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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...
What I want to do is create a script that will shutdown a remote computer (i have root access to it), but it needs to be completely automated.  My first thought was to create a cgi on the rem...
I have to scp from one linux box to another linux box ( automating the scp task). I follwed the instruction as given in the SOME tutorial. But could not do so. What could be the problem? ...
I think this should be simple but I don't seem to be able to do it the right way. Packages that are in the RPM format can be easily installed simply by double clicking on them. However I have ...
Can someone please help me with the proper install of php5 and apache2 with mysql and GD support on RHEL 4. Changing to a diffrent OS is not an option. I havent used the RedHat up2date opti...
Dear experts , In the unix operations system, if the we have ipaddress of the machine how to know the host name of that machine thanks for your efforts in advance answering for this  qu...
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...
I have been trying to get amavis and spamassassin to modify the subject line on all mail that it finds as spam. The mail server is running SUSE 9.1 with Postfix, clamd av, amavis-new, and...
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...
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 have an application that links with libstdc++.so.5, however the target system only has libstdc++.so.6 installed.  Should i install an earlier version of the stdc++ library to account for thi...
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 ...
My requirement is -have to  use ssh utility in win xp environment to call the  shell script resides on remote server for my automation ? - what is option in ssh command to pass the pwd ...
hi, i have a directory of about 700MB of html files, which most of them include specific string that i would like to replace. i have a working example of sed + grep command that does the tri...
I am in Solaris 10 system and I am mouting drive from Linux server it's throwing an error  RPC: Program not registered # mount -F nfs 10.0.0.1:/ISBP /ISBP/ nfs mount: 10.0.0.1: : RPC: ...
I need to add network card on Ubuntu Server 6, the installation couldn't detect it, how do I go about it? I have the drivers on the CD that came with server, its a Dell 2 Quad Core -Peter
/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,...
I want to make my linux server (Running RedHat 8) listen all the time on Port 16881, and when it sees a packet on that port, send a wake-up packet to my media server. This is so that my media ...
I've got a CentOS 4.4 Linux machine that acts as a router for a smaller office network.  We have a lot of problems with squid screwing up access to certain sites, giving errors like:     * Co...
Hello. I currently use rh9.  Have a nice little box that I'm using as an internet gateway/squid transparent proxy.  I would like to force network clients to log off and kill internet access...
We have a DNS Primary Server running on COMPAQ ALPHA Server with COMPAQ TRU 64 Unix op. System which is working fine. Now we want to configure DNS Secondary (or Slave as it is mentioned in ...
Im trying to set up an anonymous ftp server with vsftp.  I want a user to be able to write to a directory, any directory.  I get the above error when I try to log in as anonymous from the mach...
I want to backup the files into several tar files. Each tar file will not exceed 700M (for burning to CDRW). I tried this line but failed (what wrong??) :- tar -c -M -g -L 700000 -f fs1...
There are Apache log files in /var/log/httpd - both access and errors that I want to turn off.  How do I turn off logging?
Could anybody explain to me the below settings: echo 10240 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max /etc/security/limits.conf *       soft    nofile  10240 *       hard    nofile  10240 Should the...