How to turn off Wireless power management permanently
In Linux Mint 17.3 / 18 iwconfig says the power management of my wireless card is turned on. I want to turn it off permanently or some workaround on this issue.
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When does the system send a SIGTERM to a process?
My server program received a SIGTERM and stopped (with exit code 0). I am surprised by this, as I am pretty sure that there was plenty of memory for it. Under what conditions does linux (busybox) send a SIGTERM to a process?
Parallelise rsync using GNU Parallel
I have been using a rsync script to synchronize data at one host with the data at another host. The data has numerous small-sized files that contribute to almost 1.2TB.
Limit SSH access to specific clients by IP address
How do we allow certain set of Private IPs to enter through SSH login(RSA key pair) into Linux Server?
How to mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities on Linux systems?
Security researchers have published on the Project Zero a new vulnerability called Spectre and Meltdown allowing a program to steal information from a memory of others programs. It affects Intel, AMD and ARM architectures.
Bash: calculate the time elapsed between two timestamps
I have written a script that notifies me when a value is not within a given range. All values “out of range” are logged in a set of per day files.
Connecting Linux Mint to WiFi network
I just installed Linux Mint 17 (MATE) on an old laptop and everything works amazing, however I can’t seem to get it to connect to my WiFi network. All my other computers can get access, plus, before when the laptop has Windows XP, it could also find and connect. Is there a way to check if it’s even detecting the correct network? If so, how would I set up a proper connection to the network?
What is the difference between kernel drivers and kernel modules?
When I do a lspci -k on my Kubuntu with a 3.2.0-29-generic kernel I can see something like this:
Difference between /bin and /usr/bin
I read this up on this website and it doesn’t make sense.
How can I monitor disk I/O in a particular directory?
I’ve got a few processes with a known name that all write to files in a single directory. I’d like to log the number of disk block reads and writes over a period (not just file access) to test whether a parameter change reduces the amount of I/O significantly. I’m currently using iostat -d -p, but that is limited to the whole partition.