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OK, but then fail2ban should at least show something! But there is nothing at all!

Sorry, I just realized that I set ssh to an unconventional port.
even grep NOTICE /var/log/fail2ban.log* doesn't show anything
So, it seems that I am quite save. Correct?

thanx! I installed fail2ban and run each of your scripts. In both cases I always get "0" Is this normal?

Thanx, I understand! So, I would also be happy with just getting login attempts on port 22. But how do I find out the IP address of the failed attempt? I only get:

xxx@XXXX:/var/log$ cat...

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how can I list all (unsuccessful) attempt at accessing my ubuntu mate 22.04 box from the internet? All I tried (ie.g. "last" and number of scripts extracting info from the log files) failed...

I now run the above command on another laptop with ubuntu mate 22.04 and, again I receive the same response "/usr/bin/lightdm". So, I guess it cannot the fault of the display manager that gparted...

On the PC gparted does not work:
grep . /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/sbin/lightdm

I get the same on another laptop running Ubuntu 20.04.06 (I do not have the other one at hand) where...

On the laptop where gparted iworks and where it does not work I get the same output:

printenv XDG_SESSION_TYPE XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
x11
On both I was unable to localize a gear icon, which has...

Thanx!!!!

When running your script I get; "Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found."

when trying to find out which windows manager runs on my machine with...

Thanks for the replies! When I start gparted from the terminal I get: "Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found" When I start it from Menu / System Tools nothing...

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I have two laptops with ubuntu mate 22.04 with the latest updates. On one gparted works as expected. On the other one it issues the error: "Error executing command as another user: No...

Thanks, I'll try!

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I am trying to run two old Win7 programs (Sabsik's cam2com and Hydrotec/bb-sensor's temperature and humidity monitor) via wine from within ubuntu-20.04. Both programs start correctly and show...

thanks a lot! Most enlightening! I am release-upgrading right now.....

I'd like to continue using my old 32 bit laptop with ubuntu-mate 16.04 and install corresponding versions of programs e.g. like gnuplot-x11. According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades...

Thanks, shall do! In the meantime I checked with 'sudo hardinfo'. It gives me the following output:
USB Devices
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
can't get device...

I connect four external USB Toshiba HDs (5 TB) formatted with xfs to my workstation running Mate 20.04. Upon mounting them I can perfectly access them w/r. However when scp-ing substantial amounts of...

On my Lenovo Miix-320-10ICR I started using Mate 18.04, in the meantime I changed to 20.04 and finally I tried 22.04 desparately hoping that the very last version would support the cameras. In vain:...

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I have a number of external hard disks formatted as xfs attached to my ubuntu mate box via USB3 connectors. All but one have reasonable read times e.g.:


sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdj
...

Thanks to both of you for your ample explanations! I admit that I learned only very recently about wsl and simply wanted to try it out. I find it quite handy to have win10 and ubuntu running in...

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please forgive me if this is not the right place to post my question, I could not find any better:

I run xming under Win10 by using the Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL2) in an Ubuntu 20.04...

Thanks a lot! I installed it and shall see when running the next upgrade. Things often seem very easy - provided one knows :-)

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some time ago I screwed my ubuntu-20.04 probably by inadequate use of Ubuntu Cleaner. jermey31 was extremely helpful and with his aid I managed to install the lacking headers and modules. ...

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I am sorry, I somewhat messed up this tread answering to something else. Here is the correct one.
Jeremy31 solved my problem. Thanks again! However, when upgrading the headers are lost and I...

jeremy31 solved my problem! However, when running 'sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade' the headers are apparently lost and I
always have to re-run the below (adjusted for the new kernel having...