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Xinetd server connection refused

I’m using xinetd on Fedora. I put a file called telnet inside the etc/xinetd.d folder with the following content: I know xinetd is running because when I do service xinetd status it says active (running). When I do netstat -nltp nothing seems to be running on port 23 and ‘telnet localhost’ r…

Unable to yum install in fedora even as root user

Getting the error Error: This command has to be run under the root user. when I try to install in Fedora as root user. Tried in different ways: Is there any security setting that is causing this? I am trying all of the above commands by remotely sshing to the machine. Answer Your root user seems to be corrupt…

Unity 2-D installation for Linux-RedHat Fedora

I have been trying recently to install Unity 2D on my Fedora OS. However, I could not find a unity rpm package, I found many for Debian. Unity website mainly supports Mac OS and Windows. I have run through many solutions, but none of them worked, either because they are made for an old version of Fedora or th…

crontab (cronie), run certain days of the month

I want to make a crontab entry which will run on every weekday except the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of each month. Here’s what I have: I thought that this had the following meaning: That is what I read in the crontab(5) manual page. However, I can see that the job ran at 08:45 today, Monday 2nd October. I am