To reset the ColdFusion Administrator password,

To reset the ColdFusion Administrator password, please follow these steps:
Connect to the server using Remote Desktop Connection.
Navigate to the neo-security.xml file located in the ColdFusion /lib/ directory, for example c:\coldfusion8\lib\neo-security.xml
Open the file for editing.
Find the section for admin.security.enabled:
Change the value from true to false:
Save and exit the file.
Restart the ColdFusion service.
In a browser, load the ColdFusion Administrator.
Expand Security and select CF Admin Password.
Check Use a ColdFusion Administration password.
Enter the new password and click Submit Changes.
Note: You may need to edit the neo-security.xml file again and set the boolean value back to true and reset the ColdFusion service.

Use Full URLS....

http://www.hostmysite.com/support/cfusion/resetcoldfusionadministratorpassword/
http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=3731

yum to update / install packages from an ISO(Linux)

yum (Yellow dog Updater Modified) is a package manager for RPM compatible Linux systems such as CentOS, Fedora core and latest Redhat Enterprise Linux.

So how do you use yum to update / install packages from an ISO of CentOS / FC / RHEL CD?

Creation of yum repositories is handled by a separate tool called createrepo, which generates the necessary XML metadata. If you have a slow internet connection or collection of all downloaded ISO images, use this hack to install rpms from iso images.

Step # 1: Mount an ISO file
Type the following command (replace iso file name with the actual iso file):
# yum install createrepo
# mkdir -p /mnt/iso/{1,2,3}
# mount -o loop /path/to/centos1.iso /mnt/iso/1
Step # 2: Create a repository
Use createrepo to generate the necessary XML metadata. Type the following commands:
# cd /mnt/iso
# createrepo .
Clean repo, enter:
# yum clean all
Step # 3: Create config file
You need to create a repo config file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/iso.repo
Append following text:
[My ISO Repository]
baseurl=file:///mnt/iso
enabled=1
Save and close the changes.

Now use yum command to install packages from ISO images:
# yum install package-name

Add SWAP Space to Linux

Procedure to add a swap file
You need to use dd command to create swapfile. Next you need to use mkswap command to set up a Linux swap area on a device or in a file.

a) Login as the root user

b) Type following command to create 512MB swap file (1024 * 512MB = 524288 block size):
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=524288
c) Set up a Linux swap area:
# mkswap /swapfile1
d) Activate /swapfile1 swap space immediately:
# swapon /swapfile1
e) To activate /swapfile1 after Linux system reboot, add entry to /etc/fstab file. Open this file using text editor such as vi:
# vi /etc/fstab
Append following line:
/swapfile1 swap swap defaults 0 0
So next time Linux comes up after reboot, it enables the new swap file for you automatically.

g) How do I verify swap is activated or not?
Simply use free command:
$ free -m

Cycwin Installation and console access

click on setup.exe
Choose Install from Internet
Choose the defaults for this step (select Root Install Directory)
Choose the Local Package Directory (default should be the right one)
Choose Direct connection
choose http://mirrors.rcn.net
In the select packages Window ...scroll down to find +x11 and click on Default to

see package list
Choose X-start-menu-icons: Start menu icons for Cygwin/X Programs
proceed to install

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run cygwin on client computer and type
startx on first popup window
type following on 2 pop up window prompt

xhost +

run following command on source servers where you want to bring display from.

export DISPLAY=172.16.134.177:0.0 (this is your client machine ip)

echo $DISPLAY

type /usr/openwin/bin/xclock this will bring up clock on client machine -- for test)

Useful URL's

RPM packages for Red Hat, RHEL, CentOS and Fedora
RPM Packages

free memory drop_caches

free memory drop_caches

Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free.

To free pagecache:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free dentries and inodes:

echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free pagecache, dentries and inodes:

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
As this is a non-destructive operation, and dirty objects are not freeable, the user should run "sync" first in order to make sure all cached objects are freed.

This tunable was added in 2.6.16.

Recursive search using "grep"

Typically, the answer is to use find, xargs, and grep. That's
horribly slow for a full filesystem search, and it's painfully
difficult to properly construct a pipeline that will avoid
searching binaries if you don't want to, won't get stuck on named
pipes or blow up on funky filenames (beginning with -, or sometimes
spaces, punctuation etc). There are ways around all these things,
but they are all ugly.

BTW, something that almost never gets mentioned but that I will
frequently use under conditions where it is appropriate is a
simple

grep pattern * */* */*/* 2>/dev/null

Not useful much beyond that, and may not even be good at that
except for certain starting points, but it's faster than any find
xargs pipeline can ever be if the set is small enough.

The simplistic approach using find is

find /whereveryouwantostart -exec grep whatever {} dev/null \;

That's not necessarily very efficient. Using xargs can help

find . xargs grep whatever

But it also has bugs if the filenames could have "-" at their
beginning. Fixing that can be a little nasty.

You may not want to grep binary files:

find . -type f -printxargs filegrep -i textcut -fl -d: xargs grep whatever

That's pretty awful, but it's what you have to get into if you
have special cases. Special cases are what makes this question more
difficult. If you have a small number of files and subdirs to
search, the simple approach may work fine for you. If not, you have
to get more creative.

Bill Campbell offers this Perl script:

I have a perlscript I call ``textfiles'' that I use for many

things like this:

textfiles dirname [dirname... ] xargs ...

Essentially it runs ``gfind @ARGV -type f'', then uses perl's -T

option on each file to determine whether it's a text file.

My textfiles script also has options to add options to the gnu

find command like -xdev, -mindepth, and -maxdepth.

Hell, it's short so I'm attaching it for anybody who wants to use

it. It does assume that the gnu version of find is in your PATH

named gfind (I make a symlink to /usr/bin/find on Linux systems

so that it works there as well).

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

eval ' exec /usr/local/bin/perl -S $0 "$@" '

if $running_under_some_shell;

# $Header: /u/usr/cvs/lbin/textfiles,v 1.7 2000/06/22 18:29:08 bill Exp $

# $Date: 2000/06/22 18:29:08 $

# @(#) $Id: textfiles,v 1.7 2000/06/22 18:29:08 bill Exp $

#

# find text files

( $progname = $0 ) =~ s!.*/!!; # save this very early

$USAGE = "

# Find text files

#

# Usage: $progname [-v] [file [file...]]

#

# Options Argument Description

# -f Follow symlinks

# -M maxdepth maxdepth argument to gfind

# -m mindepth mindepth argument to gfind

# -x Don't cross device boundaries

# -v Verbose

#

";

sub usage {

die join("\n",@_) .

"\n$USAGE\n";

}

do "getopts.pl";

&usage("Invalid Option") unless do Getopts("fM:m:xvV");

$verbose = '-v' if $opt_v;

$suffix = $$ unless $opt_v;

$\ = "\n"; # use newlines as separators.

# use current directory if there aren't any arguments

push(@ARGV, '.') unless defined($ARGV[0]);

$args = join(" ", @ARGV);

$xdev = '-xdev' if $opt_x;

$opt_f = '-follow' if $opt_f;

$opt_m = "-mindepth $opt_m" if $opt_m;

$opt_M = "-maxdepth $opt_M" if $opt_M;

$cmd = "gfind @ARGV -type f $xdev $opt_f $opt_m $opt_M ";

print STDERR "cmd = >$cmd<" if $verbose;

open(INPUT, $cmd);

while(<INPUT>) {

chop($name = $_);

print STDERR "testing $name..." if $verbose;

print $name if -T $name;

}