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Unix & Linux

List all files with the same inode number?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Let’s say when I do ls -li inside a directory, I get this:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags inode, ls Leave a comment

Disable mouse (not touchpad!) in Xorg while idle

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I am an avid keyboard user, but I still need the mouse every now and then. To minimize the hand travel, I have the mouse located below my keyboard. (On a side note, using the mouse this way feels more natural to my hand.)

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags mouse, xorg Leave a comment

Systemd timeout because it doesn’t detect daemon forking

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m currently developping a systemd daemon. The problem I’m facing is that the daemon is killed 1m30s after beeing launched because the forking is not detected.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags daemon, fork, linux, systemd, timeout Leave a comment

Linux kernel action upon init process exiting

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Say I am writing my own init program running on a Linux kernel.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags exit-status, init, linux-kernel Leave a comment

Mounting a squashfs filesystem in read-write

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a Clonezilla installation on a USB stick and I’d like to make some modifications to the operating system. Specifically, I’d like to insert a runnable script into /usr/sbin to make it easy to run my own backup command to make backups less painful.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags mount, read-write, squashfs Leave a comment

List X random files from a directory

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Is there a way to list a set of say, 30 random files from a directory using standard Linux commands? (in zsh)

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags files, shell, zsh Leave a comment

What is the server-client relationship between a terminal emulator, a window manager and a X server processes?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

What is the relation of X server process to a terminal emulator process and a window manager process? Specifically:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags lxterminal, netstat, terminal-emulator Leave a comment

Alias and functions

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

From the bash manual

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, bash, function Leave a comment

How could we allow non-root users to control a systemd service?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

With sysvinit, a sudoers entry like this would suffice:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags not-root-user, services, sudo, systemd Leave a comment

creating a tar archive without including parent directory

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to create a graphical program for my script.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags tar Leave a comment
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    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

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