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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) ...

FreedomTruth

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...

FreedomTruth

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)\n______________...

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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...

FreedomTruth

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 in the fi...

FreedomTruth

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:

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#!/bin/bash
for Folder in /Data/*
do
  if [ -d "$Folder" ]
  then
    7z a -tzip -mx1 "${Folder%}.bak" "$Folder/"
  fi
done

FreedomTruth

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...

FreedomTruth

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 nothing. It's up...

FreedomTruth

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...

FreedomTruth

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...

FreedomTruth

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.

FreedomTruth

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

FreedomTruth

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.

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$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo {01..10}
$ ./test.sh
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
$ dash ./test.sh
{01..10}
$

FreedomTruth

Are you positive your script is using bash (not "sh")? #!/bin/bash It seems to all work correctly on my system, wget directly from terminal or in a script file. (edit) just tried with dash instead, it came up with the same thing you were experiencing, trying to get a single file named "document{01.....

FreedomTruth

Also, check your "playback speed" (the slider next to the green arrow shown below), it should be 1.00

: audacity-playbackspeed.png (9.47 KiB) Viewed 209 times

Well.. nevermind it looks okay on your screenshot. Does it play back other imported audio normally?

FreedomTruth

how can I check the actually RAM usage that my system is using? According to your inxi report: Info: Processes: 199 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 716.2/3839.4MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0 Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35 Your xfce system is using 716 MB of RAM with 2 minute uptime (?...

FreedomTruth

I also had no success with any of the GUI capture programs with my firewire DV camcorder. However, the terminal program dvgrab works well with mine.

FreedomTruth

I had this error message in the past (mine was related to attempting to unmount a CIFS target that was unavailable during shutdown) ... When you get the message Freezing of tasks failed, open a terminal and type ps ax . The 3rd column of the output will be the process state. According to the manual....

FreedomTruth

I'm sure things can be done to the fstab file (No idea what your fstab looks like now) In the 4th field (options), try something like: UUID=abcdefed-cbab-cdef-edcb-abcdefedcbab / ext4 ro,dev,exec,auto,async,suid,nouser 0 1 UUID=01234567-8987-6543-2101-234567898765 /home ext4 ro,dev,exec,auto,async,...

FreedomTruth

I don't recommend storing your password in a file, but if that's what you really want to do:

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cat .passwordfile | sudo -S openvpn us877.nordvpn.com.tcp.ovpn

sudo requires -S to read password from stdin.

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