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Kickstart Installation from USB

My goal is to install Oracle Linux 6.3 from USB. My problem is when I copy DVD media to USB. The symlink file repodata is unable to create because the file system is FAT/FAT32. Below is the symlink detail. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 196 Jun 26 2012…
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VMWare/Ubuntu development stack with symlink to Windows 7

I would like to use a vm ubuntu installation as my testing environment, but to ease workflow, I have symlinked /var/www to a windows share. Everything looks good when browsing files and the owner and group both are showing up as www-data, but I can…
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Does soft link affects xml parsing and database process

I have a php code that does an xml parsing and inserts data into the mysql database. The code can process one xml file in an average of 18 minutes. Since I will be having lots of xml files and database space, I have configured the xml files and…
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Get directory of a symlinked script

I have to determine the directory of a script which is symlinked. /usr/local/src/myscript/myscript.sh /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh (Symlink to the one above) A cronjob executes /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh. Inside myscript.sh I am trying to determine…
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Drupal File System

In order to try & improve load time , I'm thinking of creating a specific subdomain for the files folder in a Drupal site. Further improvement could be for instance to have that specific subdomain on a cloud... I'm not really knowledgeable about…
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How do I see and delete an 'invisible / orhpaned' symbolic link?

There seems to be an invisible symbolic link on my system. First, I go to the /var/www directory and it shows nothing: # var/www# ls -la total 0 Next, I create a symbolic link and it is created successfully: # var/www# ln -s /var/www/server/…
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Apache2 on Ubuntu 11.04 - New Virtual Host 403 Forbidden Error

I receive the following error when trying to access a new virtual host: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) Server at www.local.ttr Port 80 The apache log file for this virtual host contains the…
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Symlink gitolite user directory to Apache sites-available

I have a gitolite development server and I'm trying to automate creation of new virtualhosts. I figured rather than try to have the gitolite user (non root) create new config files in /etc/apache2/sites-available I would symlink a…
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Performance & Security Factors of Symbolic Links

I am thinking about rolling out a very stripped down version of release management for some PHP apps I have running. Essentially the plan is to store each release in /home/release/1.x etc (exported from a tag in SVN) and then do a symlink to…
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symlink between public_html folders of two domains

I have a site hosted in domain1.com/mysite. I need to be able to point domain2.com to that site, but without doing any redirect (the url has to be the same). The "mysite" is a part of a very complex web app located in domain1.com so i can´t just…
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Samba mount isn't following a symlink

I am running two servers and wish to mount a directory on one from the other. For various reasons, I wish to use Samba (smbfs) rather than NFS. ServerA mounts ServerB with this in the fstab: //ServerB/sambashare /mount/point smbfs…
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Is this a symbolic link?

I type ls -l and a directory shows up like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 7 03:44 order_pictures -> /storage/order_pictures Is that a symlink? I am trying to replicate this, so I type ls -s thumbs/ /storage/thumbs/ because I need to make…
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Rsync, copy through symlink

I am using rsync to backup my server to an offsite server. Due to diskspace on my backup server, I have created a couple of symlinks to put some of the data on a different drive. However, instead of copying through to that symlink location, rsync is…
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Symlink problem

I'm trying to do a simple symlink. I have a nfs share shared under /share. There are a couple of directories under /share. I wish to have a symlink of i.e.: /share/data in /var/opt/data. I come to a problem when I use "ln -s /share/data…
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Can I hide or ignore symlinks with Samba

I'm trying to back up our company's website using a regular old windows copy utility. Website is riddled with symlinks and if they were all followed would bloat the backup to 400% of it's normal girth. I've told Samba not to follow symlinks, but…
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