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  • How to Manually Update a GIT Application

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    This procedure should be used when a program that was installed using GIT fails to update. No need to run the commands as root. 1. Change directory to the folder where the program is installed: cd /home/myapp 2. Remove staged and working directory changes: git reset –hard 3. Update the program: git pull 4. All…

  • How to Rename a Network Interface in Linux

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    This procedure is useful when a new network card is installed and the system won’t initialize the new card. The problem is that the ID of old and new card is the same. For some reason the system does not automatically comment out or remove the entry of the old card. So you have to…

  • How to change or reset root password in Linux

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    Say you work in an office where more than one person provisions and/or has root access on the Linux servers. Every now and then you’ll probably run into a situation where you don’t know the root password. Now if you have another account that can “sudo”, you’re not completely dead in the water. You can log in…