In Red Hat based linux the package file extension comes in .rpm format .(RPM means Red Hat Package Manager).Sometimes there are some package which are available in rpm file. Hence for installing these package in Debain based OS we have to convert rpm file into deb file.

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To restart xinetd service type the command:

# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

To stop xinetd service type the command:

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Login as root.

# service smb start
# service smb stop
# service smb restart

Login as root.

# service dirsrv {start|stop|restart} instance
Passing the instance name stops or starts only that instance; not giving any name starts or stops all instances.

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Subversion is a free/open source version control system (VCS). That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people think of a version control system as a sort of “time machine.”

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This article shows you how to change the TCP established value in Linux systems

The default value for the “TCP Established timeout” on a Linux server is 5 days. To bring down this value (in this example, we are changing the value to 5 hours), do the following steps:

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The following are generic steps to recover text files.

1.First use wall command to tell user that system is going down in a single user mode:
# wall
System is going down to …. please save your work.

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Use the following commands to shutdown and reboot Linux form a terminal.

Login as root.

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dig (domain information groper) is a network administration command-line tool for querying Domain Name System (DNS) name servers.

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To create FTP accounts, first click on the “FTP Menu” icon in the main control panel screen.
First, select a FTP username. In the above example, we chose “test.” Next, enter a password. Then, select the access level of the FTP account.

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