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| LVM (with RAID5) | 11/16/2008 | nix |
Q: Three of my hard drives (each 500GB) have been set up with RAID5. I'm aware that of the 1.5TB I ...
A: First of all, let me point you to the fact that there are 2 definitions of a GB. Definition 1 ...
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| LVM (with RAID5) | 11/16/2008 | mkitwrk |
Q: Three of my hard drives (each 500GB) have been set up with RAID5. I'm aware that of the 1.5TB I ...
A: The actual space taken up by creating LVM is very small. What you are seeing as "missing" is the ...
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| LVM (with RAID5) | 11/16/2008 | Matt Blecha |
Q: Three of my hard drives (each 500GB) have been set up with RAID5. I'm aware that of the 1.5TB I ...
A: Sean, Though the 14GB sounds a little off, it's well within the range of what I would expect ...
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| shell programs | 11/11/2008 | nix |
Q: Sir, how to write a shell programs for the following i) Greatest Common Divisor of the given three ...
A: 1. function gcd() { x=$1 y=$2 while [ $x -ne $y ]; do if [ $x -gt $y ]; then ...
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| RHCE | 11/2/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: i want to do RHCE certification. can you tell me the basics of RHCE, its course detail, exam detail, ...
A: I did sign a non-disclosure agreement when I went in for the exam, so I won't tell you example ...
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| Linux mounting process | 10/31/2008 | nix |
Q: Hope you are doing well when system is booting, how does the file system mounts,when we will get ...
A: When system boots it first looks for a file system holding the kernel image. Long time ago, there ...
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| Linux | 10/28/2008 | Robert McIntosh |
Q: How do I install an application on Unix
A: If you're speaking specifically towards the UNIX operating system, you typically rely on the ...
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| Block IP addresses using Squid | 10/28/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: I work at a school and we have got Matric exams coming up. I was wanting to block specific IP or Mac ...
A: Do you simply wish to deny them access to Squid proxy? If you are looking to block web browsing and ...
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| server 2003 vs BSD/Linux SERVER | 10/21/2008 | nix |
Q: I have a HP-proliant that was set up to run winserver 2003. I cant regain the password, so I'm ...
A: For running Windows applications on any UNIX machine you have several options. WINE ---- WINdows ...
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| linux | 10/20/2008 | mkitwrk |
Q: sir i want to install linux on my laptop. Plz guide me about different version of linux like Rad Hat ...
A: Ubuntu or Fedora would be my choice to install for a novice personal computer user. I mainly set up ...
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| Is it possible to change the root username in Unix/Linux? | 10/18/2008 | nix |
Q: Is it possible to change the root username in Unix/Linux? Thanks, lzzzz ANSWER: Hi. Usually, you ...
A: The main problem is in mapping UIDs between your client and the NFS server. Take a look at this ...
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| Is it possible to change the root username in Unix/Linux? | 10/17/2008 | nix |
Q: Is it possible to change the root username in Unix/Linux? Thanks, lzzzz ANSWER: Hi. Usually, you ...
A: Why would you want to change root username because of NFS? To match with NAS? I think you should be ...
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| Is it possible to change the root username in Unix/Linux? | 10/15/2008 | nix |
Q: Is it possible to change the root username in Unix/Linux? Thanks, lzzzz
A: Usually, you can change the name of the root user. After all, a user name is what is written in ...
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| Can I mount a NFS share as a user other than root? | 10/14/2008 | mkitwrk |
Q: Can I mount a NFS share as a user other than root? Thanks, lzzzz ANSWER: Only if the fstab file ...
A: Using "sudo" on the client machine, you can run the mount command as any valid user that exists on ...
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| Can I mount a NFS share as a user other than root? | 10/14/2008 | mkitwrk |
Q: Can I mount a NFS share as a user other than root? Thanks, lzzzz
A: Only if the fstab file says that "user" can do so. See the man page on "mount". The following entry ...
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| When I mount a NFS directory, how to specify a user name and password? | 10/14/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: When I mount a NFS directory, how to specify a user name and password? Thanks, lzzzz ANSWER: It ...
A: Yes, only the root user can mount file systems in Linux. You should be able to mount the file ...
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| When I mount a NFS directory, how to specify a user name and password? | 10/13/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: When I mount a NFS directory, how to specify a user name and password? Thanks, lzzzz
A: It doesn't really work like that. On the NFS *server* you would configure the user (and ...
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| how to open rescue log files? | 10/10/2008 | mkitwrk |
Q: how to open rescue simulation robocup log files in linux ubuntu?
A: I am not familiar with the application. (googled it on the the web... looks interesting...) Most ...
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| file system is not mounting | 10/8/2008 | nix |
Q: Hope you are doing well, Nix, I have installed (perl-5,XFree86) Patches on Redhat-EL4 AS, i Don't ...
A: I would first take a look in /etc/fstab to see if there is a definition of the mount and if it ...
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| file system is not mounting | 10/7/2008 | nix |
Q: Hope you are doing well, Nix, I have installed (perl-5,XFree86) Patches on Redhat-EL4 AS, i Don't ...
A: Installation of patches should have nothing to do with proper FS mount. It would be helpful to know ...
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| Linux | 9/29/2008 | nix |
Q: How can I configure https for apache in Red hat Linux 5 version?
A: First of all, you need a certificate for your service. Then you should place it in a common ...
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| awk command | 9/23/2008 | nix |
Q: Nix, that worked!! Thanks. I just have a question on how it did work. Here's the command you gave ...
A: :-) I didn't... exactly. The problem with 5th field is that it breaks the convention of the ...
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| unix | 9/22/2008 | nix |
Q: text segment-contains the executable code of a progran,several user uses the same program,this area ...
A: Since the text segment should not change and UNIX generally should not allow for self modifying ...
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| awk or grep command | 9/19/2008 | nix |
Q: I have a task to create a file pulling 2 fields from the input file to create the output file. The ...
A: Well, whz would zou want to change "," sequernce for "|"? The one you have here would workalmost ...
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| awk or grep command | 9/18/2008 | nix |
Q: I have a task to create a file pulling 2 fields from the input file to create the output file. The ...
A: The answer is - you can't. I mean from syntactic point of view, how would you discern these rows: ...
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| wifi | 9/9/2008 | Denis Mello |
Q: Denis, Thank you for your time. I bought a Compaq Presario C700 (C771US) notebook last weekend and ...
A: That's the kind of question that comes back to the forum over the time. I did not check whether your ...
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| information | 9/9/2008 | Robert McIntosh |
Q: I am using RHEL 5 for my study purpose, now I have one problem, user cant login without a password, ...
A: This is no problem. To install yum on RHEL4, follow these steps: 1) Download yum using wget: === ...
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| information | 9/7/2008 | Robert McIntosh |
Q: I am using RHEL 5 for my study purpose, now I have one problem, user cant login without a password, ...
A: If you wish to enable blank passwords for users (which I really don't recommend), here's how you can ...
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| Switching to Unix | 9/6/2008 | Denis Mello |
Q: Mello I am using Windows since the early version 3.2 working under DOS platform, today my version is ...
A: Greeting Mr. Yaser. I hope to turn easy you migration. For sure, it's a little bit confusing by ...
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| Howto Clean out Squid cache | 9/5/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: how do I clean out Squid Proxy cache? If I bypass Squid I can get to anywhere on the net.. If using ...
A: There might be a more proper way of doing things, and if you find out I'd love to hear it :) The ...
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| information | 9/2/2008 | Robert McIntosh |
Q: What is the basic different in between normal Apache web server and tom-cat Apache server?
A: When you're talking about the apache web server with Tomcat, you're talking about a web server that ...
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| Information | 8/23/2008 | nix |
Q: If I want to configure two LAN card in linux, how i can do it in command mode?
A: Most modern Linux systems have a CLI based setup tool. OpenSUSE has Yast2. You didn't say which ...
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| unix and linux | 8/23/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: what the storage management,the file system UNIX and LINUX?
A: Are you looking for a way to manage your physical disks, volumes, logical volumes, file systems, ...
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| Information | 8/19/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: How i use quota in respect of squirrelmail in my mail server for the users. ANSWER: Squirrelmail ...
A: Quota is handled on the file system (as I stated before). Sendmail will have to honor these quotas ...
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| Information | 8/18/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: How i use quota in respect of squirrelmail in my mail server for the users.
A: Squirrelmail does not have any support to implement any kind of quotas. You need to implement the ...
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| What does EOT stand for? | 8/13/2008 | nix |
Q: I have a script that has '....yahweh << $EOT' in it. What does the $EOT stand for? Thank You, ...
A: EOT usually means End Of Text. In your case, EOT is a variable/constant holding the string that is ...
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| User account in Digital unix | 8/11/2008 | nix |
Q: I'll have to make an User Account in Digital Unix on an Alpha which I need for our ERP system, but I ...
A: This can be accomplished either by GUI or command line. The GUI can be invoked by typing ...
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| About unix time | 8/10/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: My question is probably stupid :) If I record unix time [time()] for each action that a user makes, ...
A: This isn't really my forte but I would say that yes it is possible, but highly and almost nearly ...
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| Dumb question about unix time | 8/10/2008 | Matt Blecha |
Q: My question is probably stupid :) If I record unix time [time()] for each action that a user makes, ...
A: Anatoli, Since Linux, like most popular *nix variants allows multiple simultaneous logins, it ...
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| Kill a process | 8/6/2008 | Aaron Gray |
Q: I wanted to write a shell script that would find the firefox process, find the process ID for it, ...
A: That script is very short and should run in less than a second. I don't think "kill" command can ...
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