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If you notice Sendmail hanging up for many minutes while starting up at boot or while being used such as sending an email from a PHP script, it is probably a DNS lookup problem. Ensure your /etc/hosts file has the appropriate entries for your server that sendmail is running on:
127.0.0.1 [...]

Most of the instructions for mirroring a directory with Rsync involve mirroring the data to a different server. You can also use Rsync to sync or mirror a directory on the same computer as the source directory.
Here is an example command on how to mirror two directories locally. In this example, /home/apache/public_html is the source [...]

If you are using Yum to manage packages from multiple repositories it may be beneficial for you to not update a particular package against a specific repository in favor of another one. To do this, simply add the following line to the Yum configuration file for the repository you want to ignore:
exclude=packageName1 packageName2 packageName3
For example, [...]

GREP is one of those simple UNIX programs that you can’t live without if you do any kind of systems administration of an operating system based on UNIX such as Linux or Mac OS X. If you need to search for an exact string and NOT just a substring, all you have to do is [...]


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