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How to reset or recover admin account password for MySQL?

I have a MySQL database that I "inherited" and I was not given the admin credentials. I do however have access to the box that it runs on. Is there a way to either recover the admin credentials or create new ones?
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Why is my web server dropping connections with a TCP reset at high load?

I have a small VPS setup with nginx. I want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of it, so I've been experimenting with optimization and load testing. I'm using Blitz.io to do load testing by GETing a small static text file, and running…
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How to reset sysctl to it's OS defaults?

I couldn't find an answer in the man pages for sysctl. My sysctl.conf file is still at it's default state, I'm testing several values and loaded new settings via sysctl -p newsettings.conf. I though it would be sufficient for reseting to do sysctl…
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random CONNECTION_RESET on apache2.4 debian 9

My server has some strange behaviour and I just cant find the cause. I've been looking everywhere. I will pay 200$ worth of bitcoin to anyone who can figure this out. The problem: When requesting any resource from apache (page, image, css, js), it…
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Reset eth0 to move ubuntu server 14.04

New Ubuntu Server 14.04 instance for installation on a dedicated server. Everything required is setup as a vbox guest then I add the drive to the allocated server. When I was using 12.04, my last step would be to rm -f…
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How do I allow (remote) IISReset through the firewall on Win Server 2008

I'm trying to run the following, to reset IIS on a remote machine. IISReset If I disable the domain firewall, everything works fine. With the firewall enabled, I get The RPC server is unavailable. Initially I tried enabling…
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Can a properly wired reset switch fail to reboot a frozen system?

Context: We rent unmanaged server hardware. The hoster's web dashboard offers a "automatic hardware reset" command (next to a "send ctrl-alt-del" command), but it fails to reboot the machine when the Linux kernel has panicked. The hoster's support…
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Reset mysql root password after phpmyadmin corrupted it

So I tried to change my mysql root password for the first time using a advanced pattern and it looks like phpmyadmin stripped the password on save. Now I can't login under root. I am using RHEL 5 and it seems that all the instructions I keep…
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TCP connection reset in linux(strange packet loss) but not on windows

It is all good on windows, but on linux when I try to retrieve a specific web page, I get a long wait and then a "connection reset by peer" Pinging destination IP works fine. I tried to reduce interface MTU to 1476(found using "ping -c1 -M do -s")…
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How to put my ASA 5505 into single router mode so I can restore factory defaults?

I'm trying to restore an ASA 5505 to the factory defaults. According to the instructions from several sources (e.g. http://www.mailbeyond.com/restoring-factory-defaults-to-the-cisco-asa5505-firewall-via-the-console) I need to run the following…
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Adding a new IIS Mime Type without doing an IIS Reset?

I have to add a new mime type to an IIS 6.0 web server. The client would like this done ASAP as it currently isn't serving .flv files. However, the server is used for other clients and I would like to avoid doing an IIS Reset during working…
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High TCP reset and packet drop count on CentOS Linux

I have a small farm of web servers (HP Proliant and IBM x, with Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5 NIC's) running Apache 2.2.15 on CentOS 6, behind a Cisco ACE load balancer, serving a PHP/JS based web portal. This farm receives a lot of…
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How to disallow reset/reboot/shutdown on linux when ssh users are connected?

We have a shared Fedora 19 box in our lab. Most people have root access for obvious reasons. I want to know if there is a way such that reset/reboot/shutdown can be restricted when there are active ssh sessions. For e.g., when reset/reboot/shutdown…
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Cisco Aironet 1200 mode button disabled

I received a free Cisco Aironet 1200 and tried to restore it using the mode button but it was disabled and no one knows the password for the WAP's interface. Any ideas how I could get it reset?
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Is this THE MOST comprehensive commands to completely reset your iptables?

I'm running a VPS, and would like to reset the iptables' rules to its fresh-out-of-the-box default state. These are the commands I've come up with: #!/bin/sh echo "Resetting all iptables rules..." #Reset default table policies iptables -P INPUT…
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