GeraldS‭

You can find the version information in /proc/version. $ cat /proc/version Linux version 6.8.0-53-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-046) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0, ...

posted 12mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by GeraldS‭

Use rsync instead: $ rsync --progress filename /target/ filename 1,042,841,600 17% 330.84MB/s 0:00:14

posted 4mo ago by GeraldS‭

For a couple of days now I've been trying to edit this answer to include an example that was requested in the comments. Every time I try to edit it I'm presented with this: The expanded answer ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

If you don't mind installing an additional tool, progress will do exactly what you want. progress aims to detect any running command performing significant file I/O. Commonly supported commands ...

posted 4mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by GeraldS‭

Login screen Check your login screen. Login Managers often give an option to select between different desktop environments. The last used entry is usually highlighted. It is possible that your ...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 1y ago by GeraldS‭

If these requests are logged into a log file you can install fail2ban and configure it to act on these log entries. You can configure it to block the requests via the local firewall for a duration ...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 1y ago by GeraldS‭

You can use the pre-commit hook for this. Example .git/hooks/pre-commit: #!/usr/bin/bash git fetch if [ $(git status -sb |grep -c behind) -gt 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: local repo is beh...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 1y ago by GeraldS‭

You can use openssl to get the information. It is usually installed by default in every distribution. $ openssl s_client -connect codidact.com:443 -showcerts </dev/null | openssl x509 -text de...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 1y ago by GeraldS‭

The distribution itself shouldn't really matter. Yes, there are some specialized distributions for these cases, where developers work hard on saving as many memory as possible, but the downside of ...

posted 6mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by GeraldS‭

A general overview: Log in as root directly, no sudo or su (you may need to activate it temporarily, depending on your distribution) or boot from a live system unmount /home and mount it somewh...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭

As a workaround, I had to uninstall pytest from the package manager and install it in the virtual environment. However, I would prefer to use the pytest from the package manager since it makes se...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭

If you don't mind installing something I recommend ncdu. It sorts the directories and files by size, you can exclude other mounts, navigate the tree directly and even delete files and folders as yo...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 1y ago by GeraldS‭

By default modern Ubuntu versions run the service systemd-timesyncd in the background. It fetches the time at regular intervals and should automatically set your system time when an NTP server is r...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭

I just noticed that all APT downloads through my apt-cacher server with a HTTPS mirror result in a MISS, while all requests to HTTP mirrors are handled properly by the Proxy. I did some tests and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by GeraldS‭

You can use ExecStartPre= to delay the execution of the systemd unit. Use systemctl edit myunit.service to create a drop in file and add the following lines: [Service] ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30...

posted 1y ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 1y ago by GeraldS‭