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Moved bin and other folders! How to get them back?

I accidentally moved all folders from root to a subfolder. (/bin, /etc, /home, /lib, /usr... all moved) The only ones that were not moved, since they were in use, are /bak, /boot, /dev, /proc, /sys. ...
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Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?

I have a Linux(CentOS) server, the OS+packages used around 5GB. Then, I transferred 97GB data from a Windows server to two folders on this Linux server, after calculated the disk usage, I see the ...
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How can I limit the bandwidth used by a process?

I have a CentOS 5.7 server that will be backing up its files nightly. I am concerned that visitors to the various sites that the server hosts will experience degraded performance while the backup is ...
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How to colorize output of ls ?

I'm running CentOS in Linux text mode. When I run the command ls /usr/, the output is too hard to read (dark blue on black). How can I change the text coloring?
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Are there additional ways to protect SSH connections besides firewall and RSA Keys?

Sometimes I don't have a static IP and need to administrate my web server remotely. I'm looking for any additional layers of protection I could add to make opening port 22 safer. Currently I have ...
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CentOS doesnt know what the internet is

So I have done my share of investigating this problem... I just recently created an CentOS 6 VM on my LinuxMint box using VirtualBox. I left all the recommended values the same upon creation (8GB ...
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No network connection in CentOS 6.3 Minimal under VMWare Player

I'm trying to replicate in VMWare Player the exact same conditions I have under my Dedicated Server for testing purposes. Now, the thing is that that when I try to install something, or ping ...
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Limit Outgoing Bandwidth on an interface

I would like to know the easiest way to limit outgoing bandwidth for an interface. I want to cap the outgoing port speed so that file transfers between my servers don't fail during busy hours. What's ...
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What prevents a machine from responding to pings?

I have a CentOS release 5.4 linux box on Amazon EC2 that I'm trying to set up to be monitored via Nagios. The machine is in the same security group as the nagios server, but it seems to be ...
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No font in emacs on CentOS

When I open emacs over an SSH connection I get this error Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string ...
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User logged in by sftp does not show up in `w`

My server is Centos 5. I have a chroot environment set up with the following in my sshd_config Match group sftponly ForceCommand internal-sftp ChrootDirectory %h AllowTcpForwarding no ...
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How to install KVM on CentOS 6

I can't install kvm on CentOS. I got these errors: [root@localhost etc]# yum groupinstall kvm -y Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: ...
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How can I add PAM functionality in netkit-rsh-0.17

I am using CentOS. In my project, that is working on a network, I need an rsh utility. I downloaded netkit-rsh-0.17 for that and until recently all worked fine. But now I found that this utility ...