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Troubleshoot DHCP

Posted 04-22-2010 at 01:35 PM by Mr. ameya sathe (Tantra Yantra Swatantrya)

Although your DHCP Server has been configured to assign a new IP address to a network machine;your DHCP client will retain its old IP address.
In such a case; clean out the Leases file on the DHCP Server and the DHCP Client side.

On Server side;

Code:

echo "" > /var/lib/dhcpd-*/dhcpd.leases

On Client side;

Code:

echo "" > /var/lib/dhclient/dhcp.eth0.leases

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Autostart coldfusion on boot in Ubuntu

Posted 04-22-2010 at 12:10 PM by drask

Tags coldfusion ubuntu

My current job requires that I work with Coldfusion 9. I have it set up to run on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop with apache2. Everything installs pretty well (there is one dependency of libstdc++5 that is no longer supported by Ubuntu and must be downloaded from another repository like http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool....6-18_i386.deb as detailed in http://www.howtoforge.com/installing...on-ubuntu-9.04) but the option to have Coldfusion startup when...

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How to Create a separate home partition in Ubuntu

Posted 04-22-2010 at 03:50 AM by sridhar11

This tutorial will explain How to Create a separate /home partition in Ubuntu.If Ubuntu for some reason crashes and becomes unbootable and unfixable reinstalling will not delete all of your important data and settings. You simply specify the /home partition to be mounted at /home when reinstalling.

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FreeBSD on the PowerMac G3

Posted 04-21-2010 at 03:07 PM by Mr-Bisquit

Tags bisquit maker, freebsd, goodly stuffs, mac

It's finally been installed.
Xorg is building right now on it.

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A new snag with my updating script ... and a solution!

Posted 04-20-2010 at 02:16 PM by Lufbery (The Slacker's Blog)
Updated 05-10-2010 at 02:54 PM by Lufbery

The script that I wrote (with a lot of help from the LQ crew) has worked exceptionally well. It is fast (download speed being the limiting factor), secure (it checks md5sums and GPG signatures), and fails in a sane way if something goes wrong.

It requires the user to be logged in as root, and works best when the user: