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Prevent 'cd' remembering symbolic links traversed
Say you have directory ~/mytool that softlinks to /usr/local/mytool. Then cd mytool leaves your current directory as ~/mytool, which may cause scripts to behave incorrectly. Is there a way to avoid ...
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How to rewrite URI from root if file exists in folder?
I have a public folder in my document root. I would like to redirect all the files that are not present in document root, but are present in the public folder. (So if the same file is in two places, ...
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nginx autoindex receiving 403 Forbidden
I'm having trouble with nginx and autoindex.
Even though I've put it in the site-host, it's still throwing "403 -Forbidden at me"
location /pics {
autoindex on;
...
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Starting Apache as a NON-Root User on Localhost
I want to start an Apache 2 server on localhost:8080 on an as-needed basis without superuser permissions, with the root directory for web content being /home/user/example/web/directory. I don't want ...
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Is it possible to call user both by number and by name in Freeswitch?
How should I configure freeswitch directory entry so that it will be possible to call this user both by numeric number and by textual username?
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LSASS - Directory Services could not start - 0xc000006a
LSASS - Directory Services could not start - 0xc000006a
This is the error message I am getting after restoring an old registry backup. I read somewhere that this has to do with the backup being more ...
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Cannot read/write FTP directory vsftpd on centos 6.0 (empty folder)
I have Centos 6.0 and installed vsftp with YUM, I added a user with Webmin panel, set its home dir to "/var/www/html" and its shell to "/bin/sh", user id is 500, user group is same as name: ...
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How to compact large directories
Is there a way to compact a very large directory under EXT2/EXT3 without simply remaking the directory?
I recall that perlfunc cautions that the OS implementations of seekdir and telldir run the risk ...
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In Ubuntu, how can I give two groups of users root power except for access to one folder?
I just created a Ubuntu development server and I would like to work with two teams on it. I want people from these teams to do anything they want, but I don't want them to be able to see the files ...
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active directory windows 2008 domain logon
I have a system that is configured to logon to a domain say abc.net. I dont have admin access to this system. The AD server is dead.
If i can create an active directory server on the same network as ...
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50,000 file in one directory, what is my best option?
I'm forced to have this directory structure
/var/www/$WEBSITE/$DIR1/$DIR2/$FILES
for each of those $FILES, there is approx 50,000 XHTML pages.
I'm running Cherokee, which has new front-end caching ...
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Directory structure on Linux EC2
First, I'm a complete newbie to Linux and Tomcat. I'm not technical either. I get my stuff done by feeling my way around the dark until things work. I do read a lot though.
I have a dev machine ...
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How do you reallocate hard drive space between directories in Unix FreeBSD?
I was wondering what it takes to reallocate hard drive space between root directories in Unix FreeBSD? For example, take away space from the /usr directory and add to the /dev. This question was ...
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How To Inherit Parent Directories Group
I have a directory /applications which is owned by root and group git.
The problem is when I create a new directory inside /applications, its owned by root and group root, not group git. How do I ...
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update tar archive in the relative directory
when I want to create a tar archive in a relative path, I can do this:
tar cf archiveName.tar -C relative/path someDirectory
but when I want to update the archive, this
tar uf archiveName.tar -C ...
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Directory in Linux(ext3) with only 2 files occupies 32000 blocks(16Mbytes)
IIRC my Operating Systems classes, the size of a directory in Linux is given by the number of files it contains([wikipedia link])1
So, why a directory with only 2 files occupies 32000 blocks?
# stat ...
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Where to put www directory on Ubuntu?
I'm a bit scared to ask this because I got so many negative votes for simply asking a question last time, but here goes;
Where in the Linux (Ubuntu) directory structure is it 'normal' to put public ...
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Returning first match only with OpenLDAP slapd-meta backend?
I have OpenLDAP configured to act as a metadirectory in front of three different backends:
database meta
uri "ldap://ldap1.example.com/ou=domain1,o=combined"
uri ...
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How to synchronize local directory with another local directory on another partition or disk
I would like to synchronize my local directory content with another local directory on another partition or disk (or e.g. a pendrive).
I can synchronize my local directory content with a remote one ...
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Directory name for non-generic Proprietary stuff
Is there a common or standard directory name for the company-specific stuff that exists in a server? This would include any crons, scripts, webserver docroots, programs, non-database storage areas, ...
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Apache proxypass trailing slash / directory issue
I have a legacy site for a charity running on an old Apache 1.3 instance, behind Apache 2 running proxypass. When a request comes to example.com, Apache 2 sends it internally to localhost:8080 which ...
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/var and /home folders clogged up on cPanel (Linux)
Recently the /var and /home folders have been clogging up on my server and I received a 'critical error' email saying that the /home folder was 100% full. I managed to fix it using the LVExtend ...
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Domain authentication used for kerberos based authentication of users on my server
Suppose a user process has authenticated itself against domain's directory server via kerberos, and then attempts opens a network socket to my server application.
My server application has a ...
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common directory for all hosts in a shared hosting
I have many many many domains in a single machine. (redhat apache php mysql) and all have own admin pages. but when I update admin code it is very difficult to update all folders. then ı decided to ...
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linux: share directory between different users
i need to have this directory, which is created under FTP User1:
/home/User1/public_html/jobs_html
readable by a different FTP user, call them User2 ...
ie, when logged in thru SSH under User2, ...
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IIS 7 404 redirect for virtual directories
we are in the middle of setting up a website and one of the developers has asked me a question im a little but stuck on.
basically we have a website that a user can visit and create there own ...
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Linux Directory Structure for non-root users
I am new to the world of Linux and am about to make a complete transition from Windows to Linux so I can really get into it. I understand that Linux has a hierarchical structure however am unclear ...
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A protected by password directory started to redirect to the home!
Everything was working perfectly a few hours ago, but now, when I try to access one protected directory in one of my websites hosted on my dedicated server that runs Cent OS and apache, it just ...
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Move content of one folder to another
I Have a directory say abc in var/www/ on my server
Now i want to move all the content of abc/ directory to var/www/
What will the linux command for this. New bie in linux
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Storing user profile in a corporate environment. Where, how and why?
I'm a programmer and don't know much about Active Directory, LDAP, etc. What I'm trying to build is some kind of profile web page for each employee where I work. Something similar to this : ...
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Should http and https requests access the same files
Is it ok to have http and https requests point to the same directory such as var/www/? It seems like it would be alright since when you're say authenticating a user you can just make sure to call ...
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Account management tools supporting self-service registration and email verification?
I work in a university environment that has in the past offered services almost exclusively to university affiliates who already have "formal" accounts in central user database. We are increasingly ...
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Directory inside or outside VirtualHosts?
Is there a difference between putting Directory tags inside or outside VirtualHosts? I found a configuration file that has several VirtualHosts all with the same Directory tag inside, and the same ...
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directories with two one dot (.) entries
I'm trying to clean up my lost and found, and I've managed to remove most things, but I'm left with "almost" empty directories, like:
lost+found/#14042862:
total 1324
dr---wx--- 2 76040 43010 ...
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Shrink/reset directory size?
Is there a way to shrink a directory entry?
My dovecot maildir directories have increased in size from the default 4096 to several megs, and it is messing with disk quotas.
The only way that I have ...
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Debian add user permission
I'm giving my friend a host on my dedicated server. I created a new user for him:
Debian server.
adduser friend
Adding user `friend' ...
Adding new group `friend' (1000) ...
Adding new user ...
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Active Directory Merge - Merging User accounts
I need to merge two active directories, OLD and NEW.
However, many users already exist in both OLD and NEW with the same userid.
I want to preserve the sid of Bill@new, while merging in the sid ...
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“The local device name is already in use” error when connecting to active directory shared folders
We have a Windows Server 2003 running active directory - the users login with their AD accounts from their PCs. We have setup a file server where each AD user has a shared network folder hosted on the ...
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Free tool/script for directory size calculation
Does anyone know of a free command-line tool or script that calculates the size of a directory including all subdirectories?
It needs to be compatible with Windows 7, work with hard links and ...
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Apache will not display index in web root, subfolders are fine
I have an Apache 2.2.3 server running on CentOS 5.5. In the root of my web directory, there is an index.html file.
Going to something like, say, www.exampledomain.egg/index.html works, but going to ...
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PHP scripts run only in webroot directory,and return 500 error in other dirs
I have uploaded a folder with php scripts and they run only when they are in the webroot directory,Everytime i try to execute php script in some internal dir,i get internal server error,even if it ...
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How do I get the last part of directory from a command line
How do I store the last part of directory in a variable?
For example I have the following path: A\B\C\D, I want to store D in variable like file_name=D.
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Why can't I cd into a directory?
I am running Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. Why I can't I cd into the /var/www directory?
david@ubuntu:/var$ pwd
/var
david@ubuntu:/var$ ls -l
drwxrwxr-- 13 root root 4096 2011-02-26 21:53 www
...
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How to set a PHP ini config setting for a specific (virtual) URL path in the apache conf?
I want to set a specific upload_max_filesize setting for a specific URL on my webserver. The URL path is not a real path since it is a apache rewritten seo friendly path.
This does seems not to ...
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short script to read and create matching directories
I need to do a z:\music\: dir *flac* to get a listing of directories... (they are named Artist - Album [flac])
and from that list of directors, create new matching directories, but replace the ...
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How to allow only specific directories to use htaccess?
Currently in apache2.conf I have AllowOverride all set for /var/www which simply allows htaccess for all the sites on the server (which is Ubuntu, 9.04).
However, I'd rather only allow overrides in ...
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can anyone tell me how to create a directory in freenas /mnt/test for example
can anyone tell me how to create a directory in freenas /mnt/test for example
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VPS multiple sites help
I have a VPS which has a single website associated with a single IP,
This website is in wordpress and it is directly placed or installed into the /html directory, which means inside /www/html/ my ...
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delete dirs in a specified period of time
I have a list of +30.000 directory and I have to delete all the directories and their content from 2005 to 2006, via terminal.
Thanks for help
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On linux, what does it mean when a directory has size 0 instead of 4096?
Here's a strange thing I haven't seen before -- a directory whose size is reported by ls as 0 instead of 4096, and I can't create any files within it.
# ls -ld lib home
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 ...
