Yep, thats what I do at home.The trouble for off-net machines is the download time – over 24 hours for CentOS 7 + epel, and then copy over. If you dont grab everything, the one package you miss is the one that stops the update. :-(This email and ..
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Our cluster was supplied with two IBM DS3400 RAID arrays connected with fibre channel.Both are old and one is failing so we bought an IBMV3700 to replace it.The V3700 complained that we were using the IBMs RDAC driver (true) and we were advised to cha..
Another Firefox funny to be aware of occurs if you have a $HOME shared between multiple machines.Firefox will refuse to start on the second machine whilst the first is running Firefox, it believes that there is already an instance running.Rebooting ..
If you are using GRUB 0.97 (legacy GRUB), then this capability is provided by the default saved and fallback commands.See sections4.3.1 and 4.3.2 in the manual:http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.htmllisted This email and any attachme..
A live DVD or memory stick version of any recent Linux distro will allow you to boot. You can then mount the original disk as, say, /mnt.Go to/mnt/etc and edit the root password to be null or cut-and-paste a known password in.Reboot and set it.user modeT..
Wasnt there a TV series in the 1960s about a US soldier who got made up to general thanks to the accidental over punching of paper tape?Regards,Martin,This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of ..
Try using su – to get a login shell.For example:# su – user -c pwd/home/user# su user -c pwd/rootYou are trying to run pulseaudio in roots environment with the users permissions.Regards,MartinThis email and any attachments to it may be confidential ..
Ive seen similar cases where a USB drive appears to fail but the SMARTreports success.The most recent was a 500 GB disk which had internally a Seagate Barracuda SATA drive.It appeared to work well until I sent it a largish (7GB) tarball.As well as SM..
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