user37342's questions

pm-suspend must be run by root:

he@x22:~/hep/links$ /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
This utility may only be run by the root user.

I made a link, pms:

he@x22:~/hep/links$ ls -l pms
lrwxrwxrwx 1 he he 20 dec 17 22:13 pms -> /usr/sbin/pm-suspend

and as expected:

he@x22:~/hep/links$ ./pms
This utility may only be run by the root user.

but if I change directory and adds ~/hep/links to the path it works for a normal user:

he@x22:~$ pms
whoami root

To see who the effective user is, at the top of /usr/sbin/pm-suspend I inserted:

#!/bin/sh
echo whoami $(whoami)
.....

root@x22:/home/he/hep/scripts# type -a pms
pms är ett alias för ”sudo pm-suspend”
pms är /home/he/hep/scripts/pms
pms är /home/he/hep/links/pms

Can someone, please, explain what is happening here?

I have a set of 8 small servers that chat with each other over ssh logging in automatically.

Now I would like to have the .ssh directory of all the servers be identical.

Now my question is whether the user@host part at the end of each key really is necessary?

I have a little c-program, d, that takes a long time and produces a lot of text output. When I run the the program with ./d I can see the output being scrolled on the screen but if I do
./d > d10.txt I can't read d10.txt with cat d10.txt until the program has finished. Why is this so and what can I do to monitor the output while the program is running? Thanks for any tip H

If I as root in Nautilus at the top directory open the properties I get:

Name: /

Type: Folder (inode/directory)

Contents: 1 560 503 items, totalling 414,8 GB

Trying root@nilx:/# locate * | wc I get

2997356 3450407 217324980

and root@nilx:/# tree -ia gives me

277432 directories, 3293850 files

(directories+files=277432+3293850=3571282)

So how many files do I have?

I want to automatically mount a sshfs directory at login. So I add this line to the end of my otherwise ok profile:

/usr/bin/sshfs he@192.168.1.118:/klipp klipp

This however results in

Error found when loading /home/he/.profile 

and no mounted directory. SSH trust is established with .ssh/authorized_keys.

The command works without a glitch if issued after login. Thanks for any tip.

I tried to fsck a NTFS disk with gparted on my Ubuntu 16.04 and get the error message below which advices me to "Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!". Now I have no Windows installation, I do, however, have a Windows virtual machine. Can I use it for the repair or is there any other way to accomplish the necessary repair?

Thanks in advance for any tip

H

GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 3.2
Kontrollera och reparera filsystemet (ntfs) på /dev/sdc1  00:00:14    ( FEL )
        
kalibrera /dev/sdc1  00:00:01    ( LYCKADES )
        
sökväg: /dev/sdc1 (partition)
start: 2048
slut: 1748721663
storlek: 1748719616 (833.85 GiB)
kontrollera filsystemet på /dev/sdc1 efter fel och korrigera dem (om möjligt)  00:00:13    ( FEL )
        
ntfsresize -i -f -v /dev/sdc1  00:00:13    ( FEL )
        
ntfsresize v2015.3.14AR.1 (libntfs-3g)
Device name : /dev/sdc1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 895344439808 bytes (895345 MB)
Current device size: 895344443392 bytes (895345 MB)
Checking for bad sectors ...
Checking filesystem consistency ...
Cluster 171130245 is referenced multiple times!
Cluster 171140480 is referenced multiple times!
100.00 percent completed
ERROR: Filesystem check failed!
ERROR: 2 clusters are referenced multiple times.
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
and will be made to NTFS by this software until it gets repaired.
========================================**

I can't login with Nautilus SFTP to a server on my local network.

I only get the message:

(Norwegian) "Oops! Något gick fel.Har inte nödvändiga rättigheter för att komma åt den begärda platsen."

Oops! Something went wrong. Don't have permission to access the requested location.

With Bash I can login with SSH and SFTP without any problems and in Nautilus this worked earlier without a glitch. What has gone wrong and what can I do?

I am using Ubuntu 16.04

Over the years my Ubuntu has grown into a rats nest with not less than 5 disks and the disk my system sits on is full. Now I want to clean up and have bought a larger disk to which I cloned my system disk. Unfortunately grub sits on one of the other disks and boot-repair refuses to move grub to my new disk. What can I do besides a complete new installation? Thanks in advance for any tip. H

I want sometimes to be able to login as root into the Unity desktop manager. I made a fresh install of ubuntu-16.04.6-desktop-amd64 and in order to be able to login as root added the line: greeter-show-manual-login=true to /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf This leads to that I can't login to the desktop at all and I am only given the message "The system is running in low-graphics mode". The system is however running in the background, I can login to the terminal with Alt-F1. In my older installation of the original ubuntu-16.04 this has worked without a glitch. My system is a laptop, Yoga Pro 2. What is wrong and what can I do about it? Thanks in advance H

Creating a couple of new users on an Ubuntu 16.04 I omitted to enter user full name and now I have several users who on the login screen are seen simply as "Comment". System settings doesn't offer the possibility to change this. How can I fix this? Is it ok to just edit /etc/passwd? Thanks in advance H

I can't log in to my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop any more. Other accounts show no login problems. I can, however, login to the same account from the terminal (ctrl-alt-f6) or ssh. I can also log in as root to the desktop. I have checked and reset the password, rebooted etc. but to no avail. What can I do? H

Thanks I have 11 GB in my home directory and I am using the right keyboard input language and CapsLk is off but still no login. H

Unfortunately the bookmark pane in Nautilus offers no sub-folders and on my system only about 40 bookmarks can be visible at the same time.

The bookmarks are stored in in a pre-set file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks. Presently I use different bookmark files for different projects something that really is a hassle.

Any tip on howto improve on this is appreciated.

Is there any possibility to use different bookmark files for different projects on Nautilus startup or may we expect sub-folders in the near future?

I have a dual boot Ubuntu 14.04<>Windows 10 system. It has two SSD-drives, 256 GB for Windows and 128 GB for Ubuntu and one 1 TB HDD for data. Ubuntu works without any problems, Windows 10, however, often hangs for minute long periods something that is very annoying. If I physically remove the Ubuntu SSD Windows seems to be ok, also if I via BIOS, skipping GRUB, boot directly into Windows the problem seems to disappear. I would like to understand what causes the problem and what I can do about it. Thanks in advance for any tip. H

PS The upside is that I now prefer working with Linux.