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Hello, Does anyone know how I would go about recovering some deleted files??. Any and or all suggestions/comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Vijay Karanth
I want to disable shell access for a given user and allow ftp access only. best/easiest way to acheive this? also when I disable the shell access how can I have it display a message to t...
Hi, I have a daily rsync job (in cron) that hangs in ps process list (linux) until i kill it. The rsync suppose to backup one directory which includes about 2500 sub-dirs in it, e.g rsy...
I edited rc.sysinit as root then on next boot the whole system is read only and can't re-edit it Seams etc/rc.sysinit is linked to etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit I tried chmod +rw and 777 still s...
I just installed Fedora 8, but I cannot find the syslog.conf under /etc, how can I configure the log file.
Hi experts.. I want to install php 5 with gd (2.0 or higher) support on Redhat 9..? 1. Is this possible or not 2. if give me download path and steps I tried to download the php 5....
I want to run a cron job as a differnet user. the script runs a program which copies a file over to another server.  That server needs to see a specifici username.  if I run ./myscript.sh or...
1. how to run "Disk Druid" program in RedHat Linux 7.2  -- I formatd a root RAID-1(mirror) partition while system installation. After that, I would like to configure another RAID-1 partition,...
Hello EE.  I have windows vista and fedora on an IBM think pad laptop.  I installed Vista first , then fedora.  I am about to reinstall my vista and know that this will mess up grub.  How do i...
New install of CentOS 5,  enabled the ftp daemon but the daemon won't start.  Try to start from services and get: vsftpd failed. The error was: Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [  OK  ] Start...
Any good suggestions on mail log analysis tools? I'm using postfix right now and trying to get some stats about our email servers and so far it's been a huge pain. I'm using splunk right now, ...
Hi all I have setup squid proxy server for internet sharing. I am able to share internet traffic, but the problem lies with ms outlook 2003. When clients on windows os try to recieve the emai...
i installed a 3rd party SSL certificate on my apache 2 web server. when i restarted apache... # service httpd restart it asks for my passphrase from the SSL key. is there a way to not ha...
I am hacking my way through setting up an sftp server here.  I can use some help since I recently hit a roadblock with SELinux.  Any other suggestions on how to accomplish an ftp server with s...
Can i use up2date to upgrade RHEL3 to RHEL4?  It is actually White Box Linux (RHEL clone)..  Is it the channel that I need to change? If so, where could I find the appropriate channel?  And w...
Have two HP T5135 Thin Clients attaching to a Windows 2003 terminal server box.  It auto connects as a user.  We can't remember what key(s) need to be pressed at start up.  Anyone know for say...
Does anyone know how to do a vertical split screen of file1 with file2 in vim or emacs?
Hi all, I've fedora core 4  box with apache 2.2.4 ,php 5.2.3, perl 5.8.8 and mod_perl 2.3.x I've problem with php development with gd so I'm installing it again from the begining and read th...
All email i send out, are getting bounced with: said: 553 sorry, that domain     isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) (in reply to RCPT TO     command) i am running postfix a...
I am trying to install oracle 9.2.0.4.0 (64 bit) on Re hat ES 3.0 (64 bit) on Dell Server (64 bit)  architecture. I have successfully installed RedHat 3.0 but at the time of installing Oracle ...
I am trying to restart Sendmail on a RedHat server, when I issue the 'sendmail restart' command the screen does not refresh unless I break it. Same if I try to simply stop the service. Why?
how it is possible to play mp4 movie on ubuntu?
I setup a program to run as a "service" by creating a script to run it and putting the script in the init.d directory to see what it would do (it was a dyndns daemon program to update my ip)....
In /etc/security/access.conf with CentOS (kernel 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp) I have the following: -:ALL EXCEPT root:LOCAL Which I thought would ALLOW root to login at the console, but it's not. ...
I am looking for a solution where my file is deleted on startup in CentOS. So I was wondering if the CentOS deletes temporary files on startup?. Should the temp files inside the tmp folder...