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I want to run Firefox as different users (Kubuntu 24.04). I've created extra users, then I do $ xhost +SI:localuser:NEW_USER $ sudo -u NEW_USER firefox I get this error message: /user.slice/user-1000....
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If the environment variable DISPLAY is set and I do /bin/su - root from a user shell in an X terminal, then a login shell for root is setup and the DISPLAY environment variable is still present. If I ...
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I'm wanting to use cgroups and systemd-run to insulate the rest of my system from rogue programs that wake the OOM killer. In particular, clangd is hogging all my memory and then some, and then ...
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I've got a few things that I don't want to update while my graphical session is running, but would be happy to have them updated on shutdown (after my graphical session ended, while network is still ...
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I am trying to run commands from a root shell as other users. I am trying to remove sudo from it: systemd-run --user --pty --same-dir --wait --service-type=exec sudo -u ubuntu make I tried: systemd-...
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when running systemd-run --pty --same-dir --wait --service-type=exec I get all the command output in journal. While nice, it is not something I want/can afford all the time. for example, if I want ...
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I use systemd-run --user a lot to run things. I want to be able to list only those transient units, but there seems to be no option to systemctl --user list-units to do it. I also cannot list the ...
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Why can't I pass a command group to systemd-run like this? $ systemd-run --on-active=1 { cp file1 file2 && echo hi; } Failed to find executable {: No such file or directory I tried various ...
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I'd like to limit the resource consumption of temporary commands with cgroup created by systemd-run, similar to what cgcreate does instead, but I'm not sure if that makes sense? I'd like to make sure ...
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I am using different methods for different programs to control their resource management. When I used systemd-run for gimp(GNU image manipulation program), when picture's memory requirement is higher ...
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What is the best way of using systemd-run in place of a simple sudo -u xxx at -f backupJ-447.cmd 03:10 Our org has gone systemd mad and no longer installs 'at', 'batch' and cron is depricated on our ...
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I'm trying to execute a command under some resource limits. This correctly limits my-bin to just 1 CPU core. I'm able to verify with htop. $ sudo systemd-run -p AllowedCPUs=0 -- ./my-bin However, ...
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I saw a few files/dir are inaccessible even to the root user: find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied. So I went a level deeper and ran ls -l; below is the output. /run/user/125# ll ls: cannot ...
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At the time of Linux installation, i have mentioned only one filesystem (/dev/sda1 -> ext4 -> / ). But for dev, run, proc, sys - Linux is creating addition FS which is inferable from mount. $ ...
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I would like to replace my Xsession with my custom program (kiosk-like setup), previously I was just setting STARTUP variable in my .xsessionrc file like: STARTUP='/path/to/my/program' Now I want to ...
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