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Will the overall unit status be failed if either ExecStop or ExecStopPost fail? I would expect it to be so, but the documentation isn't very explicit about it.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Mint (or Ubuntu) user. Using your distro's live image: Do your partition stuff Mount the new root to the live system at /mnt[1] Mount your other partitions to the new ro...
My primary drive is partitioned basically like so (only roughly to scale): / /home junk v v v |xx###############...
What security risks can be introduced this way, and how? Consider the following scenario: A legitimate server listens on some network port. Usually¹ no other process can listen on the por...
With yq: $ yq --output-format yaml . file.json > file.yaml . is a filter which is applied to the data, but since . just stands for the document root, this means that the data is passed throu...
How to convert a json file to yaml? Technically json is already valid yaml, but I'm talking about the characteristic easy-to-read yaml formatting with indentation and minimal quotes.
I'll add a specific, simple way that worked for me: Create some kind of Linux Live USB Boot into Live OS Use lsblk and blkid to figure out which drive exactly is the old and new one. Stay in t...
$ pacman --query --list package-name Or the short version: $ pacman -Ql package-name Source: pacman manpage
How to show a list of files belonging to a package with pacman?
To migrate your main filesystem to a new drive, utilize disk cloning software or backup utilities like Clonezilla or EaseUS Todo Backup for a perfect transfer.
I have no experience with dunst, but generally you want a global service-level dropin file in /etc/systemd/system/service.d/ with OnFailure= setting in it. This way it gets added to all services ru...
Gnome disks can create a disk image, and then restore it to the new one. The new drive has to be same size or larger, although this is obvious. If it is larger, the partition will still be small, ...
I want to switch hard drives. How do I migrate my root FS from the drive it's on, to the new one, so that everything is exactly as it is?
How can I get notifications to dunst when systemd units fail?
Do any of the cron implementations allow you to manually trigger cron jobs (stuff in your crontab) right now, in the exact same manner as they would have when triggered on their usual schedule, exc...
This is how to save it to a file: $ gpg --export --armor key-id > my-key.pub --armor stands for the format with printable characters.
GPG stores keys inside an internal database of some sort. How to export your public key in the familiar -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- format so that it can be imported to other software? E.g...
With the inspect subcommand, and you probably want to set a format to filter out all the other clutter: $ skopeo inspect --format='{{ .Digest }}' docker://docker.io/snipe/snipe-it:v6.3.4 sha256:...
How to get the (index) digest of a remote container image with skopeo? So this would be your normal container image in a container registry. E.g. in docker.io
Here's the relevant ArchWiki page. The gist of it is that most of those warnings are probably for some fairly obscure hardware, and can be just ignored (provided that your system indeed works fine...
When PSF says Python 3.8 is not supported, they are simply saying they will no longer bother fixing bugs in or adding stuff to that version. It's not like Python 3.8 will start automatically explod...
When an upstream project stops supporting a version (e.g., Python stops supporting 3.8), the maintainers of the distribution do the job of supporting those components, applying security patches as ...
Motivating example: my Mint 20.3 distribution offers long-term support until April 2025, which matches the "standard support" offered for the upstream Ubuntu (20.04 "Jammy Jellyfish"). However, the...
In gpg(1), one normally adds recipients of an encrypted message with --recipient. Those recipients will be able to decrypt the message, and their key ID will appear unencrypted, so anyone will kno...
When I create the initramfs, I sometimes see messages like: ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'xhci_pci' I get many for different modules. What do they mean? Should I in...
