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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...

I was very pleased to learn that IrfanView was available as a snap package that works with my Mint 18.3 Linux. However, to get the most out of IView (and is really essential), the latest set of IView...

Does anyone know why I'm suddenly getting sub-domain names occasionally in my logs instead of the IP address? This causes trouble with software processing. No recent changes here but this has...

I have what I thought was a fairly simple dnsmasq configuration: Dnsmasq is installed on a router. External interface: DHCP Internal private network interface: Static Clients get DHCP...

Hi guys I'm using Percona 5.7.18-16 for my MySQL (Percona) DB server. I'm using Percona xtrabackup 2.4.8 to make live backups of the running server. I've set up a testing server to verify...

$SUBJ Is there anything like an HCL for USB LTE modems? I would like to buy one, but grepping the kernel source didn't give me much insight about whether this particular chip is supported. ...

I'm doing a pre-study before taking the plunge and installing Debian Buster. This implies building a firewall in nftables, which is new to me. We're talking of a simple stand-alone, domestic, AMD-64...

Definition RAM: RAM is called Random Access Memory, which is essential hardware inside a computer that temporarily stores data. It serves as the computer’s operational memory. It additionally...

Hi all I have a Wordpress site on my server 192.168.0.1 for testing purposes. Only the base HTML renders without images. On examining source, I can see why: all URLs are severely mangled....

HI folks. CentOS7 box with a CMOS reset (so I could get back into the BIOS settings), I came back to a box that couldn't boot properly. So I read about replacing the boot stuff, and went...

Hi, i was installing quagga from source but i get error while make "No package 'libcares' found". How can I install libcares or in what package i can find it ? Thank you in advance

Published at LXer: Hugo is a free and open-source framework written in Go language that can be used to create websites with ease. It is simple, fast and secure static site generator, you don't need...

Hi, I want to test dsn connection that i have already setup in server . But it give me an error below : isql Infdrv1 acct acct@123 -v [01000][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib...

Published at LXer: Artificial intelligence is taking over many sectors in technology in the last few years. Proprietary software have tried to take their share of the cake, but open source...

Hello everybody: There is one thing confuse me long time, as my work, i have to listen the wav on the remote server, usually, i use the command sz to download the audio, then play it on local...

Published at LXer: After developers pushed Chef Software to cut ties with ICE, there have been renewed calls for open-source licenses, which include morality clauses. For better or worse, such...

I have a computer with two wifi dongles. Each dongle has a separate IP address, ex. wlan0 10.0.0.20 & wlan1 10.0.0.30. Each wifi dongle associates with a separate wireless device, but the wireless...

I have a computer with two wifi dongles. Each dongle has a separate IP address, ex. wlan0 10.0.0.20 & wlan1 10.0.0.30. Each wifi dongle associates with a separate wireless device, but the wireless...

Published at LXer: Did you hear about the CEO who was recently duped by an AI-powered deepfake voice scam? It’s time to increase security training for everyone - especially the C-Suite Read...

Published at LXer: Red Hat and CentOS Project announced today the availability of a new GNU/Linux distribution called CentOS Stream, providing a rolling release operating system to developers and...

Published at LXer: Bzip2 is one of the most popular algorithms for compressing tar files. In this tutorial, we will explain how to extract (or unzip) tar.bz2 and tbz2 archives using the tar...

Published at LXer: Hi everyone! You may have seen the announcement about changes over at the CentOS Project. (If not, please go ahead and take a few minutes and read it — I’ll wait!) And now you...

Copy the files /etc/group and /etc/vimrc into your misc directory.

Good folks, I recently requested to my host provider (ovh.ie) to increase the disk space in my personal VPS. After the update, I've aded the extra free space in the existing partition with parted &...

Or do posts need to be validated manually by some admin before published?

I am looking for reasonably simple ways to encrypt a file on one system, with the option of decrypting it on another system, with "standard" tools available on most linux systems (veracrypt not an...

been off and on with linux for 10 year. Basic sysadmin stuff and hobby. Made the switch on my home machine to Fedora when 30 came out. Time to dig deep!

i m a electromecanical engineering student i want to get the basic of the embedded system so i need a linux distro oriented for embedded system any suggestions??

I am running a fresh install of Arch/Cinnamon on a Lenovo Legion 540 with the linux kernel and nvidia drivers. The only problem I'm having is that when the computer is suspended, resuming takes up...

Hi, When I visit the slackware site there are available download of all files of 14.2 version. Some dates are very recent in 2019 and patches seems to be available. Is there a new update of...

Just wanted to share a victory. Managed to get Linux as the only OS on a late 2008 iMac - 8,1 2GB RAM Running Manjaro 18.1.0 XFCE I tried Linux Mint initially with no success, as I’m more of...

I just did a full installation of Slackware 14.2 (64-bit) on my desktop PC, accepting the default choices proposed. The desktop is connected to the AT&T modem/gateway via an Ethernet cable. My...

I am trying to generate a Probe Request wifi packet into air. For this I am using Alfa-AWUS036NHA-Wireless-Network-Adapter on FC19. Set it in monitor mode and issuing following command. ...

Hello I am studying digital forensics at university. I have been asked to use grep to search a jumbled text document for IBAN references .. I have search for the correct grep search string but was...

hi help me! Code: --------- >c.cs >cls.cs chmod 777 c.cs

Published at LXer: Love your classic games? Have a lot of those classics on Steam? You need to grab Boxtron, the unofficial Steam Play tool that allows you to use a native DOSBox with Steam games...

Background: I'm trying to resurrect an old Dell Vostro 1710 laptop, which is a 32-bit, Celeron-based machine. It initially had Windows Vista Home Basic, but I've rebuilt the machine with Debian Buster...

I am trying to make an archival copy of a copy protected DVD. I understand that dvd::rip can do the job, but all of the documentation and on-line resources that I've seen have been extremely...

Hi LDAP Pros! On my experimental OpenLDAP server version 2.4.44 on platform CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) I experience an "Undefined attribute type (17)" error trying to reset LDAP users'...

Published at LXer: Red Hat announced a new project called CentOS stream that will serve as an upstream project for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to establish a better relationship between RHEL, Fedora...

hi, how can i find what user deleted symlink file?

Published at LXer: In this guide, we will explain how to create an SSH tunnel and connect to the MySQL server from remote clients. Read More... (https://linuxize.com/post/mysql-ssh-tunnel/)

Hi I'm running Debian 10 with firefox snap and now need to edit the policies.json file in order to change the Disableappupdate to false. ls -l shows that I have rw as root. However when I edit this...

Published at LXer: Planned to released on Steam and GOG (if GOG approve) after an upcoming Kickstarter campaign, BOC seems like a very interesting turn-based 4X coming to Linux. Read More......

Hello, my computer often has to stay connected to a particular wi-fi system that is "weak" (I do not know why it is so) and after some minutes kicks off the user. That's not achieved by means of...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project has announced the public availability of the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.17 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Read More......

Published at LXer: As a system administrator, you are probably spending quite some time configuring permissions for user and groups on your system. File permissions are already quite handy in...

Hi all, I have a strange problem with using multi-monitor setup with Dell dock. Most of the times it works OK, but sometimes if I disconnect dock while computer is running and return it back, I get...

Published at LXer: NodeBB is a Node.js based forum software built for the modern web which uses MongoDB or Redis as the database system. In this tutorial, we describe the NodeBBB installation...

I have no sound on my laptop. When I go to Settings.... Sound...., under Device it says Dummy Output. I can't see any way to change this. When I saw Linux on a friend's laptop, he had a drop down menu...