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My SQUID starts killing its self when its logs reached to 2GB. Is there any way that I will increase this figure and make these logs as they will rotate their entries when they reached their m...
Hello All,    I am trying to setup a RAID 1 on my system that has 2 identical IDE hard disks. I am installing CentOS 4.2 x64 and doing a software RAID. This is what my partitioning look li...
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 ...
I need to download and install a gcc compiler for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3. our network does not support yum commands therefore I need to manually install it.
I want to use cp -r and have it overwrite existing files/dirs without asking me if it should each time.  How do I do that? Thanks, Chris
To All, I heard WinSCP is a great tools to copy files in/out of ESX 3.5 server. How do I use it or configure it so that I can login to my ESX server. I downloaded the program already but I ...
I am having problem sending mail to just one other server. Sending server: Whitebox with Sendmail Jun 28 14:20:50 torpey5 sendmail[13529]: i5SJKnXU013529: from =<xxxxxx@torpey.org>, siz...
Hi all, I need a tool to resize linux partition that installed on it fedora core 6  (100 gb) so that I can install centos 5 also on it please guide me what to do and where to go to make su...
Hi How do I copy files and folders from my Win PC to a folder on my Linux server using putty command line? I can't FTP because of permissions I have so I am on server as root to make changes...
Hi,    I have installed Linux 9 in my m/c.  i cann't able to telnet from another m/c to this. and if i stop the xinetd service, it says, stopping xinetd  Failed. what should i do? but i c...
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 a...
Hello I was trying to find some useful info on how to configure Thold on Cacti to start getting email alerts when thresholds are hit, I was not able to find anything useful. We have Cacti v...
Experts: I cannot get my Linux (Fedora 6) computer to receive an IP address from my dhcp server.  My dhcp server is a Cisco 871 wireless router/switch.  But I am not trying to do this wirel...
I need an example snmpd.conf file that is configured with all the usual cpu, memory, disk and interface info for use with Cacti and whatever snmp.
Suse Linux doesn't recognise "service vsftpd stop" or "service vsftpd start".  How can I stop/start/restart vsftpd from the command line in Suse Linux 10?  I'm sick of rebooting!!
I have an old Pentium II, 350Mhz, 128mb PC that I would like to run a linux distro on that would act as a Apache 2.2 web server. So far I'm comparing FreeBSD to Debian. I will be monitoring ma...
I've setup Webmin on my Gentoo linux server, and I was able to login originally. Its been quite a while since then, and I have no idea what my login is. I tried root/myrootpass, and some admin...
Ok, simple question, but it has been killing me to find out. I remember with Redhat 7 I used to type 'service network restart' after I make a change to my network setup, but I can't seem to ...
I have installed vsftpd on a Fedora core 4 linux server.  I am trying to allow local users ftp access to the root of my Apache 2.0 webserver.  Currently, my users can access /var but get a "Co...
I have 3 files in MP4 format for playing on iPods. They were tested before being sent to me and apparently work fine. I need to play them on Ubuntu Dapper, so thought that VLC would do the tri...
On an old shell I used to work on, I used to use a command line FTP client, and could execute it just by typing "ftp" in the bash command line. On a new VPS I have, it does not have it. I h...
I have the Shell Script which spool's the Sql Query output to a file attached to this question. The spooled output has many white spaces, newline characters and tab spaces. I am trying to cons...
Hi, I've recently started running Ubuntu 7.04 on my home PC to see if I can live with Linux as an alternative to Windows.  Although I'm IT savvy I have a relatively poor knowledge of linux ...
Hello, I must install QMail on my Linux machine. I've read in more than one place that I will need the Linux version of the famous DAEMON TOOLS for PC - can someone confirm or deny this? And i...
I have a LAMP box with Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.24-19-server. The current version available of PHP is 5.2.4 but I want to use 5.2.1. Can I install the older version with apt-get? I know that the foll...