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Postfix: which process is attempting to send to example.com?
Here is the maillog extract:
May 15 10:20:41 nucleus postfix/smtp[4754]: connect to example.com[192.0.43.10]:25: Connection timed out
May 15 10:20:41 nucleus postfix/smtp[4755]: connect to ...
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error: zlib not found on system or in local libs
I'm trying to install gpac on my server and when I run ./configure I get the following error.
error: zlib not found on system or in local libs
I have checked and I have zlib installed, or at ...
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GRUB reported “error: file not found.” when booting CentOS 5
I installed CentOS 5.3 by using a 4GB USB disk on an old PC that I used run a Debian on it.
After a series of housework on the fresh system, I reboot the system using:
sudo shutdown -r now
After ...
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Make Office Portable for Linux?
I have an Microsoft Office 2010 license, and I wanted to know if there was a way to have this suite as a portable app (or apps) and use it from Linux. (I'm using CentOS 5.9, by the way)
Do you know ...
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Jenkins CVS checkout creates world writable files
I just started setting up jenkins 1.506 on CentOS 5.9 as described here.
I've configured it to checkout from our CVS repo via pserver and CVSROOT=:pserver:jenkins@host:/repodir.
However, when I look ...
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CentOS does not show any desktop icons or anything in the panel
We have recently installed CentOS 5.4 and Globus Toolkit in VMWare workstation. There is nothing displayed in the panel or in the desktop. They were shown for the first time while installing. But for ...
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Error Compiling Python 2.7.3 on CentOS5
I'm trying to install Python 2.7.3 on my CentOS 5.50 machine. Download, extract, configure (with --prefix=/usr/local) are fine. Its the make that throws this error:
gcc -pthread -c ...
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Accidentally renamed a file in centos 5 in /lib folder, no idea what it was called, how to find out?
Take a look at this: http://i.imgur.com/qkM57v6.png
I renamed the file accidentally to "l" and I have no idea what it was in the first place.
Please help, any idea? It's sorted by name, and I am ...
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rsync … blocked for more than 120 seconds
I'm running an rsync between two external USB 2TB drives to make a copy on a CentOS 5.9 server. It appears to have stalled, and it hangs when I cd to the source drive in the copy, while the ...
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YUM Update error
I got a virtual machine with CentOS 6 on it. I've tried to run yum update, but I got this error:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/addons/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The ...
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evince not opening PDF files
On my CentOS 5.5 machine, evince is not working. I cannot open PDF files. I tried to kill to restart it, but I couldn't find its PID.
Here is what I get when I launch it from the terminal:
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USB disabled when installing CentOS 5.8
My USB keyboard does not response when installing CentOS 5.8 with options "linux noprobe".
Given the fact that before installing from a burnt DVD, I once tried to install from a USB flash storage, it ...
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Use Dedicated VPS as a DNS
I live in Canada, I want an american IP (Speficily? So I can watch netflix on my WDTV).
I have a dedicated virtual server in California.
How do I use my VPS (CentOS 5/64Bit, PLESK) as a DNS.
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CentOS 5.5 install ghostscript?
I need to install Ghostscript v9.06 on CentOS 5.5.
I am linux newbie so can you help me i tried download "Postscript and PDF interpreter/renderer" (was that right thing?) and then run
./configure ...
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httpd: bad user name apache
on centos when I enter
service httpd start or restart
server gives
Starting httpd: httpd: bad user name apache
[FAILED]
I tried to add ...
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/dev/ttyUSB0 missing in CentOS on VirtualBox
I'm trying to configure 3G USB modem in my CentOS 5.7 instance that I have installed on VirtualBox (Win7 x64 is my main system).
First of all I'd like to configure a dialer in /etc/wvdial.conf
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IPTables Allowing Access without Rules
I'm sure this is mostly my misunderstanding of how iptables works, but I've set up some rules...
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 22 -m ...
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Can I run one bash shell script on many machines simultaneously?
I would like to run one bash shell script on two or more machines simultaneously.Can I run one bash shell script on many machines simultaneously? I place this shell script on centos 5.5 and other ...
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Centos5: Custom comps.xml documentation/options?
I've got an app that I've packaged into rpms along with some of its dependencies.
I'd like to be able to have it accessible as a group for easy install/uninstall.
However, there's not too many ...
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VNC server is running but I cannot connect to it using VNC viewer
I have installed VNC server on CentOS 5.8 and it is running, but I cannot connect to it using VNC viewer. I get the following error message:
connect: Connection timed out(10060)
What could be ...
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Centos iptables blocks after reboot
i have Centos5 installation with kvm on my server. I am using nat portforwarding to ssh my virtual machines. i have several iptables rules and saved then in /etc/sysconfig/iptables.
After reboot, i ...
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Need to create GUI interface in Cent OS which is located in Windows XP
I am in need to install GUI of Cent OS (5.8-final) in Windows XP.
I have installed Cent OS 5.8-final on Windows XP using VMPlayer. And Finally it has been done.
How can I create a GUI Interface in ...
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How to run a VB.NET .exe file on CentOS 5.6
I would like to execute my .exe file written in VB.NET (in VS 2008) on CentOS 5.6.
I have installed mono. But I'm not that familiar with CentOS, so I don't know how to proceed.
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Difference between Centos CD and DVD versions
What is the difference between Centos 5.8 CD and DVD versions?
I want to download Centos ISO files but stumbled upon two different files. One is of around 600MB and another is of massive 4GB.
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useradd /etc/passwd lock
I'm trying to add a user (as root) on CentOS 5.5 and I've got this message :
useradd: unable to lock password file
After reading some post linked to this issue I've deleted two files in /etc :
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What is the best way/option to reinstall yum and rpm after a “yum remove python”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
yum erase python = destruction
I accidentally did a "yum remove python" in efforts to re-install python to a newer version and failed to look at the 600+ dependencies ...
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Two OS in same computer, how to set boot priority for windows 7?
I have Centos and Win 7 installed in same PC. How Can I change setting in CentOS to show Windows 7 in top of the list in boot menu ?
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Get rid of directory of unknown user
I'm constantly failing to do something usefull to a directory.
ls gives this output:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root 1000 0 19. Jul 14:03 backup
Here I'm trying to remove, move or chown this directory ...
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Enter Password when idle for minutes in CentOs
How to let a user login or enter his password again when idle for minutes in CentOs? thanks,,if there's no option for these in CentOs, then maybe you can suggest how to make a program that behaves ...
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Samba upgrade from 3.0 to 3.6 broke my ADS authentication
I just upgraded my CentOS 5.4's Samba 3.0.33-3.15.el5_4 to 3.6.4 built from source. I copied over config and stuff from the old distro-locations to the source-expected location in /usr/lib. I copied ...
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how to turn on unixODBC logs?
I am trying to install the PostgreSQL ODBC driver on a CentOS 5.5 and using it to connect to my PostgreSQL DB. I have already installed the driver but when I try to connect it using a sample program ...
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How to attach an external disk to rhel 5, without changing its old device name
I have few Linux (RHEL 5.x / Centos 5.x) boxes running on KVMs, on which I used to attach and detach disks on the fly.
With EL5 versions, when we add a disk, initially it will be marked as /dev/sdb. ...
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Unable to mount device on Linux (XFS)
I am unable to mount a device on my server due to error when mounting, the device is type XFS. The mount command returns message: "mount: structure needs cleaning"
I've tried using xfs_check and it ...
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Regarding init script for Redhat/Centos distro of Tomcat5 and privileges
Let me know if this should be moved to ServerFault.
Using tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7
In reading some tomcat docs, I see the jsvc tool allows tomcat to run as an unprivileged user while still being ...
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pygtk2 on centos 5x with python 2.7?
I'm trying to install pygtk2 on centos 5.8 for use with python 2.7
installing yum install pygtk* works only for the default python 2.4. I tried compiling pygtk2 from source but it does not configure ...
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Increase /tmp size CentOS
new to Linux here. Can anyone explain me how to increase the size of /tmp?
I was able to increse the size of /dev/mapper/vg00-usr, var and home , but how can I do if the /tmp folder is shown as ...
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vim doesn't display first line?
when I use vim to open some php files, it starts with line 2, other files display fine. When I view the file with less I have the same issue. however when I edit it with nano I can see that line's in ...
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Start nodejs server at Centos linux startup
What is the easiest way to startup nodejs server at the boot of CentOS server?
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Remove Auto mount of linux drive/partition on Snow Leopard
I have a Snow Leopard + CentOS dual boot system setup. When I log in to Snow Leopard, it tells me that it is unable to mount the disk that i have just inserted. It is referring to my centos ...
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CentOS 5.6: Setup global extensions in Firefox 10.0.1
I have setup firefox to run off a server for a group of people, so that it runs for them without a local install. Now, I wish to also setup a few extensions globally, which would be available to all ...
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yum hangs and won't respond
I am running yum check-update and it freezes after a 2 lines of output:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
I'm not sure what is happening. The last things I ...
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What's different between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS?
When I do cat /etc/redhat-release, I got this.
#CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 (Tikanga)
It looks Red Hat Enterprise Linus is originated from CentOS. Anyway I want ...
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Install CentOS 6.2 on external USB portable hard drive?
I've Windows XP installed on my laptop. And I've external 80 GB drive which I usually connect to my laptop through USB.
I want to install CentOS 6.2 on this external drive & it should also boot ...
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Linux date command is 4 minutes slow
I installed Centos onto my server and I noticed that when I compared the date command's output to time.gov (same timezones, of course), the output was 4 minutes behind. This also affects my ...
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CentOS - mdadm raid1 drive won't mount to default location
I'm running CentOS 5.5, the system, boot, swap, etc. is all on /dev/sda and I have two identical single-partition drives /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 that are configured in RAID1 (using mdadm). It was working ...
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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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How to change the date of Linux to UTC/GMT +1?
I need to change the date of my system. I'm running a Linux CentOS 5.6
# date +%Z
UTC
# date
Thu Oct 6 11:42:45 UTC 2011
How to change the hour to be UTC/GMT +1?
Best Regards,
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Can't access anymore from SSH to CentOS5.7
I have made an update to CentOS5.7 and since then I can't access by SSH to the machine. I have disable the Firewall and I have the "sshd" service active.
I got the following when I do this from the ...
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Grub on Centos 5.2 PC shows “Starting up” on VGA display
I have a CentOS 5.2 PC with Grub. Output is redirected to a serial console.
A snippet of my grub.conf:
title CentOS (2.6.18-92)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92 ro ...
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Command to go to previous folder in cent os
Suppose I have entered following sequence of command:
[root@user ~] cd /
[root@user /] cd /usr
[root@user usr] cd /local
[root@user local] cd /myFolder
[root@user myFolder] cd /
[root@user /] <!-- ...
