Random Notes on Fedora and Ubuntu

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Fedora and Ubuntu are free Linux Distributions

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Commands

• RSYNC - copies owner and security settings as well

sudo rsync -avu --delete /source /dest

• the --delete is to delete or overwrite the dest if it exists

Things to try on VPN

1. Turn off firewall to test.
2. Re-route 10.0.0.0/8 and 203.7.201.0/24 to ppp0
3. /sbin/route -n
4. ifconfig should show eth0, lo and ppp0

FTP Sever

• Problem : OOPS Cannot change directory to /home/userid
• Solution:

 su -
 getsebool -a | grep ftp
 setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on
 getsebool -a | grep ftp

Mounting/Unmounting a CDROM

# mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom

Note that for a new install, you actually created the /cdrom directory.

# umount /cdrom 

Note miss out the first 'n' in the unmount is. Another gotcha from the Unix sa.

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Installing a New hard Drive