Troubleshooting Tips

Frequently asked questions and troubleshooting tips about Linux, BSD, UNIX and MS-Windows servers.

I see the following error in my SELinux enabled CentOS or RHEL server:

Jun 21 13:58:43 server3 restorecond: Will not restore a file with more than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) No such file or directory

Jun 21 16:14:51 server3 restorecond: Will not restore a file with more than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) No such file or directory
Jun 22 13:32:23 server3 restorecond: Will not restore a file with more than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) No such file or directory

How do I fix this problem?

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I‘ve netapp NFS server with /data3 as shared directory. I type the following command at Ubuntu Linux to mount the NFS server:

mount fs2:/data3 /nfs/
OR
mount 192.168.1.100:/data3 /nfs/

But I’m getting an error which read as follows:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on fs2:/data3,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount. helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try
dmesg | tail or so

How do I fix this problem?

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I‘m getting this message in my /var/log/cron

Mar 12 09:20:01 server2 crond[1267]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/cron.d/vnstat)

How do I fix this problem under Fedora / CentO / RHEL or any Linux distro?

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I‘m trying to install mysql-server package under Debian using the following command:

apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 mysql-common

But I’m getting an error which read as follows:

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libdevel-symdump-perl liburi-perl libhtml-parser-perl libapr1 libhtml-tree-perl libpq5 libhtml-tagset-perl libwww-perl
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient15off mysql-client-5.0
Suggested packages:
tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient15off mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server-5.0
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.

How do I fix the problem?

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My CentOS / RHEL based server is configured with Intel PRO/1000 network interface cards. NAPI (Rx polling mode) is supported in the e1000 driver. I’ve multiple CPUs. How do I configure NAPI, decreasing interrupts and improve overall server network performance?

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I‘ve brand new Ubuntu Linux server (Apache + PHP5 FastCGI + Lighttpd image only server) installed for my wordpress, mediawiki and vBullietin software. I can load forntpage but user cannot edit any wiki pages or post anything and I get the following error in log file:

PHP Fatal error: Allowed Memory Size of 20971520 Bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 131072 bytes) in /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/OutputHandler.php on line 81

How do I fix this problem?

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I‘m using Logwatch for reporting on unusual items in syslog. I’ve central logserver up and running. All other Linux servers send logs to a remote loghost called log.example.com. How do I configure Logwatch on the central log server so that it will send daily logs messages in a single e-mail?

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