I have setup a transparent Squid proxy on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with Dansguardian for content filtering by bridging 2 NICs together. This seems to be working well, but when I reboot the machine, Dan...
Hello Experts. I was trying to configure dual head on my fedora desktop (7) and somehow set the resolution too high for laptop screen. So now I cant boot into the system as all I get is a ...
How do you set a login banner in Linux RHEL 4.0?
I know that you are supposed to edit the motd file in /etc. I also know that the etc/issue file needs to be modified somehow. Further, a...
I have vsftpd up and running fine using virtual users. I am trying to chroot them to thier own directories using "user_sub_token". I need to manually create the virtual users folder, they are...
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...
We are using Samba to map user home directories on Windows XP Pro desktops in a mixed server environment. When we do this the users see the size of the entire partition "230GB" instead of the...
How can I "log in" to a remote Linux server in a GUI environment? I know I can telnet in for text based session. What I have in mind is something graphical, similar to how Remote Desktop wor...
I am running Ubuntu Server 7.10 as a LAMP server. I have all components integrated to Active Directory for authentication using Kerberos, Samba, Winbind and PAM etc. I can't find a good "How...
I have a system which was installed with the RHEL4 base release. I would like to upgrade it to RHEL 4.2, but I can't seem to figure out the syntax of 'up2date --upgrade-to-release' I have tr...
I have a Centos4.2 server that has a software RAID-5 volume consisting of 4 disks, /dev/sd{a-d}7. The other day it reported a failure on /dev/sdc7. I was able to start rebuilding it but duri...
I need some guidance as to how to do the following on my server:
I have three IP's and have nameservers set to ns1.second_IP & ns2.third_IP
A message board that is installed is giving...
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I have written a backup/recovery script and still working on it but still there is something, which I'm not satisfied with it yet. The whole theory of RSYNC is synchronization or...
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vendor software support only for the 64-bit OS, bit the current Linux RHAS 4 is at 32 bit. Is there any way to migrate this OS from 32 bit 64 bit .
please advice what shold ...
Would like to connect using vnc from winows xp pro pc to ubuntu pc.
I want to use partimage to backup a copy of an machine that I customized with xubuntu 7.10. I plan on taking this image and using partimage to clone to 30 more computers. Can someone tell me h...
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I'm working on a multithreaded application, in C++, using the ACE framework for TCP and threads.
When used in certain conditions, the application can have up to 400 threads running. ...
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I am using the 'route' command to add a static route on my RedHat linux server.
The routes don't survive a reboot.
Can someone tell me the best way to make the static routes I n...
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When I created a new user account with useradd command, I found the user directory was not created, because I didn't use any options in the useradd command. Now, I want to ...
I can connect fine with the root user and password locally, but when our vendor tries to dial in (not via VPN, but via a pinhole in our router) using the same user name and password, this gene...
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we have a linux box here that we seem to have lost the ROOT password. However, we have another account that we created before (Called ROOT1) that has same priviledges as ROOT ...
We have a script that resides in /home2/xyz/script.sh
We would like to develop a script to put in /etc/rc.d/init.d (using RHEL 5 x64) which calls the script in the above directory and allow...
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.
Experts,
I am looking for some guidance in installing vmware tools to an ubuntu guest os. Disclaimer: Total newbie to VMware and Linux!!!
I get to step 2 of the instructions below, but whe...
I am running a linux server, which basically acts as a file server for a specific application. This application generates plenty of files in a directory, anything up to 10,000 (though too ofte...
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I am new to Linux administration. I have to transfer a huge directory and its contents from one linux server to another linux manchine. Similar to DOS xcopy command. Please be gentle with...
