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I just imaged my RHEL 4 system that was running on a Dell Poweredge 2950 server using Acronis software and I restored the image to a VmWare virtual machine.  

Dell Poweredge 2950 - RAID 5
VmWare - using ESX 4.0

OS - Red Hat Enterprise...

I am attempting to mount a the installation DVD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 so that I can install an additional RPM.  The system was installed barebones (it's a server, so all install options were unchecked except base).  Every time I try and...

I'm trying to start the ftp service on a new Redhat install.  I found the following in /etc/xinetd.d
gssftp  
 I edited the file by changing the  'disable         = yes' from yes to NO.
[root@xinetd.d]# vi gssftp
# default: off
#...

i am getting following error exactly after 120 seconds, when my web service takes longer than 120 seconds to respond! BUT if I use IP address : port instead of domain name, it does not time out (the specified port is not 80)

<title>502 Proxy...

Greetings all!

I have installed the Nagios and used very complete directions at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html

But i try to access site at http://servername.com/nagios/ i get "You don't have permission to...

Hi there

Having a huge problem and I can't figure out why this keeps happening:

dig r-nash.office.protected.com @192.168.2.2

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> r-nash.office.protected.com @192.168.2.2
; (1 server found)
;; global options: ...

The current RH4 that I installed always having this problem:  
 
Bringing up interface eth0:  Error, some other host already uses address 10.8.1.151.               [FAILED]
 
If I put in DHCP mode, it was OK, but goes to static IP, it always...

I need to reboot a Linux server by executing a bat file from a Windows server.

This gets me logged into the server from the command line
putty root@<IP Address> -pw <Password>


When I add this to reboot the server it doesn't work.  It...

Over the last month my hard disk usage on my web hosting virtual server has increased considerably.

Ive posted a question recently to find out how to see which domain . client is the cause.

ive cleaned out the entire system.

But now ive...

When I try to launch exceed via citrix environment, I'm getting the following error message.

Fatal Error: Unable to access user directory

I googled and found the following solution, but  userDir is mapping with C drive and my userId...

i have booked my domain itcplant.com at myhostings and created following records. Now i want to setup my own mail server in RHEL 5. should i configure DNS SERVER and than configure sendmail?.

How to setup send mail including iptables and...

Hi experts,
I am using Linux Enterprise server 3.0 and running sendmail server.How would I know whether smtp authentication is working or not.Even if I dont create saslpasswd2 -c newuser, the users are able to log on.
This are the details of my...

I am trying to run the personal backup client (a bootable cd) on a VM (centos 5.3) that I have running on Xenserver 5.5.  I have not been able to find a boot menu like VMWARE has.  Any ideas on how to either boot from a physical cd or iso?

I have a RHEL 4.6 rack mount server running NX Server 3. I am using this for some testing purposes, but I don't want to sit in the server room. I'd like to sit at my desk and remotely work on the server.

I have installed the free version of...

I have created a user for the developers on the database server to run processes to import into the database.
However, when they try to run sqlplus the hit error message.
I know it is caused by lack of permissions. I have made the use a member...

First I would like to thank everyone who has helped me with my email server in the past.  One of my colleagues tried to “help” me and ended up crashing the test email server.  He then restored an image of the hard drive (it was a bad image).  As...

I am trying to delete files at the command line on my esx server and I keep getting the error:

rm: cannot remove /vmfs/volumes/filename.vmdk: Device or resource busy

I am trying to install Erlang on my CentOS 5 64 bit system using yum.

When it is correctly installed, the command "erl" should work.

What did I not do or do wrong?

Hi! :)

A simple question. How do I list all user accounts in Debian?

Cheers,
The Terrible :)

Hi all

I want to monitor the up time for a web site that has been giving us problems. I'm using nagios 3.oa3.

I have created a service check called webcheck and included a check_http

My question is how can I check the site in question...

Dear EE,

i have install OpenSuSE 10.2 and install it in GUI mode (run level 5),
now i have a windows client run Xmanager Enterprise 2.1, i want this client connect remotely to the SuSE Server (like remote desk top in window).

any one can...

Hello group,

I'm using command line only on my linux box and also using a wide screen (DELL) the problem is that fonts are big and I want to have bigger resolution.

How can I change it?

Thanks,
ak

I need to convert a .crt certificate to .pem format, on a Linux machine. But whenever I try to do so using a command mentioned at http://shib.kuleuven.be/docs/ssl_commands.shtml which is:

openssl x509 -inform der -in MYCERT.cer -out MYCERT.pem...

Hi guys!

Im trying to unmount a directory which points to a remote share.
I have unmounted it successfully, and now I want to remove this mount.
The mount is /mnt/netbackups
I keep getting the message...
rm: cannot remove directory...

Hi,

I'm trying to install gtk+. But first I need atk. I know that I may be able to rpm it but I had numerous problems trying to rpm filezilla so I'm going step by step to install the dependencies from source. I'm getting there but I'm stuck in...

Anyone know of any free (preferably) utils that will enable me to view inside this hidden directory?

Can't access it via command line (access denied), cant use cacls to grant myself permissions (access denied), and cant see it mounted in...

Looking for any commands that would allow me to see HBA Information in Linux -

Emulex and Qlogic HBAs

Don't be shy - give me as many as you can please -

Thanks

host info:

Linux lh??????.l???.??????.com 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb...

Hello,

I'm trying to config this

EXTENSION_DIR=/usr/lib/php5/modules ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d --enable-fastcgi --enable-force-cgi-redirect...

Hi all,

I do want to run a X-program, lets say xclock, on a linux server. The program should be displayed on a windows pc running xming as X-server.

Or in detail:
1. I logon using putty with X-forwaring as user THEUSER to the server from...

I've a "HP ProLiant DL380 G3" box. I want a Linux command to print this model number.

Hi,

I have a daily rsync job (in cron) that hangs in ps process list (linux) until i kill it.

The rsync suppose to backup one directory which includes about 2500 sub-dirs in it,
e.g rsync of /home/user/stuff
where stuff has about 2500...

Hello,
I'm using a samba server (CentOS 5) with several windows clients (xp and older).
Samba logs a lot of errors, like these:
Nov 20 16:04:06 shoebox smbd[28548]: [2007/11/20 16:04:06, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1232)
Nov 20 16:04:06...

Hi All,

Anyone come across the following;

I'm looking at disk stats using sar, if I run `sar -d 5 1` I get the following (trimmed) output.

   Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5         03/29/2009

   05:38:59 PM       DEV       tps  rd_sec/s ...

We have a remote Red Hat Linux server with ILO card, plugged into the LAN. However the onsite engineer forgot to configure the ILO (Press F8) and put in the IP address.

I am able to SSH/Telnet into the server. is it possible to download the...

Hello, I was trying to get a Ventrilo Server up and running on my Linux box and I was wondering if anybody knew how to open up a TCP Port in Debian Linux.  Just as Windows XP allows exceptions in its built in firewall.

$ ulimit -a
time(seconds)        unlimited
file(blocks)         2097151
data(kbytes)         unlimited
stack(kbytes)        32768
memory(kbytes)       unlimited
coredump(blocks)     unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 1024
$ ulimit -n 2048...

Hi All,
I wanted to setup sftp server on rhel 5 server.
I googled but didn't find any proper resources or documents how to setup sftp.
I have already setup vsftp, but I am initerested in setting up sftp.
Please provide me with documentation...

Say, yum show nxserver and nx as installed.
Must I start the service? As I get this error if I try. I've followed instructions at:
Help!

[root@localhost bin]# ./nxserver
NXSERVER - Version 3.2.0-73 OS (GPL, using backend: not detected)...

Hi All
I am using these ntp server

server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org
server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org
server 2.uk.pool.ntp.org
server 3.uk.pool.ntp.org

The thing is that these NTP servers set the time to London time GMT+1, instead of GMT. I need time...

I have compiled and installed Openssh 5.3 on my centos 5.3 server following these instructions:
http://binblog.info/2009/02/27/packaging-openssh-on-centos/

However I CAN NOT seem to get ChrootDirectory to work properly

I have changed so...

I recently set up MRTG on my server and it is working fine so far for every host I try except localhost.

I did not have snmpd installed, but now do.  I used apt-get to install snmpd and left the config as it comes except for this part:

#   ...

hello there,
this is what im doing to install it

wget http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz
untar iftop-0.17.tar.gz
./configure
make

but while running the configure this is what I get

Since eclipse is written in java, how can i start eclipse in verbose mode of the java utility

for example,

# java -verbose eclipse

However, the above command is not working....

Hi All,

I've got an error when I tried to extract it on the ESXi through SSH console ?

can anyone please help in how to extract the zip files on ESXi ?

Thanks

Specifically, we are trying to setup a two-node cluster to provide a highly available apache server. After reviewing the documentation, it appears that shared storage may not be necessary, though we would like to have the document root be on...

I'd like to use ifconfig to discover/set the IP addresses of the physical NICs in my VMware host server from the console.  But when I try to locate the ifconfig utility, it doesn't seem to be installed.  Neither 'find' nor 'slocate' can locate...

I have fileone  to be ftp'ed to AIX server:
-rw-r-----   1 root     sys      1073741312 Sep 19 10:27 expref3.dmp

i use root account in the ftp connection.

but, I am getting this error:

ftp> put expref3.dmp
200 PORT command successful....

Hi people,

I'm running the latest version of Ubuntu and I get the following error when trying to change a password :
root@linux01 :
passwd : authentication token error
passwd : password unchanged

The same happen when I add a user. Here...

Hi,

I'm having problems with compiling gtk+.

I know there are dependencies. http://www.gtk.org/download-linux.html
glib 2.22 which I seemed to have compile successfully without errors.
pango 1.26 - I can find pango 1.5 in the directory...

I ran a mysql -V in Linux to see what version of mysql is on my server.

What version is this:

"mysql  Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.21, for portbld-freebsd6.0 (i386) using  5.0"

I am very confused as it saysin Using 5.0 at the end.

Thanks
...

Dear Expert,

In linux SuSe (9.X or 10.X) , how could i change timezone and make it effect without reboot from shell?

thanks,

ikhmer

I need to know what version a driver is that I have installed on my machine. Is there a command I can run to find this out? The driver name is qla2xxx. modprobe -l qla2xxx doesn't give me the information I need. Thanks.

I have a network appliance filer running Ontap 7.3. I have a UNIX volume/Q-tree with 3.9 TB of allocated storage. I have NFS and CIFS shares pointing to the same volume. The NFS share permissions work fine. On the NFS side I am also able to limit...

Hi Folks,

I want to know how to lock a file in Linux?  I did a search on this and found commands like flock, lockf, fcntl etc...but didn't get a clear idea about it.

Along with my above question, I want to know how to check whether a file...

I have a backup Postfix relay server setup for my company email system at a hosting facility in the event of an outage or failure at our corporate location.  The MX record for this location is set at 100.  Yestrerday there was a outage at our ISP...

in linux, how do I remove one line from my history?

I typed my password and it kept it.

Hello,

I installed VMware-Fusion-e.x.p-49528 and created a number of Fedora Core 6 virtual guests. I installed VMwareTools-e.x.p-49528.i386.rpm onto each virtual guest. The installations and guest creations worked perfectly and without error....

cat /proc/cpuinfo

I ran this command on our new dedicated db Linux server, the ouput says there are 4 x 3.2 GHz xeon processors below.

The hosting provider says there are dual xeon 3.2 GHz processors in the server specs that we signed up...

To simplify my backup system, it would be preferable for me to be able to mount a snapshot of the VMFS residing on my SAN. Is there a linux tool for that ?

whenever try to print ..its showing too many active jobs ..need solution urgent..using cups-lpd any thing else than ask me

I modified /etc/security/limits.conf. I can manually raise the number of file descriptors using ulimit -n. I can put that command in /etc/profile or similar.

How can I avoid /etc/profile or similar shell modifications and just have ulimit -n...

Dear Experts,

I'm not very familiar with linux...but I try to get around a little bit :)

I need to load automatically a driver before anoter driver is loaded, how can I do it?

The driver is mISDN and I need to load it with:
...

I am trying to get Mysql to run on Fedora Core 6. The error that I keep getting when attempting to start mysqld is the following:

login as: root
root@192.168.5.32's password:
Last login: Mon Mar 26 04:33:34 2007 from...

* JBoss 4.0.5
* Fedora Core 6  (Linux)
* Java 1.6.1_01  (also tried 1.5.1_01) JDK
* Starting JBoss as a Linux service with a jboss link under  'etc/rc.d/init.d'
   starting parameters  ::  run.sh -c default -b 0.0.0.0 -g DefaultPartition
-  ...

Hi,

I'm trying to address the vulnerability (see below) given by security team.

Our ESX 3.5 is affected (ESX 2.5 is Ok).  I've got the .rpm patch file.
Do I install using
   rpm -Uvh patchfile.rpm
       or
   rpm -ivh patchfile.rpm
...

Dear Experts,

I am running a stable version of Debian (Lenny) which has MySQL 5.0 in it's repositories.  I need to install MySQL 5.1 because of some of it's new functionality but I cannot figure out how to install it.

I found an article...

Hi,

I have Linux machine (Debian) that runs several databases.
when I doing "du -h  /var/lib/mysql" I see that some of my database direcories have big logs files (log.MYD).

How can I flush/clear/purge such logs?

Hello,
first I did:
service3:/usr/src/ImageMagick-6.5.4-10 # ./configure --prefix=/usr
service3:/usr/src/ImageMagick-6.5.4-10 # make
service3:/usr/src/ImageMagick-6.5.4-10 # make install

with no errors but lots of warnings like this when...

HI,
due to some problem , if i see kernel panic, i need to hard boot of the pc, now i have check /var/log/messages , if there is any log for kernel panic informaition, but no luck.

i belive there must of some options i need to enable to log...

HI
I installed a new Os and trying to access ntfs pertition from another hardrive.

but kernel is not supported by ntfs
so i have installed these
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse  , but when i am tryign to access ntfs

mount...

I have a whole bunch of folders/files with the owner of dspam and the group of dspam

Currently, id dspam shows:
uid=104(dspam) gid=105(dspam) groups=105(dspam)

I need to set the UID and GID to something above 500.  How can I do so?

I have a CentOS 5 server with 2 drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb).  It was originally setup without RAID (/dev/sdb was blank).  I've gone through the process of configuring the second drive, setting up the raid, etc.  When I try to boot the RAID, it...

I currently have 250 linux terminals that boot off a Debian NFS server each morning. They all boot in rapid succession and in my syslog I often find the error message:
"kernel: nfsd: too many open TCP sockets, consider increasing the number of...

We are trying to set-up an Oracle 10G cluster on redhat enterprise 4.x86_64.

I have a an external, Fibre channel connected device ( EMC Clarion )  that I have used fdisk to create thse partitions:

Disk /dev/sda: 549.7 GB, 549755813888...

Hi all,

I have an OpenSUSE terminal server and I would like to backup users home directories every day via Cron and Rsync. I am looking for a script or set of scripts that will enable me to do the following:

- Mount a NAS server at the...

I upgraded my Red Hat enterprise version 3.9 to version 4.3 and now I get the following error when trying to boot.

Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2...

I am setting up postfix to use as an outgoing mail server and need to configure it to require authentication to relay mail instead of using my neworks. any hel would be apreciated.

we have Apache web server with Tomcat4.1.27 and mysql 4.0.13  installed  in the  server hosting our application. The problem we are facing is, as application runs over a period of time there are lot  of mysql connection in close_wait state.

if...

I purchased a server for my employer about a year ago.

Dell PowerEdge 2900
2x Intel 1.6 Ghz Quad-core processors
8GB Memory
4x 168GB 15K SCSI Hard Drives
PERC 5/i
RAID 10
CentOS 5

When it arrived I loaded CentOS 5 and it has been...

How do I fix connection error between Backup Exec 12 and Ralus remote agent installed on Linux box? Backup job error V-79-57344-65072 connection to target system has been lost.
Backup of linux server installed with Backup Exec 12 linux remote...

I have added a domain to the access and local-host-names files in /etc/mail and run makemap hash to update the db files.  I thought I should do the same for the domaintable but apparently the format I'm using for this file is incorrect, because I...

Hi all,

I'm trying to run xterm remotely but no success.
I'm connecting to my ssh using putty with X11 forwarding. and I get the following warning after connecting:
"Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding."...

Hello,

My top command shows me sometimes a big (80-90% or more) wa indicator. So this means my processor waits a LOT for I/O operations.
I/O operations mean writting and reading from hard disk ?

How can I see in realtime a list with...

First off I am a Linux beginner.  How do I set up to run SNMP as a service when my computer starts up.  Also how do I manually start the SNMP service?

Can someone point me to a document that goes into detail on the cpu states for the top command?

I'm looking at this:

Cpu(s):  9.3% us,  4.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 80.1% id,  5.3% wa,  1.3% hi,  0.0% si

I'm looking for a definition of each...

I did CentOS install with default settings for file system.
And this is the output of filesystem

Resource         Used       Max
VolGroup00    50.75 GB  50.75 GB
/ (VolGroup00-LogVol00)  9.04 GB  48.42 GB
/boot (/dev/cciss/c0d0p1)  24 MB  ...

My ftp server, vsftpd, places a lock on files being uploaded. However, only root or the user ftp'ing up the file can see the lock. For example, if you run lsof <filename> while the file is uploading, you only see the lock if you are root or the...

Running RHEL 3. Postfix is not recognizing message size limits. I cannot send or receive any mail that is 7mb or larger. According to my postfix settings I should be able to send and receive at 10mb. What the heck is going on?

[root@mail1...

I just downloaded CentOS 4.4 and all I get is prompt command. How do I get the GUI. I have tried startx and exec gnome but it didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks

I dont' know if I am getting it right, but I have understood that the dmesg kernel messages are stored in /var/log/messages by the help of syslog, and that syslog was adding a timestamp before each message, is that right?
In that case, why are...

hello there,
the hosting did a hard reset on the server and when it came back on line mysql is not starting
this is what I am getting in the start up logs.. how can I fix this issue?
it has been working perfectly fine for the past 3 months...

Good day,

I received this error

Final-Recipient: RFC822; email@xyz.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; mx.xyz.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 #5.1.0 Rejected by bounce verification.

I don't know why it's a valid email...

After making a Linux server a part of a domain, it would be nice to be able to use dsquery and dsget from that server. Any way of doing that, or any such tools available for Linux? I use Debian.

trying to install SSL certificate, but apache is failing to start with error:
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 34 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.include:
Invalid command 'nokeepalive', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the...

How can i reduce CPU usage for oracle running on redhat linux.

Im trying to backup my server, and would like to backup via ftp to another server.

is it posible to do something like:-

cp backup.zip ftp:\\myUser:myPassword@myOtherPC\backup.zip

Any ideas?

Tony

Hello

I'm trying to install Google-chrome in Centos 5.5 however everytime I try to install it, it complains about some library

 [root@ ## Desktop]# rpm -Uvh google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        lsb...

I've got a host machine receiving IP address from DHCP (192.168.2.x). I have created a guest machine that will have a 172.20.0.x address. I've been able to let them talk together if I use DHCP on the guest as well but then they will be on the...