LAFK‭

I've been met with the phrase RTFM often. I recognize its value. However, the manual pages are often hard to understand and written by people who know so much about the topic at hand that they don'...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by LAFK‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

My VISUAL setup interferes with my cron jobs. crontab -l works all right, I see my previous jobs. crontab -e, crontab -e -u user-here - opens GVIM on an empty file checked cron.allow or .deny,...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by LAFK‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

Neat idea. In favour. Bottom-up is better I'd propose bottom-up here, instead of grand idea to strive for. I'd cut the list of topics down to real basics. I agree with @KarlKnechtel on Git. I'...

posted 2y ago by LAFK‭  ·  edited 2y ago by LAFK‭

Begin with the logs I'd begin with the logs: journalctl -u NetworkManager You may want to create a log config file for this: vim /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/95-nm-debug.conf # perhaps sudo, to ha...

posted 2y ago by LAFK‭

It turns out, that Lynis test code lives in /usr/share/lynis/include/test_banners which gave me a way to find what banner is considered good. :-) In my case, it's to have 5 or more specific keyword...

posted 2y ago by LAFK‭

When hardening my system with Lynis I had information about /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net being found weak. Lynis redirects me to Enterprise, which is a paid product and a bit overkill for my home...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by LAFK‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by LAFK‭

A first quick solution I hacked up was to sync via NAS. Synology NAS served as a synchro point. I synced via git repo. etckeeper was used to sync machine config, pass was used to sync passwords. S...

posted 2y ago by LAFK‭

Inxi has a -x, -xx, -xxx for extra details. I'd try sudo inxi -G -xxx though if it WILL report VRAM is another matter. My help says: -G Device serial number, class ID; Xorg Screen size, diag; ...

posted 2y ago by LAFK‭  ·  edited 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭