Questions tagged [configuration]
The action of modifying a program's behavior, generally by modifying a text file.
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show running config of samba
Is there a way to unambiguously get the running config of a samba daemon?
I can't find any reference to it in the manual. Of course you run testparm, but that would only show the validity of the ...
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sshd: "no hostkey alg" fixed but still confused
Apparently Fedora 35 does not list ssh-rsa in HostKeyAlgorithms or PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes so trying to ssh from an old CentOS 6 machine yielded an error:
$ ssh as1s16.intra.corp.us
no hostkey alg
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How to globally set all electron apps to have --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland options?
I switched to wayland on arch linux and it introduced a lot of bugs. Many are related to electron apps. I have find out that I can solve them by starting apps with this options:
--enable-features=...
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Why does postfix main.cf contain configuration like readme_directory, manpage_directory etc?
I am setting up a mailserver with Postfix. While configuring it, I see the following values in main.cf. What causes these entries to appear?
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
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Thunderbird: How to transfer CalDAV/CardDAV Connections from one Machine to another?
On my main machine I am running Thunderbird with Lightning and have several CalDAV calendars connected. Furthermore there is also a CardDAV address book hooked up.
How can I transfer those CalDAV and ...
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How do I make Xorg completely ignore one of my display adapters?
I use Linux Mint on an x86_64 machine with the following display adapters and X server:
# inxi -G
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Card-2:...
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Kernel config diffs - better way to maintain
I maintain one Linux distro (LEAF) with multiple kernel targets, so it needs to have multiple kernel configs (one reference config + usual patch files for other targets). But this adds headache on ...
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Backup and restore of Centos network interfaces
I have a server running Centos 7 which needs to be rebooted to upgrade some software.
Some of the physical NICs have around 5-10 VLAN interfaces each. They're subject to change on a weekly/monthly ...
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Change default applications in Lubuntu
In Lubuntu I can change the default applications using Default applications for LXSession. It saves the default applications in the configuraion file /home/USER/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf.
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How best to enable end-user configuration of wifi or Ethernet on embedded device?
I'm building a device that includes an embedded Linux computer and I need to allow the device user to (easily) configure the device to connect to their wired or wireless network.
I know there are ...
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Configure a freeRadius server with dhcp function
I have installed a freeradius server on a debian machine and it is working correctly.
I want to configure my freeradius server to provide IP addresses for the authenticated users!
Can any one tell ...
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Synaptics touchpad, i2c-hid and hid-rmi
I have a similar question as asked here: how should I interpret this line from syslog:
psmouse serio1: synaptics: Your touchpad (PNP: SYN1ef3 SYN1e00 SYN0002 PNP0f13) says it can support a different ...
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How to generate network interface config file?
On CentOS, is there a way to generate again the network interface config files?
The ones stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<ifaceName>
It's quite easy to do manually:
Get ...
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How to reject email falsely claiming to be from a local address in Postfix?
Let's suppose I run the mail server for example.com and the server is running Postfix on Ubuntu. There are two registered users, alice and bob.
Postfix receives an email from badhost.com like so:
To:...
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Is my ModPagespeedSlowFileLatencyUs setting ignored?
I have put ModPagespeedSlowFileLatencyUs 1500000 on the top level of /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf, as recommended by various posts, but I'm still getting PageSpeed error messages like the ...
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