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I could not log in to my server remotely or on a console, everytime I tried I would get a ld.so.1 malloc error. So I rebooted the server and now it won't come up, I get BAD TRAP cpu0 error and it resyncs it's file and reboots again and again. It's caught in a loop, I am running Solaris 6 on a...

I did a bonehead thing, I moved /etc to /etc_orig, I did this because I wanted to bring another etc directory from another server. Obviously this failed miserably, now I can't do anything, I can't mv the file back to it's original state and I can't use any utlities that require /etc. Is there...

Does anyone know of a way to change the root password without being su and without reinstalling the OS. My server was either hacked or I changed it on accident. I am running Solaris 2.7, any help would be appreciated. Thanks, RG

I am running Red Hat 7.2 and it uses wu-ftpd. I have edited this wu-ftpd file in /etc/xinetd.d to enable ftp. In the /etc/hosts.allow file I added in.ftpd and the IP addresses I want to allow ftp access. Also in the hosts.deny file I entered ALL: ALL. When I try to ftp localhost i get this...

I need to set up an auto reply on our server. When a someone sends us an email we want to automatically send a reply thanking them for there email. We are running Slackware 8, any help would be appreciated. thanks, RG

I am trying to remove a virtual IP address. I created it using ifconfig but I can't seem to remove it. This is what I tried, [ifconfig hme0:1 drop], and [ifconfig hme0:1 release]. Neither of these worked, any help would be appreciated. Thanks, RG

I just installed a server at our colo, it came up fine but when I went back to the office I was unable to ssh or ftp in to the server. I know that on Solaris you can enable these utlities in /etc/inetd.conf, but I don't know were to make these changes using linux. Can anyone point me in the...

I have a new server with Red Hat 7.2, I have tried to set the IP and gateway addresses. When I used the ifconfig command it appeared to make the the changes, but after a reboot all the changes were gone. This is what I did: ifconfig eth0 555.555.5.55 netmask 255.000.000.0 <enter> route add...

I want to have multiple domains on one server for email purposes only. Ideally I would like to keep them seperate without using three different servers. If I have a username john@xxx.com and john@yyy.com I don't want it to go to the same account. Is it possible to set this up for three domains...

Hi all, I have inherited a Sun box with Solaris 8 and I am trying to change the defaultrouter. Although there is not a defaultrouter file in /etc. I tried to use [route add default 209.31.xx.xx] but it returns not able to connect to network. Any suggestions would be helpful. RG

How do you make a directory user and password protected? Thanks, RG

I would like to change the date using the date command,I tried using [date -s set=Tue Jun 25 15:00:00 MST 2002] but it doesn't work, any suggestions would be very helpful. Thanks, Rankar

I am tring to change the ip address on our server, we are running Slackware 8.0. I edited the files in /etc/rc.d /rc.inet1 /rc.inet11 /rc.firewall and /etc/hosts. When I run the command netstat -rn the IP address does not appear in the output. I can ping and telnet to other servers but I can't...

I am trying to sync time between two servers, I am not familiar with linux, but on a Unix box I can do this using the rdate command, does anyone know what command I can use in linux that will do this?

We have been getting spammed by sites during the last couple of weeks, does anyone know were I can deny access or block these spammers from getting in on our firewall? thanks, RG

Does any one have a suggestion on a backup solution to run on Linux (Mandrake), we currently use Legato on our Unix boxes, but Legato does not support the Mandrake version of Linux. Thanks, RG

Hi all, our servers are being backed up via tape using the tar -cvf command. What I need to know is how can I retreive a file from tape. I tried tar -xvf /dev/ht0 /etc/motd as a test but it would just hang, all suggestions would be helpful. thanks, rg

Due to a recent merger we acquired some servers from another company, I need to install Solaris 7 on one of these servers, but I don't know the root password. I put in the cd and ran boot cdrom, but it responds with boot: command not found. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. RG

I am trying to install a newer version of sendmail(sendmail.8.11.5) on a Solaris 2.5 system to deny any outside relaying. I have this installed on other Solaris boxes, not all of them are using the same versioin of Solaris, but a couple of them are, and I didn't have any problems intalling this...

I have 4 servers on a private network, I would like to set nfs mount points for 3 of these servers on to one development server, but I can't seem to find nfs on this system. I ran a cat on /etc/issue and the output was Linux Mandrake Corporate Server release 1.0.1 (Aegean), does anyone know...