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How to stop kernel messages from flooding my console?
I'm using Centos 6, rsyslog logging. Console is flooded with kernel messages.
Klogd is not running (I'm using rsyslog)
Rsyslog config does not direct anything to the console
Even tried stopping ...
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How to automatically run commands on SSH login?
Whenever I login to my Linux server I'd like to have several commands run automatically (set some variables, change location, etc.)
This needs to be done on user login, not on system start.
How can ...
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Can't kill a sleeping process
I don't seem to be able to kill -9 a process which is in an interruptible sleep (S) state:
[root@jupiter ~]# ps -elf | grep yum
4 S root 16790 1 0 75 0 - 73779 - Jan15 ? 00:00:...
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Unable to access localhost & Internet using one adapter in CentOs
I have the below dev. environment.
Hardware:- Windows 7, 32bit, HP Laptop.
Software:- CentOs 6.5 running on VirtualBox 4.3.10.
In a nutshell The problem is that I can't access the internet and ...
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CentOS 7 Linux resize filesystem after partition resize
I am running CentOS 7 on a HyperV virtual server. I recently increased the size of the hard disk from 32GB to 64GB and used GParted Live to extend the partition, which seems to have worked as shown ...
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How to disable ipv6 on a specific interface in Linux?
Could someone tell me how to disable ipv6 auto-config on a specific network interface in CentOS?
The current situation is:
A PC has two network adapters eth0 and eth1 that are connecting to the same ...
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How to chown directory for multiple users?
Specs:
Running Centos 6
64 Bit
I am trying to chown a directory for all users on the VPS, aswell as for apache. But for some reason I can only have either apache, or just the users.
I tried doing ...
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Getting 2 IP addresses on one network card, using DHCP
Given: A computer running Linux (CentOS 5.x), one network card connected to LAN switch, a second one to cable modem via crossover cable. This computer acts as a router/firewall/traffic shaper for the ...
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Checking what PHP version I'm running on Linux?
I'm running Centos 5 and I need to know what version of PHP I'm running, is there a command for this which I can run?
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what causes “systemd: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/sbin/opendkim: No such process”
How can I remove following error:
systemd: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/sbin/opendkim: No such process
It occurs when I try to start opendkim service on Centos.
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Where Linux places the messages of boot?
I want to find place to where Linux writes all boot messages. You know:
facility one [STARTED]
facility two [STARTED]
facility three [FAILED]
I searched with
find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep -...
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To use ssh-id-copy do you need both id_rsa.pub and id_rsa?
I am trying to setup a second access ssh key for a friend. He sent me his id_rsa.pub.
ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub [email protected]
/usr/local/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: failed to open ID file './...
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How to find which package certain command belongs to on CentOS?
For example I can easily find locate command belongs to mlocate.i386 package.
yum search locate
mlocate.i386 : An utility for finding files by name
[mirror@home /]$ rpm -qa | grep locate
mlocate-0.15-...
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Execute a command if Linux is idle for 5 minutes
I would like to execute a command such as
notify-send 'a'
if my Linux machine has been idle for 5 minutes.
By idle, I mean the same thing a screen saver that gets activated would use to define "...
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how can i install CentOS 6 without the gui?
i just downloaded the centos 6 live cd and i tried installing it on virtually and i am never prompted to install centos with/without gui and its all automated. what happends is after i am booted into ...
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