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I'm going through the openvpn howto, section "Configuring client-specific rules and access policies", [url]http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html#policy[/url]. I understand how the network is segregated, different subnets for employees, sys admins and contractors. I don't understand how openvpn identifies a user as either an employee, sys admin or contractor. Is that what the next …

Hello, I am currently having a problem with .htaccess. I am trying to use mod_rewrite to rewrite: [url]http://www.example.com/test/test?word=test[/url] to [url]http://www.example.com/test/test.php?word=test[/url]. The only problem is the GET vars can have different names. So another example url could be [url]http://www.example.com/test/test?test=true&form=1[/url] or even [url]http://www.example.com/test/test?search=Google&type=Web[/url] etc. For this I wrote a simple PHP script …

Does anyone know how much it costs to get a commercial license for mono? On their web site it says if you want to bundle with mkbundle (to make a single exe) you have to buy a commercial licence [QUOTE]Mono components are also available to be licensed commercially if the …

I have been looking over and researching different versions of linux for my server that I am going to be making and I am not sure which one is the best for having a server or does it even matter. I also want one that will be very quick since …

can anyone tell me what do I have to do to protect my server? In windows, we install anti virus and firewall immediately after operating system is installed. What about linux server? Do we use firewall? And how do i close all the ports? and leave some open for programs? …

the title says itself... does anyone know or help on how to configure ubuntu guest os in a windows running machine. i'm using virtualbox in running the ubuntu os. any help is much appreciated... =D

can everyone help me what should i install to my pentium II of IBM computer which it uses only uses WIN nt and 95...>..>>> what linux should I use........ tnx: SPYnX of Philippines Go for goal Linux

Hi all I am new to Linux and have been trying to set up an ftp connection using pure-ftpd. I have been able to set up the ftp and am using anonymous access with this. My main problem is using the upload script. I have compiled pure-ftpd with the uploadscript, …

Hi Friends, I need a clarification on /etc/passwd file. Can it have same user name entry two times, if so what is the use of it. I see it applying the first entry's configuration only. What is the use of second entry with different configuration. Can somebody please clarify about …

My computer seems bogged down lately. Even with my good computer specifications (see profile), things are running slow. Even with 2GB memory, 99% is being used up most of the time, and I am only using two or three programs that should not be sucking up all that memory. What …

I have a home network set up with ubuntu 8.04 as the gateway pc and a windows pc on the lan. When I try to upload a file to ubuntu I get slow speeds. smbget from linux: 200kb/s sftp put from windows: 100kb/s pscp put from windows: 35 kb/s ftp …

I have an install script that sets some environment variables. To run the script I have to use the source command. The script has to be run as sudo because the environment variables need to be set for the root account. The problem is you can't execute "sudo source installScript". …

I follow the instruction from the book i bought which says insert the fedora dvd in the dvd drve, however, it seems like my pc is not booting from dvd drive, instead it just starts windows. Can anyone please tell me specificly how to change boot option to make my …

Running ubuntu 8.04 and Samba version 3.0.28a. I'm trying to restrict the number of directories users can share with the "usershare max shares" option. I set it to 3 but I can still share directories with 10 files in them from my windows machine (XP). Here is smb.conf. [CODE] [global] …

I have a need for Fedora core 1.2 but don't see it on the list of downloads there. Any ideas where to get it or other ideas?

I'm trying to set up a secure ftp transfer between my linux machine and my internet gateway running ubuntu 8.04. I have vsftpd installed but I can't get PASV connection to work with putty. My ubuntu firewall blocks everything except ssh. From my windows XP machine I establish a connection …

Running ubuntu 8.04 I wanted to separate the cron logs from the auth logs, so in /etc/syslog.conf I uncommented the line "cron.* /var/log/cron.log". I also wanted to cleanse the auth logs, so I deleted all of them. I then restarted and tried to login via ssh, but there were no …

In the past I've used vsftpd for File transfer. Installing this was quite easy: - yum install vsftpd - go to 'services' and click start. Now it would be up and running. This has always worked for me, but now I'm required to use Tftp as a server. So I …

Recently i took a pc with Pentium D 830 3.0 GHz processor Intel 945 gntl mother board, 120 GB samsung SATA drive and 512 mb ddr II ram.. When i tried to install linux : (i have tried to install many versions like red hat 9, elx, suse, fedora core …

I had linspire on a hard drive. I partitioned it, formated it, and it boots with "grub loading stage1.5. grub loading, please wait. error 17". How do I repair this?

Hi, I've been trying to figure out how to log on from my xp box to the samba server running on a redhat 9.0 box. Everything seems proper, I can access locally from the linux box and the xp can see the samba server too. When I double click from …

I have a Win 2k AD domain controller, how do I access the network from a Redhat 8 box. I am new to Linux so take it slowly. I read a couple of articles about Samba. Is Samba something separate I have to install on top of Redhat, or is …

hi all i have installed Suse10.1 in my laptop four days before it worked well for last 3 days. but today when i started the laptop only the command prompt opening. just like this [COLOR="Red"]login:[/COLOR] when i give my user name and password it remains in the command mode only. …

In my computer, I couldn't use a search function. When I right click the start menu I couldn't found in the list, I could use it in the explorer. It is there but it is not functional. What is the solution ? Regards,

Hi All, Is there any way to invoke an Window Application (for eg say calc.exe) from a Unix Server. I think we might be needing a Windows X Server running. I am not sure how to invoke an application from the unix server. Any help on this. Regards, Ahamed.

Hi, I'm having a small problem. After installed a routine system update, which included the newest Java update (though I'm on 10.4.11) I have lost access to my localhost! I thought it was a problem with my server, so I installed another server using MAMP, and through MAMP I can …

What happens if you install 2 servers on one machine eg: pws and apache - which one is localhost?

got ubuntu harried heron on CD and ran it several times love it! finally installed it after setting up new primary partition with win 2000 and ubuntu each 32 gb Everything works fine except when I boot into ubuntu I need a password and never had the chance to select …

Hi all, I have to install a software in linux from a .bin file. But firstly I have to extract .rpm files from it to proceed. Please guide me about how to do it. I haven't worked on a linux machine before. Its my first attempt. So please explain in …

I installed DHCPD 3.0 on my server running Ubuntu Server, but I don't know how to configure it properly. When I configure dhcpd.conf to use a sample subnet, dhcpd gives me an error about not being set to listen on eth1. The server has four ethernet ports, eth0 is connected …

Hi all, Please forgive me if you saw this post in other forums as well. I just do not seem to get any answer.... A. My Environment ============== I am using RedHat Linux, version 2.6.18-53.el5. When I type less --version I get: less 394 Copyright © 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman ... …

Hello, i'm quite new in the forum and also in the matter. I followed a few tutorials and guides to set up a web server using Apache. I think I've done it all. I installed the package. Did the port 80 forwarding. I'm using DynDNS for my dynamic DNS. I …

how can I configure a complete mailsever using suse linux

Ok, I recently downloaded ubuntu 8.xx and installed it on a virtual machine. I know nothing about it. Could some of you newbies answer some of my questions? 1. How do you download and install linux programs? Nothing that I downloaded and installed doesn't work, linux version or not. I …

Under Apache 2 on my PC's WAMP development environment I've managed to turn off directory indexing so that a Forbidden message is displayed whenever I access a URL such as http://127.0.0.1/ If someone can point out what needs to be changed in my httpd.conf file, or what typo's I might …

i have heard linux software are freeware and there are million of them out there. Would everyone please share their favorite download sites? I don't find that easy to locate the linux softwares... please share both the sites for downloading package and binary. thanks a lot

hi all, I am new to linux, sometimes i wonder if there is a way to search for the utility command such as useradd or ifconfig. The reason i ask is, in Fedora, there are many command that are hiding in different places. For example, I now know useradd is …

In the past I have only used Windows 2003 Server to run a small computer lab. Active Domain was simple enough to understand for a person that had never dealt with domain servers before. I am in charge of a new computer lab now and have been giving thought to …

Hi, I have been having very frustrating problems lately with installing things. The problems start when I configure. [QUOTE]configure:24993: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -ldl -ldl >&5 /tmp/ccqVtOow.o: In function `main': /home/mason/Download/ettercap-NG-0.7.3/conftest.c:77: undefined reference to `lt_dlopen' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:24999: $? = 1 configure: failed program …

i just setup a linux fedora server at home, and would be able to ssh from another pc within my home network. However, when i tried to telnet to my server outside my home network, it wouldn't be able to reach it. I have my own domain name connecting to …

Hi, I have set up a URL rewriting rule for my website: [CODE]RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/([A-Za-z]+)\.html$ /main.php?Area=$1&Page=$2[/CODE] Which works fine if I request a page like [url]http://mysite.com/folder/something.html[/url] it would show [url]http://mysite.com/main.php?Area=folder&Page=something[/url] but I want to also be able to pass the rest of the query string so something like [url]http://mysite.com/folder/something.html?Bob=Jim[/url] would pass …

1. How do I install Fedora OS in a VMware virtual machine? 2. I don't have IIS (win XP home). Do I need it if I'm going to use VMware server (to configure it)? 3. Is there a set of tools that I can install to configure VMware server WITHOUT …

Hello, I have been scouring the web trying to find as much information on mod_rewrite as I can, but the solutions I have found do not suit my need. I have a website that has been up for almost 3 years, and I am having a hard time getting pages …

I have a Dell running win XP and have files, etc that I don't want to loose. I heard about VMware Player that allows XP to be run as well as Linux and other OSs simultaneously. I have a need to be able to install RedHat Fedora on this machine …

I migrated blogs from serendipity to wordpress. In doing so, I went from one url schema to another. Serendipity: [CODE]http://example.com/index.php?/archives/111-Example-title!-of-POst.html[/CODE] Wordpress: [CODE]http://example.com/example-title-of-post/[/CODE] Notice that it needs to have caps removed and all punctuation except the '-' removed from the URL. Now the nearest I can come up to with this …

I was having a problem in start up my fedora 9 (system freeze). After googling, I entered the setting before os boot up and modified the kernel by adding: iommu=noagp acpi=off noacpi and take off the "rhgb quiet" at the end and from then on I could successfully boot my …

Hi Which ones are most secure, hardest to hack or spy distros? Sorry for my not best english language, hope you will understand me.

I have just installed [URL="http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_ionfiles&Itemid=28"]PCLinuxOS [/URL](698 MB) in one of my hardware partition. My Problem is that I am unable to connect to the internet. And I am not able to figure out the reason. So I have decided to post some screen shots, which may explain my problem better. …

I finally made the plunge--I didn't want to mess up anything on my present computer so I bought a new computer (Asus P5GC-MX/1333 mother board) with a Hitachi 160 GB HD and an Optiarc DVD. I've tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04-- both with no success. I keep getting …

Hi all. Can some one help me with the following answers. I am brushing up for an exam monday and we have to answer one q from a linux environment. I hope this Q comes up as it has done over the last 2 years. thanks in advance T [B]Consider …