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[mutt] Sending mail as html disables line breaks

I went from Icedove (Thunderbird) to Mutt.I like Mutt, however i have a little problem that i hope someone here has a nice solution for, i could not find a solution on google:Whenever i send an email,...

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best way to transfer 115 million files (5TB) from USB to NFS share

I've been struggling with this problem. So far I've done one 5TB transfer, and another is being shipped to me next week on an encrypted USB3 drive with an NTFS filesystem. This data needs to be copied...

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Sonarqube not responding to traffic from the internet

Hello, We have an hyper-v machine in our DMZ with a Ubuntu machine on it. On the VM Sonarqube is installed. Wen wee try to access it from inside the network by ip there is nothing wrong and it works...

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I just failed my RHCE for the second time, while everything was working!

I had RHCE test a month and a half ago, I ran out of time and the VMs got shut down automatically at the end of the exam, yet I got a 206 out of 300; the passing score was 210, so I didn't pass, but I...

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TIL: coreutils 8.24 added status=progress to dd: dd if=foo of=bar...

https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8309old way still works:dd if=foo of=bar & DD=$!; while true; do sleep 1; kill -USR1 $DD; done And of course SIGINFO for BSD/OSX, which can also be...

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What happens when you run "rm -fr /" on a Linux server?

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CD Mage alternative for linux?

I need to import and export files to and from a disc image. These files already exist in the disc image, I'm just replacing them with an modified version that is the exact same size.These files must be...

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Linux Essentials Certificate Exam

I was thinking about taking the LPI Linux Essentials Certificate exam. I was wondering if anyone here has taken this exam or any other LPIC exams before. If so, how's the exam environment in the...

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Linux Router Monitoring

I have a centos 7 server installed as a local router (ethernet and wifi). What i need is to be able to view traffic (not actual packets, just bandwidth usage), per IP address BEHIND the router. I have...

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Custom iso centos 7

Hello,I want to build a custom iso for CentOS7 for installing it via VNC.isolinux/isolinux.cfg[...] label linux menu label Install CentOS 7 kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img vnc...

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Best way to approach installing a distro across multiple machines?

In my house, I just go to each machine individually, install the distro, and set it up. I have 5 machines, so this isn't too painful, but this obviously wouldn't be ideal for hundreds of machines...

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Is it possible to migrate from Active Directory to FreeIPA?

Hello,I would like to migrate from a small Active Directory deployment to a FreeIPA one. I am only interested in preserving the user accounts (username and passwords). The userbase is small (<50...

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Would you hire a sysadmin who doesn't know that MD5 is less secure than SHA-1 ?

Would you guys hire a sysadmin who doesn't know that MD5 is less secure than SHA-1? I'm not talking about noobs fresh out of school, I'm talking about admins who have at LEAST 3 years of...

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Any ipfire users here? IPSEC issues after update to 2.17 core 100.

The ipfire forums are usually pretty dead on the English side so I asked here. I'd like to switch to pfsense and probably will in the ftuture, but for now I'm on ipfire. I recently updated to core 100...

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Any expert of Xymon here?

HiI want to monitor when MySQL replication is working or not. The script is already created. However, I'm not expert in XYmon. It's something I have inherited and my experience is below zero. So I have...

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Vps optimization for faster load times

Hello there, I started working at a digital agency months ago and we have our own vps server. The thing we noticed is that it was rather slow (1 sec ttfb and sometimes over 2 secs) so I was searching...

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How to turn an XKCD joke into a universal Linux installer

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multiple variables within a smart class parameter in foreman

Hi all! So im trying to figure out how to manage sssd via foreman/puppet. I can do single values for each smart class parameters, but where im struggling is specifically multiple values within the...

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How can I chose a max load threshold depending on the number of available cores?

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Newbie Question: choosing server virt. method

Hi, I am somehow experienced with GNU/Linux (10+ yrs), use it exclusively for few last years, but all this is centered about desktop usage mainly (but I did build LFS and have no problem administering...

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