Questions tagged [linux]
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ZFS refusing to import healthy pool
I'm hoping someone can help me out of this problem. I run a zfs pool comprised of 4 2tb drives. At some point the controller failed, and the pool went offline. knowing it's just a faulty controller, I ...
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Why Linux read() avoids using full 2 GiB in one call
Reading the manual page (man 2 read) on my Debian system, I see the following note: NOTES [...] On Linux, read() (and similar system calls) will transfer at most 0x7ffff000 (2,147,479,552) bytes, ...
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Find and remove spaces in files and folders, then find patterns in files, then copy the files found
First I will describe the task I have: I have several disks I have a list of phrases (words) in a patterns.txt file that I use as search patterns I must to review the disks in search of files ...
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disabling I8042 driver completely
"i8042 is still probing even though I disabled CONFIG_SERIO_I8042. Does it have dependent configurations? Even after passing kernel command-line arguments: i8042.nopnp i8042.noaux , I still see ...
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Creating in Linux files in GB or MB range by various random size by read a file [closed]
In Linux in Bash i have this script (thanks to Ed Morton) . $ cat ./tst.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash while read -r idx sfx size; do echo fallocate "file${idx}.${sfx}" "$size" done &...
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Creating in Linux files in GB or MB range by various size by read a file [closed]
In Linux with Bash, there is the File numbers_in_one_line. In this file there is only one line with several numbers, all separated by spaces. These numbers are the value in bytes for creating files ...
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I used Generative AI to write up my codes for my Antivirus program (SAFA_AV) can anyone turn this into real c++ programming syntax? [closed]
** **#include <iostream> // Include other necessary headers // #include <accctrl.h> // Ensure this file exists const char* Add_MSG = "Your System Has Security ...
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Motd ssh server with ascii image with 24 bit color (truecolor)
I cannot visualise an ascii art image in 24 bit colors when I log into my server via ssh. I have created a dynamic motd for my ssh server. Specifically in the file /etc/update-motd.d/10-logo there is ...
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ldd not showing actual shared libraries address
After having deactivated ASLR, with: echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space I used ldd /path/to/binary to get the address of the shared library that my binary (written in C) was using, ...
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setting up PXE and DHCP server on RHEL VM
So I am trying to setup a kickstart server with pxeboot and dhcp server (for ks) on RHEL 8 VM. When I capture network traffic I do not see any pxe/tftp traffic coming to the VM or the host.... I tried ...
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Created a new user in the same group as another user, but new user cannot access directory
I am trying to create a new user in Linux, such that the new user can access (read) log files that were created by another, previously-existing user (the "oracle" user). The log files are ...
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Linux group membership problem for VNC session
In an almalinux9.5 machine, I am sudo user. I am using a vnc session to access the machine. I've added myself from this vnc machine to linux groups using : sudo usermod -aG <group-name> <user-...
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How to send files over WebSocket with websocat tool?
I brought a wss:// server up using websocat: websocat -E -t -v --pkcs12-der=q.pkcs12 wss-listen:0.0.0.0:8443 mirror: And on the client I am running this command to establish a secure WebSocket ...
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Can't get custom systemd service to automatically disconnect and log-off Nord VPN session upon Linux system shutdown
I'm writing a systemd service to automate the process of gracefully disconnecting and logging-out of Nord VPN upon system shutdown. This service should run, regardless of whomever is the user ...
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My Ubuntu Linux home directory is /home/ls. Why is it "ls" and not my user name?
I have installed Ubuntu Linux under WSL on my Windows 11 PC. I established a username during the installation, perdiem. When everything was up and running, I cd'ed to ~, and the directory I ended up ...
