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Screen  is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes
(typically interactive shells). [1]
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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  com-
mand  begins  with  a [...]

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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 to be in tar.gz [...]

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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
Thinking that the [...]

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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 xubuntu-default-settings gnome2-user-guide gnome-panel nautilus [...]

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