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I have a very nice three host VMware system paired up with an HP 3par SAN. I have several VM's that run and performance is great. I specifically have two linux mail servers that need to share...

Apologies in advance for another question about partitioning! With the imminent Windows 7 end-of-support approaching, I'm looking to reorganise my desktop PC and move to Xubuntu as a primary OS...

The remote controls for my TV and Satellite box are failing, so I made a new remote that uses Bluetooth rather than IR. The keypad uses an STM32C103C8T6 (Blue Pill) and an HC-05, and sends the...

Published at LXer: Plone is a free and flexible Open Source Management System built on top of the Zope application server. It is based on the Python programming language but also contains large...

Hi, I need to edit some HTML pages and i want to create a macro in vim to make that. But i cant make properly the macro. Im lost in how to make the commands and make the macro work. What I need...

Published at LXer: My method should fix the problem and will work just fine 99% of time. But please be mindful that if the update process is running and you killed the process in the middle of...

I need to install snmp v3 in the same system where SNMP v2 is already installed. I need to migrate from v2 to v3 without disturbing the current set up. Follow me: www.cyberithub.com

I am trying to install SNMPv3 in my system offline but unable to find all dependent package details. Is there a way i can find details of all dependent packages and download them all in one go? ...

CPU's only read instructions in binary so there has to be something binary in LFS, like an assembler. Is this the only binary required and everything else is derived from source code, including the C...

Some packages may redirect stderr to /dev/null during container creation. When the script tries to execute Code: --------- mknod -m 666 ${DEV}/null c 1 3 --------- in the configuration stage it...

Hello All, As the new version coming together, I devided to give it a try in the MS's hyper-v. I used type 1 (Old style BIOS not EFI). I was able to install without a problem. I used ext4 as...

I am significantly behind the times with Linux desktop, having started using it about 20 years ago and settling on Mythbuntu for our PVR machine and Kubuntu on our laptops. It just worked and I got...

I had some personal data on a web site, I copied and pasted it to a text editor and saved it. Unfortunately, each line of the web site had (which had 6 fields) became six separate lines. I used the...

Published at LXer: When we polled our readers nearly 4 years ago with this question, most people responded that they did not have any devices connected to the Internet of Things. However these...

Hi, I'm running Slackware64 14.2, have enabled multilib and installed: * OpenAL * OpenAL-compat32 * cabextract * webcore-fonts-installer * pipelight * wine

Published at LXer: Today I am announcing the release of a personal project of mine. A GTK+ interface for PHP's built-in web server. It lets you choose the executable, IP address or hostname, port...

Hello, I have PureVPN and it works fine when I use it without firewall Gufw. When I start Gufw, then the VPN just doesn't want to connect. There are many tutorials online what ports to...

How to make samba only allowing certain file extension to put on for example i will only allow .doc, .pdf, .exe and it will block everything else. I know we can use veto files, but veto files work...

Published at LXer: Just over two weeks after the first, the second Beta for the big upcoming Godot Engine 3.2 release is now available. Read More......

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we are going to explore all the ways of working with remote Linux systems. From X11, to SSH until XRDP, you will learn everything that there is to know about...

I don`t know where to post this so i`ll ask the question here. I know that hostile scripts can install themselves in windows but can this occur with Linux Mint or other versions of Linux ? Would the...

I tried brctl but think wifi is not supported by bridge-utils wifi = wlxbcec23c37201 ethernet = eno1 brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 eno1 brctl addif br0 wlxbcec23c37201 ip link set br0 up

Published at LXer: How do we choose our paths? Or do they choose us? This is the story of my professional journey into the world of system administration. Read More......

Published at LXer: Lock screen notifications enables you to see and dismiss all system notifications right from the lock screen without needing to unlock your system. This tutorial shows you two...

The current Feren distro is based on Mint Cinnamon and it appears that the focus is on theming and utilities to improve the attraction, and ease of transition and usage, for people coming to Linux...

Published at LXer: The Audacity development team released today Audacity 2.3.3, a new maintenance update to the open-source and cross-platform video editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows...

It has been years since I have run any flavor of linux (probably about 10) I always seem to default to Slackware. Last time I had it up I believe I used a different logging system other then what is...

Fun with grep for newer members. Lets start with this list of items to use. Code: --------- list=" [12.1] cat horse

As it stands, I go to the mirror and search the package manifest if I'm trying to find out if a particular library or app is included and what its version is. I'm just wondering if someone has a...

i have been trying to figure why i can not get an output log from another terminal when i launch some script with its output to a file . when i : ---Quote--- setsid sh -c "exec somecommand >...

Published at LXer: Chrome Browser is the most widely used web browser in the world. It is fast, easy to use, and secure browser built for the modern web. Chrome is not an open-source browser, and...

My desktop system crashed and I reinstalled it - but that's another story. Thunderbird works fine on my laptop, so I copied the ".thunderbird" file from my laptop to the home folder of my...

Published at LXer: Still trying to figure out how to use sed? Check out these examples. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/manipulating-text-sed)

Hi, After the last upgrade on current, my XFCE stops working properly. xfwm4 do not start and when I try to run manually it exists with: Bus error. Anyone knows how to debug it? Or better, how...

Published at LXer: Nvidia has released today a new set of long-lived proprietary graphics drivers for GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris 64-bit operating systems that adds support for a new GPU and...

Hi guys, First I would like to thank the opportunity to post my issue here and I hope it is interesting for everyone reading. Ok, so I will describe the environment first. I have got a win2016...

Currently I perceive an increase in questions of the type "What's better, distro A or distro B" "Please recommend best app to accomplish X" etc. and I mean without adding any relevant information...

When I type `locale`, I get the output shown in the attached screenshot. The terminal cursor is also not showing after i run that.

Published at LXer: Docker Compose is a tool designed to run multiple Docker applications at the same time. Compose can be used to run a stand-alone application as well as communicate with the other...

Published at LXer: Zorin OS 15 was released in September with several new features and improvements. Yesterday Zorin OS 15 lite was released. The lite version is for the revival of old computers. ...

I am working on Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) with Sublime Text 3211. I have to work with dark backgrounds, as I have various ocular problems. Therefore, I was happy to set up the Monokai colour...

after the most recent "slackware64 -- current" upgrade, eliloconfig fails with the following error msg: ---Quote--- --reconnect is supported only for driver entries. error trace: --reconnect is...

Published at LXer: If you have a mouse with extra buttons, you can bind those buttons to perform a key combination, run a program, command or script. This will only work if you use X11 (it does not...

Good morning, I'm looking for information on how I can customize iso from slackware where can I find links to information about?

Published at LXer: Ceph is a modern data storage platform, working across a variety of hardware and technologies used for cataloging, aggregating, and analyzing data. Read More......

Published at LXer: Stadia has launched if you have the Founder Edition, our unit and code came a little late but it's here and surprisingly it all seems to be working well on a Linux desktop and...

I have generated the below line using a script. server123 server234 Now i want to replace line "server1" in below xml...

Published at LXer: AirSonic is a free, open-source and web-based media streaming server that allows you to access your music from the central location. In this tutorial, we will show you how to...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question. It's not a network problem but more of a samba issue. I'm running Linux Mint 19.2 XFCE on a desktop PC. The issue I'm having is when I...

Published at LXer: KDE Project's Plasma Mobile team reports today on the progress made so far to better support PINE64's PinePhone open source Linux smartphone by implementing phone calls, and also...