Questions tagged [linux]
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Linux software Raid5 DegradedArray with mdadm
So I changed my case and I don't know why but one my SATA port does not work anymore. So only 5 of my 6 RAID5 disks were recognized. The volume was automounted anyway and I already wrote new files on ...
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Install FFMPEG in Redhat Linux via rpm for a non root user
How can i install ffmpeg rpm for a non root user on linux server. I tried installing the package using
rpm -ivh ffmpeg-devel-0.10.15-1.el6.i686.rpm
The above package shows number of dependency ...
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Need help writing Linux script to automate moving files when flash drive is inserted
I am trying to use a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian to automatically move (not copy) the contents of Folder A (local) to Folder B (on SD card via USB to SD card reader) automatically when the card/...
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SSLH multiplexing - custom protocol (DNS)
I am using SSLH multiplexer for SSH and OpenVPN, but i need to use it for DNS server also (I am multiplexing everything on port 53 - I can't use another port). I've read that SSLH can do this (using ...
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Delete kernel module completely
I would like to ask you how can I delete some kernel module completely? I mean really delete, not unload or prevent to load. I tried to use rmmod, but it just unloaded module, same as modprobe -r. So ...
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Can I boot an Acer Power S260 from a USB flash drive?
I have an Acer Power S260 which I am trying to boot from a USB flash drive to install a Linux variant.
There are options in the BIOS for booting from USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, and USB-CDROM, but not from USB-...
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Raspberry-pi remote connection using putty, GUI not working
On my Client PC I’m running Windows 8.1 and I have installed XMing. I am running Putty and I have configured it to enable X11 Forwarding. I have tried leaving the X display location blank (as default) ...
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Bash Script, Striping out newline characters in variable
Still getting the hang of bash scripting...
I have a function that resizes images and calculates how much to scale it based on the file size. I need to pass this percentage as an argument to the ...
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tar stops with "Cannot stat: No such file or directory"
tar complains about not finding a directory that exists, and to which I have permissions. I have seen a number of similar questions, but all of them had to do wih the option f not being just before ...
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Pulseaudio remixing handles subwoofer / center volume differently
I'm using pulseaudio on my debian system. My PC is connected to a 5.1 system. I enabled remixing, lfe remixing, channels, etc. in the pulseaudio configuration (speaker-test works perfectly). When I ...
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Fedora 23: Properly recreating /home partition and integrating it into an exisiting installation?
I used a btrfs raid 1 for my /home partition, but unfortunately the file system destroyed itself. '/' is on a seperate drive. Now I want to recreate the /home partition for my user (this time using ...
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Linux bash script for oldest file in a folder + return value if folder is empty
I am using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
I need to find a folders oldest file and print it out in unixtime. I did get the job done with this one liner: find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs -...
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Vim doesn't respect fileformat setting on windows share [Solved]
I have mounted several SMB shares (folders are located on windows server) on my linux machine
gvfs-mount smb://user@domain@fileserver/sharedfolder
I can access files and edit them in vim, but vim ...
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timeout on connecting to vsftpd on Ubuntu 14.04
I have a VPS running Ubuntu 14.04. I'm trying to run a FTP server on it, using VSFTPD.
I think the server is running as it should, I can connect to it locally:
root@my-server:~# ftp <IP>
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Linux: How does user log out work
I'm new with linux. I've searched about how to safely log out other user and found few solution but I want to know how they work internally. I have few questions:
1. pkill -KILL -u {username} Does it ...
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Linux more, how to move to beginning of file?
How to show the beginning of file or show the exact line with move terminal command if I gone to the next page?
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Accessing a local device host with IP ending in 0
I have made a mistake in setting up a headless embedded Linux device on a network. I left the static IP set to 10.10.10.0 with its subnet set to 255.255.255.0, which is of course an impossible ...
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Can't create a partition table on micro SD card
I'm trying to reformat a micro SD card that was previously in a raspberry pi (and had stopped working). However, when I plug it into my main computer (arch) and try to partition it, I can't because ...
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Gnome 3 detects my screen differently VGA/HDMI
I have a screen that is correctly detected by gnome in VGA, he said the screen made 40 ", but when I connect HDMI, he said the screen made 7".
Can I configure this option?
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How to mount a LUKS encrypted device with password prompt NOT at bootime?
I would like to automate the process of doing
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc sdc_crypt
sudo mount /dev/mapper/sdc_crypt /mnt/data
in one line with
mount /mnt/data
and only be prompted for the ...
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How to use crontab to launch scripts
I have created a script (which I already tested if it works) and I want to use crontab to launch it everytime my pc reboots.
I created these script called test.sh just for fun and it's pretty easy:
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RHEL7 /boot deleted from fstab
Running RHEL7 Virtual Machine in my home lab.
/boot is separated from "/".
root@localhost ~# grep part anaconda-ks.cfg -A4
clearpart --none --initlabel
# Disk partitioning information
part pv.251 --...
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Script not running on resume/wakeup in Ubuntu
I have a script named 999_thaw_flash.sh in my /etc/pm/sleep.d
The script follows like this :-
export DISPLAY=:0
#!/bin/bash
case "{$1}" in
resume|thaw)
lynx --dump link1 >> file1
lynx --...
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Upgrading Kubuntu through LiveCD after Crash
I have accidentally purged some important stuff, I think, causing my Kubuntu 14.04 to not boot past the startup logo (see my earlier question on Unix Stackexchange here). I can, however, run Kubuntu ...
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Diffrent output of "ps -a" on Ubuntu and Fedora
I have noticed that the ps -a command produces different output when I run it on ubuntu "16.04" and Fedora 23. According the man page of both distribution the -a option should do :
-a Select all ...
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How to equivalent to ps -ef in Windows 10
I have looked online, and have not found anything that would accomplish what I want to do. I am looking for a command with output equivalent to "ps -ef" of Linux so I can find out the process id ...
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Linux Command to list all FTP users in shell including the users created using vsftpd
I have created a few ftp accounts/users on my CentOS server using vsftpd. Now I would like know the username of that accounts using SHELL. I have root password to access the SSH.
I have tried to find ...
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Server lock-up, fsck after reboot
After locking up for whatever unknown reason, my dedicated server shows the following after rebooting:
It has been stuck on this for about 2.5 hours now. It shows no progress indicator of any sort ...
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PPTP VPN works from Windows, not Linux
I can't connect to my work's PPTP VPN from Linux. But when I reboot to Windows, it works.
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I try to connect using Network Manager and PPTP plugin.
nmap returns the ...
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Trying to install Owncloud client on Linux Mint Rosa Fails
I'm running a brand new Linux Mint Rosa (17.3 Cinnamont 64-bit), and I'm having way too many problems to install the owncloud client on it:
Given that the package on the mint repo seems to be ...
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How to set up a network in Windows 7 to let others can access an internal Linux server?
I have two machines. Machine 1 (denoted as M1) is Windows 7 and has two network cards. Machine 2 (denoted as M2) is RedHat 6.5. In M1, the first network card is connected into the Internet and the ...
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Custom script run with sudo - command not found
Problem:
Running a script as sudo returns
sudo: mount-remove-hiberfile: command not found
Info:
Scripts folder: '/scripts' (all my custom scripts are kept here)
My User: 'cybex'
cybex@cybex-...
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ap-linux in a vm, does this make sense?
AudioPhile Linux, a distro tailor made to play audio has interested me. However I don't consider it desktop-grade and I don't have a spare machine to use it with.
Does it make sense to run audio-...
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Computer gets hot with Linux Mint
So recently I had installed Linux Mint (Rosa) on computer and I dual boot it with windows 10. With windows there is no problem, it does not get hot for example if I get into YouTube or something not ...
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FFMPEG Trying to restream a RTSP stream to HTTP
I have been trying top cobble something together to take a RTSP feed from a IP camera and re transmit it in HTTP.
I am trying to get the feed in to my home automation app which does not support ...
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docopt module is never found eventhough install
I am trying to run a simple command line that requires dependencies module.
I have installed the dependencies
pip install requests docopt
ran the script -> ./generate-dnscrypt-cmdline. Everytime i get
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NO CARRIER with Huawei ME906s
With my Huawei ME906s on Linux (tested with debian sid, debian experimental, Fedora 24 and Ubuntu 16.04, but the result's the same under Windows 10), I get either ERROR or NO CARRIER messages (...
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php 5.6.20 - /etc/php5/conf.d directory missing
I can't find /etc/php5/conf.d directory in my system.
Do they change catalog structure ?
I already read /usr/share/doc/php5-common/README.Debian.gz
There is information about linking /etc/php5/$SAPI/...
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How to set different shell prompt color for each newly opened terminal
I am using Ubuntu and can manually change the bash shell prompt color to green using
export PS1="\e[0;32m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m"
However, I want the shell prompt color to automatically change whenever I ...
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Python Script with .py Extension Data Recovery
I have deleted some of my python scripts about 3 months ago and now I want to recover them, I tried Data Rescue 4 which is told as the best data recovery software but it was unable to find .py ...
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cron job on centOS 6.5
I have used these 2 references to insert a new crontab entry.
redhat
ubuntu
I have created a new bash file and moved it to /usr/bin. That sh file has execute permissions for the root user and the ...
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Why does terminal repeat "//: is a directory" after I source .bash_profile?
Sergios-MBP:~ home$ nano ~/.bash_profile
Sergios-MBP:~ home$ source ~/.bash_profile
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: ...
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Stuck in BIOS after restarting laptop?
Good day! I restarted my laptop today after it hung up on me. When it booted, it greeted me with the BIOS screen. Of course I tried to reboot again and the same thing happened. I looked at the boot ...
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Multiple X displays per monitor
I am developing software for a target system which has 3 displays, one per monitor: localhost:0.0, localhost:0.1, localhost:0.2
Though the target system has 3 monitors, my development system has only ...
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Which is the user‑space command for resuming from hibernation?
During a long time, I used
echo disk > /sys/power/state
In order to hibernate to/dev/sda10and I was using the initrd of my Debian distribution to resume.
But recently, I switched to a raid ...
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Uninstalled Linux, still getting stuck on "grub" boot menu?
I installed then uninstalled Linux on a Windows 10 machine according to instructions at (http://www.howtogeek.com/141818/how-to-uninstall-a-linux-dual-boot-system-from-your-computer/). I removed the ...
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Linux server just as RAMdisk
I want to setup an anti-forensic Linux server to protect my users.
My aim is to have the Linux distro and everything inside of it running from RAM, never storing anything permanently.
It is possible ...
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Install Firefox addon in chroot environment
My goal is to install some Firefox addon inside some chroot environment.
I see 2 options here: either run firefox with X from within the chroot and install the addons or put all the files where they ...
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Why does Software use it's own proxy settings?
Why does some software on Linux e.g. wget and apt-get/aptitude don't make use of the system variables for proxys?
Is the difference between all the system too large to do that or is it just because ...
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Configure SNMP to send messages to two different monitoring platforms
Is it possible to configure snmpd on Ubuntu (via snmpd.conf) to send messages to two different monitoring applications? For example, lets say I have defined a read only community called 'readonly', ...