The action of modifying a program's behavior, generally by modifying a text file.
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How to use git merge drivers with Jenkins
I recently searched for a way to merge pom.xml-s automatically with git merge driver. Got it working locally but now i'd like to add this solution to Jenkins, no luck so far.
What i did:
1) I added ...
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How to determine the options Linux kernel was build with? [duplicate]
Say, I have custom kernel from my distribution, how could I get list of all options the kernel was build with?
It's possible to get them by reading config file from kernel package from vendor's repo, ...
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OpenVPN clients taking same local IP as Server [on hold]
I am having trouble with my openvpn configuration. Currently my openvpn server uses local IP 10.8.0.1, I also noticed though that it seems like my clients are taking that same local IP. My output from ...
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NetBSD 7.0.2 not honoring hostname setting when using DHCP
I've recently installed NetBSD 7.0.2, and I'm having trouble setting my hostname right.
I'm using DHCP, so I got dhclient=YES in my /etc/rc.conf.
Now, the documentation says, that there are several ...
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What does the rc on the end of home directory configuration files mean? [duplicate]
There are alot of programs in Linux / Unix that store their configurations in your home directory with a .<prog-name>rc type filename.
What does the "rc" at the end of the file name mean?
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build/install configure error can't create
I know it's been beat to death, but I'm at my wits end with this. I've followed all the entries that I can take. I'm trying to build this program on Debian 8.6. I added the blank line where I grep ...
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What options are there for managing libvirt configuration effectively?
I'm currently running a couple of hypervisors based on KVM with libvirt. The storage backend is a redundant Ceph cluster, so I'm able to start any VM on any hypervisor and/or migrate between them (...
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Why does 'manpath' work and 'echo $MANPATH' does not?
I was just wondering why echo $MANPATH does not work (on my system (Debian Jessie x86_64 GNU/Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64)). The manpath command alone works well:
user@host:~$ manpath
/usr/local/man:/usr/...
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Puppet agent: Could not request certificate 404
I've been trying to create the SSL certificates for the nodes but I have been very much unsuccessful. When I try to run puppet agent I keep getting a 404 error.
I have SELinux in a permissive state on ...
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supervisord - multiple environment variables
I have a supervisord configuration file where I need to set multiple environment variables.
E.g.
environment=A="1",B="2",C="3", etc.
Is there a way of writing this in the file so that it spans ...
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how to configure alpine to list all remote IMAP folders together?
This may be tangential to gmail usage; I registered a domain with gandi.net and want to access that e-mail with IMAP.
While I can edit this directly from .pinerc I cannot find this setting through M ...
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.htaccess rewrite not working?
I have the following virtual host in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ip-based_vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost test.local:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName test.local
DocumentRoot /home/web/test....
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How do I make Xorg completely ignore one of my display adapters?
I use Linux Mint on an x86_64 machine with the following display adapters and X server:
# inxi -G
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Card-2:...
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Claiming IP address from CentOS 7 server
A router from an internet access provider has a Gateway IP, and has several IP addresses allocated to it in the form of xx.xx.xxx.xxx.
A few server boxes with CentOS7 installed on them need to be ...
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Is password --encrypted and password --md5 the same for the GRUB config file?
In my 2 Linux servers I have the below entries in /etc/grub.conf.
Server 1 :
password --encrypted $1$something$somevalue.
Server 2:
password --md5 $1$something$somevalue.
My question is are ...
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gnome-control-center configure issue: configure: error: The Network, Bluetooth, Printers and Wacom panels are not optional on Linux systems
I'm trying to configure gnome-control-center from source so I can modify it, but after painstakingly going through installing all the dependencies that the package require, I get an error saying:
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Tmux mouse-mode on does not allow to select text with mouse
I'm using tmux 2.1 and tried to on mouse mode with
set -g mouse on
And it works fine, I can switch across tmux window splits by clicking the appropriate window. But the downside of this is that I ...
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solaris 11 zone sysconfig profile for ipmp
How to create sysidcfg profile with ipmp? Let's say we have such network config:
root@zone1:~# ipadm
NAME CLASS/TYPE STATE UNDER ADDR
ipmp_bkp ipmp ok ...
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Problem installing ZoneMinder from jessie-backports under Debian 8
Starting from a stable Debian 8 installation I did the installation steps in these links:
https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installationguide/debian.html
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/...
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/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/local/lib is not a known library type
I was following this instruction on this site to installing tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Compiling
git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git
cd tesseract
....
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How to bootstrap Firefox Sync on many machines?
Is it possible to automate the configuration of Firefox Sync on a bunch of machines? I've tried copying profiles.ini and the services.sync.* settings from ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/prefs.js to user.js, but ...
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Where is the pin-priority for debian-backports definite
Under Debian Jessie i had for the first time backports in my package-source.
I had some collision in apt, because some packages i had installt from http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ have higher ...
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“scope.sh” is lacking for ranger file manager
I think the title describes the question in this case.
Ranger is a file manager using Miller columns to navigate between the tree.
It has an external script called scope.sh that previews files ...
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Is my ModPagespeedSlowFileLatencyUs setting ignored?
I have put ModPagespeedSlowFileLatencyUs 1500000 on the top level of /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf, as recommended by various posts, but I'm still getting PageSpeed error messages like the ...
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how do you set up a linux client to use ntp information provided through dhcp?
there are so many tutorials out there explaining how to setup dhcpd server, in relation to providing ntp suggestions to dhcp clients, that I had always thought that ntp configuration was carried out ...
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How to enable access to the kernel config file through /proc/config.gz?
I see this on the Internet:
General Setup --->
<*/M> Kernel .config support
[*] Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz
But can't understand what's that mean?
I have ...
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How to change the line spacing in Terminator?
To make things more readable, I'd like to put a little more margin between lines of text. I couldn't find an answer with man terminator_config or any of the Preferences panes.
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configuration: why not conf option = file name and conf value = file content [closed]
Why is one of the Unix paradigms to save both the configuration name (aka attribute name) and the configuration value in configuration files?
An alternative is to save the attribute name in the file ...
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A desktop environment completely editable through config files?
Is there a desktop environment in which I can modify all settings completely through config file(s)? And then load them on a new system? I'm currently using Manjaro with KDE, and I really like my ...
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Why tftp direct access request to different folders with different network interfaces
Here's my /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = ...
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Huawei 4G Hostspot (e5573s-606) not working in Slitaz(Linux based OS)
I was trying to connect my Huawei 4G Hostspot (e5573s-606) in Slitaz to connect via USB to the internet but it does not connect to the internet, rather, it mounts it as Removable Storage drive. On the ...
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Setup ssh for a linux to solaris session
When I ssh to my my remote server, a solaris machine running SunOS 5.9 with C-shell as default login shell I have the following issues:
TERM variable is not defined: I need to manually set this ...
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Safely changing Linux kernel config programmatically
I'm writing a script that has to automatically change a number of Linux kernel configuration options based on an input file.
The easiest way to do this would of course be to edit the .config file ...
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How to unmap keys in fish?
I want to unmap (unbind) certain keys such as Up, Down, Left, Right, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End specifically in the fish shell.
I guess I have to use the bind command in the .config/fish/fish....
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Start Tmux with specific applications on each pane?
I want to start tmux on startup with four panes (two horizontal, two vertical) and cmus, ranger in two, and vim and urxvt terminal in the other two.
I tried to configure ~/.tmux.conf myself but ...
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How can I change specific keybindings in Tmux?
My hands get tired everytime clicking on Ctrl+b to activate tmux (prefix) and then q to switch between panes (pane numbers).
I want to map them to F1 and F2 respectively.
I understand I need to ...
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How to create foolproof user that is only allowed to video chat with one person
I have to give a laptop to my 4 yr old who lives very far away from me, so that we can have regular video chats. I want to restrict any other use for that laptop, including video chats with other ...
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Bind9 configure part of public TLD for private network devices
Our company controls a domain called foobar.com, which is used for various public services (w.g. www.foobar.com directs to our website). The domain has public DNS records in a DNS service.
We have ...
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How to Back up conffiles in the same directory without it being read.
I have seen two extensions being used which doesn't lead to configuration files in /etc/ being read.
The first is -
*.conf.backup
and the second is
*.conf.old
Are there any other extensions ...
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How does linux kernel Makefile understands .config?
How does linux kernel Makefile understands .config? Does it have a parser of defconfig file? It has to produce a lot of #defines for each enabled option from defconfig and also maintain a lot of minor ...
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stunnel No certificate returned unknown CA
I have 2x stunnels linux based, 1 server, 1 client.
What I am trying to do is to use a stunnel client and with verify 3 it authenticates the user based on the certificate.
Here are the config files ...
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2answers
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Dynamic variables in systemd service unit files
Is there a way to dynamically assign environment variables in a systemd service unit file?
We have a machine that has 4 GPUs, and we want to spin up multiple instances of a certain service per GPU. E....
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Irssi color window name on activity
How I can change the colors of the channel names which are active ? (some other user is interacting on that channel)
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Scanning order of the kbuild / kconfig kernel build system?
I would like to know what is the order followed by kbuild when configuring the kernel and what is the order that it's more convenient to use when writing CONFIG_ options in the .config file .
I have ...
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How to find libavcodec to build VLC (with AFL fuzz)?
I'm running a Ubuntu 64-bit system in a VM. I wanted to fuzz the VLC media player, so I grabbed the tar file, and built the dependencies and tried configuring it using this line:
./configure CC="afl-...
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Where are my settings that say use DHCP rather than Static?
I am running Lubuntu 16.10 on a VM, its using DHCP (because that's the default at installation, and i did not do anything special to change it). My host OS is Win10 connected via Wi-Fi / wireless.
Dr ...
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Change login failure message
I want to change login failure message in Debian 8 x64
login: root
password:
login incorrect - /this/
login:
Can you tell me how to do that?
P.S.: and for more - how to set number of login attempts?...
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2answers
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How to force a CONFIG_ option to stay on?
I don't know how to properly debug the kernel configuration process when an option that should be on ( because it doesn't really depends on anything and it doesn't conflict with anything that I can ...
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How do you list all files created by the user after a clean install?
I have a machine that is not in use and I wish to do a clean install of Linux on the machine. There may be important files on the machine.
How do you list all files created by the user after a clean ...
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Apache not binding to port 80?
I am having issues with Apache. I just installed Centos and waant to create a webserver of my own. I am following the directions of "the perfect server for centos 7.2" and came upon this error on my ...
