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Posts by dsr‭

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Q&A Which Linux system to use?

Beginners should always start with a Linux that people around them are using. If they have friends using Red Hat, they should use Red Hat. If they have a local users' group with lots of Ubuntu user...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Why does the file command fail to recognize non-text files as such?

You might be enlightened by reading the man page for file(1). A brief quotation: This manual page documents version 5.35 of the file command. file tests each argument in an attempt to classify...

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

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Q&A What does a minimal /etc/hosts need to contain?

Technically, you don't need an /etc/hosts file at all if you have some other form of name resolution available - i.e. DNS. In practice, what you have will work nicely, and could be cut down to jus...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A How to run a command on a list of files?

If I just used find to generate a list of files, then find's -exec argument is usually the way to run some other program on each file found. If you pipe the command to xargs, note that -P n wi...

posted 1y ago by dsr‭  ·  edited 1y ago by AdminBee‭

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Meta Tag/category suggestions

I have some suggestions for categories, or perhaps tags, here. kernel distribution-specific daemon application server laptop desktop phone/device hardware

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by dsr‭  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A How to configure GNOME Keyring to by default NOT automatically unlock keyrings whenever logged in, on Debian?

Two things: First, if you create a second keyring, one not named login.keyring, it will not be automatically unlocked on login. Second, GNOME has a policy that they don't let users configure thin...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A sensors to histogram

The basic version is xsensors, widely packaged and originating at http://www.linuxhardware.org/xsensors/. There are various desktop-environment specific versions which might be prettier, according...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭

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