Unanswered Questions
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What would be the best way to work around this glibc problem?
I administer a Gentoo Hardened box that uses file capabilities to eliminate most of the need for setuid-root binaries (e.g. /bin/ping has CAP_NET_RAW, etc).
Infact, the only binary I have left is ...
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FreeNAS grub2 booting ISO
I've got usb-keys setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I wouldn't mind adding FreeNAS, and there's a doc with samples to add to grub.cfg
menuentry "FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64" {
insmod ufs2
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How do font managers work in Fedora?
I am looking to do some font management on my Fedora system. I have installed both Font Manager and Fontmatrix. My goal was to be able to have more fonts installed than I wanted displayed, and to be ...
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Ctrl-C does not work with pppd non-detached session
I have a Mini2440 ARM Board, and I have put a base Debian 6.0 system on it using multistrap.
I have used tmux to run several processes in defferent windows from /etc/rc.local. I connect to the board ...
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Groups differ from the local ones when logging in remotely
We store our users in LDAP, alongside some groups that have meaning across different systems (organizational roles including wheel). There are also groups local to workstations, e.g. audio or video ...
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How do you set up the environment for es?
I've been playing with es the last couple of days, and it (like rc) has the quirk/feature that it only runs its startup script (.esrc) on login. The usual way to run code in each interactive session ...
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Reuse D-Bus sessions across login sessions
I access a machine through multiple login sessions. The sessions' lifetimes may or may not overlap. In my case, these login sessions are currently always over SSH, but I would prefer to handle local ...
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Actkbd as service with systemd
A while ago I asked for how to stop a music player while the screen is locked. The answer was to use actkbd which works like a charm. Now I wanted to add actkbd as a service to systemd in order to ...
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Why the value of VSIZE in top is different from the value of VSZ (Virtual set size) in ps?
I know VSZ in ps is for the total address space allocated for the app and is sometimes aliased as vsize (mentioned in man page of ps on linux), but what's the definition of VSIZE in top? This top ...
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Openswan connecting to multiple right subnets not working
I'm trying to use Openswan (version 2.6.37) to connect an IPsec VPN from my local network to a remote site. Everything works fine when I just want to connect to a single subnet on the remote site. ...
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Kernel socket structure and TCP_DIAG
I'm working on a software which connects to a Real Time data server (using TCP) and I have some connections dropping. My guess is that the clients do not read the data coming from the server fast ...
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IM client which can turn off notification in a specific conversation window?
So, the problem is that some chat buddies send chat lines a lot or too often. A typical example:
Chad McChaddy: Hi mate
Me: Hi
Chad: Could you take a look at problem XYZ? ABC is not working.
Me: K, ...
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Linux cache evictions
Looking at how the VFS cache on my Linux machine behaves, I can see that even when effectively idle (crond and most other daemons stopped, interfaces down) the amount of free memory gradually ...
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How to use /etc/fbtab in OpenBSD to secure X11?
OpenBSD's man page afterboot(8) suggests: "You might wish to tighten up security more by editing /etc/fbtab as when installing X."
How might one do this? What lines when added to /etc/fbtab would ...
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configure.ac: not using gettext
I am trying to compile a gnome application and I am curious what the output means when I run the autogen.sh script:
~/Documents/Code/window-picker-applet $./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory ...
