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I've seen a lot of questions about running scripts in random times during a day using bash's $RANDOM but a month exceeds the limit it has. How can I do that?

On various, mostly security and privacy related reasons, I would be more happy if my caching-only bind9 would only use TCP to make outward connections. Of course, it should be able to accept and ...

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 ...

I'm alternating between working on KDE Konsole and an Xfce terminal. I'd like to make keyboard shortcuts as consistent as possible for my muscle memory. In particular, I'd like to be able to switch ...

I'm trying to get mailto URLs to open in gmail on KDE. Viagee used to be the accepted approach, but this seems to have been killed by Google revoking the app from its application tore and ignoring ...

I want to spider plants.usda.gov before it disappears due to budget cuts. However every wget combo I try results in an ultimately blank result. I also checked on archive.org and there too, the entries ...

"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 ...

I have a question about Mellanox Connect X-4 Infiniband. I installed it on my PC with Ubuntu 22.04.3 OS installed, but it doesn't let me access the OS and it takes forever. Does anyone understand this ...

I'm hosting a minecraft server for my son on a docker container residing on my Ubuntu server. I've been trying to get this to be 'auto detected' by the minecraft client that appears to use IGMP ...

I need to know the hours of the reboots of a machine. The system used is Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm. However, I'm a bit confused about what I read... If I understand correctly, the first date will be ...

I am trying to set up a mailserver using OpenSMTPD. My configuration is: listen on enp4s0f2 action "save" maildir "/mail/%{rcpt}" match for rcpt-to regex ".*" action &...

I have a large table of numbers using the wrong decimal separator for my locale (dot instead of comma), so LibreOffice Calc does not parse them as numbers, but as strings. I can apply this function to ...

I want to edit a file before feeding it into an array. The data file contains: Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 If I read it with mapfile -t direct < data I obtain a 3-element direct array But I pipe the ...

When I print from Libre Office and have the default "Generic" Printer, I get "Could not start generic printer. Check your printer configuration". What needs to be done so that I do ...

I have copied my ext4 root filesystem (on /dev/nvme0n1p6) to a new btrfs filesystem on /dev/nvme1n1p2. There are lots of guides telling me how to chroot into the new filesystem and make grub consider ...