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I have a CentOS 7 Virtual machine (QEMU/KVM) running on top of a Ubuntu 18.04 server. The Ubuntu machine itself runs a shell script 2 o'clock in the night that uses borg backup. That script works...

Published at LXer: Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, announced that they will be an official sponsor of Microsoft's first-ever Linux Conference for WSL...

I just noticed Jeremy's post LQ is 19 years old. In my day we used *startx* and configured our modem with PPP (...puffs smoke from pipe) (and I still can't spell)

Theres no denying that Linux is in some ways behind other Operating systems, but we're all here for our own reasons. What software packages do you use to give yourself more functionality? I'm not...

So i am new to linux, and i am currently trying to figure out how many partitions i should have to create a mail server on centos and how exactly to create them, its just for testing purposes so i am...

I'm trying to build single package for plasma (kde5), with AlienBob kde.SlackBuild, and for some package I've no result, no package built, no errors. My system is a pure x86_64 multilib system with...

Published at LXer: I recently switched from MacOS to Elementary OS, a Linux distribution focused on ease of use and privacy. As a user-experience designer and a free software supporter, I take...

Hello, Can anyone help me fix this error on CentOS 8? Code: --------- There was an error trying to initialize the HPI library. Please check your installation, HotSpot does not work correctly...

---Quote--- 'Ample research has documented the lower visibility and success of women compared with men in academic medicine. Against this setting, social media platforms such as Twitter offer...

Published at LXer: This post is a good primer about data analysis using Python Pandas Library. I have tried to explain through examples how to use Pandas aggregate and groupby methods to summarize...

The syslog is filling every 10 minutes with an error: Code: --------- udisksd[3327]: Error performing housekeeping for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/WDC_WD2000BB_00GUA0_WD_WCAL81332011:...

Affects linux distros that I tested (Slackware, antix MX Linux) and windows 8: setting default VMSVGA and enabling 3D acceleration kills full screen VM client. Immune to the problems are: FreeBSD...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will describe how to install Guake on your Debian through the command line. We will also describe how to perform some basic functions on Guake through the...

Published at LXer: This is part 8 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are:read more Read More......

Please tell me How to reboot. My Sabayon cant reboot starting,after first updating done. Black login page needs name sand pass. I type correct.and then "$ What can I do.

Published at LXer: Do I need a college degree to be a sysadmin? The short answer is: "It's complicated." Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/college-degree)

At one point you could mount HFS CD-ROMs using Linux out of the box but this time I get: "mount: /tmp/macCD: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper...

Published at LXer: Microsoft Teams client is now officially available for Linux users. Read More... (https://www.ostechnix.com/microsoft-teams-is-now-officially-available-for-linux/)

The SBO slackbuild for gtkglext failed for me. So did my efforts to compile it, naturally. Couldn't find a Ponce version. Near as I can tell, something in glib bothers it. Probably something...

Published at LXer: I’ve received a few requests to see how the RPI4 fares as a remote desktop client. I can see this could make sense. The RPI4 offers dual monitor support. It should have...

For the installation of Arch I used wifi-menu to establish the connection and make the install, and did the following to check network access details. Code: --------- lspci -k|tail -4 01:00.0...

I'm trying to set up a cloud server as a reverse proxy for my home NAS, which will soon be behind a firewall that doesn't allow inbound connections. I've got the NAS connecting to the server via...

Published at LXer: Linux distros have powerful command-line tools built-in. Here, we explore the DMI Decoder. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-tools-dmidecode)

Hi to all, just a quick question: are multilib packages from alienbob repos still being updated? I'm asking becouse the last time slackpkg+ reported an automatic update for it was around the...

Hi All, I am new here. I am in progress porting our company Solaris applications to RHEL 7. The application is big and involved IPC, Tapes/Disks IO, Oracle 11 IO etc. I need help for now is a...

Its working and damn good at that!!!!!!! I'm loving Slackware more and more everyday. I need it since Microsoft about to kill support for Windows 7 and I dual boot.

Published at LXer: Toplip is a free and open source encryption utility that uses a very strong encryption method called AES256, along with an XTS-AES design to safeguard your confidential data. ...

Published at LXer: ElkArte is a free, open-source and powerful forum software that allows you to create your own online forum community. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install ElkArte on...

I installed a minimal CentOS 8 directly onto my laptop hard drive with nothing else on it. I then started following this (https://linuxconfig.org/owncloud-redhat-8-install-guide) guide but it already...

The slackbuild.org slack build for FreeImage fails. My attempts to compile it manually also fail. I am using slackware 64 (alienbob multilib) current as of November 14th. Has anyone recently gotten...

Hi all, Everything is in the title. The 14.2 is up and running but it is a bit old and I would rather have the same version on rpi3 and rpi4... Since I have no screen nor spare mouse and...

So there I was, decking out my 13-year-old PC with a fresh install of Lubuntu, trying to install some packages. I started typing in a package command but quickly realized I had just entered a Pacman...

Now that Valve has decided to no longer produce the Steam Controller, how many of you would be interested in petitioning them to release it and all associated software via the MIT, GPL, or some other...

I have a script that runs a curl command with a soap xml file. If i run it manually the output is saved to a log file. If i put it in cron, the output does not write to a file. curl --insecure ...

slackware-current Linux lenovox1 5.4.2 #1 SMP Wed Dec 4 18:12:20 CST 2019 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux am getting this error message invoking...

I'm trying to get a custom board to boot from an SD card, and it's very close to working. U-boot is able to see the SD card, it loads the kernel, and the kernel starts booting. However, when it tries...

Published at LXer: Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such...

Just started using this encryption GUI, only to find that if your keys are owned by root then there doesn't appear to be any way of using Seahorse to decrypt files as it can't see my secret key. In...

Good morning/afternoon/evening everybody, So I'm looking to get back into Linux again after being away from it for quite some time. A lot has changed and I'm interested to re-learn things again. ...

That is me, every time I learn some new programming feature I am dangerous :D Recently with the help of some kind members of this forum I learned that I could execute commands on a remote machine...

Hi, We have a proxy server. It was blocking the sites till yesterday and suddenly it stopped blocking the sites. Everything is accessible. Previously we had this issue and someone found that...

Published at LXer: uname is a command-line utility that prints basic information about the operating system name and system hardware. Read More......

Die Pinwand wurde noch nicht benutzt... stelle Standardhintergrund ein. Starten sie ROX-Filer mit 'rox -p=Default', um die Pinwand zu aktivieren. Wie starte ich denn diesen ROX-Filer mit 'rox...

I update grub which that command is just a wrapper for the command Code: --------- $ cat .bashrc | grep update-grub alias update-grub='sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' --------- I...

Published at LXer: Mastodon is a free, decentralized and open-source social network. It was created as an alternative to Twitter. This tutorial will teach you how to set up your instance of...

Hello fellow Slackers, I have a dual monitor setup running tty only. The primary monitor is the actual "laptop", the second monitor (Lilliput um-70) is connected through USB 2.0, using udl driver....

I am running elementary OS and after an unpredictable time my wl device which is called wlp2s0 just vanishes and I can't connect to any wifi & when I run iwconfig it's just gone and there is nothing...

Hi Guys, I just want to know whether SLES 15 support server express(Cobol) 5.1 version. Thanks in Advance.

Published at LXer: On Linux operating system, the messages that are triggered by the kernel, by the system services and by the running applications are written and stored on log files. Different...

I would like to monitor whether we receive an email every hour that says ntp has been synced to a datacenter UPS. Then, through a script that would check the content, would return a result that Zabbix...