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for some reason when I type (crontab -e) the default editor is pico.. before it was vi.
how can I change it back?
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How do I change a users password in dovecot? I have it configured to allow pop3 access, however, whenever I try to authenticate with any password it fails authentication. I think my pa...
Is there a way to change all text in vim to lowercase? I want to change all the text in the document.
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I have a directory named ActDatabase in a tape archive and I want to extract the directory and not the rest of the tape, anyone know how?
Mike
Most linux have the grep utility and the find utility. grep is used to find string patterns in a file while find is used to locate a particular file.
I'm able to find java jar files using...
I've got logwatch spitting out detail level 10 reports every night, and most days I end up with at least one entry like this:
Attempts to use known hacks by 1 hosts were logged 4 time(s) fr...
I am currently moving a system from True64 Digital Unix to RedHat ES4. Our Disaster recovery on the Digital Unix box has worked very well, and the end users do not want to change the utilties ...
I check from /etc/services and I find that there are 2 lines for ntp services:
ntp 123/tcp
ntp 123/udp
I got an answer from EE expert that I cannot telnet to NTP s...
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I am using a Knoppix boot CD to boot a linux system which is attached to an external USB 2.0 harddisk. When I try to mount the external USB harddisk using
mount -t vfat /dev...
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How can i install ethereal on a new ubuntu system (6.06 desktop)
I've tryed apt-get install ethereal but that doesn't work.
I am a newby on linux .....
thanks
What is the safe way of resizing a bootable ext3 partition? I just resized such a partition using Paragon Partition Manager 8.5 (which claims to support ext3) and it totally destroyed my parti...
/usr/lib/sendmail -v name@yahoo.com
Subjet: Test
This is a test
.
name@yahoo.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Fri,...
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I have CentOS 4.1 installed. I'm trying to setup CVS (1.11.17-7).
According to "rpm -q cvs" it's already installed. I was following a tutorial online, but I hit a road block when the...
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....
In my job I usually tar some files direct from CDROM and then untar at a different location. Here is the scenario:
tar -cf - /media/CDROM/*.txt | (cd /some/path && tar -xf -)
When I do ...
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I'm trying to install Informix on Linux Fedora. The main particularity is that the Linux host is built inside a VMware virtual machine. At a certain moment during install I get...
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Years ago when Microsoft dominated my PC, one of my most valued tools was URL Snooper:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/urlsnooper/index.html
It is the top of the cr...
Hello Experts. I am trying to use wget to download all .bin files from an http site. Using the following command I am able to download an individual file - http://akamai.grisoft.cz/update...
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I have a centos 5 box with a intel core2duo E6600 CPU , I have installed vmware server on it and running serveral windows virtual PCs.
sometimes load of the server goes high , seems it i...
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 lef...
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I am getting out of memory error in my Linux Redhat server. Kernel used: 2.6.9-67
Please help me to check on the message below on what could be the possible cause for the out of memo...
I need to set up a linux account to provide access to telnet on a series of cisco routers. i need to be able to ssh into the linux box and telnet from there to the cisco equipment. i prefer if...
I am rebuilding a dual - boot notebook (XP - GENTOO Linux) because my previoius hard drive failed. XP is installed and operational and the gentoo stuff is copied over and accessible (but I hav...
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We just got a new Dell server Poweredge 1900 with 8GB RAM and 2 quadcore 2GHz CPU, so it's a pretty powerful machine, I installed Ubuntu server 7.04 to run VMware to host about 6 Wind...
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I have an installation of CentOS 5.2 that all of a sudden began experiencing problems with yum. Whenever I try to do any task with yum, I get the following. As you can see I have rpm...
