| Subject | Date Asked |
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| DNS and FTP | 10/29/2009 |
Q: Below is what I know about how DNS and FTP are used. My question is, where do they fit in the OSI ...
A: Andy, You're half right. Every application as such has to traverse the entire OSI stack in ...
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| query | 10/20/2009 |
Q: how to have an internet connection with the linux as well as in windows when they both resides in ...
A: Srikanth, If you use a recent release of any linux distribution, you should automatically have ...
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| Which laptop should I buy for Linux Live? | 10/11/2009 |
Q: I'm new to the world of Linux. I'm used to using Windows OSes but I would like to enter the Linux ...
A: Green, I would suggest you look into Acer/Asus for laptops that will be closest to your needs. ...
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| sendmail migration | 9/11/2009 |
Q: Can we migrate sendmail running in redhat linux 7.2 and 6.2 into postfix runing in centos 5. or RHEL ...
A: Saroj, I see no reason why you would be unable to do such a thing, however, simply inserting a ...
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| Squid | 9/1/2009 |
Q: I have installed redhat enterprise 4 and configured squid as a proxy server the version is 2.5. The ...
A: Shoaib, Unfortunately, when dealing with Windows workstations, Linux does not implement the ...
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| linux path | 8/27/2009 |
Q: i have make one script like aaa.sh. to run without absolute path i have kept it in /opt/bin folder. ...
A: Saroj, It is best if you can use /usr/bin. As to why your PATH statement is not work, that's a ...
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| how to set up cron to run python script | 8/20/2009 |
Q: M. Blecha i want to set up a cron deamon to it executes a python script periodically, say every 10 ...
A: John, From the error I see, it seems you will need to make sure that you are root in order to ...
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| iptables | 7/19/2009 |
Q: how can i block specific website from specific user in my network by iptables
A: Mamdudsayed, Doing this through iptables is going to be hard and very maintenance intensive. I ...
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| linux window | 6/29/2009 |
Q: Is it possible to use two operating system on one computer using two hard disc, on one hard disc ...
A: Ketan, There are actually two options I am familiar with to boot both. You may use removable ...
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| which email server is best | 6/26/2009 |
Q: i am confused to reconfigure my email server in new machine regarding the MTA. currently i am using ...
A: Saroj, I am only experienced with Sendmail, which in my opinion is one of the most flexible ...
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| Iso-scan cannot find the image in debian | 6/15/2009 |
Q: please help me out with this http://paste.debian.net/39219/
A: Wen, I'm no Debian expert, but it seems that the ISO image you're attempting to install with ...
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| PXE | 6/5/2009 |
Q: If I prepare PXE and ongoin to install but I use ADSL(PPPoe) to connect to internet so how can I get ...
A: Wenchi, You are correct, you can use TFTP/NFS to perform your install. What you will need to ...
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| Fedora 10 Networking with other Windows XP members | 6/2/2009 |
Q: I am using Fedora 10, my question is why can't I locate computers within the network I belong to. ...
A: Julius, I have not had a lot of experience with the SMB client in Fedora. It would seem to me ...
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| YUM concerns | 4/26/2009 |
Q: Hope you are doing well, I am working on a Redhat linux Env.Normally I will update the OS/Kernel ...
A: Bharath, On my Fedora systems, kernels are an "Install Only" package, which means that they ...
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| RPM | 3/16/2009 |
Q: Hope you are Doing well When you install a RPM(OPENSSH)on Redhat Linux4. Normally Where it will get ...
A: I haven't had any questions from you in a while! When you install an RPM not using a package ...
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| Monitoring current PHP scripts | 3/15/2009 |
Q: I have a server running CENTos with Apache and PHP5. One of the over 100 sites on my server is being ...
A: Kelly, Hmmmmmm.... CentOS, CentOS... I've actually run into your situation before on one of my ...
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| Traps - Help | 3/11/2009 |
Q: Sorry that even I confused you. I wanted to know the foll: Is it correct to say that traps are ...
A: An, Don't worry about it. I was somewhat confused as to how you worded things. In ...
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| Interrupts & Traps | 3/5/2009 |
Q: I am getting confused with the difference between interrupts & traps.I hv the foll: doubts (1)I read ...
A: An, You are correct, interrupts and traps can be a very confusing comparison at first glance. ...
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| partitioning | 3/3/2009 |
Q: How are you? I have Windows Vista running on Dell Vostro that has 2 hard drives. I would like to ...
A: Andres, You will need to have a full linux distro in order to use Linux. KDE is available ...
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| partitioning | 3/2/2009 |
Q: How are you? I have Windows Vista running on Dell Vostro that has 2 hard drives. I would like to ...
A: Andres, It would be a good idea to use the Vista partitioning tool to do this, unless you can ...
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| Password protection | 1/31/2009 |
Q: I have a PC running Linux and as a concerned parent would like to know if I can password protect the ...
A: Pja, In fact, you can! Simply use the "Login Manager" (which can normally be found under your ...
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| Linux operation | 1/5/2009 |
Q: I am new to linux. i have few questions. 1. i want to change my default booting from Windows XP to ...
A: Rajeev, For #1, you will want to look at your grub.conf (usually in /etc, definitely in /boot) ...
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| telnet localhost 25 ok but telnet hostname 25 fails | 12/3/2008 |
Q: i have problem in my senamil server. doing "telnet localhost 25" is ok but doing "telnet hostname ...
A: Saroj, There are two ways this can be fixed, both involve editing your sendmail.mc file. This ...
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| LVM (with RAID5) | 11/19/2008 |
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, Both your reasons are already pretty much covered under the RAID5 design. As for ...
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| LVM (with RAID5) | 11/16/2008 |
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, For the automounting, check out the /etc/fstab file and associated man documentation. ...
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| LVM (with RAID5) | 11/16/2008 |
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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| Dumb question about unix time | 8/10/2008 |
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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| Linux doesn't recognize PCTel modem | 7/18/2008 |
Q: The modem I'm using is a PCTel Platinum v.90 modem. I've tried instructions from everywhere i could ...
A: Ed, I'm not very familiar with Ubuntu, however, it seems from the error that you're probably ...
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| Run Vmware under text mode and VMware server | 7/16/2008 |
Q: I've asked in IRC about running VMware under text mode. they told me it'spossible. (i.e. Host OS and ...
A: Nobo, Yes, you can run both without GUIs. There will be several graphics libraries you will ...
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| Starting a voIP | 7/3/2008 |
Q: I am a fresh high school graduate who is doing an internship with a tech company. My big job for ...
A: Walter, Actually, you've come to the right place! The company I own manufactures an Asterisk ...
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| PHP cURL | 7/1/2008 |
Q: While crawling webpages using PHP cURL, sometimes I come across a large page that is too big, such ...
A: Victor, "try" and "catch" are functions that can be used in PHP to catch errors when writing ...
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| PHP cURL | 6/30/2008 |
Q: While crawling webpages using PHP cURL, sometimes I come across a large page that is too big, such ...
A: Victor, I believe you can affect PHP's memory allocation on a temporary basis by using the ...
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| Install Sound Card and Modem | 6/30/2008 |
Q: I hope you will be fine sir i am new user in linux and i also installed Redhat 9 Linux sir please ...
A: Janimemon, If your soundcard needs drivers, I would highly suggest upgrading from RedHat 9 to ...
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| Need Linux setup guidence | 6/29/2008 |
Q: sir, I am saroj sahu from india.I have a PC having configuration as HCL PD 80GB HDD ...
A: Saroj, If you're interested in RedHat, you can order it from RedHat's Website at ...
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| Folder permission | 6/2/2008 |
Q: I have a folder on server and I gave my friends to download or upload to this folder, but I don't ...
A: Shahin, The FTP daemon should take care of this for you. If you're using ProFTPD, that may not ...
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| CHMOD | 5/28/2008 |
Q: When I am setting folder and directory permissions, who exactly is the user, the group and the ...
A: Brian, When you chmod, you're affecting the permissions granted to the associated users, and ...
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| mail split | 5/20/2008 |
Q: how can i split users mail in mail server? suppose i have user saroj@info.com.np, there is 100 mails ...
A: Saroj, Unfortunately, I do not have good news for you. Downloading mail from the server is a ...
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| sound card issue in Ubuntu | 5/14/2008 |
Q: I have Ubuntu Linux installed and working perfectly. Except for sound. I have a Creative labs ...
A: Mark, If you are using Gnome, I'm afraid I cannot help you.Otherwise, if you're using KDE, you ...
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| Securing Linux | 3/8/2008 |
Q: I would like to make my new computer more secure. My main concern is vulnerability to anyone or ...
A: Dee, Actually, there are several for dummies books that would be pertinent to your cause here. ...
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| remove the Linux system from my computer | 3/5/2008 |
Q: i would kindly ask you, how i can remove or delete the Linux system from my computer because already ...
A: Muhannad, Rather than try to reinvent the wheel, I think it best if I refer you to someone who ...
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| Virtual PC Keylogger warning | 3/2/2008 |
Q: I was just running Microsoft Virtual PC for the first time and my security software (Kaspersky ...
A: Nathen, I'm not sure I'm the right person to answer this question, as I don't really work with ...
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| firewall & partitions | 3/2/2008 |
Q: I recently wrote with a lengthy bunch of questions. You responded that it was too long and involved ...
A: Gabriel, Thanks for shortening things up. I was concerned I couldn't effectively answer all ...
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| Installing problem | 2/23/2008 |
Q: I have downloaded Suse 10.1 iso image from torrent and i tried to install it in virtual machine but ...
A: Shoaib, Though I am not familiar with Suse's installer, it would seem that your download is ...
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| Cron job | 2/19/2008 |
Q: Sir i created a shell like this to_day=`date|awk '{print $1$2$3}'` echo $to_day log_time=`last|awk ...
A: Shinil, Though I'm not familiar with bash scripting, I would wager that your script does not ...
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| apache | 2/15/2008 |
Q: I can't seem to find any evidence on the web of a "bug" with apache that I am experiencing. It ...
A: Brendon, Unfortunately, at this point, I'm really out of options. My apache works fine with ...
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| apache "bug"? | 2/12/2008 |
Q: I can't seem to find any evidence on the web of a "bug" with apache that I am experiencing. It ...
A: Brendon, It seems that if you can see them in the filesystem, then your issue is with apache. ...
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| awk and file editing | 2/8/2008 |
Q: I'm trying to edit a text file using AWK. Its been so long since I've used it I cant remember how. ...
A: Ollie, Don't quote me, but I believe that Cygwin doesn't include vi with bash, it's a separate ...
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| Rpm, gz | 1/25/2008 |
Q: please brief me about the linux packages. i confused with .rpm .gz files to install what are the ...
A: Kiran, The installation of software on a Linux system can be done in many ways. Often the ...
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| /etc/rc.d/rc.local | 1/24/2008 |
Q: i am confused with the directory of /etc/rc.d/rc.local/ in redhat linux can you brief me what ...
A: Saroj, On RedHat, rc.local should not be a directory, it should be a file, owned by root.root ...
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| Uninstalling Linux | 1/17/2008 |
Q: I am From Armenia and i have a different situation. I have insstalled Windows XP and in second ...
A: Inga, The first thing you will want to do is uninstall GRUB or LILO (depending on your ...
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| Linux, | 1/6/2008 |
Q: This is Bharath From Bangalore, i am working as Linux administrator and i also finished my (RHCE) ...
A: Bharath, Congratulations on your RedHat Certification! Unfortunately, all my Sun ...
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| unix | 1/6/2008 |
Q: pc specs required to run unix that is the harddrive,memory,os....
A: Alouis, Linux can run on just about anything these days. Though, as with any other operating ...
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| linux and games | 12/16/2007 |
Q: Do windows games work on linux OS?
A: Robert, Most Windows games are playable on Linux as the hardware that most desktop users tend ...
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| Installing linux on an old windows computer. | 12/14/2007 |
Q: Hey, I have an old gateway laptop with XP installed... I had the computer wiped, and it's ...
A: Robert, A lot of the answer depends on the type of machine it is. Many different factors ...
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| Virus and Unix | 12/14/2007 |
Q: I want to ask, why UNIX is considered as Virus-UnInfectable, i.e. cannot be infected by a virus in ...
A: Mahmoud, Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is not "uninfectable." Simply put, UNIX and it's ...
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| How to get rescue mode? | 12/12/2007 |
Q: I read your answer about my question but i couldn't use it because i couldn't find the rescue mode ...
A: Kodjo, When you boot from the CD, you will either see a boot menu, or a boot prompt. If you ...
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| openwebmail to exchange migration | 12/4/2007 |
Q: Do you know of a tool or something easy to create to migrate the mailboxes from openwebmail to ...
A: George, I'm not familiar with Openwebmail. Your best bet would be to somehow get the email ...
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| Could it be a good buy? | 12/3/2007 |
Q: I recently came across a very reasonable laptop and was shocked to see that it used a Linux ...
A: Kristen, Actually, installing Linux on an iPod sucessfully is quite a feat. Many people have ...
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| PORT Forwarding in Linux | 11/29/2007 |
Q: I’ve two networks eth1 eth0 IP 1.1.1.0 |------|IP ...
A: Johnney, Actually, I don't deal with too many rulesets. I would suggest downloading and ...
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| SpamAssassin | 11/28/2007 |
Q: We are running ClamAV-91.2, SpamAssassin-3.1.8_1, and qmail-1.0.3 on a FreeBSD 6.2 server. Sometime ...
A: I'm not familiar with how Qmail handles email to external programs, but I might suggest that you try ...
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| ask a qustion | 11/23/2007 |
Q: i have create a user ravin i want add a membership of root.
A: Ravindra, Adding a user to root's group is not a good idea security wise. What is the purpose ...
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| problrems with multi-boot system. | 11/15/2007 |
Q: sorry if i can tell whether you are a man or a woman, i'm a student at university in Accra,Ghana ...
A: Kodjo, What it sounds like is that your Linux boot loader was probably overwritten with one of ...
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| .thaccess file and Apache serv. recognizing .(s)html files as containing php code | 11/12/2007 |
Q: I am installing a script(Talkback comment script) that uses php but allows it to be used within ...
A: Chris, Your hosting company should have their config set up so that the .htaccess file works ...
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| VMMare | 11/6/2007 |
Q: Matt, I am not sure if you can answer my question but I am having an issue with VMWare installed on ...
A: I'm not sure as to why you're experiencing the slowdown. I've found, though, when I run VMWare and ...
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| refresh rate | 10/21/2007 |
Q: I'm having a problem changing the refresh rate on a 1024x768 resolution to 100 Hz, which my monitor ...
A: Peter, Unless you're having some sort of headache when looking at your monitor, I would not ...
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| SAMBA Troubleshooting | 10/19/2007 |
Q: Can you give some ideas on how to troubleshoot, install and configure SAMBA..thank you
A: Peter, To install SAMBA on any RedHat/Fedora based system, you can either use the Add/Remove ...
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| linux | 10/11/2007 |
Q: I Have Configured Squid Proxy Server(EL4). i have more than 100 machines on my client side. so how i ...
A: Bharath, From what I remember about SQUID, you may wish to check out the Squid Analysis Report ...
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| unix help | 9/27/2007 |
Q: I need hepl to fix my code please I am trying to look for a name from phonebook file if name is ...
A: Fred, Though I'm not too familiar with shell scripting, it looks like you probably need ...
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| sound in suse linux 10 | 9/20/2007 |
Q: Lots of thanks for your support.I have a built in sound card intel 82801 AC'97 and use SuSe linux ...
A: Wael, You can change the volume by two methods. The first, would be to use one of the console ...
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| Boot music | 9/15/2007 |
Q: This is probably a strange question, but I know nowhere else to turn to. A friend of mine knows Im ...
A: hello, again! Off the top of my head, the only one I can remember currently is SoundClick at ...
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| Boot music | 9/15/2007 |
Q: This is probably a strange question, but I know nowhere else to turn to. A friend of mine knows Im ...
A: Hey Gavin! Nope, still can't think of anything about it off the top of my head. Like I said, ...
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| Boot music | 9/15/2007 |
Q: This is probably a strange question, but I know nowhere else to turn to. A friend of mine knows Im ...
A: Gavin, I believe your friend is probably mistaken. I've never heard of a Linux boot up music, ...
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| vsftpd user rights | 9/14/2007 |
Q: I'm unsuccessfully trying to limit user folder access through ftp. I've revised the vsftpd.conf ...
A: Scott, You might want to check for proftpd, and also check that vsftp isn't running through ...
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| Linux Networking issue | 9/12/2007 |
Q: I have a dual boot Compaq Presario Windows 98 machine. I have networking working fine on the Windows ...
A: Annie, Actually, since you're getting something in the dmesg about eth0, whichever module ...
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| Linux Redhat | 9/11/2007 |
Q: I just put my first computer together last week...and for the last cuple of days I have been trying ...
A: Ryan, What version of RedHat are you using? Is it one of them like Enterprise Server? Or are ...
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| http authentication in apache | 9/8/2007 |
Q: I have a perl script located in a protected directory (.htaccess file on an unix box). People who ...
A: Denis, I don't know much about PERL, but PHP does have a function to access the HTTP_AUTH ...
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| Samba-3, ldap, fedora7 | 9/5/2007 |
Q: How can I setting up samba-3 as PDC with ldap database backend?
A: Ali, Setting up SAMBA as a PDC is relatively easy. I would highly recommend webmin at ...
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| Read only | 9/4/2007 |
Q: I am very new to Linux (7.04) i am having a problem with my back up hard disk. I Installed Linux on ...
A: It's hard to tell, I'm not sure what distribution you're using, but with most of them, if you're ...
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| connect ASP.Net to Linux database | 8/28/2007 |
Q: I would like to know if it's possible to connect an ASP.Net web service application on a Windows OS ...
A: Heidi, Actually, connecting an ODBC application to a MySQL database is fairly simple. You will ...
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| Networking a Printer over Unix | 8/17/2007 |
Q: I am in the Information Services Dept. My specialties are almost entirely made up of Windows (all ...
A: Jesse, Networking a printer with Linux is a fairly easy task if you already have Xwindows ...
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| diskless node | 7/24/2007 |
Q: I have pc running windows xp and another older pc with windows 98 on a bad hd. I would like to ...
A: Peter, Yes, you can run the Windows 98 machine diskless, however, it would require converting ...
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| samba | 7/13/2007 |
Q: I have my mandriva and a windows xp computer how can i network my computer with linux and ...
A: Paul, Unfortunately, I can't really give you a whole lot of help without having more ...
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| samba | 7/10/2007 |
Q: I have my mandriva and a windows xp computer how can i network my computer with linux and ...
A: Paul, My apologies, I did not recieve an email about your question. My first ...
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| help me | 7/8/2007 |
Q: After installing Unix system.I forgot my unix root password.Is there any way to refind or reset new ...
A: Shakhar, You're in luck, because yes, in fact, there is! What you will need to do is reboot ...
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| memory swap file for Ubuntu | 6/28/2007 |
Q: I was told that when installing Ubuntu Linux I should allocate a separate partition (from the Linux ...
A: Peter, That is correct. Linux performs better with a swap partition. A good rule of thumb is ...
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| audio and video problems | 6/16/2007 |
Q: I'm having problems playing back movies in my Linux account. The video runs well, but the audio ...
A: Miguel, Audio synchronization in Linux depends a lot on the application itself. You may wish ...
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| OBSD4.0+wireless | 6/1/2007 |
Q: I'm having some difficulties getting my wireless to work. My wireless (integrated) card: Dell ...
A: welcome back to AllExperts! There are two answers to your question, the short answer, and the ...
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| operating systems | 5/29/2007 |
Q: Do you know of any operating systems that have less animations than Windows XP, etc? I assume that ...
A: D. M. Sorry about the reply taking so long, I kind of spaced it. As for animations, I'm ...
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| no index file, but site still runs | 5/27/2007 |
Q: I was approached by a client who has a website but the designer went under. Fortunately the client ...
A: Lawrence, At this point, I don't know how much more I can help you. I can't think of anything ...
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| no index file, but site still runs | 5/26/2007 |
Q: I was approached by a client who has a website but the designer went under. Fortunately the client ...
A: Lawrence, I'd check out http://www.domaintools.com/ Using the WHOIS on their site might give ...
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| no index file, but site still runs | 5/25/2007 |
Q: I was approached by a client who has a website but the designer went under. Fortunately the client ...
A: Lawrence, The public_html directory is generally where you would find the HTML files that ...
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| Signal Vs Interrupt. | 5/14/2007 |
Q: I want to know whether signal is a kind of interrupt or its different from interrupt. If so what are ...
A: Ravi, I assume that you're wanting to know the difference between a POSIX signal and a ...
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| server hardining | 5/10/2007 |
Q: Please let me know what does server hardening means and what steps we take to harden the server.
A: Nadeem, Server hardening is a process in which a server's administrator generally attempts to ...
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| GRUB not loading Ubuntu | 5/10/2007 |
Q: I was wondering if you could help me in resolving an issue regarding Grub in my dual-boot desktop, ...
A: Amit, I'll admit, I'm not too horribly familiar with Ubuntu, as I'm not comfortable with it's ...
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| linux | 5/4/2007 |
Q: i install fedora6 and my network card is onboard(the model of my network card is RTL-8169/8110 ...
A: Saeedeh, Exactly my point, the RTL-8169 is an onboard Gigbit ethernet adapter, and the module ...
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| linux | 5/4/2007 |
Q: i install fedora6 and my network card is onboard(the model of my network card is RTL-8169/8110 ...
A: Saeedeh, If you have a RealTek card, such as the RTL-8169, it should have been autodetected ...
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| squid | 5/4/2007 |
Q: I need help to install linux cache server with squid,but imagine someone wants to do that has ...
A: Peyman, First off, I would not recommend using RedHat 8. I would suggest that you download a ...
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| What does the Ctrl-U do in Unix/Linux OS? | 5/3/2007 |
Q: What does the Ctrl-U do in Unix/Linux OS? Thanks, lzzzz
A: Lzzzz, I do not know what Ctrl-U does in Unix, but under Linux, Ctrl-U is passed on to ...
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| Centos | 5/2/2007 |
Q: Centos 4 downloaded updates without my knowledge or consent - now i have five kernals on the system ...
A: Chris, I'm not too familiar with CentOS, however, it is RedHat based, and I can tell you all ...
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| Linux kernel | 4/13/2007 |
Q: How can i get technical information in detail about how Linux, Vista, XP or any other specific OS ...
A: BM, Hmmmmmm... That's a tough one. For Windows, since it's not open source, I think your best ...
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| Charset in Apache | 4/10/2007 |
Q: I am not sure it concerns your competence, but.. Maybe :) In a .htm page that contains russian ...
A: Anatoli, I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark here, as you're right, perl is usually ...
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| IP address | 3/21/2007 |
Q: My isp provides me 8 dynamic ip addresses(ADSL). But i dont have a hub or ip share machines or ...
A: Jacob, You could use on adapter on a Linux box to do the trick, however, firewalling is very ...
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| vpn client connecytion | 3/3/2007 |
Q: i am new bie in linux, i have linux fc5 installed in my computer , but i am in network (lan) and i ...
A: Ehsan, Unless you're on some sort of corporate network that doesn't allow internet access, you ...
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| Windows Xp Pro and a Distro of Linux? Ubuntu | 2/23/2007 |
Q: I am ordering a new pc desktop, amd x2, dual core 4200, 2- 250 sata hds. 1 gig of 667 ram,, dual ...
A: Dan, Sorry about the delay, I don't know whether my response reached you. It sounds like your ...
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| Windows Xp Pro and a Distro of Linux? Ubuntu | 2/23/2007 |
Q: Someone is trying to talk me into a version of Linux, Ubuntu, along with Windows Xp Pro for home ...
A: Dan, I don't know a whole bunch about Ubuntu, aside from the fact that it's built on Debian, ...
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| Calculating seconds | 2/22/2007 |
Q: I have troubles. Would you please take a look at my solution of the problem: The shell script should ...
A: Nij, I'm not too familiar with shell scripting, I use PHP to write my shell scripts, as it ...
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| Linux CD Boot with XP | 2/20/2007 |
Q: Could you please give me simple instructions to change my MS XP start up so that when I place the ...
A: Chris, To boot from a CD, you usually need to adjust your BIOS settings. I would highly ...
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| linux/windows/dual boot/DELL system | 2/14/2007 |
Q: I am looking at 2 new systems, one a Dell AMD X2 4200 DUAL CORE, 250 hd with either Vista Home ...
A: Dan, It's really six of one, half a dozen of the other. Linux will happily coexist with ...
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| compare | 2/12/2007 |
Q: i search the compare command in my linux books. i found diff,cmp. but diff seems to be used for txt ...
A: Sinn, Both diff and cmp can compare binary files, diff simply requires a '-a' to force it to ...
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| Linux OS for a server | 2/8/2007 |
Q: I am new to linux. I found that their are many different linux OS. I do not know what one would be ...
A: Ronnie, I've sucessfully run several game servers on Linux. I started out with Slackware in ...
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| DAT drive error in RedHat 9 | 2/8/2007 |
Q: for the prompt help... Well, as I already mentioned in the main query, the SAME DRIVE worked fine ...
A: Nisheeth, My apologies, I misunderstood. Under similar circumstances, it has been recommended ...
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| DAT drive error in RedHat 9 | 2/7/2007 |
Q: We have a HP DDS4 DAT drive on RH Linux 9 in our HP workstation. We successfully took some backups, ...
A: Nisheeth, Though not strictly a Linux question, I have seen this error many times before when ...
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| ulimit -n problem | 2/6/2007 |
Q: I am using “ulimit –n” to find number of file descriptor user can open. If I m running through shell ...
A: Shyamal, On all my systems, ulimit produces 1024. I believe that 1024 is default for my ...
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| Samba: Execute permissions on new text file | 2/4/2007 |
Q: I have samba 2.2.8a running on a Solaris 10 machine with the following text in smb.conf: ----- ...
A: Parag, I believe that in newer Samba versions, they've changed the directives from "directory ...
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| RunLevel 2 at Install CD | 2/1/2007 |
Q: Can I enter run-level 2 via my FC6 install cd without installing FC6 into my HDD? and.. what's the ...
A: Sinn, Runlevel 2 and Rescue Mode have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Runlevels are ...
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| newbie question | 1/28/2007 |
Q: I just installed my ubuntu linux of chinese version. Can i read files with chinese charaters if i ...
A: Chao, I'm not too sure about internationalized versions of Linux, least of all Ubuntu, but I ...
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| Linux resolution | 1/26/2007 |
Q: but the problem is that i can't get into linux! i just have blank screen. how can i check and change ...
A: BM, In such a case, there are two ways to accomplish that. One is to boot the machine and when ...
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| Linux resolution | 1/25/2007 |
Q: I installed SuSe linux,when i run it it has resolution problems in monitor (blank screen). how can i ...
A: BM, Screen resolutions on X Windows is a tricky beast. A lot of times, the issue stems from X ...
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| booting time | 1/24/2007 |
Q: Booting time of Linux-like system seems to be longer than windows series? is that right? I try Xp ...
A: This may very well be true, due to the fact that the default install of FC6 usually adds things you ...
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| FC forum | 1/22/2007 |
Q: I am trying FC6 currently. Please show me some popular forums regarding FC distro. thanks
A: Sinn, Though forums might be out there, I would highly recommend checking out RedHat's Fedora ...
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| Ubuntu Linux | 1/17/2007 |
Q: I am running Ubuntu Linux, Dapper Drake distribution, and have no internet connection to that ...
A: Nathan, As WINE is not always compatible with all windows programs, and support is almost non ...
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| Basic q on spam relaying | 1/17/2007 |
Q: Firstly, my apologies for the rather basic question, but I've been put into an admin role for a ...
A: Steve, Your question actually opens up a can of worms that extends beyond simply sendmail. I ...
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| Red Hat Linux Soundcard driver | 12/30/2006 |
Q: I have a Toshiba Satellite A75 S206 laptop, and I recently installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. ...
A: Joseph, You are correct, Linux does need a driver, but the architecture between that and ...
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| Asterix on Linux | 12/20/2006 |
Q: I see you have Asterix experience! I currently have a MySQL database on Suse Linux servers, It is ...
A: Roger, Yep, asterisk is quite straight forward to set up. There are several reasons I would ...
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| start and stop commands for rsync | 12/19/2006 |
Q: what are the commands to start and stop the rsync in lynux?
A: Madhu, Rsync for Linux does not actually run as a service, and therefore cannot be stopped or ...
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| spam related | 12/12/2006 |
Q: iwould like to ask you few more questions is it not possible to correct the problem with out ...
A: Rama, Yes, it is. As every system grows different as the bayes database grows, I can't really ...
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| spam related | 12/11/2006 |
Q: we are using spamassmilter by itself not with any third part y software.we are using baysean ...
A: Rama, I would suggest in that case, that you might wish to try removing spamass-milter, and ...
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| spam related | 12/10/2006 |
Q: iam using spamassin and spamass-milter to filter spam in my mailserver we are using send mail. ...
A: Rama, There are two questions I would like to ask before I make a definitive answer here. ...
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| SAMBA file security | 12/7/2006 |
Q: I have installed webmin-1.180-1. and set the delete readonly file = no. But still the situation is ...
A: Kamal, Ouch. The only other thing that comes to mind is to set the create mask & directory ...
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| SAMBA file security | 12/7/2006 |
Q: My requirement : anyone(valid user) can post the file in samba share, but not delete/modify that ...
A: Kamal, In your situation, I would highly recommend the use of Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/). ...
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| Install | 11/24/2006 |
Q: .. Matt I have my Mandriva Linux but I can't find any drive just like Windows drive C: and ...
A: Paul, As I'm not totally sure whether you're asking how the Linux filesystem works, or whether ...
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| Rosegarden | 11/23/2006 |
Q: I use linux distribution Aurox 12 (related to Fedora Core). I installed Rosegarden. When I start it ...
A: Z, The problem you're having is that later kernels (2.6.x) use a timing source that is only ...
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| Triple boot question | 11/18/2006 |
Q: Sir: I have a late model laptop with a triple boot setup (DOS, W2K, Fedora). It was set up by a ...
A: Jim, You shouldn't have to worry too horribly much about the MBR, etc, if you're reinstalling ...
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| How to install application software? | 11/18/2006 |
Q: I find some trouble in installing application software such as installing SAMBA,LTSP,SSH secure ...
A: Peter, Check out: ...
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| Installing SAMBA | 11/6/2006 |
Q: ..Matt, Is it ok with you to give the latest Mandriva linux distribution and a Samba software ...
A: Peter, My apologies, work has been a little bit nuts this week. I have not had time to ...
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| Negating the effect of Control-C key | 11/6/2006 |
Q: I am using SUSE LINUX. I have used control-c key combination in my informix program for some special ...
A: As long as you're using BASH or a BASH compatible shell on your terminal, place: trap "" 2 in the ...
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| Installing SAMBA | 11/4/2006 |
Q: how's you? will u please tell me something on how to install tar.gz and rpm what are these?and can u ...
A: Peter, Ok, Mandriva is a RedHat derivative, so working with the RPMs would be better than using ...
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| Installing SAMBA | 11/3/2006 |
Q: Would you give some of your ideas on how to set-up SAMBA and a lisa daemon,NFS because I cannot ...
A: Peter, Sure! SAMBA is pretty easy once you get used to how things work. The first thing I ...
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