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First time installing and setting up samba on a CentOS 7 server. I can connect to the share from a Mac OS computer but can not connect to the share from a Windows 10 workstation on our university...

Published at LXer: Like almost everyone on the planet, I have a few social media accounts. I mostly stick to Facebook to stay up to date with friends and family and Twitter to follow a few other...

Good afternoon. Having vectorized a JPEG, I am confronted with objects forming “stacks” on one and the same layer. In addition, they are connected to adjacent or “distant” objects. To remove...

Published at LXer: OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight high-performance HTTP server that comes with a Web Gui administration interface. In this tutorial, I will guide you through the installation and...

For disabling the insecure methods on Apache tomcat , I have made the following change but still I am getting the delete/options whenever we access the URL of the site. module change path::...

I have a live usb key running the slackware live system with wine installed as well. Frankly, I forget how I did that - I think there was a squashfs up there, or I made one maybe. I put it together...

Hi We are in the hiring process for a mid-level to senior level Linux guru. We want to give the candidates a Linux task that should not be too easy and not too difficult. It should be a job that...

Here is my problem, UDEV rules. I know nothing about how to to them, or how to get to them. So, how to I navigate and browse to the path, as this help desk person tells me? Is it with a terminal...

Published at LXer: Vim is one of the popular text editors among the software developers and system administrators. On the macOS as well as on different Linux Distros it comes preinstalled. When you...

Upgraded from 19.2 to 19.3 no problem as I had Gimp on 19.2. An install of 19.3 has no GIMP with a drawing package. Package manager displays GIMP then says it is unavailable. sudo apt install...

First, let me state that I know very little about graphics cards/drivers. I have almost always used the the Nvidia "open source" drivers. I decided to change over to the proprietary driver since I...

Hello, I am creating a custom CentOS 7 distribution. I created my own logo, banners, changed the name in anaconda welcome screen, ... I created new my_distribution.py in squashfs.img in...

I need to install a highly proprietary system which is distributed as a container. The installation instructions say that it uses systemd-container. But my Linux system doesn't have systemd. Do I have...

Hello, when a new CentOS 7 installation is finished, I can see one default volume group had been created. Command "vgdisplay" - VG Name: "centos". I guess somewhere in CentOS ISO or rpm package is a...

Published at LXer: We explore 3 examples of privacy and security focused Linux distributions. Each of these operating systems approach security in a different manner. We provide an overview of how...

Hello. I'm pretty new to Slackware as well as to building packages from source (even with support of automation tools). I wonder how should i deal with third-party repos like slackbuilds repo of...

Guys, Wanted to write shell script, which can send remainder email after activity. Thanks,

Published at LXer: Do you want to learn how to copy files in the Linux terminal? Then you are the right place. In this tutorial, you are going to learn How to Copy File using cp command in Linux. ...

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Linux mint hangs after "Started*AppArmor*initializaion". Running on a Lenovo R500 Thinkpad, 64bit, 2GB mem. with Linux Mint with MATE 19.3 on a USB stick. Not seeing any errors as it boots up. It...

I'm trying to repair a neighbour's laptop (I'll just call him "D") and came to the conclusion I really need to run an update. The difficulty is that the laptop won't boot to a normal GUI interface (D...

Hi, I have multiple sites in their folders in wwww/html/ and have them listed in the host file. I am confused about the 000-default.conf file. I have finished one with a dom and its folder...

Published at LXer: A lot of Linux users carry out a long running task on a remote destination without taking into account the possibility that the connection might break. In such situations,...

Published at LXer: Gitea is a self-hosted open source git server written in Go. It is a fork of Gogs. Gitea includes a repository file editor, project issue tracking, users managements,...

Hi to all, Having switched from Windows 7 to Linux about 1 month ago, I'm quite satisfied with Linux Mint 19.2 so far. But... today, Libre Office Writer 6.0.7.3 decided to stop printing. It...

I am trying to install Slackware Live PLASMA 5 onto an older system that I've installed an NVME drive with a PCI-E adapter. The system is older, but it's still UEFI. The machine will not boot from...

Hello. I'm using Pop!OS 18.04 and with Linux kernal 5.3.0-7625. It's a fairly recent re-install, but I have a problem now that I didn't have before. Previously all I had to do was install the...

Trying to install Bodhi but all it says is BOOT: . I do not know what to enter when it says BOOT: . sometimes it displays the 5 level menu which is what I want so I can install it and also check the...

first off, woo linux in 2020! i'm trying real hard to kick windows to the curb this year. now then... i am bashing my head against getting my desktop to resemble what it did before i made the...

Hello! I have a youtube brazil, channel where I talk exclusively about slackware with about 4.3k subscribers. 70% are new to Slackware, and I see that many unfortunately don't like to get their...

Published at LXer: At GitHub, Brian Douglas[he]#039[/he] official title is developer advocate, but the one he prefers to use is "Beyoncé advocate." This is partly because he views the 40 million...

Published at LXer: QDirStat can pinpoint space hogs: find files and reclaim the space they take up. Learn how you can clean up hard disk storage with QDirStat. Read More......

Hello. I'm a relative newcomer to Slackware (since September 2019). Mostly very satisfied with the distro, with the exception of a few issues. One concerns the libGL drivers when attempting to run...

Hi, I am trying to set up an Apache webserver and going okay albiet it very slow, but every now and then get confused with instructions. I have several sites in their own (www/html/site1)...

Hi: Suppose I go to www dot wikipedia dot org and there is some malfunction between source and destination. I mean the web browser never ends downloading the page. What if I want it to stop and leave...

Hi. I'm relatively new to Slackware (since Sept 2019), was looking for another non-systemd alternative in addition to Devuan (non-systemd fork of Debian). To be very clear I'm not posting here to...

I am totally annoyed. How can I install Bodhi encrypted WITHOUT using the complete harddrive? I mean how can the installation procedure be so retarded? Even many years ago Linux ask to use what...

Hello people. I have a triple boot in my machine. Windows 10, Linux Mint 19(Cinnamon) and Slackware 14.2 LVWM(delicious distro). Windows are booting and running ok, Slackware are booting and...

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Published at LXer: Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority created by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It provides free SSL certificates via a fully automated process designed to...

*_Summary:_* How do I make the following cheat-code permanent on knoppix 8.6.1 on usb stick, because filesystem type is iso9660 (read-only) and won't let me edit ...

Published at LXer: Not a day goes by that I don[he]#039[/he]t see a tweet or hear somebody talking about burnout. Burnout is becoming a pervasive part of our lives, especially in tech and open...

Hi: suppose I am using the less command to read a text file. I can press the PgDn key to scroll one page down. When I do so, the default behavior (at least in my installation) is the following: lets...

I have never used a phablet or tablet but now for some reasons I will have to. But it is on my sole discretion, what device. I definitely would like something with free OS (Linux, PureOS, Lineage OS,...

I'm trying to ftp web pages to the /var/www/html directory in Ubuntu 18.04 and can't get access to that directory. I setup an ftpuser with a symlink in his home directory to /var/www/html thinking...

I recently switched Debian to using Xfce, which I've always preferred. However the default terminal that Xfce4 on Debian launches is Gnome Terminal 3.30.2. Now I am in the strange position of having...

Kernel: 4.17.8-1-ARCH Xfce 4.12 Okular 1.4.3 Hi: I ran okular, the PDF/DJVU reader, on the file shown below, which is a MOBI file and got the following message: Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: A new year has arrived, so let's have a quick look over some of the most promising titles to be coming to Linux across 2020. There's plenty to be excited about. Read More......

I've just installed an antiX system with rox-icewm as the window manager. I want to change the format of the displayed date/time on the taskbar. According to the manual I need to edit the...

Published at LXer: Getting one software process to talk to another software process is a delicate balancing act. It can be a vital function for an application, though, so it's a problem any...