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Reinstall postfix on ubuntu with installer

I recently installed postfix but I did something wrong. And so I removed it with sudo apt-get remove postfix and removed the /etc/postfix folder. But now I want to install it again but I don't get the installer prompts where I can choose Internet…
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How can I reset the password for MySQL?

I have an old MySQL installation for which I do not have the password. How can I reset the password? My first idea was to completely remove it and reinstall with a new password. I am using Windows Vista.
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How to fix Hadoop HDFS cluster with missing blocks after one node was reinstalled?

I have a 5 slave Hadoop cluster (using CDH4)---slaves are where DataNode and TaskNode run. Each slave has 4 partitions dedicated to HDFS storage. One of the slaves needed a reinstall and this caused one of the HDFS partitions to be lost. At this…
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Unable to Install Samba after uninstalling?

I have removed samba using : apt-get --purge remove samba and then Manually removed the smb.conf using rm *.* after going to the Samba directory. Now While I trying to install Samba again I am getting the following error: Starting Samba daemons:…
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Reinstall linux over ssh

I'm having a large problem with our development server, it have had a program called Webmin + a total idiot have been administrating the Linux sever. Witch now have resulted in the server being totally trashed, there are so many different kinds of…
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I manually deleted my /etc/php5/ config files and now they don't reinstall

I wanted a clean reinstall of php5-cli, php5-common, php5-fpm. So what I did was: rm -rf /etc/php5 rm -rf /usr/local/lib/php5 rm -rf /usr/local/php5 rm -rf /usr/lib/php apt-get autoremove php5* apt-get purge php5* But after reinstalling I don't…
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How do I reinstall bash in Ubuntu?

bash seems to be throwing a segfault, and my system is very broken. I was thinking of trying to reinstall bash instead of reinstalling the whole OS, but this is nontrivial apparently. I can't use apt-get because my network connection isn't…
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Reset old SVN repository or convert to git

I have a SVN repository which was running locally when I had an old installation of Windows. After reinstalling Windows, obviously the old SVN server installation was removed, and now I have no idea how to still use this old repository? I haven't…
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Windows Server 2008 R2, reinstall without losing AD

I need to re-build a Server 2008 R2 instance, but I don't want to lose all the current Active Directory info, what's the best way to go about it? The reason I'm rebuilding over repairing is great, as the server has many issues (I inherited them from…
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could not start the service MySQL. Error:0 how to get mysql 5.5 server running?

I tried to upgrade to MySQL 5.5 from 5.1. When I try to run Instance Configuration Wizard I get this error: Could not start the service MySQL. Error:0 I am to the point now that I would be happy just to have a fresh install of MySQL 5.5. I can…
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How to reinstall Ubuntu via SSH

I have a 32 bit version of Ubuntu 10.04.2 running on a server. I need to reinstall a 64 bit edition of Ubuntu. Is it possible to do this remotely via SSH? If yes, how so. Thanks.
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How can I restore VM on a new Hyper-V server?

I was working gladly with my VM on my local Hyper-V server. But, after installing some updates on the host the system only show the famous blue screen. I couldn't start my host so I reinstalled it and configured as new Hyper-V server. My VM was in a…
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Full disk encryption on linux (ubuntu) w/o re-installing - possible?

I work at a company that takes security very seriously (like most). Our IT guy came in today to prepare us mentally to re-install our systems after he'll apply the new encryption policy (which will basically scrape our HD clean). For our team this…
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How to completely remove and re-install python (without yum)?

I have a corrupted / missing installation of Python on a CentOS 5 server, and yum won't help me reinstall because python is a dependency. When I try installing python-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64 from the rpm, it informs me that python-libs is required. But…
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Preserving Windows 7 activation data on a corrupt system when the user has lost their reinstall CD

When doing technical support. People don't always have their reinstall CD, that seems reasonable... So I get an ISO of their version and edition from off of MSDN. What files do I need to copy over from their existing installation so that Windows…
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