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Screen  is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). [1] …. Everything  you type is sent to the program running in the current window.  The only exception to this is the one keystroke that is used to initiate a command to the window manager.  By default, each  [...]

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OS: Linux CP: Plesk 9.x Where does Plesk 9.x store backups generated from the scheduled backups initiated via the control panel. /var/lib/psa/dump stores a lot of backups including the psa mysql database backup (incase you, or Plesk, corrupt the psa database).  Client backups can be found in: /var/lib/psa/dump/clients The backups of the vhosts/www data appears [...]

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Whilst trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on an old Dell Dimension 1100 the Ubuntu installer would start up and once it got to the stage to do the partitioning parted would error.  parted reported to check /var/log/syslog for more information. The error was along the lines of: Ubiquity: parted_server error while loading shared libraries /lib/libparted-1.8.so.12 [...]

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URLs: http://www.realvnc.com , http://www.ubuntutips.net/node/7 On a plain 6.06 LTS server I wanted to install Xserver to test something out, so, I did the following. The following is a quick way of installing xwindows/xserver and accessing via VNC. There are many places for improvement/customisation etc. I executed the following command: apt-get install gdm zenity ubuntu-artwork edubuntu-artwork [...]

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