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Linux, centos, resetting password

While resetting password after commands: rd.break mount -o remount,rw /sysroot chroot /sysroot I entered new password all done correctly at the end created file reliably using touch /.autorelable ...
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Converting linux file to folder

On my CentOS , i was on the following directory:- /home/coolcatg and that directory contain a website folder named "public_html". I simply copied that folder to /home directory :- [root@server ...
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Dos2unix different behavior on macos and centos?

I have a file which I need to convert to unix format, so I am doing dos2unix filename.txt. But the format of the file after conversion is different on CentOS when compared to the macOS format. I have ...
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nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache

Brief Summary on the issue: NFS share on a CentOS6.9 system properly mounts and displays the directory when mounted on a Windows or Linux system but has trouble displaying the directory when mounted ...
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Inconsistent output of `du` command

Why is the output of du -sch ./ not identical to du -sch ./* E.g. I ran du -sch in my user's home directory and got 51GB but running du -sch * in the same directory results in 47GB. At first I ...
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/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/_rpm.so: undefined symbol: rpmpkgVerifySigs

My first time here to ask question. Hope my question could help more friends after solved. Base: System Version: CentOS 7.2 64 bit Problem: Wrongly remove python that comes with the system. And ...
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curl is executed twice from crontab

I have installed centos 7 and PHP 5.6.29 on my server, and I set up crontab to run this command every 15 minutes: */15 * * * * curl http://example.com/check.php but the command is run twice. Is ...
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using extended attribute on samba

I have a samba server and a mix of Mac and Windows clients. On those clients I have an application that require to know the full path of files on the samba server. For the samba server, we are using ...
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Malware ( cpubalence ) - information and removal

It seems I have a Linux host ( CentOS ) infected with some kind of malware. There is an executable called cpubalence which has been created in /tmp/. It seems to start itself up and consume 100% CPU ...
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store into variable a sudo result

I have this simple script #!/bin/sh ISUP=`sudo /etc/init.d/jboss7 status | grep running` echo "ISUP: " $ISUP if I run it manually it works fine [jboss@suc072-ipos ~]$ sh a.sh ISUP: JBoss AS 7.1.1 ...
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Batch renaming JPG filenames in CentOS 7

I have about 80 of these files in my directory. -rw-rwxr--+ 1 vagrant vagrant 38122 Nov 13 12:19 CRMPicco RFC16 Women's 80.jpg -rw-rwxr--+ 1 vagrant vagrant 101286 Nov 13 12:19 CRMPicco RFC16 Women'...
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what happens when you have 2 network interfaces to the same network in a Unix/Linux OS?

What will happen if you have 2 network interfaces to the same network where the default gateway/router is? e.g network interface e1000g0 - 192.168.1.50 network interface e1000g1 - 192.168.1.51 ...
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Accepted publickey for userx from y.y.y.y (ssh authentication)

Server A and B is setup for autoSSH I am on ServerA (y.y.y.y) and is accessing ServerB. I understand that A's public key is store in B and is use by B to encrypt the challenge to A when A connect. ...
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fdisk - do i need it or can i make a filesystem directly?

i read about fdisk being able to creation partition / which is to break down a physical disk into several logical partitions. If i intend to utilize the whole disk as a whole, is it still necessary ...
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How can I disable FTP access for users

I want to temporarily disable the FTP Access of the FTP users which are added from Cpanel I have tried chsh -s /sbin/nologin aadmi which says "chsh: user "aadmi" does not exist." Tried sudo echo ...
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What will happen if my DB server runs out of disk space?

I'm seeing a huge difference of free disk space between df -h and du -sxh / I've understood in my question Resolving unix server disk space not adding up that du -sxh / is a better estimation as ...
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Resolving unix server disk space not adding up

I'm trying to evaluate where my disk space on my unix server is distributed. In order to see disk space current status I'm running: df -h But when trying to evaluate what is taking the disk space and ...
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Why am I getting "No such file or directory" after install?

If I command convert --version it shows this. bash: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory All what I did was this 1. $ wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz 2. $ ...
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How can I remove "ImageMagick" completely?

I think I accidently did install 2 ImageMagicks to my CentOS 5.8 before. Version 6.2.8 was removed by yum erase ImageMagick However, it still shows this when I typed $convert -version Version: ...
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PPTP daemon client cannot download full web pages

I have a PPTP daemon V1.3.4 running on a CentOS server. My client connections come from both Linux and Windows machines. When PPTP connection is active, the clients are unable to download full web ...
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How to find which files and folders were deleted recently in Linux?

I am having one particular folder (/home/sam/officedocuments) which is having hundreds of folders and files. I think I deleted some files and folders by mistake but I'm not sure. How to find which ...
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Why there is difference between output of linux command du and ls?

I have a file in linux machine whose size is 3404494030 upon doing "ls -l". When I do "ls -lh" it shows 3.2 GB which is correct when converted from bytes to Gigabytes. But when I do "du -h" for the ...
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What's the difference between "uname -r" and "uname -v"?

I am using CentOS 6.2. In the man page of uname (i.e., man uname), it says: -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version ...
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Can't install subversion over yum

How to install using yum ? Because when I tried this : yum install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 \ gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran subversion ruby ncurses-devel -y Subversion did not install , ...
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