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Excerpt: Since the default ftp command line client tool don’t have the option to upload or download folder directly from ftp cmd due to ftp socket based server restriction. Here is a short and tricky tutorial which helps you to download / upload folder directly without any hassle and this is especially very usefully if you want to copy the accounts from another server to your server and if you don’t have any other access except ftp.   LFTP   lftp is a file transfer program that allows sophisticated ftp, http and other connections to other hosts. If site is specified then  lftp  will connect ….

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Excerpt: As you know ftp servers normally wont allow to login as root user or any of the local user (Example : daemon,bin, sys, nobody…etc) due to security and preventing the ftp servers from ftp brute force scanner attacks. If you still want to enable root user login on vsFTP for some reasons, here is a short tutorial which allows you to do that.   Enabling Root User Login On VSFTP   SSH your server as root and then search for the files ftpusers, vsftpd.users (or) user_list (on Centos the locations should be under the /etc/vsftpd or under /etc). Edit the files on your favorit….

Following is a simple shell scripts which helps the administrators to find and remove the duplicate packages from the rpm database, leaving the *oldest* version intact. After a successful run, the user should then issue a “yum update” command to install the latest package versions.  

• # wget http://www.gnutoolbox.com/download/linux/scripts/rpmdup_remover.sh # chmod 755 rpmdup_remover.sh # ./rpmdup_remover.sh

  The script may take some time to remove the duplicate packages based on your load.