Questions specifically about Linux, as opposed to Unix-like systems in general, or to questions about a specific distribution or program.
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How to fix disabled monitor after linux mint 17 xfce desktop boot and mei_me timeout?
When I boot into my desktop, my monitors go into power save mode and the communication between the monitors and the graphics card radeon x1650 is disabled? When I press ctrl+F2 or ctrl+F7 I receive ...
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Grub Legacy - Auto select boot option
When booting I am presented with a Grub option list consisting of two entries
Gentoo Linux x.x.x
Gentoo Linux x.x.x.(rescue)
The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 30 seconds.
How ...
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OpenSSL 1.0.1j - upgrade on RHEL 6.5
I got a problem when I upgrade my openssl on rhel 6.5. The openssl is missing libcrypto.so.10. The openssl 1.0.1j created lib is libcrypto.so.1.0.0. I have made a soft link but it still does not work ...
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how to run virtualized kali linux on bootable usb [on hold]
Please advice me how to run virtualized kali linux on bootable usb?
If there is a way, its possible with which one of Virtualization softwares?
In Vmware is it possible?
Any way to change all serial ...
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Forensic Linux distributions? [on hold]
Review between there distributions;
1. Kali
2. Caine
3. (SANS Investigate Forensic Toolkit (SIFT
4. DEFT Linux
5. Matriux
6. Masterkey Linux
7. Swift Linux
8. GRML Live Linux
9. Plain Sight
10. ...
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I have made custom audio cape using TLV320AIC3107 codec and here is a schematic diagram
I have made custom audio cape using TLV320AIC3107 codec and here is a schematic diagram.
For connection with BeagleBone Black I refer audio cape which is available in market. here is a link: ...
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How do I write the rule that has an edge server forward a clients request to an internal network server and back?
I have a network situation as follows:
-server1:1.1.1.1
-server2:2.2.2.2
-tunnel 10.8.0.0/24
-client: 3.3.3.3
I'm trying to have client IP 3.3.3.3 do an HTTP request from the 1.1.1.1 server. ...
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Apache - Allow access for folders starting with /
I'm running apache in a linux environment. I've to serve files whose directory structure have "/." in it. Now, apache by default won't allow files with /. To remove the constraint, I've included the ...
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How can I use virtual users in “write list” and “read list” in samba?
Suppose I don't want to create effective users/group for my users (samba server as share server), and I need to create a share for them.
Question : How can I use write list, read list, valid user ...
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User can execute su but gets incorrect password [on hold]
Created a user on oracle enterprise linux 5. I can log in as the user but cannot su - oracle or su - root. But I can directly logonto the server with those usernames and passwords.
The error I am ...
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Migrate an unprivileged LXC container between users
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server installation which acts as an LXC host.
It has two users: user1 and user2.
user1 owns an unprivileged LXC container, which uses a directory (inside ...
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Deterministic method to find out whether a process is in a chroot jail and where [duplicate]
Was looking into an apache issue in a unfamiliar server. The output of ps -ef looked like this:
[belmin@server131 ~]$ sudo ps -ef | grep httpd
apache 14363 4082 0 14:04 ? 00:00:00 ...
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Determine driver for network interface [duplicate]
I wanted to see which driver was associated with some of the network interfaces listed by ip link. My first thought was to find the network interfaces in /dev and look at the device major and minor ...
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problem when booting linux server : Too many levels of symbolic links
By mistake, I executed these commands :
sudo ln -sf bash /bin/sh
sudo ln -sf bash /bin/bash
When I rebooted the Linux server in recovery mode I got this message:
unable to execute too many levels ...
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executing cmds on a Linux box from a windows box [migrated]
How can I create a script on a windows box that retrieves data from the Linux box by executing cmds against the remote Linux box?
I have got putty and Plink on the win box but not sure how to fire ...
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CentOS 7 created mdadm array disappears after reboot
I created a raid1 using the below disks and command:
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3000*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 19 07:27 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_Z1F04NR1 -> ../../sdc
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Getting driver for windows HW
I've asked this question on Ubuntu but didn't get any hint, so I'm trying here
I've a wireless adapter LINK, the problem is that I've only got a windows drives for this device, but I really need it ...
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Rename a portion of multiple files
Take a number of files named:
data_a_LT.fits
data_a_LT.coo
data_a_LT.ec
data_a_LT.grp
I want to replace all "a_LT" with "LT_A" such that I have:
data_LT_A.fits
data_LT_A.coo
data_LT_A.ec
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How can process doing “vfork without exec” end up in a long uninterruptible sleep?
In this answer user suggests that
Normally, Uninterruptible sleep should not last long, but as under windows, broken drivers or broken userpace programs (vfork without exec) can end up sleeping ...
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How to get diff for HTML reports?
echo "New defects"
echo "==============================="
n=0
def_num=0
while read line; do
n=$((++n))
if echo $line | grep '^[[:space:]]*>' &>/dev/null; then
if [ $(($n % ...
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How to locally validate DNSSEC?
I want to simulate the process of chain of trust validation locally , I do the following :-
1) signed my zone.
2) unbound installed , but i can not configure it for DNSSEC validation could you help ...
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How can i recreate the YAST GUI in text file
I am new to Linux, have an OpenSUSE vm and want to list the applications installed.
I know i can do a RPM cmd and ls {PATH//: /} seems to return a long list although it is full of non-application ...
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Connecting Linux Mint to WiFi network
I just installed Linux Mint 17 (MATE) on an old laptop and everything works amazing, however I can't seem to get it to connect to my WiFi network. All my other computers can get access, plus, before ...
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How to display contents of mounted /boot and '/' root partitions?
How to display contents of mounted /boot and '/' root partitions of Debian on SSD drive from Linux Live CD? I know ls -1 to list directory contents, but what is exact steps to get this?
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gnome-classic as default session for all users?
How to set gnome-classic as default session for all users in gdm3 (system-wide setting)? I'm using Debian Jessie with GNOME 3.12.
I've tried creating fake gnome.session in ...
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GParted hangs while resizing partition
I decided to shrink a FAT partition on my memory card by 768 MB to make place for a new one. GParted hangs on the fsck step. The progress bar halts and any window above it leaves the part of the ...
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resetting keys changed by xmodmap
I am playing around with xmodmap filename to assign among others, the Euro sign to the number five key on my US keyboard.
I have done some wrong assignments and want to reset them, and I don't want ...
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Screen capture application for RHEL6.5
I need some screen capture application for RHEL6.5 and tried few ways to get one but failed.
yum install gnmoe-utils and got:
Reading Local RPMDB
rpmdb time: 0.000
Setting up Install Process
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how to insert seperate lines ( elemnts ) in parameter [on hold]
I have the following csv file
more file.csv
1,yes,yes,customer1
2,no,yes,customer5
3,yes,yes,customer11
4,no,no,customer14
5,yes,no,customer15
6,yes,yes,customer21
7,no,yes,customer34
...
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ifconfig ethernet (eth0) no data flow
Hello this is my ifconfig output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 50:46:5d:44:5e:fe
inet addr:10.0.0.6 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: ...
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How fast is a process reading/writting virtual memory?
So, we have top, htop, iotop, iostat, vmstat, etc, to measure many different things on Linux, but how can one measure how much MB/s a process is reading and writting to/from RAM, i.e., virtual memory?
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How to force change linux password even if similar as previous
I am trying to change my current password in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.10 (Tikanga)
but it says my new password is too similar. Is there any way to force change ?
$ passwd
Changing ...
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Linux server rebooted automatically [on hold]
I'm not sure whether due to high load or for some other reason my Linux box seems to get auto rebooted.
No cron job is configured. Below is the output from /var/log/message. What can be the reason of ...
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How Linux differs from other scripting languages? [on hold]
I am interested to acquire a small amount of intermediate knowledge in Linux, I would like to learn to write scripts using Linux operation, I am preparing for Red-Hat Certification sometime next year. ...
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Capstone for Python not working
I'm unable to get Capstone (http://www.capstone-engine.org/lang_python.html) for Python to work.
I have attempted to install capstone both using pip and compiling and installing from source. Both are ...
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history command - 50 entries threshold [duplicate]
When running history in some distro installation(from boot cd) I noticed the entries only go up to 50, overwriting older entries once reaching that threshold.
Is this defined by each distro? or is ...
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sfdisk don't like partitions - want to dump another hard drive to restore software RAID
I'm using Cent OS 6.5.
I have two Hard Drive which are exact copies of each others (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb).
/dev/sda failed and had to be replaced.
I am trying to copies everything from /dev/sdb to ...
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Switching among cli and vim and other files workflow
I saw some kind of workflow in vim:
Vim had a file open. Then some combination of keys made vim disappear and the user was in the command line working in cli mode, then opened another file and then ...
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Folding in vimrc does not work as expected
I added these to my vimrc:
set foldenable
set foldmethod=syntax
set foldlevelstart=1
let javaScript_fold=1 " JavaScript
let perl_fold=1 " Perl
let php_folding=1 ...
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Server running on guest Linux VM will not accept connections from Windows host
I have a simple echo server program running on CentOS 7. If I run both the client and the server in the VM, I can connect to the server.
I'm using VirtualBox with the "bridged" network configuration. ...
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How to Mount a Drive with Right Filesystem?
I am trying to mount the device /dev/xvdc on my CentOS system. When I run an fdisk command I get:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/xvda1 * 1 33 ...
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Why does `kill -l` not list signal numbers of 32 and 33?
Executing kill -l on linux gives:
1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) SIGQUIT 4) SIGILL 5) SIGTRAP
6) SIGABRT 7) SIGBUS 8) SIGFPE 9) SIGKILL 10) SIGUSR1
11) SIGSEGV ...
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Script for restart web server automatically when machine (server) restart
I am new in Linux, I am working on weblogic server and I have a script to start weblogic server and its all services.
My question is where should I write this script or move, so it will call ...
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Removing duplicated files in the rootfs - to speed up booting time, and improve memory usage
With Buildroot I'm making images for my Embedded Linux Hardware. Mainly I'm trying to speed up the boot sequence (and on the way lower the memory usage), where I've tried many techniques successfully.
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NAS set-up issue with NFS protocol in linux Mint
I have a Synology NAS that I'm trying to map in my Linux machine as if its like a regular HDD drive. I have looked all over the internet without being able to figure out how this thing works. I have ...
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third party linux auditing software
Linux has a audit system built-in in its kernel and a user space process called auditd reading the system calls intercepted by the kernel.
Are there alternate solutions to the Linux Audit system ? I ...
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How can you annotate or club info into ELF core files on Linux?
For debugging core files it would be useful to add additional
information into a core file at the time it is generated.
I'm currently using /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern to run a
'dumb' script that ...
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How to use/test pivot_root?
I want to test the pivot_root command which moves the root file system of the current process to the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system.
But I always get the following ...
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Linux [admin] How to test pivot_root?
I want to test the pivot_root command line, which moves the root file system of the current process to the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system. ...
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Linux packages - Separate Python's external libraries from the system
I read this articles (check What About Python CLI Tools?).
Well, this is obivous, separate external Python packages from your System Python's site-packages.
When doing a sudo apt-get install package ...
