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Published at LXer: Personal Package Archives (PPAs) allow you to install software, but there are times when you need to remove it. Here's how to remove PPAs in Ubuntu distro. Read More......

Hey I am a newcomer to Linux, but I want to learn it. I hope to make a good use of this tool and have fun. Bye

Hi Guy's, A slightly geekish question, I need to optimise HBA FCP throughput for tape, max_framesize is currently set to 2KB on the Host (HBA Port) which seems small given that the Disk block size...

With centos6, the first uid available for non system user was 500. So the uid & gid 500 were given to the oracle account. But with centos7, first non system user becomes 1000. Is there a risk to...

Published at LXer: Are Terraform and Ansible an unlikely pairing, two star-crossed lovers, or just the right technological marriage to simplify workflows for sysadmins, developers, and users? Find...

Published at LXer: Richard M. Stallman resigned from leading the Free Software Foundation, but he appears to have kept his top role in the GNU Project. Some GNU programmers would like to see him...

Hi guys! I am looking for a solution that will let me search for/bring up multiple files at once in a file manager/browser, preferably either nautilus or nemo. I am running Linux mint 19.2 and...

Published at LXer: This tutorial will teach you how to create persistent Live USB using Mkusb tool on Ubuntu and its variants like Linux mint. Read More......

I recently installed arch arm on my XE303C12 chromebook via the documentation. Everything works, except the touchpad. I have installed the synaptic driver but no luck. I am pretty familiar with...

Published at LXer: The postfix mail server is an open-source MTA (mail transfer agent). Postfix routes e-mails to the desired mail server. It was originally released in 1998 and still active in...

So I've written a program and part what what said program does is set a picture to be the background wallpaper in xorg. This works, with one oddity: programs like urxvt do not correctly show my...

So, I finally got Slackware on my main rig after discovering that my nvme drive was the problem. Now I have a little niggling problem that send sporadic but happens after. -The Setup- I have a...

Hello everyone, I am having a hard time figuring out why this distro will not boot (parrot os live usb). It is UEFI and I have tried many distro using this usb. No issue except parrot os, it is...

I run Xubuntu in a VirtualBox VM on my Windows PC. Last night I saved the VM before shutting down the PC. This morning, after restarting the VM, I find three ssh sessions from yesterday. For...

Published at LXer: This small tutorial is going to teach you how to check which groups user account belongs to in Debian version 10 and how to add or remove users from groups. Read More......

Published at LXer: In addition to Knative, which is for deploying serverless workloads, Google evidently plans to keep the Kubernetes service mesh, Istio, in-house. Read More......

Published at LXer: Fork is easy to use open-source CMS built using the Symfony framework. In this tutorial, we will go through the Fork CMS installation and setup on the CentOS 8 system by using...

Here is the complete error: ---Quote--- configure: error: Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.4.0+ and MPC 0.8.0+. Try the --with-gmp, --with-mpfr and/or --with-mpc options to specify their...

I'm in the process of recompiling (most of) the system, and ran into a snag with dconf. Linker errors due to multiple definitions. Code: --------- The Meson build system Version: 0.52.0...

Published at LXer: The UBports community announced today the availability for public testing of the upcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 software update for all supported Ubuntu Phone devices. Read...

I have a monitoring app that utilizes ssh keys to ssh into our linux hosts to run various commands. We have noticed that with some regularity, even though the ssh processes seem to work fine, we are...

I have been using firefox for a accessing several websites that require Java to function properly but the firefox doesn't detect the Symbolic link in '~/Mozilla/plugins/'. I had installed...

I found this and thought i would post it here. It`s a utility to install linux of any flavor without the need for a USB or DVD, all you need is the iso if not included in the default list. The url is...

Published at LXer: The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system used by Red Hat Linux and its derivatives such as CentOS and Fedora. RPM also refers to the `rpm` command...

I've been getting e-mails about this for months. Anyone else? I don't know what it's about.

Published at LXer: This guide was tested and written for Ubuntu 18.04 VPSes, but it should work on other Linux VPS systems as well. If you want to install Invoice Ninja on CentOS 7, follow this...

I am using Linux mint 19.2 and have installed gimp 2.10. How do I install the gmic plugin ?

Hi everyone, I noticed that when I use the command "update-alternatives" to change the default java version the "default-java" symbolic link in /usr/lib/jvm doesn't change. It still points to the...

Ok guys so i have been working on my drive wiper for a while now, i keep making progress and getting help. This on the other hand seems to be a nightmare. I cant for the life of me get udev remove...

Published at LXer: Choosing a programming language for a project is often a complicated decision, particularly when it involves switching from one language to another. For many programmers, it is...

Hello Hi I have two server, one is database hosted and another one is application base server, in database server i gave the remote access , i can access the database by command prompt but in...

All, Like my title says, is there any way to monitor logins on a Linux box in real time? I am just learning Linux and have a Linux server I've been tasked with taking care of. Something we...

Published at LXer: find is one of the more powerful and flexible command-line programs in the daily toolbox. It does what the name suggests: it finds files and directories that match the conditions...

Published at LXer: This month is cybersecurity awareness month! To learn more about the initiatives read on! Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/cybersecurity-month)

I installed the current Linux Mint 32 bit last night on a legacy PC. My main desire is to use this PC in my bedroom to remote to 3 Windows 7 64 bit PC's in another part of the house. The network is...

Hello, I managed to create a Linux shell script that is able to switch between two different wifi services that very often hang but which can be manually reconnected with success. Code:...

Published at LXer: Users should have the choice to run containers as a non-root account. Here's how to make that happen. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/rootless-podman-makes-sense)

Distro: Linux Mint 19 Xfce 64-bits uname -a: Linux machine 4.15.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:16:15 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux output (https://pastebin.com/hADRtdHJ) of...

hi, is there a way to mount a host volume into a docker container so that it is seen as owned by root instead of a normal user? this is what i mean... let's touch a file: Code: --------- $...

hi, i like to understand the following. iptables -A OUTPUT -d 192.168.30.0/24 -o eth0 -m owner --gid-owner test -j ACCEPT is this mean that only users who belong gid test and reside in server...

Dear all, I have laptop that is mostly great with Ubuntu but sometimes when it wakes from sleep the mouse buttons above the trackpad don't work. Its a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6th gen with the...

Published at LXer: Google has released the Android Security Patch for October 2019 to address the latest security vulnerabilities and issue affecting its supported Pixel devices. Read More......

Hello, I am trying to run Baldur's Gate 2: Complete Edition on Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit using the native GOG Linux installer. I managed to install it successfully but I couldn't start it. The shortcut with...

Published at LXer: The internet of things (IoT) is a diverse space, but it’s also fragmented by design, whether it’s consumer IoT or industrial IoT.The post Making the IoT More Open: A Common...

Hi, I'd like to stream and record at the same time on my laptop, first I'd devide the audio to 2 fifos: Code: --------- #!/bin/bash rm -rf /tmp/streaming 2 >/dev/null && mkfifo...

Published at LXer: For a system administrator, monitoring the performance of Ubuntu or any other OS, is very important. Since many performance monitoring tools are available for Ubuntu, it is...

How do you write protect a USB since the latest Windows deletes Linux Mint. The new versions defender deletes my Yumi USB's very annoying. Since the Yumi's cannot fit on DVD's I need to write...

Published at LXer: As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Java on the Debian 10 (Buster). We will install both the JDK (Java Development Kit) and the JRE (Java Runtime Environment on a...

Are there any in-depth tutorials that explain how to prepare one's own ubuntu installation .iso, complete with all the necessary software already included and preconfigured? Thank you.