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Changing the system time

Published in April 26th, 2000
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Need to change the system time or timezone? As root, run the timeconfig command.
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Running out of inodes

Published in April 26th, 2000
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In some cases, you may run out of file or inodes. The new 2.2 kernel allows you to finetune those parameters without a need to recompile the kernel itself:

echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max

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"No buffer space available" error when pinging

Published in April 26th, 2000
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Sometimes, you may get the \”No buffer space available\” (or similar) error when trying to ping, telnet, ftp or use any other network-related command. In those cases, check out and make sure that you have your local loopback correctly configured:

[nitebirdz@mybox 15779]$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link [...]

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Numbered directories under /proc

Published in April 26th, 2000
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Ever wondered what those directories under /proc that are named with a number do? As it turns out, each number represents a process ID. If you need more information, run \”man proc\”.
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Running imwheel automatically

Published in April 26th, 2000
Posted by admin in Administration
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Ever wonder how to run imwheel automatically upon boot so you do not have to do it manually? Add the following line to your .xinitrc file, close to the end:
imwheel &
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