What should we use for a Linux based NAS: Samba or NFS?

We're deciding on between using Samba or NFS for our Linux based NAS. Which one does everyone prefer? From a performance standpoint, is there a way to improve transfer speeds on one or the other?

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Linux error message

I got this error message: p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } tun_err_code = 4, what does it mean?

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Looking for a low-powered Linux based router or NAS

We have to replace our Linksys router with a more powerful box but we need to keep a low power footprint. Here's what we need: Wi-Fi access point NAT routing NAS for USB hard disks Print server report We're thinking of getting a Netbook but we're not sure about the power consumption. What other...

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Is there a low-cost NAS for home use?

At my house, we have a Pentium 4 based Ubuntu server that we need to replace with a Intel Atom-based machine for our network services. We're thinking of using a low-powered NAS over a GbE with 1 TB of space and RAID. Is there something like this? Should we rather get a full size ATX mobo and...

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Connect Ubuntu desktop to NAS

We have a Thecus NAS and I'm trying to connect my Ubuntu desktop to it. We're able to connect it with our Windows PCs on our LAN. We're also able to ping the NAS from the Ubuntu PC but we can't see the shared folders. The PCs are on the same home network / subnet using a Cisco home router. Am I...

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Configuring virtual memory from Java in Linux

I've been trying to run a Java application through Linux but I'm running into a few issues. When I launch the application (using the maximum heap size), the tops application of 240 MB of virtual memory is allocated to the application. It's creating several issues with different software on the...

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Backup a CentOS server

We recently moved over from a dedicated server to the VPS. It's working great but we need to shut down the dedicated server and close our account. So we need to do a full backup of the server before it's shot down. It's a CentOS server to. What's the best way to go about this? Thanks.

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Cannot install vSphere 6 on Linux machine

I can't get it to install on my Linux machine. What should I do?

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Unix: Command to send continued signal

What command do you use to send a continue signal to process id 846?

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Automatically backup PostgreSQL database on Linux

Does anyone know how to automatically backup a PostgreSQL database that's on Linux daily? Thanks so much!

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Segmentation fault – ifconfig

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# /sbin/ifconfig -a Segmentation fault (core dumped) Extract from /var/log/messagesMay 6 16:06:58 localhosts kernel: ifconfig[10054]: segfault at 8 ip 0000003738a0b453 sp 00007fffffd6a080 error 4 in ld- .12.so[3738a00000+20000] May 6 16:06:58 localhosts abrt[10055]: Not...

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Error when configuring Hadoop on CentOS

I've been configuring Hadoop on one of our servers that's running CentOS. When I run start-dfs.sh, I keep getting this error: WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable So I'm not sure what to do here. Has anyone...

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Running Native on z/linux

Hello, we are migrating to a different DASD platform and moving our z/linux would have a different addresses after we have copied them. Our z/linux knows the devices based on their addresses. Where or which system files do we need to edit to reflect their new addresses or how do we go about it....

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Installing software-center on Linux-Kali

Hi, I experienced a problem during installing software-center on Linux-kali: root@kali:~# apt-get install software-center Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package software-center is not available, but is referred to by another package. This...

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How to sort 500 GB text file in Linux

We have a 500 GB text file that has roughly 10 billion rows that need to be sorted in alphabetical order. What's the best way to do this? A algorithm? For now, we've been using this command: LANG=C sort -k2,2 --field-separator=',' --buffer-size=(80% RAM) --temporary-directory=/volatile BigFile And...

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Hadoop error when accessing application through HTML

We have installed Hadoop on our cluster and now we're installing HTTPFS to access the HDFS content using HTTP protocol. We're able to access the normal page but when we tried to access HDFS, we're getting an error: {"RemoteException":{"message":"User: ubantu is not allowed to impersonate ubantu",...

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Nagios Tunnel Web Address

When I SSH tunnel into Nagios via putty and browse through the website, the URL stays the same the whole time. It's http://localhost:8888/nagios/ no matter what I click on. Is there a way to change this so that it's more specific to what part of the site I'm on or is that just the way it is?

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JAVA_HOME is not set correctly when installing Hadoop on Ubuntu

I've been trying to install Hadoop on Ubuntu 11.10. I just set the JAVA_HOME variable in the file conf/hadoop-env.sh to: # export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk Then I tried to execute these commands: $ mkdir input $ cp conf/*.xml input $ bin/hadoop jar hadoop-examples-*.jar grep input...

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HDFS error when testing a simple file from a Amazon EC2 machine

I recently created an Ubuntu single node Hadoop cluster in Amazon EC2. I've tried to test a simple file upload to HDFS. It works from the EC2 machine but doesn't work outside of it. Here's the error I got: java.io.IOException: File /user/ubuntu/pies could only be replicated to 0 nodes, instead of 1...

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Extracting SQL query output in HTML file through UNIX script

I have made a Unix script in which m spooling the output of a sql query in TEST>HTML file. Now I want to add colors and style tag in the output so as to make it more visually appealing.

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