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if this was an exploit and it the command had sudo, you would still have to enter your password Yes. I realize I'm posting a month late to the discussion, but this may still be helpful to point out. One thing about "sudo" use is that once you successfully use sudo in a terminal, you do no...

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Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:33 pm

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-rwxrwxr-x  1 tux tux       1033 Nov 12 14:03 tint.sh

If you suspect line-ending problems, check your file size. I copied your code at the end and have a 1023-byte file, which does execute correctly (other than paplay which I do not have).

I know I'm a little late to reply. If you've not already found a solution, here's another suggestion which may or may not help your particular case. You could put a few entries in /etc/crontab to run, say, (a) M-F at 8am (or whenever) to copy your restricted hosts file, then (b) at 4pm to copy your ...

I know it's already been asked and answered. The two problems were: 1) You were escaping the quotation marks. "/home/bobi/tmp/\"dir with spaces\"" is not the same as /home/bobi/tmp/"dir with spaces" The first has the quotation marks in the directory name, which is not w...

The purpose of the script is to request a username, if it does not exist, and then create it. But if it already exists ask for another name. #! / bin / bash echo -n "Do you want to enter a user? (s / N):"; read answer yes [$ answer = 's']; so echo "Enter the user:" read USER if ...

NOTE I'm not running Mint 19.1 Cinnamon. I do use a dual-monitor setup. My desktop is XFCE. I have noticed that the behavior seems largely program-dependent. In general, most programs seem to open their window on whatever monitor the mouse is currently positioned. So I usually position the mouse to ...

murray wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:55 pm

Or is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do?

"Better" is always subjective. I'm curious why you don't just have your webserver run the dump, zip, and email in a cron job? It just seems like this is a complicated way of doing it.

2) Are there any benefits to having the `home` encrypted with encfs if full-disk LUKS encryption is also enabled? Not in a single user scenario. In a multi-user scenario it gives protection from other users (including administrators) accessing your files. Ideally, yes. However in testing (on LM18) ...

So as a new user who isn’t very technical, what would you recommend. For a new user, I recommend mint, mainly because of the forums :-) You can almost always find some kind of help/support, answers to questions... Biased? Maybe. But I don't use mint as my main o/s anymore (I do still run it in a vm...

Just a suggestion to make it a little more readable, I prefer using echo -e "blahblah\n\n" -- the \n will insert a newline for you. In fact you could even combine the command you're running along with the echo command. Such as: echo -e "Sockets:\n\n\n$(sudo systemctl -l|grep .socket)\...

Both DIR and LS commands report the file as being without the trailing period. tony@tony-Latitude-E6430 /media/tony/DropBox_A/Dropbox/New_Pics_vids/catalogueds/2012-06-03 $ ls 143*.*|hexdump -C 00000000 31 34 33 2e 4a 50 47 0a |143.JPG.| 00000008 tony@tony-Latitude-E6430 /media/tony/DropBox_A/Dropb...

By comment out I assume you mean remove/delete the swap entry line from the text? To "comment out" means to change the line into a comment. In this case, put a # symbol at the beginning of the line: # /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 This will disable the line from being run, and still leave it...

I think you're forgetting to tell 7z *what* to compress, it's doing the current working directory each time (?). Using your first example, try:

For manual clearing, run xsel -cb; xsel -cp; xsel -cs maybe set it up on a hotkey to run as needed. (requires xsel, not sure if that's installed by default but probably not). The three commands will clear the clipboard, primary selection, and secondary selection. If you usually use the keyboard shor...

A quick related question for you fellow handbrakers... I use another debian derivative, I download the source bz2 and compile... no major problems for me so far (occasionally need to install/update a dependency). However it seems like my "Automatically check for updates" option does nothin...

NOT an answer to your question specifically, but a somewhat related matter: You can have multiple IP addresses assigned to a physical device, i.e. ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.2.2 ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.3.1 This can be useful for specific software (postfix and apache, for insta...

If you're more comfortable with C, there is a C-shell ( apt install csh ). I haven't used it in ages... Your initial script would look something like this (not tested) :) #!/bin/csh # get the current slideshow folder set DESK_BACKGROUND = `gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.background.slideshow imag...

My ASRock Z77 Extreme6 from 2012 runs linux just fine. Even hibernate and suspend work! I've not had to deal with their customer service. I've run a variety of kernels on this over the years -- a couple kernel updates have given problems that were later fixed.

You could try gmtp. apt install gmtp to install; then gmtp (or navigate the menu) to run it.

Hmm.. how are you calling the script?
./script.sh is not the same as sh ./script.sh

Other than that, I'm also confused why it would behave differently.