The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once the lease has been released, the client exits. For example, open terminal and type the command: $ sudo dhclient -r Now obtain fresh IP: $ sudo dhclient There is no need to restart network service. Above command should work with any...
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Continue reading ...Great news, Musictracker is already included to Ubuntu Hardy Official Repositories MusicTracker is a plugin for Pidgin (previously known as Gaim) which displays the music track currently playing in the status message of various accounts such as AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk (Jabber), etc., i.e. any protoc...
Continue reading ...1. Download yum by using wget # wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-2.0.8-1.noarch.rpm 2. Install the rpm # rpm -ivh yum-2.0.8-1.noarch.rpm 3. Configure /etc/yum.conf to use compatible repository [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy...
Continue reading ...The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache IPA: /əˈpætʃi/, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. Apache was the first viable alternative ...
Continue reading ...How to Install Microsoft Fonts in Linux Guide: Tested on Distribution: Ubuntu Hardy Heron How to install MS core fonts You can install the MS core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package. To do this, enable the “Universe” component of the repositories. This is done by default in Hardy. ...
Continue reading ...Installing the server Once logged in, do not start x-windows, rather stay in the command line interface (hereafter referred to as the CLI). If your Linux box automatically starts x-windows don't worry... when it starts up, just click on the Terminal Emulation icon you may have it on your taskbar o...
Continue reading ...Don’t panic. Keep your calm and develop a plan of actions Disconnect the system from the network Discover the method used to compromise the system Stop all the attacker scripts and remove his files Restore not affected services Fix the problem that caused the compromise Restore the affecte...
Continue reading ...The Unix find command is a very powerful tool, and this short post is intended to show how easy you can achieve something that might look complicate: to find all the files of a particular size. Let’s assume you are searching for all the files of exactly 6579 bytes size inside the home directory. Y...
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