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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 [...]
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- Tags: boot, centos, dns lookup, hang, linux, php script, redhat, rhel, sendmail, unix
After setting up a new Linux server I kept getting the following error whenever I tried to upload something with the VSFTPD ftp service:
500 OOPS: reading non-root config file
It turns out that I had the following setting in the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file:
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/virtual_users
I commented out that setting and restarted the vsftpd service and the problem went away. [...]
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- Tags: centos, chroot, directory name, error 500, ftp, red hat, rhel, server, virtual users, vsftpd
Sometimes when I install CentOS it does not start up in “graphical mode” – that is it starts up directly at the command prompt rather than automatically starting up X Windows. You can configure CentOS to start up in whatever mode you want including graphical mode by editing the file /etc/inittab. To change the startup [...]
I Hate RTFM
In: Ramblings
8 Feb 2008I regularly search the internet for solutions to problems and one of the things that really irritates me is people who give totally unhelpful and often times rude answers to people’s requests for help. Sure sometimes you come across a thread where someone asks a really “dumb” question but that doesn’t mean you should berate [...]
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- Tags: centos, change ip address, help, mean, newbie, noob, rhel, rtfm, rude
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- Don Farland: The http_proxy environment variable is case sensitive and should be all lowercase. I dropped it in [...]
- brad: I can confirm that this works for the newest 3.0+ software. works like a charm thanks to the creator [...]
- Jim Tidmore: Hello, I believe I followed everything but doesn't connect, don't get me wrong I am not complaining [...]
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