http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com en-us http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com ActiveKB NX sysadmins@softlayer.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:56:54 CDT 20 http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/535/ Changing the MySQL data directory within a Unix like environmentChanging the MySQL data directory can be accomplished in a safe and easy manner. Simply log into the server via PuTTY, or your prefe ... Anthony Ledesma Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:21:24 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/460/ How do I get apache to listen on an IPv6 Address? When the httpd service starts, it binds to some ports and addresses on the local machine and waits for the incoming requests. In the ... John Eaves Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:11:11 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/458/ Overview This article is for Autofs Version 4. When Autofs Version 5 is available we can setup the master to use /- rather than /nas, therefor allowing backupdir in cpbackup.conf to stay the same ... Anthony Ledesma Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:24:06 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/296/ update-rc.d is the utility that Debian provides to manage SystemV init scripts. If you are familiar with Redhat's chkconfig then you're half way to understanding how to use it. Here's how: Say you ... John Eaves Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:27:24 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/294/ So you just got your brand new SoftLayer Debian server, you login for the first time and get to work configuring it the way that you need it to be to serve your customers. But there's a problem; y ... John Eaves Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:11:52 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/289/ First, you will need the Linux version of Adaptec Storage Manager on your system. Normally, this will install the agent and the manager. On your SoftLayer server it will only install the agent, ... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:53:03 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/286/ - In the SoftLayer portal, go to the Support tab. - Click on Reboot - Choose the server that you wish to reboot, click on Reboot - From this page, you can choose to reboot the server, or choos ... Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:37:08 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/278/ Yes. KVM/IP allows you to see all parts of a boot process and interact with the server as though you were right in front of it. 1. For instructions on viewing KVM via IPMI, please go to the foll ... Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:15:53 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/277/ Windows: WinSCP - WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offer ... Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:04:02 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/231/ Method 1 - mount If you have not already done so, create the directory you want the NAS account mapped to Example: mkdir /mnt/test mount -t cifs //Hostname/Username -o username=username,password=p ... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:24:13 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/234/ Method 1 - mountIf you have not already done so, create the directory you want the NAS account mapped to Example: mkdir /mnt/test mount -t cifs //Hostname/Username -o username=username,password=pa ... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:23:55 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/225/ Instruction notes: Replace the "ISCSI_USER" token with one of the values in the "username" column above. Replace the "ISCSI_PASS" token with the corresponding value in the "password" column above. ... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:20:37 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/226/ Instruction notes: Replace the "ISCSI_USER" token with one of the values in the "username" column above. Replace the "ISCSI_PASS" token with the corresponding value in the "password" column above. ... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:20:36 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/208/ VI is a very verbose and useful text editor. There are litterally hundreds of commands for VI that can further streamline the process of editing text files through the command line. Some of the ba ... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:04:20 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/209/ You can use the chown command to change the user:group associated with a file. For example: !# chown root:root testing.txt Will change the user:group permissions to root:root. Anyone other than th ... Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:47:29 GMT http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/questions/206/ Debian based systems use the file /etc/hostname to read the hostname of the system at boot time and set it up using the init script /etc/init.d/hostname.sh /etc/hostname: server So on a Debian bas ... Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:42:07 GMT