CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from Redhat Enterprise Linux sources freely provided to the public.
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Centos 'Login incorrect' problem
When I type my username and password into the login field, I receive the following error:
Login incorrect
How can I solve this problem? I am using CentOS.
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Using YUM or installing APT on CentOS
I am having trouble with a centOS machine I am using. I need some packages, including john the ripper, but yum cannot find the packages.
When I type sudo yum install john, I get back the nothing to ...
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What is a Transaction Check Error ? (yum update)
I tried today to replace packages from atomiccorp's repositories with newer packages from the epel/remi repositories and received Transaction Check Errors.
I cannot proceed with my update.
Install ...
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good unix troubleshooting book
I've been trying to learn *nix and I think I'm doing pretty good as far as basic commands, and I think I understand a lot of the "monitoring" type commands etc... in short, I think I'm doing okay with ...
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CentOS command issue
This is what I am trying to run in VMware using CentOS 5
/pwnat: invalid option -- p
usage: ./pwnat <-s | -c> <args>
-c client mode (default)
<args>: [local ip] ...
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1000 iptables entries on CentOS?
I just got a new dedicated server with CentOS and I'm trying to debug some network problems. In doing so, I found over one thousand iptables entries. Is this the default on a CentOS system? Is there ...
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Reading audio stream data from internet radio and pushing it to temporary file
I'm in the process of setting up an audio processor on my remotely hosted CentOS box. The audio processor itself is command line based, and after speaking with the author he explained to me that it ...
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how to make system service out of .jar file? (linux)
i wrote a little java server which i'm running on my CentOS 5 VPS server. currently i just ssh onto the server and start the jar through commandline.
How an i turn this jar into a system service and ...
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Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?
I have a Linux(CentOS) server, the OS+packages used around 5GB. Then, I transferred 97GB data from a Windows server to two folders on this Linux server, after calculated the disk usage, I see the ...
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Clone OS to a smaller drive
I would like to copy/clone/move my CentOS (which is on a 20GB hard drive) to a smaller hard drive (5GB)...
Can someone tell me how to do this?
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Why are files in my home dir being created as world-writable despite a more-restrictive umask?
I've realized that the permissions for new files and directories behave a bit strangely. First of all, umask seems to return the right answer:
$ umask
0002
This means full access for my user and ...
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How to install java on CentOS VPS through ssh
I wrote a little Java servlet and, in order to run it, acquired a VPS which runs Centos 5. Now, in order to run it, I guess the first thing to do is to install the latest JRE. I have ssh access and ...
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Centos or Scientific Linux
When I need to create a new server I've always chosen Centos mainly for it's compatibility with Red Hat which i consider the standard de-facto for the general purpose linux server.
Now the problem is ...
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How do I configure SELinux to allow outbound connections from a CGI script?
I'm migrating to a new webserver which has SELinux set up (running Centos 5.5). I've got it set up so that it can execute CGI scripts with no problem, but some of the older Perl based scripts are ...
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bridged networking with kvm
I'm trying to get a guest virtual machine connected to my network using bridging. I've come across a couple of resources online, but they seem to be out of date, deal with xen or Ubuntu or don't seem ...
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Connections to my server from non-local users are too slow [closed]
I have a CentOS server based in Chicago which doesn't seem to be providing fast bandwidth connections to non local users.
Is there anywhere on the server where this limitation may be configured?
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Fastest RDP client on linux
I currently use KRDC on CentOS, but mouse pointer is a little slow and I'm sure that this is not caused by my internet line speed, because the windows RDP client works and everything is fine. Which ...
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load program/module at boot
I'm trying to load a program I wrote at boot. The program is also a module.ko and a small bash script. For the module I tried doing depmod mymodule.ko and modprobe -a and messing around with modprob ...
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installed java, but java -version not showing new java
I just installed jdk1.6.0. I have tried multiple ways to set the path variable and make java 1.6 my new running version. And nothing is working. Running centos5 virtual machine.
alternatives --config ...
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How can I open port 21 on a Linux VM?
I need to open port 21 on a Linux (CentOS 5) virtual machine I have. I have tried several Google solutions, but none are working. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to do this.
Below is ...
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CentOS 5.5 Install Customization
I'm having a frustrating time with customizing my initial CentOS 5.5 installation. I want to have a specific set of the packages installed (e.g. I want Java and httpd but not OpenOffice or NewsServer) ...
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What makes CentOS “enterprisey” compared to “generic” distributions like Ubuntu?
What makes CentOS "enterprisey" compared to "generic" distributions like Ubuntu?
When I say "enterprisey" I actually mean "better for server deployments". Just a general question, because I was ...
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Installing CentOs 5.5-x86_64 kernel hangs with message NET: Registered Protocol family 2
The title pretty much says it all. I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 on Oracle VM VirtualBox. I press enter for normal installation, things start to happen and then it hangs with the above ...
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How do I upgrade OpenSSL?
According to these instructions:
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI
I need to use OpenSSL 0.9.8k or later (right now it's on 1.0.0c) to use name based virtual hosts in apache. ...
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How do I enable a new repository in CentOS?
I need to upgrade my version of subversion however, simply running yum update subversion tells me:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading
mirror speeds from cached hostfile *
addons: ...
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Unable to login as normal user on CentOS
My normal user account isn't working correctly in CentOS, but logging in as root works fine. What should I do to debug/fix the problem?
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Install Git on CentOS 5.5
I have added EPEL repo and here goes...
# yum install git-core
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: mirror.team-cymru.org
* base: yum.singlehop.com
* ...
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Best place to get nVidia driver update for CentOS 5.5
What is the best place to get an updated nVidia video driver for CentOS 5.5? Is there a CentOS package available that will update it? Or is it best to download it directly from nVidia?
Also, I do not ...
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Need to upgrade svn on centos [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Need to upgrade svn on centos
I have an error when I run svn up
svn this client is too old to work with working copy...please get a newer subversion client
This is ...
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Why put some config info in conf/httpd.conf and some in files in the conf.d folder?
The main apache config file is in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf on my CentOS system an in there is a line:
Include conf.d/*.conf
Inside conf.d is mostly files that do something like this:
LoadModule ...
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Install MySQL from Bash Script
I'm coding a bash script to automate the process of deploying VPS servers but I'm having some trouble while trying to install MySQL from either aptitude/apt-get or yum, this is what I have so far:
if ...
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Need further explanation on TIME_WAIT
Hi Unix/Linux Gurus out there!
I need a solid proof that TIME_WAIT (a lot of it actually) is the real culprit in the slowdown in one of our servers. The server is hosted on Parallels Baremetal ...
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Need to upgrade svn on centos
I have an error when I run svn up
svn this client is too old to work with working copy...please get a newer subversion client
This is on centos. I need to update svn. How do I do this?
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How can I get distribution name and version number in a simple shell script?
I'm working on a simple bash script that should be able to run on Ubuntu and CentOS distributions (support for Debian and Fedora/RHEL would be a plus) and I need to know the name and version of the ...
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How to generate a report summary of messages that triggered a specific DSN code
I use Sendmail on CENTOS 5.x,
I hope this is a simple question. =) I need to generate a report summary of messages that triggered a specific DSN code. For example:
Jan 11 07:43:34 server-example ...
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Why does the Centos apache httpd-2.2.3 rpm remove the bundled apr,apr-util,pcre?
I am manually building httpd-2.2.17 from the source. Just to make sure I have the configuration options right, I checked the latest CENTOS apache srpm (which is for httpd-2.2.3). In the httpd.spec I ...
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For what purpose would perl* be excluded in yum.conf?
I am not an Unix/Linux admin.
I was attempting to install git on our server, and after much googling and trial and error, I discovered that perl* is excluded in our yum.conf file, preventing perl-Git ...
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Getting an existing Linux installation from one computer to boot on another
I have an existing Dell Precision 690 workstation setup to dual boot Windows XP and CentOS 5.5. These operating systems are installed on two separate drives. I have a grub menu on the Linux drive with ...
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fedora 14 xen virtual machine does not detect network
I'm trying to create a para-virt Fedora 14 xen vm on a host running CentOS 5.5. The VM appears to initially install correctly (the installer finds eth0 and can access the installation media). But when ...
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installing ffmpeg-php on centos
With the help of this guide, I am trying to install ffmpeg using these commands:
# cd ffmpeg-php/branches/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.1/
# replace 'PIX_FMT_RGBA32' 'PIX_FMT_RGB32' -- *
# phpize
# ...
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How can I make a process I start during an SSH session run after the session has ended? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Keep SSH Sessions running after disconnection.
I have a process which is basically a web-server, I start it during an SSH session. However, when I leave the session (by ...
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Attach terminal to X desktop running in VM
At home I'm setting up a CentOS 5.5 server that will be running a bunch of KVM VMs. Normally pressing the CTRL-SHIFT-Fn combination on the attached keyboard switches to terminals on the host machine. ...
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How to get started with CentOS?
I've been working with Debian GNU/Linux for a long time and am very proficient with it.
However for a new project I've got to got familiar with CentOS ASAP.
So my Question is: How do I get started ...
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How do I correct a directory incorrectly copied into itself?
Given the following situation...
<path>/mydir1/mydir2
...where mydir2 should have overwritten mydir1, but was instead placed inside, and both directories actually have the same filename. How ...
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Yum update error: “can't start new thread”
I found several posts on this, but none of them work.
When I do yum update, I get the error thread.error: can't start new thread; full stacktrace follows:
[root@ripper234 ~]# yum update
Loaded ...
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pysvn fails to make due to -lneon not found?
I am trying to install pysvn on my CentOS server and it says that -lneon is gone.
After searching their mailing lists for a bit I found what neon means but it doesn't say how can I get it?
Here's my ...
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Why do I need to hit enter to get my shell prompt after my init.d script completes?
I had to write my own CentOS init.d script for celery because it only ships with one for Debian. You can see the script I wrote when I answered my own stack overflow question 3989656.
But there's a ...
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How to mount external hard disk every time the server is restarted?
I have a server which the date will be backup to a external windows server hard disk which is mounted. But problem is every time the server is restarted I will need to mount the disk manually. How do ...
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yum groupinstall “Development Tools” fails
Running
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
on my CentOS machine fails. I get errors such as:
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What file to I have to edit to make static dns server in CentOS
Almost every distro I know will wipe /etc/resolv.conf on reboot (I think dhcp does this) and thus the place to add static dhcp entries varies per distro. How to I add static dns servers to a CentOS ...
