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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: The actual space taken up by creating LVM is very small. What you are seeing as "missing" is the ...
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| linux | 10/20/2008 |
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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| Can I mount a NFS share as a user other than root? | 10/14/2008 |
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 |
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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| how to open rescue log files? | 10/10/2008 |
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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| firestarter cannot identify no-ip | 7/19/2008 |
Q: my pc A registered with no-ip is going to connect into my pc B,which firewalled by firestarter. I ...
A: First, test pinging both systems: Temporarily allow ping from WAN host * (0.0.0.0) on both PC's. ...
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| listening service | 7/17/2008 |
Q: After my commanding this, "netstat -tlup" to my ubuntu it gave me this outcome xxx@ubuntu:~$ sudo ...
A: Here's what the web says about that port: Port 135 loc-srv/epmap Microsoft DCE Locator service aka. ...
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| LST Calculator | 7/15/2008 |
Q: I am currently working with a friend to try and get a fairly simple LST (local sidereal time) ...
A: Here's a short script to do that. I called it "degtohrs". It takes the single argument "degrees". ...
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| LST Calculator | 7/13/2008 |
Q: I am currently working with a friend to try and get a fairly simple LST (local sidereal time) ...
A: I think it might be a stretch to write the whole calculator in c-shell+awk, but I did find a c ...
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| Erase a hard drive | 7/7/2008 |
Q: I have a server running FreeBSD and I would like to remove one of the hard drives and use it in ...
A: OK -- to be clear, you have: Live System - has a failing drive in a RAID5 - this is the first drive ...
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| Erase a hard drive | 7/3/2008 |
Q: I have a server running FreeBSD and I would like to remove one of the hard drives and use it in ...
A: If they are simply striped, then the whole array will fail when you remove one or have one crash. If ...
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| listening service | 7/2/2008 |
Q: After my commanding this, "netstat -tlup" to my ubuntu it gave me this outcome xxx@ubuntu:~$ sudo ...
A: It is a non-standard port (i.e. it is > 1024) so I can't tell you what it is, but I can tell you ...
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| Install Sound Card and Modem | 7/1/2008 |
Q: I hope you will be fine sir i am new user in linux and i also installed Redhat 9 Linux sir please ...
A: You should be able to use your file browser application to browse to any mp3 or wave file on your ...
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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: Since you are new to Linux, it is a good idea to ensure that your sound card vendor has driver ...
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| DL4 IQ Database | 6/26/2008 |
Q: I am try to convert an old database from an old SCO UNIX system. From what I can tell it seems to ...
A: Boy! You hit my expertise exactly... The files you are trying to convert are in a specially ...
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| linux hash file | 6/20/2008 |
Q: what are the macro file and hash files in linux system. what are its important, what it do? will be ...
A: I am not familiar with anything specifically called a "macro file", though that is what most scripts ...
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| The server was frozen when update the kernel. | 6/3/2008 |
Q: mkitwrk, I have an Oracle 10g DB running on a RedHat Linux E3 server. Recentlay, I plan to upgrade ...
A: It looks like menu.lst is no longer a symlink to grub.conf like it should be. And if other symlinks ...
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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: Your web pages are delivered to browsers via http/https through a service like apache(-ssl) web ...
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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: Unix has users and groups. A user can belong to more than one group. See /etc/passwd, /etc/group and ...
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| running update on Fedora server | 5/22/2008 |
Q: I tried to run update on my Fedora server and received the following error: “Missing dependencies on ...
A: Fedora is the basis for RedHat Enterprise Linux and, therefore, uses the "rpm" approach vs. ...
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| running update on Fedora server | 5/22/2008 |
Q: I tried to run update on my Fedora server and received the following error: “Missing dependencies on ...
A: When running the Software Updater, it found that smolt, Codeina, libgpod, etc. were already ...
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| Explanation of unix script | 5/20/2008 |
Q: I need some help with understanding what the following script is doing please... d1=Su; d2=Mo; ...
A: It looks like it is trying to format the output for a calendar representation of a month. There are ...
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| linux file system corruption | 5/9/2008 |
Q: How can I recover from the following situation? After rebooting a Linux 4 system, we are now seeing ...
A: You will need to boot from either your disaster recovery boot media or from installation media and ...
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| Linux Vs Windows | 4/30/2008 |
Q: am using two o/s on different harddisks Xp service pack 2 and Ubuntu 5.04.the problem is tht when am ...
A: You can use the following sites to get a Windows driver that will allow you to mount ext2 and ext3 ...
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| this is very emergency | 3/20/2008 |
Q: i have a confusing problem with linux , i had vista operation before then i decided to use both ...
A: (we had a holiday last Friday, so I have not been online since Thursday..) It appears that: 1) 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: 1) In /etc/passwd change the 3rd login's shell to "/bin/false". 2) NAT is achieved via using a ...
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| Ubustu+XP+Security | 3/2/2008 |
Q: To help provide clear questions I'll number the main ones. I am currently dual-booting between ...
A: 1. Which versions of Unix and of Linux will have a better chance of "running fast" on my older ...
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| awk and file editing | 2/9/2008 |
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: Awk will let you format the output in a specific way, but has more syntax (like 'c' syntax) involved ...
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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: It would help to know a bit more detail... But, here are a couple of sources for the tools you are ...
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