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If you try to backup a MySQL database with a lot of tables using mysqldump, you may get an error similar to the following:
mysqldump: Got error: 29: File ‘./test/test.MYD’ not found (Errcode: 24) when using LOCK TABLES
To fix the problem you can add the –skip-lock-tables option to your mysqldump command line like so:
mysqldump –skip-lock-tables -u [...]

Firestarter is a GNOME program which offers a GUI interface to the IP Tables firewall.
If you have Firestarter configured to allow all IPs addresses to all ports or a particular port on your server, you can’t block a specific IP from accessing those ports using the GUI interface. However, Firestarter does allow you to manually [...]

After you setup an OpenLDAP server, one of the first things you’ll want to do is disable anonymous access to it. This will prevent unauthenticated users from connecting to your OpenLDAP server and extracting information about your users and network resources from it.  To disable anonymous access to your OpenLDAP server, you need to edit [...]

Install software needed by VMware Tools
1. Install packages to build the kernel modules
yum install gcc kernel-devel
2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
uname -r # running kernel
rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers
3. If the two versions do not match, run
yum [...]


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