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I'm running Redhat9 on Vmware 4.0. How do I force the nic to come up with a dynamic ip address? The only way that I was able to force the nic to grab a dynamic ip address was to ifconfig eth0 up and the activate the nic using redhat-config-network. I want automate this task from the command line...

I bought a Maxtor 160gb HD. It worked fine for about 2 weeks. Yesterday I wanted to access a directory, when I got in I the directory I didn't see anything. So I when into another directory and the files were there. So I clicked the file and it said 'file missing or corrupt run chkdsk utility'...

I installed Solaris 8 on a Sun Ultra 5 Workstation. After the install I couldn’t use the Mouse, so I went into the boot prompt and accidentally set the keyboard to "false". I get the message "Keyboard not found". I did a Stop-N to reset the NVRAM to it's default settings but, it wouldn't reset...

I installed Solaris 8 on a Ultra 5 Workstation. After the install I couldn’t use the Mouse, so I went into the boot prompt and accidentally set the keyboard to "false". I get the message "keyboard not found". I did a Stop-N to reset the NVRAM to it's default settings but, it wouldn't reset since...

I have an Ultra 5 Workstation. I installed Debian Sparc Edition on it. I didn’t like it so I installed Solaris 8. I couldn’t seem to use the after the Solaris keyboard so I went into the boot prompt and accidentally set the keyboard to "false". Now I can't use the keyboard whatsoever. What are...

How can I configure VNC Server on a RedHat Linux 9 box so that I can connect to it from a Windows 98 box?

I want to run a cron job every minute everyday. What should the crontab file configuration look like?

I want to setup a firewall using ipchains. But, I would like to forward the log files from the firewall to another system on the network. The purpose is, if someone were to successfully hack the firewall and erase the log file there would be another system holding those same logfiles.

Try /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop or /etc/init.d/vsftp stop or service vsftpd stop or service vsftp stop Try one of these commands. One of them should work. Good Luck.

I recompiled kernel linux-2.4.20 on my system. When I rebooted I recieved the message "No setup signature found". What does this mean and how can I fix it? I used the following steps to compile the kernel; 1. Change to the directory /usr/src 2. Downloaded the kernel into the...

What you're having a DNS problem. Here's how to fix it. This is assuming that you have DHCP running on the router: 1. Go to the /etc directory 2. Make sure you have the file dhcp.network_interface. Example dhcp.hme0 or leo.0. 3. vi /etc/nsswitch.com Find the line that reads...

I recompiled kernel linux-2.4.20 on my system. When I rebooted I recieved the message "No setup signature found". What does this mean and how can I fix it? I used the following steps to compile the kernel; 1. Change to the directory /usr/src 2. Downloaded the kernel. 3. mkdir...

Thanks Crismo!!!

Thanks, Crismo!!!

The syntax is; useradd -u usedid -c "comment" -d directory -m -s shell -g groupname . Example: useradd -u 25 -c "John Doe" -d /export/home/jdoe -m -s /bin/bash -g adm .