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man crontab reads:
The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR
environment variables. After you exit from the editor, the modified ...
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On my Arch system, failed attempts to run sudo cause a line like this to be added to the logs (note the USER=root):
Nov 20 14:59:31 oregano sudo[191472]: bob : user NOT in sudoers ; TTY=pts/26 ; ...
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find takes an (optional) list of (what the man page calls) "starting points", i.e. directories, followed by an expression. Is there a way to cleanly separate both types of arguments so that ...
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I am trying to unzip a set of files (3 files). These files contain a lot of random files, duplicate files etc. To do this, I am first unziping the list of the names of files into a text file, then ...
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On this filesystem, there are enough inodes already, I only need more filesystem size:
# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/spinning-backup ...
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There is a headless machine, with Debian as its OS:
$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 11 \n \l
$ uname -a
Linux mymachine 6.1.99 #33 SMP Tue Jan 21 11:32:39 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux
What I wish to ...
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Suppose we have a script named test_sort in our $PATH with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
function echo_text () {
printf -- "%s\n" "$fc$oc$fs$lc"
printf -- "%s\n&...
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I'm wondering where a new path has to be added to the PATH environment variable. I know this can be accomplished by editing .bashrc (for example), but it's not clear how to do this.
This way:
export ...
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This error shows up everytime I install Kali Linux, whenever I try to boot it. Then, it dissapears and the screen blacks out. The error is the following:+[drm:vmw_host_log [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to ...
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I'd like to do some general disk io monitoring on a debian linux server. What are the tools I should know about that monitor disk io so I can see if a disk's performance is maxed out or spikes at ...
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I installed Linux Mint on my laptop along with a pre-installed Windows 10. When I turn on the computer, the normal GRUB menu appears most of the time:
But after booting either Linux or Windows then ...
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I have recently installed CentOS 7 (Minimal Install without GUI) and now I want to install a GUI environment in it.
How can I install Desktop Environments on previously installed CentOS7 without ...
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I am trying to deploy django app.
When I print
apt-get update
I see
W: Unable to read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ - DirectoryExists (13: Permission denied)
W: Unable to read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ - ...
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What can you do with the eval command? Why is it useful? Is it some kind of a built-in function in bash? There is no man page for it..
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Can you answer these questions?
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After today's apt-upgrade of my Debian testing system I cannot start an (Xorg) x-session any more on a machine with Intel HD graphics and using the modesetting driver (the classic i915 does not work ...
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I'm trying to follow the instructions on the Fedora site, to create a Samba share:-
sudo dnf install samba
Package "samba-2:4.23.3-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed. Nothing to do.
sudo ...
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How to dump the lost+found content from an ext4 img file that cannot be mounted using debugfs in linux and keep the folder hierarchy?
My ext4 disk was failing. I made a disk image.
I tried e2fsck and ...
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