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These questions are about Linux in general – NOT specific to a particular distribution.  If the question just happens to be in a Linux environment, please specify your Linux distribution in the body of your question, but do NOT use the “linux” tag.

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I seem to be using only some part of my total memory

My Kubuntu laptop $ uname -a Linux jiggs 3.16.0-31-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 17:37:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux has 6GiB of memory: # lshw -C memory *-firmware …
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How to tell whether the 'nice' command is working?

You can use the ps command to check that you have correctly niced down your command: $ nice -n 15 sm WILLY\ WILLIAM\ -\ Ego.m4a &> /dev/null & [1] 29426 $ ps -lp $! F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI …
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Open VPN options error: --tls-auth fails with 'ta.key': no such file or directory

If you do not have a ta.key, of course tls-auth will fail. You may: drop the tls-auth instruction altogether. This is not a major dent in your security: the Manual in fact states: This feature …
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I seem to be using only some part of my total memory

Strange thing is, after a reboot the discrepancy is no longer there: $ dmesg | grep Memory [ 0.000000] Memory: 5957056K/6166700K available (7384K kernel code, 1145K rwdata, 3408K rodata, 1336K i …
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SSH client authentication as non root user

that depends on your system: sudo service ssh restart or sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl restart sshd (the first one is for Debian and derivatives, the second one for Arch Linux
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Multiple Lan interfaces on one VM rather than multiple VM

You should consider the possibility of using less resource-intensive virtualization options. The one I have in mind for your problem is the "network namespace", for which you find a simple yet suffici …
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Can't do an SCP pull despite SSH working fine

Your problem is clearly identified in these lines: debug2: exec request accepted on channel 0 debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0 debug2: channel 0: rcvd eof …
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How do I remove acpi Warning on boot?

This message is about some driver being denied access to devices controlled by the ACPI. By and large, my experience is that it can be safely ignored. If however you really insist on removing the wa …
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Periodically unable to connect to WPA2-EAP access point

The ever helpful Arch Linux wiki says, of wl: Warning: Even though this driver has matured a lot throughout the years and works quite well now, its usage is recommended only when neither of the two …
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Debian one interfaces gets two ip addresses

Most likely, you have Network Manager still running: the extra ip address your eth0 interface gets can only come from a DHCP request (as shown also by the presence of dhclient in the output of ps aux …
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How to assign an additional IP/hostname to a chrooted environment?

But the question that follows is: don't you think that using a Linux container (LXC, OpenVZ,VServer) would be faster and simpler? … Isn't a chroot with an interface the very same thing as a Linux container? Generally, when security issues are no concern, that's the way I go. Edit: Ok, I see your plight. …
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