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CPU usage according to ps and operf
I've acquired some data seemingly in conflict from two sources one would assume are reliable. In all likelihood, I'm misreading one of the sources.
The server environment is: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, ...
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Is there a way to resolve ALL PIA VPN IPs with a script?
I am looking for a way to get a complete list of all the current IP addresses for PrivateInternetAccess' servers. I need the complete list so that I can manually enter them into a killswitch for ...
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Why don't the SHA's match?
I am trying to write a script and it uses the SHA of a date but I am getting two different results and for the life of me can't figure out why.
echo -n 03112016 | cut -d'.' -f4 | sha256sum | cut -d' ...
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How to have Terminator display remote hostname in title bar?
When I am SSH'ed into any one of my Linux devices, the title bar on Terminator displays user@hostname, where hostname is the computer I am SSHing from, rather than the computer I am SSH'ed into (i.e. ...
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what is exact meaning smtp_receive_timeout in exim.conf?
what is the exact meaning of smtp_receive_timeout in exim.conf ?
Is it timeout for receiving the data after rcpt to ?
Or is the total timeout for complete receiving a mail data ?
Or If there is no ...
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Adding multiple nic and hostname on single rhel6 vm
I have a rhel6 vm with 1 nic and the hostname is abc1.com . Now I need to add another nic and another hostname that is abc2.com on the same vm. How is it possible?
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change boot order in rc.d
I currently have scripts in the rc.# S## ...
one of my scripts is called:
S20cheese and another is called S19Moo. How would I properly update these run orders e.g. S20cheese -> S15cheese.
Is it as ...
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In a Linux system without X started, how do I assign the right windows key to the right control key?
I am working on a Linux system without X server, so I don't have Xmodmap to change keys on my keyboard. Since the keyboard attached to the Linux PC is a "windows keyboard" (if there is such a thing) ...
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Empty output of pax11publish
I'M trying to stream audio over ssh as described here, I run pax11publish in order to discover the pulseaudio port, however the output is empty. I verified pulseaudio is running using ps.
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Getting illegal operation error in Linux date change
I enter date in Linux and it displays
Friday, March 11, 2016 02:02:31 PM IST
I am trying to update the date to
date --s "Saturday, March 12, 2016 12:00:00 PM IST"
It throws an error
date: ...
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Silent disk errors and reliability of Linux swap
My understanding is that hard drives and SSDs implement some basic error correction inside the drive, and most RAID configurations e.g. mdadm will depend on this to decide when a drive has failed to ...
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Local yum repo stops working and after reboot its back
My local repo stops working every now and then and the work around is to reboot that server.
Even httpd service restart doesnt help.
yum list|grep httpd
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Partition for Linux Mint
I tried using GParted using a tutorial but i kind of made a mistake i guess in the middle. I put 40GBs from /dev/sda5 to unallocated as i read in the tutorial. I got an error message saying that i ...
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ELI5: Setting up a server that can host multiple websites [on hold]
I would like to set up a server. this is just for practice. I don't know how to set up a server that can host multiple sites. does 1 websites equivalent to a 1 pc or server? for example. I had a 1 pc ...
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How to Disable Mouse Edge Flip on Linux Mint Cinnamon 2.8
I have been suffering for the unexpected disapperance on Cinnamon 2.8 of the Enable/Disable Edge Flip option between workspaces with the mouse, I found really really annoying that every time I would ...
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What is the effect of “chattr +a” on a directory
The a Linux file attribute is often documented as applicable to files.
chattr(1) manpage:
A file with the 'a' attribute set can only be open in append mode for writing.
ext4 wiki:
0x20 ...
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Linux HP Pavilion overheating
I'm new to Linux OS and I'd like to dual boot it with Windows 7 on my HP Pavilion 15 P257NL.
I tried installing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, but the pc started to heat a lot (only on Ubuntu, it kept working as ...
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Samsung phone usage of old open source projects [on hold]
I have a new phone that is still running the old source codes. Let me start by saying I do not know a lot about Linux, and what I do know has been acquired from my devices files and text books.
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SSH Automation - Dynamically execute Script over SSH [duplicate]
Is there any tools do dynamically control with a local script a ssh session. So I can control the key pressed, wait some time, control the output. Something like AutoIt for Windows in the Linux/SSH ...
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UDP socket programming: one socket per destination? [on hold]
I have a program that receives about 12 UDP packets per second, with a size of about 102 bytes maximum. It repeats the packets to other IP addresses over the internet. Right now, it is configured to ...
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How to pair and do data transfer to mobile from embedded linux board using bluez?
We are using Bluez stack in our our embedded linux boards for attached wifi chip on UART interface.
Now we are able to scan and get the device name using hcitool. Now need to pair the device with the ...
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How to install Debian with a network that uses WPA2-Enterprise MSCHAPv2 EAP-PEAP (username/password)?
I am currently trying to install Debian on a laptop and due to firmware incompatibility, I am using the non-free netinstaller which can be found here. I cp'd it onto a USB (not a partition) and booted ...
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Grub does not boot Linux automatically, but editing the command line works
I have 2 hard-discs on my computer.
On the first one I installed Windows 7 with Linux (Ubuntu)- with different partitions.
At the beginning at booting I had the option to choose Linux/Windows.
But ...
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SSSD Centos 7 AD Binding - only some users are able to login
I have been trying to nail down the process of binding a Centos 7 install to a Windows domain but am struggling. I have managed to successfully do this in the past on a couple of boxes but I am now ...
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How to check the status of the latest aide run after login, and test if it's done less then 24h(green) or more then 48h(red)?
-Green: No changes detected and last AIDE run was less then 24 hours ago
-Red: Changes detected or last run was 2 days ago
I tried to grep the timestamp from the log file /var/log/aide/aide.log which ...
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Linux Foundation SysAdmin Certificate [on hold]
Not really a technical issue, but somebody have an example test of Linux Foundation SystemAdministrator or System Engineer certification among you?
I'm studying now to do it, but don't know if it ...
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Linux freezes randomly
I have an Acer Aspire ES1-311 Intel Pentium N3540 Quad Core 8GB 500GB 13.3 Laptop ever since I installed fedora 23 it keeps freezing randomly even sometimes during installation...........but I noticed ...
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I2C Read unexplained data [on hold]
I am trying to communicate with a PHY device using I2C primitives (read()/write())
in C language in user space. And i am getting some unexplained output in my program.
First, the bus number is 2 and ...
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1answer
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How to get a coredump from `abrt`
I'm running Fedora 23, and just recently discovered that abrt handles the coredumps from my crashed application, and places all kind of stuff in /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-date-pid. Is there a command to ...
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After reboot host goes into maintenance mode as I've the remote filesystems on LVM stack created over iSCSI LUNs - RHEL 7.x
On RHEL 7.x I observe that the remote filesystems (SAN) does not allow host to come up after reboot. It enters maintenance mode and I've to comment out the entries in /etc/fstab to bring the host up ...
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How to repeat prompt to user in a shell script?
In a set of if/elif/else/fi statements, I have made 'else' present the user with an error message, but I also want it to take the user back to the question which was asked before the if/else ...
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Searching for a string in all .txt files [duplicate]
Is there a way to search for a string test123 in all textfiles on the hdd?
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usb linux format
I have a Usb drive and that is connected to a laptop running Linux (Mint).
As soon as I install some software in it (USB memory) seems like it recognizes it as a windows partition and doesn't install ...
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Installing Fedora on a 32 bit EFI device (Dell Venue 10 Pro)
I recently won a Dell Venu 10 Pro in a hackathon and have been trying desperately to install any sort of Linux distribution onto it. Apparently, these tablets have 64 bit processors, but they only ...
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How to run Janus WebRTC Gateway on Beaglebone Black?
I installed successfully Janus WebRTC Gateway ( https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway) in /usr/local/lib and I re-configure to start Janus. But when I do sudo janus, I get this error:
/*
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For some reason “sudo ssh -w any -o Tunnel=ethernet root@remote” creates tun devices instead of tap devices
To connect multiple tunnel endpoints to a common bridge interface, I have to create a Layer 2 tunnel over ssh. The server is Ubuntu 10.04, the client is Ubuntu 14.04. I have enabled
PermitTunnel yes
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linux red-hat 7.1 + increase the ring buffer
My target is to increase the ring buffer ( I have Linux red-hat 7.1 ) , but I get the following:
ethtool -G eth1 rx 8192
Cannot set device ring parameters: Invalid argument
so how to enable this ...
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Cant interactive external program be executed using udev rules? [duplicate]
I am using following udev rule(s) to execute my program whenever block device (e.g. USB) will be attached.
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", PROGRAM+="/tmp/foo %k"
or
ACTION=="add", ...
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How to find people in pictures? [on hold]
Facebook can recognize people in photos. Apple is capable of grouping pictures by persons. I would like to do the same on my machine. This question asks for a software system, which is capable of ...
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Unable to su to any user as root on Red Hat 6.7 server
System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)
I am trying to su to kms user(OS user) as root but i keep getting error saying You are required to change your LDAP password ...
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Using wine for window printer driver on Linux [on hold]
We have some old printers with Windows drivers only at my work space. Is there any general way to use their drivers through wine?
I have not found any decent and new documentation about the problem.
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Timeout “time” command in bash
I want to timeout "time" command. For example:
timeout -s 1 time sleep 5
I never get timeout. Is any way to do this?
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Not able to cross-compile 8192cu kernel module for ARM [on hold]
I'm trying to compile a module out of tree.
make -C <path to src> M=$Pwd modules ARCH=arm CROSS...=arm-linux...
The compilation works fine and I don't get any errors but the final result is ...
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Fully rename my own GNU/Linux distribution
I am developing a Debian GNU/Linux-based operating system/distribution. It's for visually impaired people. I took the "standard" Debian Live CD and built my distribution from a bare metal command ...
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cat results of grep
I am trying to concatenate the results of my grep search.
my grep search finds about 4 files on my system and outputs them in a new line for each file. I thought by passing this information to tr '\n' ...
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How to add squashfs file to linux live iso with initrd and mount it
I'm looking for a way I can add files to linux live iso that I've built and somehow load them to memory after or before initrd loads and then mount them as tmpfs, Anyone know how to do that?
Thanks.
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How do I print the (numerical) ASCII values of each character in a file?
How can I print the numerical ASCII values of each character in a text file. Like cat, but showing the ASCII values only... (hex or decimal is fine).
Example output for a file containing the word ...
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my question is about linux operating system [on hold]
on which structure linux operating system is designed?? linux operating system are suitable for which type of applications and why???
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How to start xfce after installing it?
I've installed last version of Slackware on my Android tablet (Lenovo a5500-hv) and I've installed xfce too. But when I want to run it using the command startxfce4, it fails with this error:
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How can I tell my program to save in ~
I'm using a program which processes some data and then saves it to a file. It is possible to specify the directory in which the data is saved, however the program is badly written, so if I put ~ it is ...
