Until recently, I've been using Windows 10, and experimenting with Linux systems within VMs. Today I made the switch to Ubuntu. I decided soon after that I wanted to try Debian and Mint. In both of these systems, I reach the screen that allows me to select what to boot into (e.g in Debian it all...

I have a group of servers with a shared home folder. I want to install a systemd service/timer that makes some api calls everyday at a certain time. If I put them in the suggested location of /home/<user>/.config/systemd then they get replicated to each server which shares the home folder. How ...

I am trying to understand the following issue. Consider the following ncurses program: #include <curses.h> int main() { initscr(); noecho(); printw("0000000"); getch(); } Compilation is: $ gcc -o t t.c -lncurses Here is what I see using default setup (exec line is simply $ ./t): 0 Whic...

We have some (embedded) systems based on the NXP i.MX6Q boards. Some are equipped with Intel WiFi modules and some are equipped with modules based on the Atheros AR9285 chipset. We have for a while been running Ubuntu 14.04 with a 3.14 kernel, and the Atheros modules works fine with that setup. ...

When using pipes for example sudo cat /dev/sda | strings | less I can move around the lines of strings of my sda device. But are the contents of the sda device loaded fully and outputed to the output stream of cat? Or are the new lines evaluated whenever a program requests output from cat ? ( ...

I am using Elasticsearch + Kibana + File-/Metric-/Winlogbeat to summarize my logfiles. To not fill up my HDD with tons of logs I wanted to just keep them 14 days - so I installed Curator to do this job for me. Unfortunately Curator is not deleting any logs due to Empty List. I was not able to fig...

root@ubuntu:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/50-cloud-init.cfg # This file is generated from information provided by # the datasource. Changes to it will not persist across an instance. # To disable cloud-init's network configuration capabilities, write a file # /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable...

When clicking on "following" of a question after the suggestive "Get updates..." ok/box, that box does not disappear and the subsequent boxes that appear show below that pesky box. So I cannot read them. Only going to another page makes this box disappear. FF 74.0

When clicking on "following" of a question after the suggestive "Get updates..." ok/box, that box does not disappear and the subsequent boxes that appear show below that pesky box. So I cannot read them. Only going to another page makes the box disappear. FF 74.0

I want to listen on a port 3001 for node application server server.listen(3001, "0.0.0.0", () => { console.log("listening 3001"); }); The server is lauched correctly but don't recieve requests ufw ports : toto# sudo ufw status Status: active To Action From...