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Signing VirtualBox Kernel Modules
These are the steps I followed enable VirtualBox on my laptop without disabling UEFI Secure Boot. They're nearly identical to the process described on [Øyvind Stegard's blog][blog], save for a few key details. The images here are borrowed from the [Systemtap UEFI Secure Boot Wiki][systemtap].
- Install the VirtualBox package (this might be different for your platform).
src='https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo'
When following a log file with the tail command you are typically looking for a specific pattern. If the log output is verbous it can be difficult to catch the lines your interested in. For example a PHP log file might contain many PHP Notice: entries but your only interested in lines containing PHP Fatal error:. To grep the output of tail simply tell the grep command to red from stdin and pipe the output from tail to grep as follows.
tail -f {path/to/log/file} | grep 'PHP Fatal error:' -