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On Debian 13 a fresh installed sssd (2.10.1) shows strange permission errors after the start using systemctl restart sssd.service: systemd[1]: Starting sssd.service - System Security Services Daemon......

I am new to socket programming & I have realized that most posix functions from libc require that you pass a buffer & a length. While I can understand this helps the functions to understand ...

I'm trying to follow the instructions on the Fedora site, to create a Samba share:- sudo dnf install samba the result is "Package "samba-2:4.23.3-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed. ...

I've tried using sed for this. I've tried putting the lines of interest in variables as well. I have two examples I want to achieve for now. Lets say I have thousands of urls in a file called links....

Problem: Sleep or restart kills all sound from the system. Workaround: Using the system settings, switching soundcard's profile from Pro Audio to Analog Stereo Duplex and port to Line Out / headphones ...

In order to write to a directory, I made a user member of a group called node_exporter. This user, called podman, had lingering enabled. I logged out and logged in again and verified with id the new ...

I'm trying to use ECDSA (prime256v1) for signature verification in U-Boot (git tag "v2025.10"). I used the sample configuration from Verified Boot on the Beaglebone Black as a template. ...

Recently I got a Thinkpad T480 with a US keyboard layout and installed Arch (I know, the stereotype...), with KDE. I mostly use Windows for work, and I'm used to using an American physical layout ...

I sometimes find myself wanting to use the output of apt list as a list of arguments to apt, i.e. a space separated list of package names. Any time I want this I have to search for how to do it and ...

How do I fix this error? GPG error: https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot parrot InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7A8286AF0E81EE4A E: ...

I can very happily list the systems on my local net with the avahi-browser command: $ avahi-browse --all --verbose Server version: avahi 0.8; Host name: mylinux.local E Ifce Prot Name ...

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 ...

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 ; ...

I have 5 service units setup in systemd. I need service file 5 to only stop after 1-4 service files have stopped first. How can I make that happen.

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 ...