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: s-tui monitors the CPU frequency, utilization, temperature, fan speeds and power using colored graphs, while also showing performance dips caused by thermal throttling. It also...

Published at LXer: When a network incident hits, the right approach can make the difference between chaos and getting the problem fixed quickly. Read More......

I was introduced to Linux Lite on a Video about changing from Windows 7. It is really great it has the same desktop as Windows and it has been designed that way. I have now added the Windows 10...

One thing struck me when looking at the "po" folder of Moksha at GitHub: https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha/tree/master/po Namely that there is no vanilla .POT file in that folder.... Which...

I have one file which is having 10 lines. When I'm doing sed '4!q' filename Why it's showing only first line?

Hi Folks, Here I want to present STDINput to the user so that they can enter the IP addresses. 1. If $? -eq 0 then only below should process else exit 1 2. Then I do not want them to enter more...

So I've just attempted the folly of installing an old printer on Linux and regretting it furiously now. Resigned myself to only using it on Windows in future, but hoping a wise saint can rescue me...

hi i try put select this way but when i recive message it exit loop and shutdown. Code: --------- #include #include #include

Just converted to Mint 19.3 and using kMyMoney but need an HTML editor to modify a check printing template in HTML. I do not know how to code, so I need a free WYSIWYG package but cannot find one....

Hello, I've just created a new keyboard layout file and stored it in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. Then I adopted evdev.xlm in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules to make the new layout show up in GUI and...

I am using a Raspberry Pi as a gateway, router, DHCP and VPN connection sharing box for my home LAN. I have a systemd job which connects the VPN, monitors it and reconnects if it drops. Recently I...

I noticed this first in Ubuntu 18.04, thinking it might be a bad gnome integration, I then switched to Kubuntu then to Fedora. All the while, the issue persisted. I then thought... yeah ok... maybe...

Hi all, I have a question regarding multi-queue (MQ) in SCSI layer. Since Linux kernel 3.13 (2014), the linux block layer has multi-queue a.k.a *mq-blk*. Post *mq-blk* in block layer, the...

I've done a pull request for an (almost) complete Dutch translation of Terminology, at this GitHub account: https://github.com/billiob/terminology Is that the right upstream Terminology source for...

When I booted the RPi4 from the newly "xc"'d sdcard there was no HDMI video. The fix was to uncomment the following two lines in config.txt (in the mmcblk0p1 partition): Code: --------- #...

Has anyone else today got stuck while Update Manager was updating SAMBA? Update Manager on my LinuxMint 19.3 Cinnamon listed the update for SAMBA When I started the update I was given following...

Hi all, running Apache 2.4 on Debian 10. I need to redirect a virtual path (/some/path) to another URI (/path/to/another/uri) in a Node.js instance running on the same server, listening on port...

( USER ) [ View ] deals with displaying to the user [ Controller ] deals with dealing with user interactions [ Model ] deals with the database and the mechanics of the overall application ...

Every other distro appears to have an icon. Cannot find one for Ubuntu. Can you send a pointer if you know of one? Thanks

So I've been running OpenMediaVault (runs on Debian Stretch) for a few years now. I run it via a USB stick. I had some issues with that in the past, strangely, where it wouldn't boot properly...

hi, what is recommended to use in order to monitor hw-ipmi or snmp?

I have three domains registered for the static IP we have from our ISP: 'family.org', 'hobby.org', 'hobby.com'. I'm setting up two virtual hosts for each of those domains: 'www.family.org' and...

This following issue affects these tested systems: Linux Mint 19.3 MATE 64bit Xubuntu 18.04.3 (32 and 64bit) Bodhi Linux 4.5-32bit and 5.0-64bit After updating some packages, mainly related to...

I recently installed the gnome-disk-utililty which I know from ubuntu. With this prog I wanted to unmount the usb stick, but I receive the error code - not authorized to perform operatio (...

It seems there's something wrong with the new dolphin package in plasma (plasma updated this morning): -dolphin doesn't open carefully: ------------------------------- unable to create the...

I'm trying to install Bodhi via USB because my computer DVD Drive doesn't work. The USB boots completely normal but after waiting some time I get stuck in a black screen (Busybox), it shows this...

My screensaver does not work with the cinnamon desktop? Any other way of making a screen copy?

I need to find the commands to reads my usb.

Published at LXer: Most of the time when we connect to the internet, we don't think about the network protocols at work underneath that make it all possible. Right now, while you are reading this...

Hello to everyone and thank you for this vibrant community, I am new to Linux, not so gifted in IT and an EHS sufferer. I bought an EMF detector a CORNET Microsystem ED85EXPlus which has a data...

Hello, I had a requirement to check for the discarded sectors from the linux disk system using /proc/diskstats. Currently when i try: *cat /proc/diskstats * I get all the details - but the...

Hi Anyone knows how to install Acrobat Reader in Red Hat 8? I tried the following methods but it is only applicable in Redhat 7...

Published at LXer: Red Hat announced today the availability of the beta version of the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 operating system, the second maintenance update to the Red Hat...

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Published at LXer: On Jan. 13, Git 2.25 was released, bringing to one of the most commonly used developer tools new capabilities that will help improve performance and overall developer...

I use a Dell Inspiron laptop with an Intel chipset. I would like to report that so far I've experienced hard freezes on two occassions. I could move the mouse pointer but that's was it. The rest of...

I am ultimately trying to setup an SSL certificate. My domain name is like example.com not something.example.com How should I configure my hostname without a sub-domain? The main reason is that...

Published at LXer: This week, I’ve been exploring LXMusic. It’s a minimalist music player for LXDE, a lightweight desktop environment. LXMusic is written in the C programming language, and uses...

I have a Ubuntu (Budgie 19.10) desktop and a Windows 7 laptop both connected to my router by wireless. I have installed nemo-share and have shared a folder on the desktop so that it can be seen from...

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Either of the following two options revert back to a clean initial state in every reboot. Which is the most secure against tampering by remote-controlled malware trying to permanently modify the...

I've been searching here and googling like crazy trying to find the answer to a question I have. I need to forward a specific port using iptables. I've been able to make it work using RHEL7 and...

Published at LXer: Bash provides some interesting built-in specifiers for the prompt strings PS1. Some of them are static, like ‘a’ for ‘alert’ (Ctrl-G, the bell, beep, or visible flash), or ‘n’ or...

Hi, I'm a newbie here. I'm trying to create an SMTP server that can respond to multiple clients simultaneously. I use the fork function in socket programming. Below is the server program (not...

Hi, I'm a newbie here. For a school assignment, my group has to create a simple email system which requires two servers; the SMTP and POP. I am assigned to create the SMTP server so that the server...

It's day 3. Still trying to install Ubuntu onto Windows 7. Getting nothing but error after error after error!! The latest is when attempting to check for any broken install packages - yup - another...

Yesterday I upgraded my OpenBSD base system from 6.5 to 6.6. That went very smoothly. Today I carried out the package update. At the end of the update were three instructions that I find confusing: ...