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To configure fetchmail (I hope you know that it is used to download mails from remote server to localsystem), create file named ‘.fetchmailrc’ in home directory and add the following line to it.
poll [server ip address] with proto [server type] user [username]
for example:
poll 192.168.36.200 with proto pop3 user pavan_sv
in case of the user ‘pavan_sv’ on […]

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Sometimes, eventhough we can browse the web, we are not able to use any chat clients/messengers like yahoo and msn. This can happen for any of the following reasons:
–> DNS Server is not working on the proxy server (service named start should fix it)
–> IPTables is restricting that port… make sure that the port is […]

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‘tar’ is a good tool for moving files because it retains symbolic links and user/group permissions properly. A simple ‘Tar Pipe’ can be done to send and get files:
To send:
tar cf - myfiles | ssh remotehost ” ( cd /destination/path ; tar xf - ) ”
To get:
ssh remotehost “( cd /source/path; tar cf - desiredfiles […]

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We know generally we use ‘export’ as
export DISPLAY=”172.16.5.99:0.0″
Similary to export audio to another system we need to start the esd sound server on the machine we need the audio on like this:
esd -tcp -public -port xxx
then in the client system, we need to specify the server by exporting the ESPEAKER variable.
export ESPEAKER=host_running_esd:xxx
If the audio players […]

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Some times, when we try to run a cgi script, apache throws an error message “Internal Server Error”.
The possible solutions are:
–> The cgi script needs the to have the permission set as 755 if mod_suexec is not enabled in httpd.
–> The cgi script contains an error which can be found by checking the logs (usually […]

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You need to make these changes to your /etc/httpd/conf/http.conf file in super user mode.
You need to comment off the line:
UserDir disable
and instead put
UserDir public_html
In addition, you need to add:
Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes
Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/Limit>
LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
/LimitExcept>
/Directory>
TO make cgi scripts work, you need […]

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Using Samba in Linux, we can do netsend like in windows to other machines. The command for this is:
smbclient -M [NETBIOS Name] -I [IP Address]
If you don’t know the NETBIOS name, we can find that using following command:
nmblookup -A [IP Address]
*collected it from one blog in net.

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The default desktop option problem continued till FC3 in RedHat series of Linux is that even though if you change your desktop to kde, next time when you reboot it will load gnome instead of your settings. Some times this may not happens.
Solution for this is to create a file named ‘.dmrc’ in home directory […]

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