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I‘ve Huawei technologies EC1260 CDMA HSIA USB modem. How do I configure Tata Teleservices “Tata Photon+ Mobile Broadband” Service under Linux operating systems using this modem?

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I got rsnapshot based backup server up and running for my network under Debian Linux 5.x. But, whenever I run a backup job using the following command:

rsnapshot -v -c /root/rsnapshot.server1.conf hourly
I get the following messages on screen:

WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/locate”
WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/nc.1.gz”
WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/jexec-binfmt”
WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink “/nas/.rsnapshot/hourly.1/server1.example.com/etc/alternatives/servertool”

How do I fix this problem?

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How do I upgrade CentOS Linux from version 5.3 to latest version 5.4 over the Internet?

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How do I protect my yum repo’s packages from certain repositories getting replaced / updated via yum command itself under CentOS / RHEL / Redhat Enterprise Linux?

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How do I upgrade Perl version under FreeBSD operating system?

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It is recommended that to keep FreeBSD systems up to date with the latest application security patches installed via ports collection. The yum command line tool is used to install and update software packages under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux. However, I’ve tons of apps installed under FreeBSD. How do I upgrade all packages under FreeBSD?

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When I run hdparm -tT /dev/sda command under CentOS / RHEL I get the following error on screen:

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 908 MB in 3.00 seconds = 302.39 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device


How do I fix this problem?

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