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I am currently running Fedora 29 on my laptop. Whenever I go to take the computer with me somewhere when I pull it out I find it's shut off. I had the computer set to do nothing when the screen closed...

Published at LXer: Ubuntu collects information from your system including hardware and software and sends them to Ubuntu servers. In this article, we will see what kind of data Ubuntu collects from...

Hello, I am trying to set the hidepid value to 2 for /proc at boot. This is how the proc entry appears in my /etc/fstab. Code: --------- proc /proc proc ...

I'm currently using Wine-Staging 4.16 and I very much want to incorporate d9vk in it. It seems there are two (2) ways to accomplish this and I have been unsuccessful with both. 1) Winetricks - dll...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will go through the process which will help you to install the latest release CentOS 8 through a manual installation and a good understanding of the...

*_QUESTION SHOULD READ_*: How am I able to run the command "sha256sum x.img" and get a response without a network connection? I am under the impression that sha256sum pings the distro side of...

Published at LXer: On Linux, you sometimes need to work with disks and/or partitions directly from the command line. lsblk displays information about storage devices. Read More......

Hi, I could do with a bit of guidance. I have desktop computer with following: Motherboard: ASRock 990FX-Extreme3 AMD 990FX DDR3 (bought Feb-2013) CPU: AM3+ x6 FX-6300 3500MHz 95W (bought...

I've been using copy & paste commands from mouse right click menu. What are the keyboard shortcuts for these in Debian? Regards

Published at LXer: The relationship between CentOS and Red Hat is important because CentOS has a huge installed base, mostly comprised of well-staffed enterprises wanting to take advantage of Red...

Dear, What is details of licence regarding Ubuntu version 18?

---Quote--- 'In Dinerstein v Google, a class action complaint filed in federal court in Illinois, Matt Dinerstein asserted that the University of Chicago violated his privacy by turning over his and...

I recently purchased a Netgear 5g Router and I'm unable to see the 5g option on my wifi using my Linux laptop and my Windows laptop. My wife's iMac finds it with no problem. I've looked for adapter...

Imagine this: I set a multiple-choice evaluation exam on my webpage. 1000 students take the exam. The webpage comes online at 10am and switches off at 11am. At 1 minute to 11am all the students...

Any Slackers using nftables rather than iptables? If yes, any comments or observations to offer?

I installed a used asus a8b-e se board. I set it to default settings. It works well with my ide drives, but does not see the sata drives. I tested only one sata drive at a time, making sure the cables...

I have Brother MFC-J3530DW model printer. I installed Debian 10 on my laptop. I get a file from ...

Published at LXer: The third article in this series demonstrated how to use failure and unit testing to develop better code.While it seemed that the journey was over with a successful sample...

Hi, I'm super new. How do I modify the w3m configuration so that I scroll slower down a webpage? Code: --------- w3m -o fixed_wheel_scroll_count=1 --------- does nothing.

Published at LXer: It isn't all that often, but kernel upgrades can and do go wrong. When the updated kernel causes issues, learn how you can downgrade the kernel in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: On DL140 - Linux Kernel 5.3 Released, Oracle Autonomous Linux, Stallman Resigns, AMD Epyc Processors Break World Records, Microsoft Employee Reaches Out, The Great Geometric...

I had tried using the English (US, International with dead keys) keyboard layout, as I have in Mint. But the ALT key is not behaving as expected. I would appreciate it if someone could give me a...

I'd like to try out various php commands and little scripts on my laptop before I put them on the web. Can I do that? What do I need? For Python I use Idle. Is there a similar shell to allow...

Published at LXer: Let's break down IPv6 packets and take a look at how IPSec is implemented in this protocol. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ipv6-packets-and-ipsec)

Published at LXer: Red Hat has built its own tools, buildah and podman, which aim to be compatible with existing docker images and work without relying on a daemon, allowing the creation of...

Hi. I wonder if there is a thing that I can use on a thumb drive, boot on that and by this be able to connect to the remote computer that is totally new and have no OS at all. It would be so nice...

Hello all my apologies for posting this thread in possibly the incorrect place. I am using LinuxMint 19.1 Tara 64 bit edition with the Mate Desktop. Trying to setup GPSBabel for my Garmin Nuvi 260w...

Published at LXer: During the troubleshooting of services running on a Linux system, checking open ports is one of the tasks any user or administrator should consider performing. If a service is...

First a bit of context: I have a 2008 macbook that has been running slackware for a couple of months now. I'm very happy with it but when I did the initial installation I was just testing the...

I'm using Chromeos Linux. Debian 9 (stretch)? I believe. Yesterday, I was tuning security, and I downloaded sysv. Sysv revealed that SSH was running in the background. Is SSH supposed to be on?

I'm having issues trying to figure this one out: I can mount USB flash media from within Thunar or Dolphin from my regular user just fine. However when I try to eject/unmount it fails with...

Happy All, I'm working on a task to set SELinux to permissive mode for RHEL/Debian and to set Apparmor to permissive mode for SLES15/12/11. I have my code in place for SELinux but I don't know what...

Hello, I have a perl script that I wrote to check if domainname is resolved when I run hostname -d. When I run my script, it always seems to check out fine when I have the hostname in...

Published at LXer: Games are one of the features that are on the computer. People play games as a medium of entertainment, but there are some people who become professional gamers. Lots of cool...

Hey all, I have a weird issue. I use arch linux (but I figured this applies to all linux distros?) and have multiple installs. On my desktop I installed xorg, xorg-xinit, etc as root after...

Hi All, How do I install SELinux on SLES 15-SP1? I havee tried using YaST2, following these steps: Log in to your server as root and start YaST. Select Software › Software Management ...

This in my initial post as I just signed up a few minutes ago! My name is Keith and I live in Houston, TX. I'm a Systems Engineer with HPE and I mainly work with Ansible even though I'm fairly new to...

I am looking to major in computer science in college and I have been told that I need a laptop with a Unix based operating system so I figured I could either get a mac or maybe get a lenovo thinkpad...

Hey everyone, I have a pc with Windows 10/PopOS. I used Linux most of my life and i know every inch of it but i still need a Windows partition for games. I heard of lutris but still 1 thing pushes me...

Published at LXer: The new "free" major Linux server operating system is here. Read More... (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hats-centos-8-arrives-heres-what-you-get-with-it/)

I'd like to have Linux-based server with a robust virtual platform, same as ESXI is for Windows. The hardware is a HP Server with 16GB of RAM, 1TB of hard drive and Intel XEON 3.7GHz. I was...

Published at LXer: Configure GRUB2 Boot Loader settings in Ubuntu desktop systems. Read More... (https://www.ostechnix.com/configure-grub-2-boot-loader-settings-ubuntu-16-04/)

Hi there, Please advise am getting dependency errors when upgrading CentOS 6.3 to 6.4. I have a local repo that is getting the packages from an ISO of CentOS 6.4 mounted and configured. ...

Published at LXer: Before you can use an SD card or USB drive, it needs to be formatted and partitioned. Typically most USB drives and SD cards come preformatted using the FAT file system and do...

vanilla install. no sound. trying to play any video results in: Code: --------- ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused ---------

So now that rms isn't on the FSF board he can be nominated for this award, right? https://www.fsf.org/awards/fs-award ---Quote--- Eligibility Only individuals are eligible for...

Published at LXer: The Debian Project released a new Linux kernel security update for all supported versions of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system to address several security vulnerabilities. ...

Published at LXer: Linux darling faces the lawyers over Shotwell shenanigans. The GNOME Foundation, maker of the eponymous Linux desktop, has been hit with a sueball over how its Shotwell photo...

Hi, I have been searching the forum for a way to change the refresh rate on my laptop monitor. I am using Fedora 30 with different DEs. I can easily change the refresh rate to 120 with the others but...

I have installed Linux Mint 19.2 Tina Mate on a "new" recycled computer. I was surprised that when I wanted to move a file, the default Caja browser offered a menu with only two options: "Home...