Change timezone on CentOS If you have CentOS/RHEL Server then you can fallow following steps: 1) SSH the server as root. All Time zone configuration files are located under directory /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Example: Say your current server time is in GMT Format and you want to change it to IST time. cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta     /etc/localtime Thats all   …

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Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like  operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile  Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems. SSH the server as root and refer to following steps …

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Booting UBUNTU into single user mode is slightly different then CENTOS. 1) Hold the Shift key at boot to display the Grub boot menu. If you fail to press Shift key then you will not see boot menu 2) Select the first Grub entry, it will be similar to: Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae 3) Press e to edit the the …

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SHOUTcast is a application for streaming media over the Internet. Following are the steps to install SHOUTCAST. 1) SSH to the server as root 2) Add user and password for shoutcast.   # adduser shoutcast # passwd shoutcast 3) Now ssh to shoutcast user ans do following. # wget ftp://ftp.skynet.be/mirror1/tucows.skynet.be/linux/files/shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz # tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz # …

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While changing password for user on server error appeared as Authentication Token Manipulation Error. Example:   #passwd user Authentication Token Manipulation Error This error is being shown as /etc/shadowed (password files) doesn’t have entry for this user. .i.e. /etc/passwd has entry for this user, but /etc/shadow doesn’t. FIX:   You can either add the entry …

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