For local filesystems, root usually has full access (read/write) to directories/files inside of it. But for NFS directory mounted from network, root usually has no permission to write to directories or files within the NFS directory. How to make root act similarly in an NFS directory to the behavior in local directories? The reason that
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How to choose the key used by SSH for a specific host?
Posted onHow to choose a key used rather than the default ~/.ssh/id_rsa when ssh to a remote server for a specific host? You have at least 2 choices for choosing the key used by ssh. Taking ~/.ssh/key1 and user@example.com as the example here. Method one, specify the key in command line with the -i option of
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How to get the CPU temperatur in command linux on Linux?
Posted onMost modern servers or computers have sensors to detect the temperature of various components. On Linux, how to get the CPU core temperatur in command linux? First, make sure the package “lm-sensors” is installed on your Linux and the command sensors works for you. Then, you can use this piece of script to get the
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how change my policy of scheduling in hadoop?
Posted onI want to change policy of scheduling in Hadoop, how to I can change job order in map reduce automatically. Assume you are using Hadoop 2 / YARN. The configuration parameter named yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.class controls the class to be used as the resource scheduler for YARN/Hadoop. The default value for the scheduler class (check more at
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How to make lftp to use key for authentication for sftp on Linux?
Posted onI have successfully enabled password-less ssh login to a remote server, say example.com with username user. But when I use lftp to log on the sftp by lftp sftp://user@example.com it still asks my password. How it make lftp use my private key to logon the remote lftp server? There is a little trick to make
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How to config Git remote server on Bitbucket or Github
Posted onFor your first push with git, you may get following errors when you use github or bitbucket. $ git push No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing. Perhaps you should specify a branch such as ‘master’. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Everything up-to-date Just run following command to set your remote
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How do I force Linux to unmount a filesystem?
Posted onSome time, Linux fails to unmount a filesystem reporting “device is busy”. I understand that this helps avoid data lost by disallowing unmouting a filesystem when it is being used. But for some situations, I am sure there is something wrong happened or I care not data lost, such as a NFS mounting while the
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Free VNC server software on Windows
Posted onRealVNC only gives free version to personal usage of their server software while it limits the functions. Could you suggest some good free VNC server software with full functions? TightVNC is an open-source software for VNC with servers and clients. You can download the server software for Windows from TightVNC download page: http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php The software
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Is Firefox Sync safe, that is, could someone else read my password saved in Firefox without my password?
Posted onFirefox needs an email address and a password to login and sync. Is Firefox Sync safe, that is, could someone else read my password saved in Firefox without my password? In short, only you with your password can see your data. Others, even Mozilla’s servers, without your password, can not see your decrypted data. In
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How to send POST request in JavaScript?
Posted onHow to send POST request in JavaScript from the users’ browsers? One easy method I find is to use the jQuery library’s post() method. Here is one example that send POST request with data “file: filename” to the “/fileview” URL on the server and show the replied data: $.post(“/fileview”, {file: filename}, function (data) { //
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How to force ssh client to authenticate using password on Linux?
Posted onssh client can use many authentication methods like password, keys. On a server, I set password-less log in with private/public key. Now, I want to try whether the new password is set correctly by log on using ssh. By default, the key-based authentication method is used again. How to force ssh client to authenticate using
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How to advertise different gateway ip via DHCP in OpenWRT?
Posted onHow to advertise a different router/gateway ip via DHCP in OpenWRT? In general, you need to configure the DHCP option with code 3 (router). (A list of all options can be found in http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/bootp/options.htm ) For example, to advise the gateway IP 192.168.1.2, you will send this option: “3,192.168.1.2” Now, for OpenWRT, you have 2
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How to find out the MX record for a domain on Linux?
Posted onHow to find out a domain’s MX record for Email on Linux? For example, to find which domain/IP the email to gmail.com is delivered to. You may make use of the host command. The -t option is used to select the query type. type can be any recognized query type: CNAME, NS, SOA, SIG, KEY,
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How to host multiple websites on a Apache Linux web server?
Posted onI have a Linux web server with Apache (httpd). How to host multiple websites on Apache? To host websites www.example1.com and www.example2.com on a single node with Apache2 on a single IP, you can use VirtualHost as follows. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following lines: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/example1.com ServerName www.example1.com # Other
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How to force umount a NFS directory on Linux?
Posted onThe NFS server is down. It is reported “Stale NFS file handle”. I tried ‘umount’ and ‘umount -f’. But neither succeeded. # umount /mnt/store umount.nfs: /mnt/store: Stale NFS file handle # umount -f /mnt/store umount.nfs: /mnt/store: Stale NFS file handle How to force umounting the NFS without rebooting the Linux server? I usually have to
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How to enable SSH service on Fedora Linux?
Posted onHow to enable SSH service on Fedora Linux? By default, it seems ssh is not enabled. Fedora may not have sshd service installed/enabled by default. You will need to install and configure it by yourself. The following instructions is for Fedora 22 as an example. First, install the sshd server by # dnf install openssh-server
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How to Passwordless SSH to an OpenWrt Router?
Posted onThe good ssh-copy-id method which works well on common Linux seems not working for OpenWrt router. How to Passwordless SSH to an OpenWrt Router? OpenWrt’s SSH server is Dropbear. It can accept normal RSA keys. But the authorized_keys location is not the same as the openssh “~/.ssh/authorized_keys”. The location for the authorized_keys is /etc/dropbear/authorized_keys What
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How to change the display manager on Fedora Linux?
Posted onThe default display manager on my Fedora 22 is gdm. If I would like to change it to other display manager like KDM, LightDM or other, which is the portable and reliable method? You can use the “system-switch-displaymanager” tools to manage the display manager. This is possibly the most portable way. To install it: #
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mkfs refuses to make filesystem with message “is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!”
Posted onI have a disk from another server installed on a new server. However, when I try to make a filesystem on it, mkfs reports # mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdd1 mke2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) /dev/sdd1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here! This is a new disk to the new server.
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What’s wrong with the messages like “UnrecovData 10B8B BadCRC” and “failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED” on Linux?
Posted onI keep seeing messages in dmesg as follows with “exception Emask 0x10” -> “SError: { UnrecovData 10B8B BadCRC }” -> “failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED” -> “hard resetting link”: [ 7395.936692] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0xe000 SErr 0x280100 action 0x6 frozen [ 7395.936701] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error [ 7395.936703] ata4: SError: {
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