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Q&A What does capital T mean in the output of 'ls -l'?

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...

posted 3y ago by re89j‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to reduce DPI of external monitor using xrandr

Have I have the DPI on my laptop set in .Xresources with Xft.dpi: 192. I am outputting to the external monitor with: xrandr --output HDMI-2 --auto --rotate left --right-of eDP-1 Want I want ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

Question xrandr external-display dpi
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Q&A Preserve the sources extracted by dpkg-source so as to save time

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 ...

posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A xrandr rotate not filling external monitor

This was fixed after restart. I believe this was caused by updating without restarting. It's possible it also had to do with disconnecting the HDMI cable.

posted 3y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A xrandr rotate not filling external monitor

Problem I can rotate output, but it does not fill screen. Instead it rotates in place so that the right side of the screen goes off the monitor. xrandr --output HDMI-2 --auto --mode 1920x1080 --...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A Dynamic IP & lease loss - "callback" mechanism?

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by CanisSomnolentus‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by jimbobmcgee‭

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Q&A A shell script that can run under different shells

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...

posted 3y ago by mjy‭

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Q&A Reducing Noise from yum-cron when repos are out of date

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by re89j‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

Question yum-cron yum repo noise
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Q&A Scalable fonts are not loaded into the X server database

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...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How do I prevent remote syslog events from printing locally?

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by re89j‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by bgstack15‭

Question rsyslog syslog logging
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Q&A Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS)

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...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A I deselected a package and changed my mind. How to select it without re-emerging?

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...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How can you create a separate home partition using LVM?

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by true_blue‭  ·  edited 3y ago by true_blue‭

Question Fedora LVM partitioning /home OS-installation
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Q&A How can you create a separate home partition using LVM?

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...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6205 not found in Debian

I had mentioned in the comment, @Canina‭ I had updated my system also. But, actually I had updated my system before making changes to /etc/apt/sources.list. You have to work as a root user...

posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by deleted user

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Meta Red border on question

I wonder how I got the red border. I was going to click Ctrl+Tab. Unfortunately, I had clicked on something else. I don't know what I clicked. I had clicked on Enter to see if I could enter the p...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A Trying to print with CUPS from Chromebook through Debian box to USB printer

Hi everyone, First post! I'm trying to be able to print from a client machine over my lan to an older HP Laserjet 1012 connected via USB to a Debian box. It prints fine directly. I've gone thro...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by kserwick‭  ·  edited 4y ago by kserwick‭

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Q&A With a V4L2-compatible webcam, how to see its video feed for the purpose of adjusting aiming?

I have ordered (but am still waiting for it to arrive) a USB-connected webcam that is supposed to be V4L2 compatible. Once it arrives, I'm obviously going to want to mount it such that it provides...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to use Avro in Linux?

I am using Manjaro(Arch-based Linux). And, I had installed Avro using the following command by getting help of the documentation yay -S ibus-avro-git Avro is software using that software user w...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by deleted user

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Q&A What are IUSE flags?

IUSE flags are simply the list of available and default USE flags for a package as defined by the Ebuild maintainer. Definition IUSE is defined from a developer's perspective in man 5 ebuild (...

posted 4y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to use Avro in Linux?

At first I had listed engines. ibus list-engine > engine.txt Then, I found engines name... Then, I had set engine following way ibus engine xkb:ph:capewell-dvorak:eng

posted 4y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

I have installed mysql-server on Ubuntu 20.04 then I tried to sign into mysql-server using sudo mysql -u root but I have got Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mys...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A What are IUSE flags?

Every Gentoo user knows USE flags. Occasionally I stumble upon IUSE flags, for example, man emerge mention them in the description of an option: --newuse, -N ... USE flags may be toggled by yo...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A click and open a URI link from a terminal in Docker

I am using Docker on Windows (from Powershell) to run a container that runs Rocky Linux. I can run GUI applications (e.g., xeyes) from the container by running VcXsrv on Windows, and setting DISPLA...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Trevor‭

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Q&A How to enable SysRq key?

Thanks to the comments, I was able to determine that it is in fact working, I just wasn't looking in the right place for output. For anyone else with the same/similar issue, start watching the cor...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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