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Published at LXer: On Kickstarter: Sequent Microsystems has launched a $15 “Hardware Watchdog HAT & Power Manager for Raspberry Pi” for protecting against software lock-ups. Read More......

The Ubuntu server 14.04 was upgraded using “sudo do-release-upgrade’ to 16.04. Then I cannot run sudo at all. The weird thing is that I can log in with “sysadmin”, but get the error when trying sudo...

Published at LXer: The open-spec BeagleBone AI has arrived for $118 with a dual Cortex-A15 TI AM5729 with dual C66x DSPs and 4x EVE cores for AI. The SBC supplies 1GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, GbE,...

My df on /var was getting high (61%) I attempted to delete all files in /usr/.Trash-0/files using nemo (rooted). There was 6GB of old stuff in there... Thought I deleted everything but no! ...

Good morning. The AES encryption which is apparently used in LibreOffice to protect files with passwords is quite efficient. Not that LibreOffice were the only office-suite which proposes that...

Published at LXer: How to rotate videos using FFMpeg from commandline on Linux operating systems. Read More... (https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-rotate-videos-using-ffmpeg-from-commandline/)

Would like to get two or three commands to be executed at a set interval in the terminal such as: while true; do df -h /home/me && watch df -h /var; sleep 5; done Only the first command is...

Dears, how to change the "minlen" from 6 to 8 in etc / security / user, to comply with the audit rules? Please help me. Thank you very much

Published at LXer: In this article, I am going to focus on different ways of starting, stopping and restarting the services in Debian version 10. Read More......

Published at LXer: Up to its 18.04LTS release, it indeed worked as expected, but starting with 18.10 where the development team switched to using the Qt-based desktop LXQt instead of traditional...

Hello I have just installed a postfix server into a virtual machine on my PC but I can not configure it to send emails to my work email through the company mail server. Installed OS: Oracle...

Published at LXer: A review of an Android ad blocker Read More... (https://www.androidguys.com/reviews/app-reviews/blokada-review/)

Published at LXer: Although the consensus seems to be that it was time for the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software movement to step down, we shouldn't forget his many contributions...

Published at LXer: ‘Stealing Ur Feelings‘ uses dark humor to expose how Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook can use AI to profit off users’ faces and emotions * An augmented reality film revealing...

Hi, I want to convert from udev to eudev. This is on a custom linux boot disk. I don't recall, is udev just a single binary with the various configuration files or are several files involved? In...

Published at LXer: Capacity planning is the "black box" of Linux system administration. Here are five things you need to do to get started. Read More......

I just wanted to say that I'm enjoying the Slackware experience. I'm glad I'm on a distro on which I can remove an application I don't need without the package manager wanting to blow away my desktop...

Published at LXer: Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced over the weekend that the latest Linux 5.3 kernel series is now marked as stable and ready for mass deployments. ...

Published at LXer: Feng Office is a commercial open-source web-based collaboration platform written in PHP. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will install Feng Onsite, which is a self-hosted...

Hello! I hope I wrote this in the right section... I was searching everywhere on how to do as the title indicates, maybe I was googling wrong or something, but I couldn't find the answer. It's for a...

Published at LXer: Ulauncher, a fast application launcher for Linux, was updated to version 5.3.0. This is the first Ulauncher stable release to support Python 3, while Python 2 was completely...

Are there any other music players other than Guayadeque that have the same kind of smart playlist feature? When I listen to an Avenged Sevenfold song for instance it auto populates my playlist with...

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: The Find command is one of the most useful commands that allows users to find recently modified files and folders on Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: In a recent article, I introduced the chown command, which is used for modifying ownership of files on systems. Recall that ownership is the combination of the user and group...

Hello All, I am new in this forum, usually I use it to find some solution as a normal user but now I am connected as requester. So in fact I have 2 servers, primary and secondary (not in cluster...

Hi all. I'm making new videos about my most used Linux commands. Here is part 1. https://youtu.be/-5hvMXOOyFs I show in this video... ...Update/Upgrade/Install software. Change...

I have successfully replaced with the CSS code below an old frameset that gives me something looking like a 2-panel house window. With the frameset, that gives me two frames (the 2 glasses of the...

I cannot see why -to does not work with ffmpeg - Linux Mint 19.1 64 bit with I know it's a valid option from ffmpeg -h Here are the details: ffmpeg version: ---Quote--- ffmpeg version...

Published at LXer: SSH, for Secure Shell, is a network protocol that is used in order to operate remote logins to distant machines within a local network or over Internet. SSH architectures...

I have a Acer Predator Helios 500, I have removed windows 10 and installed Linux Mint, At first my sound worked with both ear and system speakers. Then only ear phones - and now nothing I also...

how can i review the commands and activity of the users on the server for this version linux Linux 2.6.18-194.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 22:00:21 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Hi, I have installed Liferea rss reader. I have subscribed to only one feed. I want to get audio notification when a new entry appears.

I build photo programs from git. Since Sunday (yesterday) Darktable now needs --with-isl in the configure for gcc so that DT will build. Can this be happen so gcc will build bleeding edge DT? ...

Dear ZenWalkers: I'm trying to install on my up-to-date ZW system a tp-link AC600 Mini Wireless USB adaptor, so far with no success as the manufacturer has developed -- surprise surprise -- no...

Published at LXer: For anyone spending time at the CLI, they’ll rely on the shell prompt. My favorite shell is Bash. By default, the configuration for Bash on popular distributions identifies the...

The question probably does not belong here but I am sure someone knows and would be kind enough to answer. I use a package which is in gitlab (32 bit wine for RHEL, CentOS etc.) and I wish to contact...

On my recently installed CentOS 7 machine with the Mate desktop I have a separate /home partition of 4 GB. There is one user, me. I do NOT store anything in my home directory other than .wine,...

Hi, I'm new to Suse. I have an old laptop which is very limited - the cooling system doesn't work properly and all I can install on it are a few old Linux distros. Now it is Suse 10.1, which works...

Published at LXer: Data science is an exciting new field in computing that's built around analyzing, visualizing, correlating, and interpreting the boundless amounts of information our computers...

Hi everybody This looks like the site I've wished for. I have an old SP3 laptop and would like to use it to just web browse and excel work. Please could I get advise which Linux to install on...

Hi, I was able to build the redhat 8 guest on z/VM.I am trying to find the publication file for REDHAT 8 ISO image. in which directory i can get it ? I tried looking in each folder but I dont see...

Somewhat new to Linux here. Played with it a number of years ago when I first started working in the I.T. field and continued with it off and on until I left the field. I just recently retired and...

Please help me to install Kali Linux 2019.3 WiFi driver

Hello, I am trying to install VNCSERVER , i followed from the manual yum -y install tigervnc* openmotif xterm xsetroot xorg-x11-xauth --- it was successful Then when i try to cp...

Great forum folks. Look forward to reading and writing a few posts.

Thought I'd share and if anyone has suggestions: (modified from the standard SlackBuild on slackbuilds.org) http://lehcar.no-ip.org:8080/~rich/virtualbox-6.0.12_complete.tar.gz -- to use it...

This was working using Windows 7, but I have replaced windows with linux mint 19.2 and can't get sound through the tv. Any ideas?

Hello, sorry if this is a very easily answerable question, but I cant seem to find a solid definitive answer on this subject. I got the TP-LINK ARCHER T9UH for my dell laptop so I could connect to...

Published at LXer: paste is a command that allows you to merge lines of files horizontally. It outputs lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines of each file specified as an...

I noticed that at some point in a previous ktown release cycle on -current, the "Lock on suspend" option of kscreenlocker has stopped working on my laptop. When I suspend and resume, the screen is...