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Hi I am running Fedora4 and also samba. I need to create a superuser that can access the system using samba and change any file on the system. even the systam file. In fact I need to giv...
My hosting provider recently changed how IMAP email is stored.  I used to be stored all in one large inbox file, performace was really bad. They have recently changed to What I think is Mai...
Hi, If I'd like to get the IP address of a hostname, which command I should use in Linux/Unix? Thanks, Rfr1tz
Dear experts!! My PC is running TightVNC server and after resetting PC, i can not use it anymore. Do we have any solutions for this as STARTUP on Windows or auto run bat(script) file to run...
I have to administer many RHEL4 linux nodes from my desktop. I do this by passing commands from the desktop to remote nodes through a trusted ssh channel. It works fine except when the remote ...
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 ...
Tried to enable the VNC service from package manager. Setup it up and  enabled it, added 5500 to firewall. Service manager always stated successful start, but the service never did start. ...
How do I check what is the Linux version installed on my machine? and how do I check for the system uptime
Ho do I check what process is running in Linux we know that in windows we can check in task manager to check what is the process that run but how about in Linux
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...
We have a web form with possible entries such as ä, ö, ü, ß, é, è etc. Known as Western Latin ISO-8859-15. We try to save the form fields on Win and Linux (Red Hat) platforms as UTF-8 (Unicod...
I'vd been tasked with building a local Yum repository for Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 servers. We have only one RHN-registered RHEL 4 server. It currently pulls  down RPMs from the offcial Redha...
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...
My client has a server fileshare that they all access from various workstations. They want a backup of all files that are 35 days and newer. I want to construct a 'find' command which will cop...
Hi I am trying to send myself an email through  my CentOS and RH 9 boxes.. I create a samples text file like email.txt with some text in it like hello, hi this is a test.. I then issue t...
Hi, i've had a server setup on Linux Redhat and i'd like to know how i can possibly create a new user with priviledges as close as possible to root so i can use this account to connect to the ...
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 ...
How can I change the IP address in Fedora 8 command line mode, I know using ifconfig command, beside the ifconfig command, what another files I need to modify the settings. Since the GUI wa...
How do you send a pop-up message to a user who is currently logged in using the KDE or GNOME desktop?  I want to do this while logged in remotely as a super user using ssh.  I know there has t...
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...
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!!
Hello,      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...
On server, I have directory entitled webroot for storing all scripts of my Web Root. When I download updated scripts in a package, such as webroot.tar, they create a directory at the same l...
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...
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...