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Why am I unable to find the pid of a nano process that has a file being edited by root?

I am trying to edit a file using nano and whenever I open the file for editing it gives me the following message: File /path/to/file is being edited (by root with nano 2.5.3. PID 12345); continue? Yet I can not find the process id in the list of…
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Hibernation mode in Windows

Is it possible to resume the current work session on a computer(Windows) in another computer (Windows) by copying the hiberfil.sys file?
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Windows 7 MBR problem

I've been in a trouble last days. I have a 500gb HD with 3 partitions. The bigger one (300GB) is for persistent data (college files, music, etc). In the second I've installed an Ubuntu system I use for development. In the third one I've a Windows XP…
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Could these issues be caused by Group/Domain policies? (VMS)

i'm at wits end here and was hoping that someone could point me in the correct direction for a f ix So, the situation, my company maintains a visitor management system for a large hospital that consists of a few devices(Camera, ID scanner, badge…
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BSOD BugCheck on Multi-core system - What thread caused the crash?

I am aware that a Windows' system will crash with a stop error and "blue screen" for a few common reasons, some of which may be: A device driver or OS function that runs in kernel-mode space experiences an unhandled exception (memory access issues…
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Is iperf valid to measure network performance?

We are investigating performance issues in one of our software deployment between our application servers (Windows) and our Redis instances (Linux). On a 10 Gbits/s link single TCP connections can apparently only reach 10 Mbits/s. Opening several…
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Kickstart not working

I'm trying to create a kickstart to automate the installation procedure but when the installation ends and I check to see the result nothing happened. I'm trying to debug it by putting read statements in different places to see if everything runs.…
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Prevent users from changing the system time on windows

I don't want users to be able to change the system time. For this, I have set the Group Policy "Change the system time" to include only my Administrator account. I want to know the validity of this measure. Is there any way that despite this check,…
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Cisco IOS - terminate a process (kill a process)

How do I terminate a process similarly to kill -9 $PID? I would like to do the same as GNU/Linux offers: For example, a shell is running a Telnet session to a router, but later that router is powered off. Consequently, the shell is unusable. All I…
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Supermicro X8DT3/X8DTi hardisk not found after installing OS

I try to install Linux CentOS in server Supermicro X8DT3/X8DTi. Installation proccessed succesfully, but after server rebooting, server cannot boot into OS. When I check BIOS, no hardisk found on boot priority. I'm counfuse what's the problem,…
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Move OS from RAID5 array to RAID 1 arrays

I want to give a last boost to my old ProLiant ML350 G5 server which just needs to be reliable for a few more year only ! With a defined budget of about 1500$ (I do not have more), i plan to replace the CPU (+ adding a second one), the battery cache…
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Use of loopback Interface in iBGP

As I understand that the loopback interface(127.0.0.1) is used to route packets back to the source. How is it then used to talk to iBGP neighbors? I understand that the goal is to ensure that the interface doesn't go down, so using an…
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Hard disk is detecting as read only

I am installing Debian Squeeze 2.6.32 64 bit OS in IBM System x3250 M4. This system is already having built in RAID. After enable the RAID, I have started to install the Debian Squeeze 2.6.32 64 bit OS. While doing the partition in the installtion,…
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"cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream" error when unpacking flash archive on solaris 10

I've searched around but i'm having no luck with some peculiar behavior with a flash archive. I'm using HP Server Automation 9.14 to deploy the OS. I'm creating a Solaris 10 flash archive to create a snapshot default build in our environment. I…
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Install ubuntu on my KVM VM by proxmox

I'm a newbie here but I would like to understand how to install ubuntu or centOS on my VM created by KVM (in proxmox). During creation, I've set Linux 3.X/2.6 Kernel (l26) in sheet OS and Do not use any media in CD/DVD sheet. Now, in proxmox…
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