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Uninstall Ruby on Rails on CentOS 6
How can I remove Ruby on Rails and all associated gems?
I tried yum remove ruby but get this response:
yum remove ruby
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for ...
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Quickest way to merge snapshots in VirtualBox
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it - say, 50 or 70 snapshots.
I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed ...
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How to remove 2003 server roles without cd-rom?
Trying to remove a few server roles on a 2003 server but its asking me to put the cd-rom disk in. Wondering if there's another way to remove roles without putting the cd-rom as it's a VM and I don't ...
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Unable to list contents/remove directory (linux ext3)
System is CentOS5 x86_64, completely up to date.
I've got a folder that can't be listed (ls just hangs, eating memory until it is killed). The directory size is nearly 500k:
root@server ...
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IIS sets http header Expires to -1, how do I disable this?
I'm using an IIS website with a Apache HTTP reverse proxy (mod_proxy with ProxyRequests Off).
I want to control the expires headers in apache (don't ask), but IIS is setting the header Expires: -1.
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Can I safely remove _vti folders added by my host or cpanel? [closed]
I notice user accounts on my cpanel server came with some _vti folders installed by default.
_vti_bin
_vti_cnf
_vti_log
vti_pvt
_vti_txt
_private
As I understand these are some kind of Front Page ...
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Remove Log off button
I am using a server with Windows Server 2008. I don't want anyone to log off, because it would stop very important programs.
But I can't change the Log Off button to anything (the drop down menu is ...
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Exchange 2010: Remove Administrator Mailbox
How can I remove the Administrator Mailbox from Exchange 2010?
I don't want to delete the whole user account because I need Administrator to access the Server, but Administrator shouldn't have any ...
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How to remove a line in a file found in multiple directories
There is file that exists in each user profile directory and I need to remove the line from the file in each user profile directory. I'm using a batch script to go through each user profile directory, ...
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Unable to remove user: “user is currently logged in”
When trying to remove the user, it returns "user is currently logged in".
I already killed the user using pkill -KILL -u usernameHere and several other commands, but it does not help.
How can I ...
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apt-get does not remove initscript?
This day I tried to remove apache2. It's bundled with Ubuntu Lucid, which I don't need. I used apt-get remove apache2 to remove it. But somehow, the initscript was still there, in "/etc/init.d/". I ...
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Automatically delete orphaned SIDs
Does someone know a tool that allows to delete orphaned SIDs on a fileserver without the need for any scripting?
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How to quickly remove a set of outdated packages?
I have a newly installed CentOS 5.7 machine and mistakenly installed PHP 5.1 when I needed 5.2+.
Now I cannot seem to install PHP 5.3 (using "yum install php53") until I remove PHP 5.1.
I found this ...
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remove squid clearly
I'm hardly trying to remove squid completly, to reinstall it clearly. (Debian 6).
So i used as root:
apt-get remove --purge squid
apt-get remove --purge squid3
but
find / -name squid*
returns
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I cannot remove apache2. /var/www dir is still there. I can still start apache service
I have failed to remove apache2 from my ubuntu server.
I did $ sudo apt-get --purge remove apache2 and $ sudo apt-get remove apache2 and $ sudo apt-get autoremove and when I tried to do $ sudo ...
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One SQL, lots of SharePoint 2010 Servers, and lots of Databases to clean
I have a dedicated server running SQL server and many web servers running SharePoint 2010 installations. All the SharePoint web servers are using the same SQL server for storing/creating databases.
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Can I remove these DNS zones?
I manage a server without a cpanel, I installed Webmin on it. And under Bind settings I have these zones:
"Root zone"
"0"
"0000::1"
"127.0.0.1"
"mydomain.com"
"localhost"
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What is the fastest delete method for many directory on Linux
I have to remove many directory.
but
rm -r /data
is so slow ( about some days)
/data has
/data/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h ....
many dirs
Does anyone know?
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linux /dev/sd? read failed
I couldn't find the answer to this anywhere, so I'm posting this in the hope it helps someone else...
My scenario was linux system with an external drive that was connected (and mounted) was suddenly ...
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How to remove many (200 000) files?
I must remove 200 000 files (all of them) from a folder, and I don't want to delete the folder itself.
using rm, I get an "Argument list too long" error.
I've tried to do something with xargs, but ...
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Re-installing mysql and old database and users appear
I had installed mysql, mysql-server, and mysql-devel via yum:
yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel
I had created some databases and users and ended up breaking some tables, so I attempted to ...
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What is the fastest way to remove thousands of files on a btrfs filesystem?
Currently I have a btrfs mount point with a structure like this:#
/mountpoint/month/day/hourAs24/
and each leaf directory contains between 5,000 to 20,000 small files. There I keep the files for ...
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Removing user mailboxes in Exchange Server
I am trying to remove several user's mailboxes in the Exchange Server. Exchange Server is on a member server (OS: Window Server 2003). When I try to remove the Administrator mailbox, it says this:
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Remove all files not working with “*”
I want to remove all files and folders in folder /home/user
I'm using command
rm -rf /home/user/*
without success, next I tried:
cd /home/user;rm -rf *
Which gives the following output
rm: ...
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Delete . files from OpenVMS
I've downloaded with ftp a file which contains too much '.' to a OpenVMS.
How can I remove it?
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yum remove doesn't remove things completely?
I am trying to remove apache completely from my server,which is a ec2 instance, running Amazonian linux v2.6xx.
Lets assume I have a file in /etc/httpd/conf/xyz.txt
I am using the following code :
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Removal of old mail logs in ubuntu - rm or not?
I have a ubuntu server which handles mail via postfix. The server has recently been caned by spam emails and the mail logs are really large as a consequence. The logs are stored with timestamps and I ...
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What options do I have if my linux box is compromised? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My server's been hacked EMERGENCY
I have put all security meaures and log monitoring tools. Now but i don't know what to do if find out the there is some rootkit on ...
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Remove a Linux user with only his UID
I would like to remove (or rename) an Ubuntu user I created but the usual solutions don't work as there is a question mark in the username.
$ sudo usermod -l myuser my?user
usermod: user 'my?user' ...
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Remove files that are listed in a text file
I have a file that exported a bunch of file names that need to be removed. I need to know how to go about removing each file without having to issue it one at a time at the command line.
I've ...
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problems reinstalling apache2
I am on debian 5 64bits linux and i uninstalled apache2. Then i removed /etc/apache2 and installed apache again. That folder is still missing and i have no idea how to get the apache files back (with ...
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Apache redirecting without provocation; dropping port?
This is a new issue to me and has been driving me nuts for the past hour or two. I have an Apache server running on port 8000 (confirmed in ports.conf and by nmap) yet any request to it is ...
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How can I remove HTTP headers with .htaccess in Apache?
I have a website that is sending out "cache-control" and "pragma" HTTP headers for PHP requests.
I'm not doing that in the code, so I'm assuming it's some kind of Apache configuration, as suggested by ...
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I can't get rid of apache2
It's obvious that I am a newbie with server administration; my goal is to reach the knowledge needed to working with web services.
I played with my Debian server, and I messed up apache2; Now I want ...
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Uninstalling/Upgrading Puppet
The questions below are all related to the topic of uninstalling/upgrading Puppet:
How do I uninstall previous versions of puppet?
What files do I need to delete and where are they located?
Is there ...
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Blocking rm -rf for application
I have application which during run-time generates interesting intermediate outputs to ./tmp directory.
At the end of execution this directory is deleted.
How can i preserve contents of it?
I do not ...
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How do I completely remove MySQL from a linux installation?
I was surprised to find that one of my privileged users installed MySQL on a linux box. The server (mysqld) is running and doing nothing. My skills are all in Oracle, so I am unfamiliar with how to ...
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How can I completely remove X-Windows from Fedora?
A while ago I installed my first Linux server using Fedora 10. I then upgraded to Fedora 11 and realized that I never use X-Windows on the machine, and during each update downloading a huge amount of ...
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Stop automatic reinstall of drivers in drivercache
So, you've got a driver that's giving you problems and you uninstall the driver or device and it automatically gets reinstalled. Is there a way to stop windows from keeping a driver in the driver ...
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how can I disable Apple's software updater in Win XP? [closed]
I installed some Apple software (either Quicktime or Safari) on my computer. I removed them both long ago, but I've been unable to disable those pesky "reminders" from Apple to upgrade my Apple ...
