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Fedora is a fast, stable, powerful, free RPM-based GNU/Linux operating system that is developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

Fedora is a fast, stable, powerful, free RPM-based GNU/Linux operating system that is developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

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How do you validate fstab without rebooting?

I modified /etc/fstab. I verified the new devices and I can mount them with the mount command. How may I validate the modifications made to /etc/fstab ?
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How to VNC into an existing X session?

Would like to be able to connect to an existing X display, so can access my work environment and everything I left open from home. I vaguely remember something about using x11vnc in the past. But the package does not exists for Fedora 11, so I am…
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nginx: no permission to bind port 8090 but it binds to 80 and 8080

I'm struggling with some strange permission related behavior: when I configure nginx to listen to port 8080 everything works as expected, but when I use any other port I get something like 2014/01/10 09:20:02 [emerg] 30181#0: bind() to 0.0.0.0:8090…
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Is there a way to list all configurable `alternatives` (symlinks for similar commands) on the system?

The alternatives command (package chkconfig) on RHEL/Fedora manages symlinks which link a generic name to one of the alternative implementations. For example, mta group of symlinks can be provided by Sendmail and Postfix (to implement i.e. sendmail…
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Listing available smb shares on a network through the command line in linux

I was wondering if there is a way of listing all the smb servers on a local network (like looking at a network neighborhood in windows) via the command line in fedora.
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firewalld vs iptables - when to use which

TL;DR On new CentOS server installs should I be using firewalld or just disable that and go back to using /etc/sysconfig/iptables ? firewalld and iptables serve similar purposes. Both do packet filtering - but if I understand it correctly…
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How do I set destination permissions with rsync (chown chmod)

I am trying to do a local rsync, from a mount point to a local folder. I need to set the owner, group, and permissions to specific settings. Here is what I am using: rsync -rtlv --chown=process:sambausers --chmod=D770,F770…
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How to enable iptables (instead of firewalld) services on RHEL 7 and Fedora 18?

The newest fedora has firewalld as new firewall aplication. I liked old iptables services. I want them back but have no idea how to do that. I have tried : systemctl disable firewalld.service systemctl stop firewalld.service systemctl enable…
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block all but a few ips with firewalld

On a linux networked machine, i would like to restrict the set of addresses on the "public" zone (firewalld concept), that are allowed to reach it. So the end result would be no other machine can access any port or protocol, except those…
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What is rootfs?

I'm a longtime Fedora user and I've just installed FC15. The new partition layout is confusing to me, as I'm used to the "plain vanilla" partitions that previous versions used. [root@localhost ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%…
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How to resize root LVM partition in Fedora without LiveCD or Rebooting

I have a virtual machine that recently had its disk image increased from 20GB to 50GB, and fdisk -l verifies that the VM can see this new size. Now I need to resize my root LVM partition to fill the extra 30GB. I've found several articles about…
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Why wget doesn't verify SSL certificates?

I have a problem with my Fedora 8 installation. It looks that wget doesn't know how to verify SSL certificates any more. It's strange because I have another Fedora 8 box which I believe has the same configuration and it works! How can I make it…
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Headless linux install

How do you do a headless install of linux? No monitor, no keyboard. Machine has floopy and cd drive. Can I configure a live cd to run sshd with a preconfigured pass or something similar and manage it via that? Instructions for fedora 8+ would be ace…
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Installing Fedora RPMs in CentOS

How safe is it to install Fedora RPMs in CentOS 5? Does it depend on the version of the Fedora RPM or is it generally better to steer clear?
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Systemd dependencies and boot order

I need to specify a boot order for processes to start. I have 389 Directory Server and Samba running on Fedora 18. How can I have the network services boot, then 389 DS, then Samba? Is there a GUI to manage this in Fedora? I have enabled Samba to…
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