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Screen utility in Linux

If you are like me then you would be remotely logging into Linux machines. Using normal ssh you would get a shell to work with. This is a sort of limitation as I eventually would have to log off from the shell. This situation is very evident in cases where the testing is involved. The […]

vsftpd dead but subsys locked

When you are usually running ftp daemon in the Linux, you may come across this error. You notice that your ftp site is not being served. At this point you start troubleshooting by looking at the service.
/etc/init.d/vsftpd status
vsftpd dead but subsys locked

The solution to this is first stop the xinetd by the following command,
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop
Stopping […]

I broke debian

It seems my Debian is broken. Its been long time since i had a chance to look at the issue closer. I broke it last month. I don’t remember the reason why i reinstalled Debian, but thats where the trouble started. Mouse refused to show any movement, now it seems that i haven’t been able […]

Linux…

There is very interesting posting on blogspot. (http://techanchor.blogspot.com/2006/08/ubuntu-vs-debian-what-canonical-doesnt.html) As the link indicates, it’s all about ubuntu and debian. It’s very educative and it points out the minute observations that we tend to ignore. The comments I have seen on that blog are never ending and it’s written wonderfully well. I should agree with the rest […]