@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @CCWTech said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness: On Ubuntu 19.10, there is a brightness setting on the power screen in settings. But it doesn't seem to do anything. You can slide it, but nothing happens. Anyone having luck adjusting screen brightness on Ubuntu? We've tested on multiple machines, all seem the same. Both Nvidia and AMD cards same lack of adjustment. Running 19.10 and I don't even have a brightness setting at all. I have it, but it affects nothing. Laptop or desktop monitor? I can't imagine it working on anything but a laptop. Desktop That's why. I know of no OS that controls monitor brightness unless it's a laptop/tablet/phone/etc. Never an external monitor with separate power source. Me either, but @CCWTech was asking for it. I've never looked for it before. No idea what it should do in that situation.

@JaredBusch said in Live boot: No he wasn't. he was helping someone else. Your response is both confirmation and denial to my question. I get that it's a definition about what live booting is. I was asking why was he posting it. You stated "No he wasn't" (wasn't what, helping someone?) and then said he was helping someone.

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Is there a reason that you are looking into Awk? Awk is a programming language that used to be popular for extension text processing in conjunction with BASH. But in the last decades, its use has fallen away and that is why you won't find examples of it. It's only used for very basic things now. Languages like Perl and Python supplanted it being easier to use, better known, more portable, and vastly more powerful. Awk is really a legacy tool today.

@StorageNinja said in Making a Raspberry Pi 4 or Similar SBC Desktop: @scottalanmiller said in Making a Raspberry Pi 4 or Similar SBC Desktop: RP4 with 4GB of RAM The problem with Pi (and frankly a lot of the low end ARM) is these things have incomplete UEFI bios etc. You currently need to really be working on one of the distro's designed for it (Which is likely fine for your use case). ARM and our engineers are working on this though.. Good point. Definitely an issue. Ubuntu, which is what we use, does make for them at least.

@Dashrender said in How do you find duplicates from Windows SMB shares using Linux: @JaredBusch said in How do you find duplicates from Windows SMB shares using Linux: @Dashrender said in How do you find duplicates from Windows SMB shares using Linux: @IRJ said in How do you find duplicates from Windows SMB shares using Linux: @Dashrender said in How do you find duplicates from Windows SMB shares using Linux: I wonder if this would run faster directly on the server in powershell instead? I'm assuming with doing this over SMB you have to download all files, run the hash - if ran locally, you get to skip the download time, I assume. I gathered that the SMB shares are hosted on Linux, but I could be wrong. If they are hosted on Windows like you are assuming, then I would agree that PowerShell would probably be most performant for this. The title says - Windows SMB Shares. My guess is that Dustin is a lone wolf running a 'nix OS as his machine - and the rest of the company is using Windows. Nothing wrong with that, just my guess. His company is significantly Mac. aww, that's right - he has been asking a lot of MAC questions lately. Unix questions to be more precise, but yeah we are a heavy Mac shop.

This is what I do when I use nohup. I usually create a file with the current pid just in case I need to stop it. nohup wget 'https://example.com/fedora.iso' > wget_fedora.log 2>&1 & echo $! > wget_fedora_pid.txt kill -9 `cat wget_fedora_pid.txt` rm wget_fedora_pid.txt

@stacksofplates said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: @scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: @stacksofplates said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: @scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux: However, they don't have any standard Linux install documentation on their website and only show using Homebrew, a MacOS package that essentially no one on Linux uses. Very odd. I just looked. I'm not sure what you're talking about. The page clearly shows snaps, dnf, apt, pacman, eopgk, and pkg_add for OpenBSD. https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing Completely different than what I got from the same link this morning. I went to that page, clicked on Linux, and they only showed Brewlinux, which isn't even the current name of the system. Way back machine shows it's been there since at least the 13th. https://web.archive.org/web/20191113183617/https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/ Very weird. I wonder if it was a cache somewhere? I definitely poked around this morning and Linuxbrew was the only thing that it had and had it from every link that I tried on their site.

@rhya said in alternative way to copy stuff with read access: I am using fedora 22. Fedora 31 is current. F22 is insanely ancient.

@Francesco-Provino said in Nu Shell, a New PowerShell-inspired Shell for Linux: Nice, but why use this when we have the real PowerShell for Linux? Performance probably. And ease of use. And while PS is on Linux, does it process any Linux data in this way?

@scottalanmiller said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @JaredBusch said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @scottalanmiller said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @WrCombs said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @WrCombs said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @scottalanmiller said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @WrCombs said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @Dashrender said in Linux OS Thoughts?: Back to the OP. @WrCombs wants to things most likely... a desktop environment to run in - So Fedora or Ubuntu most likely... and then a separate "server" box to install Linux Server OSes on to experiment with to do things like - setup FreePBX, setup NC, setup file server, etc. yes. I could even VM those, right? or no? - Forgive the newbness, but I'm thinking a Desktop and then run a VM Boxes with server OS's to do what @Dashrender is saying and thoughts on which ones to try. Boxes is weird, but yes. Throw Fedora or Ubuntu onto a laptop or desktop, install KVM, and virtualize anything that you want. You get a fully functional, and gorgeous desktop environment, but can test any server OS or alternative desktop OS that you like. sounds like the likely chose.. I know they're out there; anyone got the link for the guides? for installing KVM ; I'll start another list of projects that I'm going to work on and go from there https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-kvm-on-fedora/ Did I not have a guide here on ML? For KVM on Fedora? Don't recall one. Apparently not. I just did some searching, and it is mostly posts and screenshots of the various things in other people's threads.

@IRJ said in Doublecheck the Security of Your Linux: Just a couple notes from the article: You cannot set a bootloader password for AWS or other cloud services Apt Armor is specific to Ubuntu / Debian. SELinux is used on RHEL / CentOS / Fedora AppArmor is default on SUSE as well. And you can run SELinux on Debian / Ubuntu if you want. BTW, AppArmor just replaced SELinux as default on Debian 10. So that was only a couple of months ago.

Thanks for the reply, the issue is that sanoid.conf does not send the snapshot to the usb but syncoid does, or does having that template automatic prune the snapshots?

@black3dynamite said in Blank Screen After Fedora 30 Update to 5.3.5 Kernel on Dell Inspiron Laptop: @scottalanmiller said in Blank Screen After Fedora 30 Update to 5.3.5 Kernel on Dell Inspiron Laptop: @black3dynamite said in Blank Screen After Fedora 30 Update to 5.3.5 Kernel on Dell Inspiron Laptop: @scottalanmiller said in Blank Screen After Fedora 30 Update to 5.3.5 Kernel on Dell Inspiron Laptop: @notverypunny said in Blank Screen After Fedora 30 Update to 5.3.5 Kernel on Dell Inspiron Laptop: I've lost track of which distros are using which backends for graphics, but could it be related to xorg vs wayland or something along those lines? Seems kinda of likely, but can't track it down. Your desktop environment is Cinnamon? Fedora Workstation and I believe RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 that uses GNOME3 is about the only distros that defaults to wayland. It is, yes. F30 with Cinnamon. The F31 that worked was Gnome 3. Are you planning on trying F31 with Cinnamon? And it worked fine. Doing the F31 update fixed it.

@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu Updates to 19.10: @Emad-R It's all great having numbers and visual aid to show results but will you really notice the difference when using Ubuntu compare Debian, assuming you are using the same desktop environment? That's the tough comparison. Ubuntu has more features and a different desktop. I specifically like Ubuntu's desktop. So going to Debian I'd likely modify it to the point of being Ubuntu, lol.

@Obsolesce said in City of Munich Moving to Closed Source Software: It looks like the whole issue was due to their use of some weird distro years ago. That article technically doesn't say why they need Windows now, so for all I know they have some new weird requirements I don't know about, but assuming they don't, I think the decision to go to Windows is a horrible idea. They'd be much better off going to Ubuntu instead. Yes I upvoted a post about how Ubuntu would be better than an alternative. Please no heart attacks people.

@wirestyle22 usually they are stored in /usr/local/bin that is why you can run them anywhere

@Obsolesce said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: @scottalanmiller said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: @Pete-S said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: Step one is to remove the drives and clone them with dd or recovery tool to a new drive. You could probably recover 99.9% of the data - if you want. As you can guess from all of their previous issues, they don't want to pay for any recovery, they just want it magically fixed for free. They don't own any storage onto which to clone it, either. Then what is the point of any of it? It appears to have zero value to the business. I said that to them.

@black3dynamite No change, still getting a blank connection. Just a black session.

I can't read the phrase "kernel panic" without thinking of this tune: Youtube Video

No dice just yet, finishing a beer and headed home. Going to see if this can get resolved tomorrow.

@Pete-S Ok, I went ahead and let the installer partition it using the defaults for LVM. Everything is working! The installer creates a small primary partition and installs /boot to it. It then creates an extended partition with the remainder of the drive and slices up logicals out of that for the LVM. It puts “/“ in vg1 as “lv root” and puts /swap in vg1 as well as lv swap”. I was not creating a /boot. Never have. I was just creating a primary for the “/“ and then saving some of it for an extended /swap. I’ve done this forever. It even works in a VM. I have no idea why I couldn’t get it to work on the physical machine.

@dafyre said in PATH Error with TimeScaleDB-Tune on Fedora 30: then why are you even using it? Capacity Planning, for example.

So how we did it the last place I worked. We used a mix of X2Go, X-11 forwarding/MobaXTerm, and RDP. It depended on the user as to how they wanted to do it. RDP gave them a full desktop since X2Go couldn't any longer on GNOME 3. X2Go gave them just applications from a menu to pick. People who were used to the cli used X-11 forwarding because it's what they were used to.

This is the provider I use to clone KVM guests with Terraform https://github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt

@scottalanmiller said in Tracking Down Ubuntu BASH Session Closing: @matteo-nunziati said in Tracking Down Ubuntu BASH Session Closing: @scottalanmiller said in Tracking Down Ubuntu BASH Session Closing: If I use zsh, I'm good. If I enter BASH from zsh, I get kicked out after several seconds. Definitely is something to do with BASH. Stupid tryout: use bash and then enter zsh before being kicked out. Still out? To understand if it is the firing of bash itself or the stay in bash... No, the underlying bash remains until the ZSH closes. Same as if you were running top from it, for example. So basically bash is able to run long running jobs with your user... It's the interactivity with the shell to be broken... Meh. Sorry the thread is long, did you mention any test from zsh with: Bash <-- ok this kills the session Bash -i any difference??? Bash -l ??? bash --norc bash --noprofile From bashman page

@wrx7m said in Configure Nginx as Reverse Proxy for ScreenConnect to Enable Lets Encrypt: Less to that than I thought there would be. It's surprisingly simple and basic. It's really just passing one port to another, and using SSL. About the most basic setup you can have.