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Recovering from su chown -R 770 x:x * [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Accidential CHMOD 755
Like other questions lurking around here, e.g. this one and another, I've made a boo-boo. Specifically, I ran a command, in /, while rooted, like ...
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.bashrc and .ssh/ disappearing seemingly at random
I have a server that has been running Fedora 16 ( 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 ) for about a month now. I only log in every few days or weeks, but when I do, sometimes files are missing from my home directory. ...
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Eth0 Interface Not Coming Up on Fedora 14
I'm trying to upgrade some old Fedora 13 servers to Fedora 14 following Fedora's docs. The yum commands ran very quickly and seemingly without error. However, when I rebooted after finishing the ...
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Unable to use --servername with vim on Fedora 16
I recently switched to Fedora and there's one thing that I can't seem to figure out, using the server commands (--servername, --serverlist) with vim launched in a terminal, specifically terminator. It ...
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Black screen with vncserver on Fedora
I get a complete black screen when I connect to my VNC with TigerVNC, on Fedora 15.
This is my xstartup:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinitrc/xinitrc
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title ...
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How I can have same IP Address for different Ethernet cards [closed]
I have a Fedora 16 Laptop that I like to put on a dock station with a ethernet cable for fast transfer of files but eventually I will be using it on the move around the company via wireless.
This ...
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lighttpd on Fedora permission issues
I'm trying to get started with lighttpd on Fedora 16 to run a RESTful api for development. Right now even with the most basic sample config file I'm getting 404 pages when I know the pages I'm ...
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Fedora 16 with PHP 5.2.x
I've been searching for an easy way (using yum) to downgrade PHP of Fedora-16 into PHP 5.2.x but no result until now...
anyone here has suggestions?
thanks
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3D Acceleration/Compiz Failure [migrated]
I've installed Linux Mint 12 & Fedora 16 in VB 4.1.10 on a Windows 7 Host which has a Intel i3 processor and Intel HD 3000 graphics card.
For both Linux installations I've enabled 3D acceleration ...
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Installing Fedora 16 guest OS on VMware ESXi 5. What type OS should I choose?
Im trying to install Fedora 16(64bit) as guest OS on my VMware ESXi 5 host... But when configuring new vm, in tab Guest Operating System there is no Fedora 16. I can choose between RedHat 6, CentOS ...
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Fedora 16: “Permission denied: file permissions deny server access”
I'm working with a fresh Fedora 16 install and I'm trying to get Apache up and running. I'm very familiar with Linux and somewhat with CentOS, but I have very little experience with Fedora and SELinux ...
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Can't open/forward port with Fedora15
I've got a server running Fedora 15. My end goal is to be able to forward any protocol over random port numbers (specified via iptables rules.) Let's say, for the time being, I want to forward port ...
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High CPU usage after adding field to table with 5million rows
LAMP server: Fedora Core release 6
Using phpMyAdmin, I have added a new field to a database table. The datatype is int with a default of 0.
This table has approx 5 million rows.
Since I submitted ...
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fedora tomcat log file path
My log file is inside:
kamil@localhost tomcat$ grep "logs/" ./*
./log4j.properties:log4j.appender.R.File=${catalina.home}/logs/tomcat.log
my CATALINA_HOME is
kamil@localhost tomcat$ sudo grep ...
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fedora can't find mysql service
I have a VPS running Fedora 16 (upgraded from 15).
Mysql was installed and working until recently.
Now I can't get the mysql service started.
when I try
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
I get the error
...
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Fedora Failed to get D-Bus connection
I have a VPS with fedora 16 installed. I have setup mysql and it was working a couple of days ago.
Now suddenly when I try to start mysql I get the error:
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to ...
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c-kermit runs extremely slow on Fedora 16
I have two Linux laptops, one that is rather old and decrepit, and the other that is meant to replace it. The newer one has Fedora 16, the old has I think 11, maybe. Anyway, the old one also has ...
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PHP won't run on Fedora 15
I have followed this exact tutorial on installing php on a Fedora 15 system.
I have all the necessary packages installed with no errors. Yet the simple phpinfo() test page will show - it will show a ...
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Accessing IPv6 router interface from a minimal Fedora installation?
I've recently installed Fedora 16 and am trying to set up a simple apache server. The only problem I've run into so far is that I'm unable to access my router's web interface from any box on my ...
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Xserve from 2009 running Ubuntu or Fedora?
Does anyone have any hints/tutorial for a running Ubuntu or Fedora x64 OS (recent versions) on a Xserve from 2009? I've found some of these machines being underused due to OS constraints. I would like ...
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installing libssl-dev in fedora7
I know, I'm using an old fedora version so please don't comment on that. I just want to know if anybody could help install libssl-dev in fedora7. Per my search, it seems that libssl-dev has no rpm for ...
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Disable remove pemission on linux
I have made a ftp directory I want that virtual users can create and update folders and files but they can not delete them. how do I suppose to do that? I have created this ftp by vsftp in fedora 16 ...
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Setting up VSFTPD for upload access
I've been trying to configure my ftp server and end goal I want the following:
-No anon read/write access.
-A single user with read/write access for myself
I've followed a tutorial to setup a pam ...
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How to test if a vpn has been established correctly between two pc's?
I'm trying to connect two pc's using IPsec and StrongSwan.
The first pc, which I want it to be the server runs openSUSE and the client pc runs Fedora.
So after installing StrongSwan in the first pc ...
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Downgrading httpd on Fedora 16
I have a Fedora 16 server (installed in VirtualBox; host system is WinXP Pro, if it matters) that I'm trying to set up as a dev duplicate of an existing production server. The prod server does a lot ...
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Very long logging time via ssh and GSSAPIAuthentication. Can turning off GSSAPIAuthentication be a security issue?
I had a problem with very long logging via ssh to my servers (Fedora 16 and Centos 6). After testing some configuration I discovered that the problem is in enabled GSSAPIAuthentication options. After ...
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How to give a user account root privileges in Fedora 14?
I want to give my user account root access rights permanently, how can i do that? (i don't want to login using the root account). thx!
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Why is my process dying mysteriously?
I have read quite a lot of pages about the OOMKiller, including http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ , but I don't quite get still why a backup script I run would be killed if I look at my output of 'free ...
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2answers
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Broken BIOS detected, complain to your hardware vendor. WTF?
This is what I found in dmesg on my new Fedora 16 instalation on new HP ProLiant DL320 G6
[ 0.130963] Performance Events: PEBS fmt1+, Westmere events, Broken BIOS detected, complain to ...
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Login Client (pGina in Window Vista) with LDAP Server (FDS)
Currently, I have setup my Fedora Directory Server (FDS) and a Windows Vista workstation (using pGina). I created several users in FDS (all under ou=People) initially. As I want to divide my users ...
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Fedora 16 system unresponsive - why? [closed]
The display was still showing things but the keyboard and mouse weren't working, ssh wasn't working and neither was ftp. After a power cycle the system came back fine. What would have caused this?
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Fedora 15: em1 recently dissapeared and hostapd no longer serves internet to wirelessly connected devices
I have a laptop running hostapd, phpd, and mysql. This laptop uses an Ethernet connection to connect to the internet and acts as a wireless access point for my workplace's wifi devices. After ...
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Nothing happening in CRON
I put in a command for crontab but nothing seems to be happening.
#vi /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# For details see man 4 crontabs
# Example of ...
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Undo LVM on Fedora 13?
I had lost my boot partition.
This happened quite frequently.
I used to boot for recovery and rewrite the existing partioning.
Last time I missed the correct option and installed LVM by mistake.
Is it ...
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How to see which files contain in Fedora package installed?
How to see which files contain in Fedora package installed? For example, I have package tigervnc-server installed on Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) and want to see how it differs from distriburion of ...
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mod_wsgi overriding virtual hosts on Apache?
I have a working Django app hosted on my linode (Fedora 15), and I'm attempting to host a php-based site there as well. I'm using name-based virtual hosts to redirect requests based on the host name, ...
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Difference between RH-Firewall-1-INPUT and INPUT
I'm new to setting up servers and when I'm trying to follow a guide for doing iptables. The guide says to use RH-Firewall-1-INPUT while i see the original configuration just using INPUT. I'm wondering ...
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Fedora 11, need help on how to read an incoming message automatically through gsm module in fedora 11
Im trying to access text message that comes from gsm module through fedora 11. I want to read the contents of the message and then use it to access the database which is scripted in MySQL((i.e) The ...
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yum install kernel source
I'm installing dahdi on my Fedora 15 machine and when I try to build, I receive the following error
You do not appear to have the sources for the 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 kernel installed.
The ...
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No init found. Try passing init= bootarg. ( linux fedora 14 - rackspace )
I have a server on Rackspace. It was working just fine. But this morning I found that it wasn't working, after a hard reboot (suggested by a rackspace chat support guy).
I found that it was giving ...
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What happens if a linux kernel argument is passed twice with different values?
As the question states, what if I pass
kernel /vmlinuz audit=1 audit=0
Will auditing enabled or disabled? Or will the kernel just freak out? Or is it undefined and will depend on the build of the ...
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Creating Custom Fedora/CentOS ISOs
I've been working on creating some custom Linux ISOs and have recently ran into some issues. Originally, I used bootcdwrite along with some scripts for create an ISO of the running config on a Debian ...
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Fedora 4, Apache 2.2.0, tomcat 5.5.7, openssl 0.9.7f, SSL certificates, domain names and IP addresses
I recently became the new admin of a old system that everybody approaches with the "don't touch it or it might break" mentality. Now I am being told to "touch it, and don't break it!"
Task:
What I ...
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Executing a script with ./script.sh fails while “sh script.sh” works
I'm very befuddled by this error and don't even know what to google for:
Failure - Executing a script with:
./test.sh
bash: ./test.sh: "Permission denied"
Works - while these apporeaches work:
...
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Mail being dropped by Fedora 16 host
Trying to do some tests of sending PHP mail; this used to work on Fedora 11. Perhaps there's a new security setting that is preventing this from working?
Feb 12 15:43:28 localhost sendmail[7525]: ...
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Add custom screen resolution in Xfce on Fedora Core 16
I have installed Fedora Core 16 with Xfce as DE on a PC. The last two highest screen resolutions are 1024x768 and 1280x1024 but there isn't a 1152x864 resolution.
How can I add and use it?
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Erlang install error on Fedora 13
I am attempting to install RabbitMQ on a Fedora 13 box. This requires Erlang is installed. When I run yum install erlang I get the following messages. Yum seems to indicate that it resolved all the ...
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Setting up GIT on CentOS server
I'm trying to set up GIT on my home CentOS 6.2 server (I already have LAMP running on it).
The only access that will be made to it is from the local network - or to be more precise, from my laptop ...
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Fedora Linux VM guest: How to change screen resolution [closed]
I'm running Fedora Linux 16 as guest system, inside a Windows/VirtualBox host. After install the provided add-ons, only 1024x768 screen resolution displays properly; when I try to increase it, I ...
