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How do I change IP Address of my linux machine. Pls. provide a step by step documentation as I'm absolutely new to Linux & know absolutely nothing but ny boss has dropped this resposibility ...
I'm trying how to find out the IP address on a Fedora Core 4 System. I have tried ipconfig ifconfig inetcfg inetconfig Can someone help me find the IP through terminal? Thanks, ...
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...
I am currently using scp manually to update different files from one host to 3 other hosts : at connection my password is requested and I enter it I want to setup crontab to do so. ...
I have installed RedHat Linux 9.0, but I forgot the root password, how can I access my pc, I heard that we can reset the root password wil disc 1 of Redhat Linux 9.0 but I don't know how. Plea...
I would like to ask if there is any command that I can monitor CPU Usage in Redhat 7.1 .
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,  ...
Hi , am new to Samba.. I can connect from Linux to Windows using : smbclient //servername/apps -Uusername This asks for a password and i can get in ok... However I want to connect ...
Hi experts, I keep getting the following message (this is an example): Forcing reload of web server: Apache2[Wed Sep 14 13:38:48 2005] [warn] NameVirtualHost training:80 has no VirtualHosts...
I have a new PC with a fresh ubuntu installation and I want to use it as a server.  I have a LAN, all my computers have Windows XP professional installed.  This is what I need to do: - All ...
Hi, I have a dedicated server running Fedora C2. When I use Navicat MySQL GUI to connect to the server's IP address, it always say "Host 'x.x.x.x' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL s...
Hi experts, my question is How to mount NTFS file system  in Redhat linux 9.0 Regards Prakash
I did an "everything" install, yet I still can't open an FTP connection to my linux box. Everything else seems to be working... Any ideas for me to try?
Does anyone know of a good way to get hardware information from a Linux box at the command line?  I'm specifically trying to find hard disk details.
From terminal (via ssh) I have sudo power. I need to know what parameters to issue with useradd so that user gets created user gets non default home dir of /var/www/username user has ftp ...
I logged into one of my servers this morning to find this as a greeting. -bash: /bin/egrep: cannot execute binary file -bash: /bin/egrep: cannot execute binary file -bash: /bin/egrep: can...
Hi All, i have this entery in the cron tab that is executed every minute  */1     *       *       *       *       /bin/sh /var/www/xxxvhosts/100at.com/httpdocs/05-1.txt my manager need t...
Hi, I would like to clone my existing 80 Gig Hard Drive. I have a second hard disk of same size and brand with some windows stuff on it that I no longer require. I have installed the disk ...
Linux newbie alert: I need to recover 20GB of critical files from a hard drive that was an e-smith server, which I've attached as a firewire external drive to a Windows desktop that I have ...
I have a Linux (Red Hat Enterprise) webserver that hosts a collection of websites. This system uses kerberos authentication to allow me to create local accounts for Active Directory users, and...
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 ...
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 a...
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...
I created an account for myself. I want to give myself root permissions, so I do not have to user the 'root' acount. I know there is a file I can edit. Does anyone know how to do this. ...
Hi, If I'd like to get the IP address of a hostname, which command I should use in Linux/Unix? Thanks, Rfr1tz