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Remove shutdown/reboot options from logout window

In my CentOS5 installation in KDE, users get presented the options to terminate the session, reboot, and shutdown. Since this computer should always remain on, I'd like to remove the reboot and ...
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How can I get to a terminal or virtual console when Ctrl-Alt-F2 fails?

When X and GNOME are working normally, I can just hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 to leave GNOME and use the terminal on the second virtual console. To switch back to GNOME, I can just hit Alt-F1. Today, X or GNOME ...
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How do I set different directories for different domains on CentOS 5.5 server?

I'm running a CentOs 5.5 server and wanted to know what commands I needed to run to be able to do the following; I have 3 domains on the server - example1.com, example2.com, example3.com I wanted ...
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/dev/sda2 has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced

Why the shell show "/dev/sda2 has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced." at centos start and then reboot? ...... /dev/sda2: Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED. /dev/...
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How do you omit “./” when running scripts on current directory

On some tutorials over the internet they can run a script on the current directory without doing: ./script How do you omit this? I am using CentOS 5.6 x64. I want to run it this way script
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How to turn off all event notification under CentOS 6/GNOME?

In the top right corner under CentOS 6/GNOME it pops up messages if ex.: ethernet is connected, update has failed, etc. How can I completely turn OFF these messages??
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No installation option with livecd

I'm currently running Windows 7 x64 Professional and want to dual-boot with CentOS. I made a disk partitioning and wrote an image of CentOS on flash drive. But when it is being booted there's no ...
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User logged in by sftp does not show up in `w`

My server is Centos 5. I have a chroot environment set up with the following in my sshd_config Match group sftponly ForceCommand internal-sftp ChrootDirectory %h AllowTcpForwarding no ...
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iostat usage and output

When I run the iostat command like this: iostat -d I get a result something like this: Linux 2.6.18-238.el5 (mon01) 09/03/2011 Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read ...
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vim always shows help/documentation

Whenever I run vim, it randomly shows the help/documentation at a non particular time. How do I disable that. It's irritating.
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How to install CentOS 4.7?

I am trying to install CentOS 4.7. When I get on to the mirror site, it offers me different binaries, bin1of5, bin2of5,bin3of5, etc. I just want the basic version. Which one should I download? Thank ...
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CentOS server migration

I have 2 dedicated servers at the moment both running CentOS 5.3 and Plesk 10, but I'm about to give up trying to transfer the data from old one to a new one, because they just wouldn't connect via ...
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How to execute a script on gdm login automatically for all users?

What file should I modify to execute some instructions when any user logs in through gdm? I tried /etc/bashrc but that is executed ony when starting bash (and each time an xterm is open). I'd like to ...
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Force X to use second video card so I can pass through first card to XEN VM?

So I am trying to get X to start on my second (PCI 02.00:00) video card and stop using the main card (PCI 1.00:00). I would like to do this because I want to pass through the PCI 1 card to a XEN HVM ...
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command line tool to set time zone

In Centos 5.x there is the text mode interface of system-config-date to set the time zone. Although that utility still exists in Centos 6 the text mode is gone. Is there anything similar in Centos 6?
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Is it safe to delete the quota.user file?

Is it okay to delete the quota.user file from the root directory? This file is 2.7GB in size and I need to wipe it from the system. I ran: $ quotaoff -avug $ mv quota.user quotaold.user $ quotaon -...
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Do special characters in paths pose a problem when mounting network shares?

I am trying to create a permanant access point to a windows share from a CentOS 5.5 machine. I edited the /etc/fstab file to have the following entry: //travellot/ArcGIS Setup's/9.3.1 Entire/...
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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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Where to find this specific source (centos 2.6.18-53.el5PAE)

okay all my looking around on the normal kernel site ftp can't find it. I need specifically, the PAE version. I am compiling virtualbox and if you don't use the right source you get this lovely: ...
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How can I get a list of long running processes that match a particular pattern?

I know that I can do ps aux | grep cgi to get a list of all cgi scripts currently running, and ps -p [pid] -o etime= can get me the run time for each pid; is there a way to combine the two, or better ...
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Failed dependencies

I am searching for the following : libpython2.5.so.1.0 libtinfo.so.5 python(abi) = 2.5 I searched , but I am not able to find these. I am running Centos 5.6 with linux kernel 2.6.18-238.el5. $ ...
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Building from Source on CentOS 5 or newer

I've got a few applications of which I've got to build from source files in order to make it work on CentOS (the programs do not exist in the yum repos). I may be missing something, but unlike Debian ...
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How should I search for packages to install on CentOS 5.5?

Backstory: Recently, it was explained to me that to upgrade any package via terminal on a linux machine, I will need to use the distributions package management system to install or upgrade the ...
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Encountering this error /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: No space left on device

/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: No space left on device is the error coming when I'm trying to complie Open Source code project I have about 7GB free space over the Disk so I think that cannot be the ...
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Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 5.0 using terminal on CentOS?

On the screenshot below is an icon squared in red. Clicking it will launch Mozilla Firefox 3.0.18. I want to upgrade Firefox to version 5.0 so that clicking the same icon should launch the new version....
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How to secure CentOS and FreeBSD by disabling USB ports and VGA output on-site?

Is it possible to disable USB ports and CDRom and VGA output in the Dell R310 from CentOS or FreeBSD (without BIOS)? A demo server is running in a customer test laboratory, where they can simply get ...
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Centos: Adduser/Passwd/Sudoer Script

I'm currently running a VPS on CentOS. I have an application running in the background and it will run a script under sudo to either disable or enable any account. So what I'm trying to create is a ...
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Compiling Source Code Error

While I'm compiling a open source project on Cent OS 5.5 I'm getting error "cc1plus warnings being treated as errors". Why and how to solve this problem.
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How to access shared locations on a windows machine from a linux machine via terminal?

I’ve setup a Virtual CentOS machine and set up a bridged network and static IP so that it can communicate with other Windows machines in the network. Currently, to access any shared directory, I ...
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How to fix possibly wiped MBR after centOS install?

I think I have messed this one up royally... I have done a clean install of centOS 5.6 (x86_64) on my system. I got through the installation process successfully and rebooted. Now I am greeted with ...
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In my Dell R310 server, i would like to install CentOS, but for RAID1 what special care i need?

I have my Dell R310 server to install CentOS latest version, it has 2 hot plug disk drive, about 250GB of each. - But i need to install RAID1 on it. My question is for RAID1 installation with ...
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ls -a not showing folder “system”, but echo * shows it

When I create a folder named system in my home folder, or in /tmp (can't try other locations as I am not root, but owner confirmed same problem even on root), ls -a will not show it. Also tried /bin/...
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Unable to make outbound SNMP connections when IPTables is enabled

I have a bunch of windows servers configured with the windows SNMP agent. Each server has four IP addresses and SNMP listens on all of them. There is something very odd with my monitoring server (...
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mon linux monitor install on centos - can't find glib.h although present

I am trying to install the linux_monitor package under Centos 5.5. When I try make I get: make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/linux_monitor-2.0RC3/src/server' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../...
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How to set Internet Protocol properties using terminal?

When I set up a Virtual Machine with windows (using VMPlayer), I set the Network Connection properties from the VM settings from NAT to bridged. Then I proceed to set the following IP Properties in ...
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symbolic link to a large file

I have a large(1 TB) file that I would like to download from the centos server via http, should I create a symbolic link to the file to the http file directory? would the link work? the file is too ...
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install rtorrent failed using yum install rtorrent in CentOS

I want to install rtorrent as a client (NOT SeedBox). I tried the following command: yum install rtorrent I get following message: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached ...
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Problem with RAID5

I have a CentOS server with RAID5. Every time RAID5 re-syncs my server stop working. The hosting company stopped the httpd service so that RAID5 can re-sync itself, a process which can take as long as ...
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RHEL/CentOS: Installing a new version of Java, why not just change the path?

I am installing a new version of Java on a CentOS/RHEL Linux distro for a single developer to develop java. The way I want to install on this development system is to just put the new java version ...
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CentOS 5.6 x86 64 Not seeing all my memory

So I installed CentOS 5.6 on a box at my house and it is not recognizing all my memory. I have 2gb in the machine but when you run a 'free -m' or a 'top' or a 'cat /proc/meminfo' it only shows that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: mirror.nic....

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