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White spacing is causing variable to not contain all text in result
Disclaimer: I am brand new to bash I'm building a dialog box and trying to get some Docker commands to populate results. I am using this to return a result, which works for the most part. result=($(...
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how to convert hex memory dump to Docsis config file?
Hex memory dump is Docsis config file. Is it possible to convert this hex dump info valid Docsis config file? Preferably, using Perl and DOCSIS::ConfigFile module. (or Python scripts, python-docsis). ...
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Why does `chmod 640` prevent group read access on macos?
I'm a student learning UNIX permissions and scripting on macOS. I created a short script that makes a file and applies chmod 640. However, a user in the same group cannot read the file. Here is the ...
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file-nr keeps increasing forever
I have a cloud VM running linux-yocto 6.17 and a few daemon processes--postfix, dovecot, rspamd, nginx, sshd, fail2ban and redis. Ever since upgrading from 6.11 to 6.17, I've noticed that /proc/sys/fs/...
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How to manage swap memory inside an encrypted LUKS LVM?
I am using Kubuntu which is Ubuntu with KDE. My swap partition is too small causing me some lag. I have 16GB Ram but it is set to 1.9GB. Attached is screen shots of my current partition. vgkubuntu is ...
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Arch Linux start script
Hi I was just wondering if this script looks ok I run it after I login thanks. #!/bin/bash echo "hi, starting wifi, nft and desktop" sudo ls sudo systemctl start wpaStart.service sudo nft -...
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Debian: sssd does not start because of permission problems of /etc/sssd/sssd.conf that are automatically set
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......
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Why SMTP command is running always?
Almost always I can see many smtp processes in ps aux command output like this: postfix 924674 0.4 0.0 44460 9212 ? S 18:54 0:00 smtp -t unix -u -c postfix 924675 0.2 0.0 44460 ...
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Difference between these 2 different ways of extracting files from a zip archive
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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Word Wrap issue Using VI on MacBook via zsh terminal [closed]
Trying to achieve word wrap before EOL with command :set wm=15. Not working. Help appreciated. 1st Post. Thanks. Line length is 80. I expected command :set wm=15 to recognize end of line coming up ...
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Linux kernel “BUG: Bad page state / Bad page cache in process python” during PyTorch distributed training (NVidia 5090 + Ubuntu 22.04)
I’m encountering a recurring kernel memory error while running heavy PyTorch training workloads . The system eventually becomes unstable, training stops, SSH disconnects, and the machine needs a ...
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How to fix the update and upgrade in ParrotOS
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: ...
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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?
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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Clonezilla image restoration
So I want to restore two partitions from a clonezilla image, let's call them x and y, to a different set of partitions on a different device, m and n. The issue I currently face is that Clonezilla ...
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No Xorg after upgrade on Debian testing/forky
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 ...