I know this is a basic question for many, but how would I set up a password-less login to an SSH server? According to the Ubuntu server guide, I would just import a key into my host machine, the one from which I am connecting, to the server where the key pair was generated. The opposite happened....

I am trying to mount a file share on an Azure Storage account onto a linux VM. The command I have issued is sudo mount -t cifs //xxx.file.core.windows.net/xxx /home/vinay/idol-mount-new -o vers=3.0,username=xxxx,password=password==,dir_mode=7777,file_mode=7777 When list contents of idol-mount...

After installing Workstation on Ubuntu machine, I am unable to start it. I get the following message: "Before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel." I tried re-installing the Workstation however It did not solve the issue. I'm trying to create...

I decided to take my problem to this site, as I have the following issue with Ubuntu 17.03, 16.04 AND Debian 8 stable... I own an Asus Notebook that had several distributions installed... I noticed that my notebook is sometimes not shutting down properly (screen gets black, but distribution's sh...

I got a SSD with Win10 and a new NVMe SSD that I wanna use for Ubuntu. Therefore I did the Ubuntu expert installation and created three partitions: the primary one for Ubuntu, I logical partition that I want to use for DropBox, OwnCloud and other shared data and finally a swap partition. Then the...

Seriously? "Declined dude, use standard flags" Trying to be helpful here. The post wasn't quite rude, just a rant, like I mentioned. Is this the style to get people behave like you have in mind?

Is this normal that I can add any text in "Favorite Tags" section which is not really called a tag? even I'm able to add duplicated entries! Is this a bug there or how that will work if I add "Hello Worl!" there as my favorite tag? This will help me to highlight what kind of Qs or As?

Is there any way to quote/format code including automated line numbers? Sometimes especially in quite long configuration files and scripts it would be very helpful for both question and answers to be able to refer to a certain line of code by line number. Is there a way to get something like ...

I'm trying to set up Jenkins (runs in Docker; official image) which runs as user "jenkins". And Jenkins should start a virtual machine using docker-machine and virtualbox. I bind-mounted /dev/vboxnetctl into the jenkins container. And I also tried to use sudo to run docker-machine as root. But ...

I want to run a command, say touch ~/test.txt every time I'm logging out from my computer. Is that possible, and if so how should I go about doing this? I've looked at other responses but they were a bit too obscure. Specifically one mentioned that I should be finding some sort of 'common' file i...

I would greatly appreciate any professional help as I have tried almost all solutions online (with my limited knowledge of linux). My goal: To successfully run VMware on my Xubuntu Desktop 16.04. My problem: After almost completing the entire installation of 'VMware-Workstation-Full-12.5.6-55...

I was trying to find the correlation between downvoting and losing 1 rep for the downvote. If I understood correctly downvoting a post with a score ≥ 0 always takes away 1 reputation from me. But I couldn't see a consistent pattern while downvoting a post with a negative score. If I'm not mis...

I have a directory containing files with names rho_0.txt rho_5000.txt rho_10000.txt rho_150000.txt rho_200000.txt and so on. I would like to delete all those that are a multiple of 5000. I tried the following: printf 'rho_%d.txt\n' $(seq 5000 10000 25000) | rm, but that gave me the response...

It was brought up in antoher Meta thread a disagreement over the use of Rude/Abusive on rants. In so much as the link for the Rude/Abusive flag points to the Be Nice policy. In my experience, rants are not respectful and ultimately should be considered violations of the Be Nice policy. However...

I'm running Linux Mint 18.2. For some strange reason, systemd is spawning a Java process running jetty, on localhost:8080. Browsing there, I get the default "Welcome to Jetty 8 on Debian" static page. So, I've done update-rc.d -f jetty8 remove, and I guess that will make the problem go away, but...

I have Windows 10 as host and install Ubuntu 16.04 using VirtualBox. But when I issued the command ifconfig, it shows the below response: sandeep@sandeep:~$ ifconfig docker0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:42:20:fc:a0:c9 inet addr:172.17.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 U...