CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System, the most popular Linux distribution for web servers with almost 30% of all servers using it. Third-party software is not included in the base.
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How to access shared folder between CentOS 6 and WinXP under vmware player 4
Based on Sharing Files between CentOS 6 and Windows Systems with Samba
I am able to follow until section of "Accessing Samba Shares". however, my system is WinXP and I don't see CentOS 6 icon at all. ...
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what's the meaning of “?” in file/folder mode bits in CentOS 6.4?
Environment:
2 desktops.
A is a Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
B is a CentOS 6.4
A mounts B's folder via sshfs.
The output of 'mount' in A:
Lebian@zeus:/share on /mnt/share type fuse.sshfs ...
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Punkbuster update on linux server connect() timed out
I'm in the porocess of setting up COD4 on a linux server. All is well and it runs great but PB is out of date and needs updating otherwise you get kicked. I'm running
./pbsetup.run --update
As the ...
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How to set up dedicated Hard Disk to a VM?
I'm running CentOS with Xen hypervisor. I've two virtual machines running on it (2 DomU and obviously 1 Dom0). I've two hard disks that I'm trying to dedicate exclusively to each of the DomU. This is ...
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yum update not working as desired
Something happened to my system since the last guy touched it.
Please find the tail of my yum update command below.
yum --skip-broken does not work.
I've tried to reinstall some of the missing ...
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Is my CentOS library multiarch? And what does that mean?
On CentOS release 6.4, I am trying to run a binary. However, it gives the following complaint:
(...) requires "/lib/libuuid.so.1" to function.
From a quick search, I can see that the only similar ...
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Is rsync overwriting my `./` directory?
I'm new to rsync, but I've noticed that at the top of the "receiving incremental file list" is ./
Is rsync overwriting the destination's ./ directory? The timestamp of ./ in destination matches the ...
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Issue setting up Tiger VNC on Centos 6.3
I'm trying to set up Tiger VNC server on CentOS 6.3. I'm getting the following error message when I run the command "vncserver":
[ollie@localhost ~]$ vncserver
WARNING: The first attempt to start ...
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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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Trouble installing php-devel on CentOS
Working with a PHP install and trying to install APC on a server to help with speed issues with an application we're developing.
We are having trouble getting phpize installed. phpize is not on the ...
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Trouble installing php-devel on CentOS
Working with a PHP install and trying to install APC on a server to help with speed issues with an application we're developing.
We are having trouble getting phpize installed. phpize is not on the ...
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500 after installing APC
I ran the following commands on a CentOS box:
yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel --disableexcludes=main
pear install pecl/apc
service httpd graceful
After the restart of apache, viewing any ...
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No acceptable C compiler found in $PATH [closed]
Using CentOS VPS, installed GCC as well as development tools, error still comes up.
Path is set to (i'm assuming by default)
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
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What are BIND9 virtual appliance minimum requirements?
I would like to ask what are the proposed, but minimal requirements for a BIND9 DNS server in VMWare (Win8, 64 bit host). I want to use to name my virtual machines, without maintaining all the hosts ...
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aticonfig Dual Monitors CentOS 6.4 Radeon 3650
I just loaded centOS on my laptop (Lenovo W500) which has a Radeon HD 3650 graphics card onboard. I cannot get my second monitor to work at all. Upon boot, since my /home directory is encrypted it ...
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yum install a particular version
I am currently using centOS 5.2 I want to install php 5.3.3. how do I install using yum?
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Issue with CentOS 6.4 – NX Client/OpenNX and keyboard configuration
since CentOS 6.4 was released yesterday, I started doing testing with it and found a weird issue, so I ask here in case somebody else can help me with a solution.
My setup
Linux CentOS 6.3 Server + ...
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My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
I am using scientific linux host and centOS guest and I am trying to share a folder I have in both accounts but the folder is only ...
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setting up a second monitor in centos
I have CentOS installed on my laptop. I hooked up my TV via VGA and it works, just not as I'd like it to. The left side (on the tv) is cut off, like the image is justified too far left. I want it to ...
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CentOS 6 does not show any desktop icons or anything in the panel
I was using CentOS 6 in VirtualBox fine for a couple of days. Now, when I login via the GUI user prompt, all I get is the background screen, no icons, no menubar, nothing. I am not terribly familiar ...
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How do I get L2TP to successfully install on Centos 5.9?
I am trying to setup a Centos 5.9 VPS as a L2TP VPN server.
I am using this tutorial
Tutorial but when I try to start Racoon with /etc/racoon/init.sh
it gives me an error. pfkey_open: Address family ...
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Sending files to CentOS machine via ssh
I'm using ssh and connecting to a linux machine for the first time from my Windows 7 machine and right now I'm using putty to access a CentOS machine via ssh.
I need to transfer some big files to the ...
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CentOs vsftpd - Users not being jailed
I have 3 users created and I have installed and configured (or so I thought) VSFTP to jail users to their own home directory but it's not working they can browse right to the route folders. What am I ...
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How to setup multiple email accounts on CentOS6 server
I'be been running my email trough CentOS server for 6 years now, but managed by WHM.
The server however has to go, as I'm selling my main site.
Therefore, I now have to setup all my personal emails ...
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Send stream from VLC to ffserver
I want to send a stream from VLC on Windows to ffserver (as input stream for ffmpeg) on a CentOS virtual machine.
How can I do this?
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“radeon disabling gpu acceleration” hang on boot of clean CentOS 6.2 Minimal install
I have a clean install of CentOS 6.2 minimal on a server. On boot, just after the GRUB boot loader screen, I get a message that's about 3 lines long and very blurry. The same message appears on the ...
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How do I install hiphop-php in CentOS 6?
I've been trying to install hiphop-php on CentOS 6 with no luck. I found an .rpm for it but it fails dependency checks on boost which fails to install because it depends on curl which fails to ...
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Where are aliases set in CentOS?
There is a typo which causes an error message upon logon (someone typed lias instead of alias). I have checked /etc/bashrc as well as ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile as well as ~/.bash_profile for ...
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tar Cannot open: No such file or directory
Fresh install of CentOS 5.4
Downloaded the following:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.510.tar.gz
MD5 sum is correct (cdcc09d71d85d81914a90413eaf21d3f). The file is located ...
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How give the permission to access subfolders in /root?
I need give the permission to read/write in this folder, which are subfolder of /root directory to mike.jackson (for some reason someone crete this folder inside /root) :
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yum install gcc-g++ doesn't work anymore in CentOs 6.4
Today installed CentOs 6.4 fresh new on my workstation.
I wanted to install g++. With my surprise I didn't succeed by using
yum install gcc-g++
The thing is that even by doing a search I don't ...
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Plesk keeps crashing, and I only see this warning
Wed May 01 12:05:42 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel' does NOT match server name!?
The above warning seems to coincide every time Plesk Parallels version 11.0.4 ...
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cannot access crontab with sudo after being added to /etc/sudoers list
My user "craig" is in the /etc/sudoers file on my CentOS 5.6 VM, however when I try to access the crontab using the command below I am presented with an error message:
sudo crontab -e -u ...
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What are the essential firewall configurations for a newly live CentOS web server?
I've newly got a CentOS server from Linode.com which I'm using as an Apache web server with the LAMP stack.
I notice that the firewall is enabled by default but doesn't seem to have any active rules.
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CentOS installing jre/jdk error
[root@jony source]# sh run.sh
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has ...
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RHEL5.5 switch to CentOS repositories?
I was given a VM for a RHEL5.5 machine but I do not have a RHN subscription. I get this warning when using yum:
bash-3.2$ sudo yum update
[sudo] password for streamsadmin:
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, ...
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How do I switch to a higher resolution in Centos 6 installed on a virtual machine (VirtualBox)?
I have installed Centos 6 on a virtual machine (virtualbox). Maximum available screen resolution is 800x600. How do I get higher resolutions?
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GRUB menu customization (change menu appearance)
In my GRUB (GRUB 0.97) menu the selector became invisible (changed of inversion color). I would like get my selector bar back and by the way customize a bit grub menu to be more fancy with colors. ...
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vmware player won't run on CentOS due to missing /dev/vmmon, what could be the problem?
So I've tried installing vmware player 3.1.4 and 3.1.3 and both times had the same problem, when I try to load a VM I get the error "Could not open /dev/vmmon". When I ls /dev/ I can see there is no ...
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wpa_supplicant unexpectedly running on server
I discovered that wpa_supplicant is running on some of my CentOS 6.4 servers, without having been explicitly declared in the chkconfig setup. What can be causing this ?
$ chkconfig --list | grep ...
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how to assign user's web session to a dedicated container on OpenVZ
I currently have OpenVZ installed on CentOS 6.3 with few containers created.The host is on a LAN and has the ip 192.168.2.152.Apache on the host node hosts a simple website.How do I enable user's web ...
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How to mount a software RAID0 array in CentOS without formatting
Recently my software RAID0 array had a SMART error and so I had to get 2 new drives to create another RAID0 to re-install CentOS 6.
The 2 previous drives were saved; and re-inserted. But I don't know ...
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How to find out why available disk space is decreasing every day?
I have a CentOS web server which does not have much load on it. I noticed that its available disk space drops by more than 100MB every few days.
There isn't any new software installed, however there ...
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Install CodeLite on CentOS
I have CentOS 6.4 I want to install CodeLite.
Their website http://codelite.org/LiteEditor/Download#toc5 says that you need to compile it (as they don't have a package for CentOS).
I did
git clone ...
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Installing Zend on CentOS is having dependency issues
I'm trying to install PHP's Zend Server on my CentOS VPS but it's having dependency issues that I can't seem to resolve.
zend-server-php-5.2-4.0-73.noarch from Zend_noarch has depsolving problems
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How install Microsoft Keyboard Ergonomic 4000 in centOS 6?
I live in Brazil and make the mistake to buy the Microsoft Keyboard Ergonomic 4000 from eBay, with US layout, not Portugue (Brazil) layout. I'm using it in centOS 6 and some things doesn't work very ...
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Cant get squid proxy to work
i need squid proxy on my centos server. But i just can't get it to work. I did yum install squid. Here is my squid.conf file (i removed all comments):
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl manager proto ...
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Configure Qt3 in CentOS 5.7
My workstation has been just updated to CentOS 5.7 from CentOS 4.x. This makes Beyond Compare breaks because it uses Qt3, not Qt4 which is being used by the CenOS 5.7 KDE environment. The Beyond ...
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ext3 partition randomly mounts read-only
The /var partition randomly mounts read-only, when I reboot it mounts as rw again.
OS: CentOS 5.4
partition: /var, size: 80G
the /var is for web logs and MySQL data file.
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High server load with high %id & low %wa [closed]
I'm confused with the top result in one of my vps. This is the output
top - 11:41:17 up 9 days, 2:50, 3 users, load average: 3.15, 3.49, 2.41
Tasks: 90 total, 2 running, 86 sleeping, 1 ...
