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It takes a long time to build even the source package for a PPA of a huge project, and while the build isn't finished my computer is under heavy load so I can barely navigate a browser. The frustra...
To get rid of it, I ran: $ sudo chmod o-t /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml $ ls -l /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 735 Dec 19 22:03...
From man dpkg-source, -ss Specifies that the original source is available both as a directory and as a tarfile. dpkg-source will use the directory to create the diff, but the tarfile to ...
I'm playing with NAT, and have a script now that, at startup of my little Linux machine, creates some DNAT rules, which take one incoming special port, and forward that to another interface with a ...
I'm currently using Fedora 34 and want to install Fedora 35 while keeping around just my home folder. Currently I don't have a separate home partition, but I read online that it's easy to make one ...
I don't use Fedora myself, but from the documentation, it looks like it doesn't use LVM unless you explicitly set that up during installation, but rather Btrfs by default. How your system is actual...
From Selected-packages set (Portage) — Adding an atom without recompilation (yes, embarrassingly the very link in the question, the word "atom" put me off...), emerge --noreplace xournalpp --no...
In Debian derivatives (of which Ubuntu is one), and more generally those distributions that use the Debian apt package manager tool suite, for packages to be "kept back" during an upgrade means tha...
I have a GNU/Linux host that I use to aggregate syslog events from a few switches, printers, and generally less versatile hosts on my LAN. I set up rsyslog years ago to listen on UDP:514 and save ...
Further digging led me to this post on the FreeBSD forum, in which a user says that The functionality of the freetype module is contained in the libXfont library. And sure enough I managed to...
I have a few CentOS servers that I want to stay automatically up to date with yum-cron, and I want to get emails when there are problems but I do not want to get so many emails about repos being ou...
I came up with three methods. Exit early Use exit early instead of the elif syntax. Basically shell is an interpreter. As soon as the parsing of the first if statement is finished, it will be e...
I don't know if this is universal or specific to my setup (zsh, GNOME Terminal, Xorg), but using "+yy (double quote, plus, Y, Y) instead of just yy works for me. Note this is the same command used...
How one may unpack .zst archived on Ubuntu? I received .zst archive file and I am looking for a way to unpack it.
I noticed that downloading all the pacman packages for a full system install takes a lot of time, so I want to create a systemd time that will periodically download them for me. That way, most of t...
I want the cd command to automatically change to the first directory that matches a fuzzy search, without prompting me to select between multiple options. This is what I've tried: cd() { loc...
There's a easiest way to solve the problem that is you have to remove the file /home/istiak/ruby/qpixel/tmp/pids/server.pid. Then, you can run your server again. rm /home/istiak/ruby/qpixel/tmp/pi...
Yes! It's possible to install debian formatted file in Arch-Based Linux. You have to install dpkg at first. sudo pacman -Sy dpkg Then, you can install any package using dpkg. dpkg -i package.d...
How can I rescale the Linux virtual terminals (ctrl + alt + {f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6}), so that a high-resolution display doesn't make the letters too small? I'd like to use 1080 or even 720 resolu...
Airflow is a distributed workflow manager intended for complex cloud computing use. However, it can be used to run tasks locally. You can run Airflow in single-node mode, with LocalExecutor, and w...
I'm trying to containerize an application that currently uses apparmor to confine Python. This allows sandboxing of user-submitted code. How can I get docker and apparmor to play well together? Cu...
That sounds like bad design on the developers' part. There are many unavoidable ways a program may be terminated unexpectedly: Killed by an OOM killer Program crash Terminated by virus OS cra...
I found a partial fix. You have to run: sudo nvidia-ctk cdi generate --output=/etc/cdi/nvidia.yaml After this, podman is able to run it: sudo podman run --rm --device nvidia.com/gpu=all ubuntu...
Git is a very good way to sync dotfiles. There are other sync methods, but git also gives you version control, which is the other crucial part of the dotfile approach. Dealing with secrets in git ...
I store my address book with abook(1). https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/abook/abook.1.en.html Let's say I want to introduce some contact in some field that accepts the usual name <email>...
