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For some reason I couldn’t login to RDP of a Virtuozzo CT/VE so I had to go in via the VZ hardware node. URL: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/446/xp_kill_windows_process_command_line_taskkill tasklist Listed all the tasks.  It appears that EXCEL.EXE had 100s of processes running so I needed to kill them.  I tried:  taskkill /IM EXCEL.EXE But, it warned me that [...]

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For some reason I couldn’t login to RDP on a machine and needed to restart a service.  The following commands were useful: sc query sc query PleskControlPanel sc start PleskControlPanel

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A VE/CT on Linux started and then stopped mysteriously. I couldn’t manually restart it with vzctl start 101. The following URL showed how to determine which PID had locked the VE/CT: http://faq.swsoft.com/article_133_655_en.html In this case running cat /vz/lock/101.lck showed that vzquota was recalculating the quota for the virtual environment.

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I was in the situation where the primary disk (hda) had dropped out of the RAID arrays it was in due to seek errors so needed to replace the primary disk. URLs: http://www.royong.com/showthread.php?t=16 http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html_chapter/grub_3.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Set_up_Grub_by_hand Needed to install the boot loader onto the secondary disk as no doubt it hadn’t been setup. Tried the grub-install [...]

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Having a 12GB Plesk backup file is all well and good except if the domain you want to restore is 7GB in size (Plesk 8.1 Linux).  The Plesk restore died every time I tried to restore this specific domain. URL: http://kb.parallels.com/en/1757 Explains 3 different methods for restoring data from the plesk backup file manually.  Method [...]

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