by the principal of knowledge sharing, I wish this would save someone’s time. I installed ubuntu and tried installing some packages, then I got: please insert cdrom …. bla bla. while I want apt to look on the remote servers! well, to solve the problem: go to /etc/apt/sources.list and comment the line talking about cdrom. [...]
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getting apt workig with Ubuntu
Posted in linux, troubleshooting, tagged apt, linux, sources.list, ubuntu on December 13, 2007 |
reset root password for Mysql on linux Box
Posted in linux, System Administration, troubleshooting, tagged linux, mysql, password, recover password, root, root password on November 26, 2007 |
If you missed your mysql root user password, then here are the steps to reset it: stop mysql server service mysqld stop make sure all mysql process are dead ps -A | grep mysql start mysqld in safe mode mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables open a new shell window and start mysqld service mysqld start access mysql database [...]
