To do that.... Edit... sudo vi /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf And set... user = "root" group = "root" And then... sudo systemctl restart libvirtd

@Obsolesce said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?: @scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?: @notverypunny said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?: @scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?: @biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?: Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays. Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware. Cinnamon is far and away my preferred DE. I just wish that other distro's / spins would integrate it as tightly with the underlying OS as Mint does. The add/remove (install/uninstall) integration right into the main menu is convenient. I just have an extreme dislike for their policy of staying on LTS / Stable packages and package base. Fedora's Cinnamon spin is pretty much as integrated as Mint. They are pretty much all integrated once installed. Many DEs have a software manager / software center gui now that is shortcutted. Yeah, pretty much all DE have that now.

After a few reboots, it seems to have cleared itself. I did remove Livepatch. Maybe that was it.

Thanks for adding more technical content!

@JaredBusch said in Zoom meetings on Ubuntu: Without a green screen or other good color to make the base, it sucks though. Thanks @JaredBusch , that is exactly what I needed.

@JaredBusch said in Distro for school work?: @Pete-S said in Distro for school work?: Installed minecraft as well and it was really easy. Just click on the link to the deb package and you're done. Apt package manager will pull in java and whatever else that is needed. https://launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.deb Webcam works, tested it with cheese, which is installed by default. All in all a smooth experience and mission accomplished. If Roblox worked on Linux I could switch my kids. Those are the only two PC games they play at the moment. Same

@scottalanmiller said in Making an RDP Terminal Server with Ubuntu Linux: I recommend the Remmina RDP client tool, it's the bomb. I love Remmina as a client.

@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.

@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.

@scottalanmiller said in Blank Screen After Fedora 30 Update to 5.3.5 Kernel on Dell Inspiron Laptop: Issue returned for the last two weeks even on Fedora 31. Luckily the old F30 kernel was still there because of the lock and continued to work. But the 5.4 kernel came out today and it works again. I've had no issues again

@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.

New-PSSession -ComputerName Host1 New-PSSession -ComputerName Host2 Get-PSSession will show all sessions you created. Use Enter-PSSession to enter one of your opened session

@Emad-R said in Install OpenVas9 in Ubuntu Server: @dbeato the thing is openvas versions is all over the place, dont they have a new version 10 right now, a month ago it was on 8 . It was 8 then 9 and the 10 version is GVM. I am testing it still but hasn’t been stable for me yet.

@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

I know you were just explaining how to do it but this is a simple task with Ansible. - name: Ensure user exists user: name: Joe state: present password: "password_hash" groups: wheel, libvirt Instead of needing the hash up front you can do things like: {{ Password1234 | password_hash('sha512') }}

We got it. Had to open the Nginx logs and noticed too many "posts" in the error log. Dug in and it was three ranges overseas all hitting with a "post timeout attack." It was a light DDoS where sessions were being opened and held causing nginx to wait on a timeout. This caused Apache to just increment forever. Once we blocked those ranges, the Apache thread count started to drop for the first time, and memory started to release. And the continuous flood of nginx error logs ceased. If you are looking at nginx error logs, this is what you look for: upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: You can use this command to collect the offending IP addresses: grep "upstream timed out" error.log | cut -d' ' -f20 Then use your firewall to shut them down. We are all good now! Woot.

Well let's talk about fedora and updating killing a laptop lol....

@zachary715 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II: Just curious what role this server will be playing... Web server

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And it should be noted, that unlike SMB or NFS shares that would be generally frowned upon to use over the Internet, SFTP is heavily encrypted and very secure and is often used over public networks.