This question appears to be an XY problem: Find out which command runs when I call a particular function from shell Would it be ok to delete the whole question body and replace it with the title? Maybe add an extra sentence or two but none of the technical details that currently speculate on how...

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Wouldn't it be possible to achieve this?

I have laptop MSI GP70 and I am able to boot installation from first USB stick and install it on second USB stick, then when I want to boot installed system from second USB drive I am unable to do so, even pressing F11 this drive is not listed in possible boot drives... on the other hand I am abl...

I fail to understand why my swap is getting full although I have plenty of available memory: When looking at what processes are actually using swap : ************************************ Swap's process in count 1 systemd : 1 : VmSwap: 520 kB otrs.Daemon.pl : 21002 : VmSwap: ...

I just want to hear your thoughts. Our group has four (4) 48-core nodes we use for computations. Currently, each node has Ubuntu installed which acts like standalone computers. Do you think it's practical to use a job manager like SLURM to oganize our (i.e. from different users) jobs?

I was developing a PWA(Progressive Web Application) on my Ubuntu 16.4 Offline and one requirement of the framework is an HTTPS connection to be able to run. I configured my Apache server and enabled the HTTPS VirtualHost configuration. But the problem with the configuration is that I can't acce...

About a week ago, there were some questions on Ask Ubuntu by various users that were totally unrelated to Ubuntu. One was about cooking or something like that. The same thing happened today with a question about eggs yolks and nonsense which had -6 (6 undervotes) and got locked. But there was a ...

I have two profiles on a ubuntu machine. One of them is in sudoers list as well while another is not. I create a directory in first profile's home directory. Then change the ownership of this directory to another profile. Now when I switch to another profile and try to read this directory, it say...

I'm trying to set up a virtual machine with a Linux Mint 18.3 host and Win10 x64 guest. Unfortunately, snaking an Ethernet cable into my room is not an option, and my wifi's chipset (BCM4360) does not support WDS ("sudo iw dev wlp6s0 set 4addr on" gives an error). I've spent the past 3 days tryi...

I have root on my computer but I can't edit the BIOS and so I can't boot from a USB/CD etc. I could plug in a new hard drive but I would like to know if I can install and boot off a new install of Ubuntu without doing that. Is it possible to install a new version of Ubuntu and edit grub to ...

I'm sure I'm not the only one getting this solicitation today: https://stackoverflow.com/election I don't understand why I'm being asked to vote regular Stack Overflow users to become mods? I hardly visit the site and there are no mod elections mentioned for Ask Ubuntu where there are lots of gr...