How to move a running process to the background Linux/UNIX

To move a running process to the background do the following:

CTRL + Z

bg

This is quite useful if you need to do something else via the commandline while you have already started running a process.

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How to install Webmin on Debian 3 or 4 using Debian (.deb) Packages

Pre-installation Requirements:

apt-get install wget perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

Download the latest version of Webmin from the Webmin website: http://www.webmin.com/download.html

For Debian or other similar variants of Linux, use the .deb package.  The latest one at time of writing is: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.430_all.deb

Install (running as root):

dpkg -i webmin_1.430_all.deb

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Reset Default Lxadmin Password via commandline/backend

Sometimes when you intially setup Lxadmin, you can have problems resetting it from default.  To get around this can you can do the following:

1. Login via SSH to your VPS.

2. Run:

cd /usr/local/lxlabs/lxadmin/httpdocs

3. Then run:

/usr/bin/lphp.exe  ../bin/common/resetpassword.php master <your-new-password>

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lxadmin Error: sh: vgdisplay: command not found

Lxadmin Error:

sh: vgdisplay: command not found

If you are receiving this, its probably due to the hostname being set to something which is causing a problem, so do the following to fix:

hostname temp.domain.com
cd /usr/local/lxlabs/lxadmin/httpdocs/
lphp.exe ../bin/update.php

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How to install Webmin on Ubuntu 7 or 8 by using Ubuntu (.deb) Packages

Pre-installation Requirements:

Update your /etc/apt/sources.list file to include universe:

Old Config:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main

New Config (with universe):

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe

apt-get update

apt-get install wget perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

Download the latest version of Webmin from the Webmin website: http://www.webmin.com/download.html

For Ubuntu or other similar variants of Linux, use the .deb package.  The latest one at time of writing is: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.430_all.deb

Install (running as root):

dpkg -i webmin_1.430_all.deb

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How to List all packages available to install from Ubuntu Repository

This is a command to list all packages available to install from the repositories you have configured in Ubuntu:

apt-cache pkgnames

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How to List all packages available to install from Debian Repository

This is a command to list all packages available to install from the repositories you have configured in Debian:

apt-cache pkgnames

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cPanel Error: Uncompressing cplyr1-cPanelExtraction failed

If you are receiving the following error in cpanel/WHM:

Uncompressing cplyr1-cPanelExtraction failed

Then you probably need to install tar, which can be done as follows on CentOS:

yum install tar

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How to install cPanel/WHM on Fedora 9

At the time of writing cPanel/WHM was not officially support Fedora 9, however to install cPanel you can do the following:

yum -y install tcp_wrappers-devel perl tar

mkdir /home/cpins

cd /home/cpins

wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest

sh latest &

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Setup default route/gateway on Linux using the route command

Sometimes Linux does not properly create the default gateway, so you may need to add it manually. You can add a default gateway using the route command:

View Routing Table:

route -n

Add default route:

route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0

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