I know that CRON_TZ= will set the timezone cron runs for all commands.
However, I'd like for some cron entries, not all, to run on specific timezones.
Is this possible? If not directly possible, do you have any (hackish) workarounds?
In the past, WiFi passwords can be found in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/. With the new Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat, that folder is empty (even as I am using home WiFi now to post this question).
So the question, where are WiFi passwords stored now?
PS: I also have active Wireguard VPN connections made via the NetworkManager GUI. The /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/VPN folder is also empty.
I have a VPS on GCE running WordPress and Nginx under Ubuntu 18.04.
When I $ curl -v majlovesreg.one it returns okay. But when I add www, $ curl -v www.majlovesreg.one within the server it throws the error: curl: (6) Could not resolve host: www.majlovesreg.one.
What is interesting is when $ curl -v www.majlovesreg.one is invoked from outside the server (i.e. my home computer) it returns okay.
Also, dig and nslookup for www.majlovesreg.one within the server both return okay. (This cURL error by the way is preventing WordPress from performing its own wp-cron tasks.)
Can someone please nudge me on the right direction on how to troubleshoot this problem? This looks like a cURL problem. Thank you!
I've been solely using Ubuntu GNOME on my Thinkpad X250 since version 15.10. TrackPoint and Backlit Keyboard ever since functioned completely fine. (I've been upgrading my Ubuntu every six months.) Until 17.04 arrived. TrackPoint and Backlit Keyboard simply stopped working. Fn+Space doesn't work anymore...
Any help to troubleshoot this?
I just upgraded from Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 to 16.10, then I cannot run software-properties-gtk.
Output of that command is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 37, in <module>
from softwareproperties.gtk.SoftwarePropertiesGtk import SoftwarePropertiesGtk
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 34, in <module>
from aptdaemon import client
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/client.py", line 43, in <module>
import defer
ImportError: No module named 'defer'
This means that all other programs relying on aptd are throwing errors.
I have tried reinstalling the package python-defer which proceeded without any errors but that did not correct this problem.
Any suggestions what went wrong? Thanks!
I used to just press the Delete key on selected files on Nautilus, and then it would trash the file(s) without confirmation. That was very convenient.
I later decided that my Trash may contain sensitive files, and thus moved it to the eCryptfs Private folder, and created the symlink ~/.local/share in its place.
Thereafter, when I Delete files that are inside eCryptfs, behavior is as expected, no problems. On the other hand, when I try to delete files in my home directory but outside eCryptfs, I get this message:
The same behavior is seen when deleting items from a different drive...
Is there a workaround to just automatically put it in my encrypted trash anyways even if it belongs to another/unencrypted drive/mount?
If that really cannot be done, then is two Trashes possible? One for encrypted files and another for unencrypted ones?
Alright, this is one of those times when I am are saying... Breathe deep, don't panic.
What happened?
As a usual part of leisurely tinkering with my system, I was trying write a 24.5 MB img file to my USB drive for a BIOS update. The normal command would be:
dd if=bios.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
Done that a hundred times. No problem.
Now you know the problem when you're mentally tired and your command turns out like this:
dd if=bios.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M
So it replied: dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sda’: Permission denied
And without thinking twice, you did:
sudo dd if=bios.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M
One should look happy when terminal replied this:
23+0 records in
23+0 records out
24117248 bytes (24 MB) copied, 0.0138706 s, 1.7 GB/s
But what a horror two seconds later when realizing it's your sda.
What's the current status?
The system is still up. It seems that there is a cache of the partition that Linux is reading. The original partition contained efi, swap, and /. I'm not sure now of their original sizes and order. The current partition shows only 22.98 MiB of fat16 to be mounted on /boot/efi, while the rest of my SSD drive is unallocated.
So, this is one of those times when one should say... Breathe deep, don't panic, and do not reboot (yet).
Any help? Pleeeaaaase? ;-) Thanks.
Background
My Lenovo X250 is arriving in two weeks, which according to Ubuntu Certified Hardware will work well only with "a special image of Ubuntu pre-installed by the manufacturer."
This Linux systems seller points out that the X250 has "Excellent" compatibility to the Linux OSes they install. On the other hand, a quick search on Google or Ask Ubuntu shows that a standard image of Ubuntu on the X250 is rife with hardware problems.
Ubuntu Certified Hardware acknowledges this for the X250: "Standard images of Ubuntu may not work at all on the system or may not work well." This certification page for the X240s clearly shows the difference between an Ubuntu standard image installation and the one that comes pre-installed by the manufacturer. Hardware seems to work fully on the OEM version.
Question
Any idea where we may access or download these "special images of Ubuntu"?
(Hopefully not only for the X250, but also for the other systems out there.)
I'm trying to prepare my laptop (trusty, gnome-shell) for use in presentations. As such, I'll need to do something to make the mouse more visible.
1) There's a program for Windows that does that well.
2) There's a workaround on gnome-tweak-tool to locate the mouse by pressing the CTRL key.
3) There's a workaround on ccsm that can act as alternative to mouse trails, but of course it doesn't work on GNOME 3.
So far, none of the above looked practical for general presentations from gnome-shell.
Question: Is there a way to have a nice presentation cursor with GNOME Shell?
(even if it's just a mouse trail)
(better if it'll look like No. 1)
Lots of thanks!
PS: The only mouse cursor set I ever liked in Linux is Oxygen for KDE. ;-)
I use ddclient to update my OpenDNS account for my home network (the router doesn't have this capability). Recently, I've been traveling and, at times, when my laptop joins another network it automatically updates that network's ip to my account (too bad for them, they're now having web filtering) and my home network loses it's OpenDNS filters.
So, is there a way to pause ddclient updates easily?
We would like to capture audio from a mixer and video from a camera and transmit it via Wi-Fi to adjacent rooms of an auditorium.
What kind of broadcast/streaming programs/setup do you suggest?
We just need:
- Low latency. (less than 1 second is good)
- Ease of use. (Hopefully, the stream should be easily accessible and played by mobile devices (iPad/Android) without any added techie configuration on the clients.)
If you had any experience with this, it will be highly appreciated. :)
More details here: https://superuser.com/questions/762470/setup-for-a-live-low-latency-audio-video-broadcast-over-wi-fi
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, and did not run on any major issues, until today. My logs showed that yesterday, May 9, 2014 my system performed an automatic dist-upgrade. With that dist-upgrade, it uninstalled WINE (1.6). So I cannot run WINE-based programs now. (I tried waiting for a day and repeatedly tried sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade without success.)
sudo apt-get install wine or sudo aptitude install wine does not install WINE, instead error like this is encountered:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed or wine1.7 but it is not going to be installed
Did anybody else experience similar breakage lately?
I have seen that the new DivX Player 10 shows off H.265/HEVC playback, the successor of H.264. I wonder how I may get this support in Linux. Is there a need to install a codec specific for this format? How?
I have set up a normal user account in my computer as a guest account, which lots of my friends use.
I love the gnome shell, and I set it as the desktop environment. The problem users of my computer usually encounter, even when "Activities" is shown at the upper left of the screen, is that they keep looking (and moving the mouse cursor) to the LOWER left of the screen. (Is this Windows' fault?) Well, it is because that's what they are familiar with.
I know of other DE's that has the Windows lower left Apps-button orientation. But I still love gnome shell. So, is the question above. Thank you. (And I think it would still be quite useful even if the bottom bar remains just there. I'm on 12.04, so that could mean, lower left hot corner = Activities/Windows, lower right hot corner = bottom bar. Not bad.)
PS. I've tried Flippery Bottom Panel, and it doesn't really do what I exactly wanted.
Here's exactly what I wanted to do: Turn ON Lock (Settings > Brightness and Lock), set the time to wait (Lock screen after:), BUT NOT to lock the screen (e.g. no Password prompt) if I'd only close (and of course open) the lid.
I'm not sure if there's some tweak/hack to be able to do that.
(I'm always walking out of my desk but my machine always does something, so "Do nothing" on lid close, but it's a little annoying to keep typing the password like 4x an hour. I need to have it lid closed. BUT, sometimes I do leave my desk for more than an hour and forgot to Ctrl+Alt+L. I'd like it to lock automatically like after an hour of inactivity. If scripting is the only way to do it, can you please help me where to start? Thanks in advance.)
Ubuntu 12.04.02, LightDM, Gnome Shell