Questions tagged [files]
Organized data encoded in a pre-defined format and stored on a filesystem.
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too many open files only when server starts
I have a Java web application set up to start within a script in /etc/init.d/application The application fails with a "too many open files" error but if I execute the same script from my user it won't ...
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Linux bidirectional file sync over a WAN with immediate/incremental syncing
Does anyone know of a solution that lets you sync files bidirectionally over a WAN, but also syncs immediately/incrementally?
Basically Unison is perfect for the file syncing, but it doesn't sync ...
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how can i get list of created and deleted files on the server?
i have a image sharing website , users log and upload image
last night i've lost about 30 newly-consecutive uploaded images ... i mean they have been uploaded ... apparently ... they are in the ...
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Tips on Copying 3 Database files nearing 250 GB?
We are upgrading from SQL Workgroup 2005 to SQL Standard 2012. We have plenty of databases of smaller sizes that copied over with straight windows file copy in a reasonable time frame. We have one ...
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/tmp flooded with ".myapp" files
On my new server (dedicated, CentOs5), 2 or 3 .myapp files (like "51b9dc4cc246f.myapp", ~500 Mo) is created every minute under /tmp, fulling my harddisk at an alarming speed.
There is nothing in ...
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Skype virus/malware on client has hidden folders on server share [duplicate]
So my clients got hit with the skype malware/virus going around this week. I cleaned everyone up but one client was so bad that their machine actually changed the attributes for my shares on my file ...
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Automatically retrieve a specific file via SFTP
How do I determine which file is the newest from a remote server that I am connected to via SFTP?
My goal is to retrieve a specific file each day, via SFTP. The steps I will follow are:
Connect to ...
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Is there a hard limit to the number of files a directory can have? [duplicate]
Wondering if there is a limit to the number of files that can be stored inside a directory, in CentOS 6. There is one particular directory which could potentially have millions of subdirectories.
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PowerShell filter files by date in name
I have many files with different names per day. How can I filter them by the date in their name?
For example:
app_20130505.log
app_20130506.log
app_20130507.log
app_20130508.log
app_20130509.log
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Move files to another directory which are older than a date
I am looking for a solution to move files that are year older from today. My log partition is getting full, but I can not remove them. They are needed for a long long time. Anyway one solution I came ...
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Daemon to create hardlinks on Linux file server which finds identical files
I have a Linux server where I only store new files or rename directories and never edit files.
It contains backups from other Linux servers.
Due to certain circumstances there are quite some ...
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Duplicate php files on cpanel shared hosting account? [closed]
2 php files with the same name in the same folder on my cpanel shared hosting account.
How is this possible?
What I remember is that when I uploaded a newer version of the file it did not ask me if ...
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Generate a .p7b file from .bin and .der file
I'm using Debian and I'm trying to join on a file with a certificate.
I try to file.bin + cert.der => file.p7b. To do so, I've tried with openssl command:
openssl pkcs7 -in cert.der -in file.bin -...
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File copy between two ftp servers from a (third) local machine
I have two ftp servers A and B. I need to copy a certain directory tree (and all files under it) from server A to server B. Is there a way to achieve this from my local machine (c) without having to ...
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File copy between two servers programatically
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I need to automate process of copying files from server A to server B. I ideally would like to have a script that is invoked by a cron job periodically on server B.
The ...
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watch file to see whos accessing/writing it and log it
I am facing some malware problems on my webserver.
I updated third party software such as Wordpress to the latest version, disabled root logins and my users password complex enough but still someone ...
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How do I run a downloaded file in Ubuntu [closed]
My server was running plesk 11, but I removed some of the plesk packages by mistake when i tried to install postfix as i wanted to fix problems that i was having with emails.
So now I am attempting ...
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Hard link files within directory to reduce space usage, by "version"
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server.
Server is running rsyncd (rsync daemon), and allows an external process to rsync in files to a given path, with full control of the file structure within that given path....
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How to "quickly" create 300M files and 16M directories?
I have a 3-level directory structure defined by 2 hex digits as such:
0A/FF/2B/someimagefile.gif
I have 300M small files in 1.5TB of compressed files that will populate these directories (we will ...
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Concatenating files to a virtual file on Linux
On a Linux system, is there any way to concatenate a series of files into one exposed file for reading and writing while not actually taking up another N bytes of disk space? I was hoping for ...
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Fail to create temp files in Oracle 10g
My disk is full so I delete oracle temp files to gain space. I use oragle 10g with CentOS release 4.4 Operation System.
First Search temp files
SELECT tablespace_name, file_name, bytes FROM ...
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Putting a shortcut on the desktop of all the people in a particular OU?
At work we have all the user desktops redirected to a server.
Within a all the users in an OU I need to put the same shortcut on all of their desktops. Is there an easier way to do this than just ...
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Issue with temp files created in c:\users\temp.DOMAIN.00x
I am trying to enable users to connect to Excel files on a share on the server. The users have access to that share. Using Procmon, I detected that OleDB creates a temporary file in this location:
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How can I find out which process is using a file on a remote samba share?
We have a large number of processes that are business specific that have been piling up over the years on a particular server. The developers of these processes have not left much documentation and ...
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sftp file size limit
There seem to be a file size limit for sftp transfer from the command line, if I try to download a 20 MB file it stops at 20% when the transfered data is larger than 4 MB:
/myfile.xml ...
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Why can't my apache open stream? [closed]
I'm trying to copy and unlink files on my apache server. I'm trying to doing this about 1 hour ago. I can't imagine what's the problem.
This is my source:
if (copy("users_ftp/".$user_ftp.'/'.$...
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Which files are deleted by Disk Cleanup's Temporary Files handler
Windows Disk Cleanup offers a Temporary Files handler which seems to delete some files from C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp, but not all. People around the place have indicated that it won't ...
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How to delete .fuse_hidden* files?
I have small Linux server (Debian Squeeze) which runs a Samba server which is configured to share some folders with some windows machines. While trying to delete one of the directories from windows I ...
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Upload file to nginx server through php/html form
I think this is very popular question, however I can't find information I interested in, hope you help me.
I new to server administration things, so don't throw stones at me:)
I install nginx to my ...
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How to read a keyword from a txt file in zabbix
I want to know is there are any solution for my to read the word "Error" from a txt file on solaris and Alert me where the Error is found. I tried to create a item of type zabbix agent active but it ...
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Copy files from one server to another with same permissions
Im migrating to new server and i need to move few websites but i need to have same read/write permissions to new serves as they were on old server.
I don't need to keep group and owner id's same but ...
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Multiple VirtualHosts files for subdomains in apache2
I'm new with apache2 and virtualHosts and all these things, I'm trying to set multiple subdomains, each in one file.
For example, I'll have
quentin-dommerc.com file in site-available :
<...
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/tmp was 1.8Gb; removing files older than 8 days has deleted only ~300mb.. what's using so much space?
I'm running a webserver on CentOS.
Today I couldn't run any SQL queries. Upon investigation, error 28, my /tmp directory couldn't be written to.
I ran du /tmp and it was 1.8Gb. I then ran find /tmp -...
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SBS 2008 Redirection visibility issues - want to move off SBS 2008
I inherited an SBS2008 server which had a corrupt or otherwise lost userid which was used to setup redirects, etc.
I was able to break in by enabling the Administrator ID and resetting the password.
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rsync synchronizing files only without creating folders on destination
Is it possible with rsync to not create directories on destination?
MY SOURCE:
a/
a/x.txt
b/
b/y.txt
b/c/g.txt
MY WANTED DESTINATION:
d/x.txt
d/y.txt
d/g.txt
Is there any way to do this with ...
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make backup of file when user run rm -f [closed]
Here is the scenario;
I need to authorize a user to do activity in /opt/dev-folder/. Developer makes frequent changes in file, some time they replaced or remove original file.
I have assigned ...
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IE: Cannot disable Settings button under Browsing history via group policy
Windows XP Pro SP3, IE8 (8.0.6001.18702), within local gpedit.msc I did the below:
User Config/Admin Temp/Windows Comp/IE
enabled: disable changing temporary internet file settings
User Config/...
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Find and group all unique versions of a file
I have a convoluted directory structure where there are many copies of foo.txt. I'd like to find all copies of this file and group them by their diff result, i.e.
[type 1]
/bar2/sub1/foo.txt
/foobar/...
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How can I get information about a file or folder on a Linux system?
I need to get detailed information of certain file or folder, such as chmod, changed date, which user.
How can I do this?
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How to get information of last created files on server
I want to get list of created files and folders after certain date in whole server, is it possible and how can i do?
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SSH: connect with public key avoiding passphrase prompt
root@myhost:/# ssh -i /opt/id_rsa.pub [email protected]
Enter passphrase for key '/opt/id_rsa.pub':
[email protected]'s password:
I have created key pair without passphrase, ...
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Rsync show progress for individual file
I'm using rsync to upload/download a pretty large file (20Gb). I'm aware of --progress option, but what it does in my case is just showing me the result at the end.
My problem is that during some ...
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IIS7 - how to configure server to serve large (GBs) files?
I wanted to download some backups (about 4..5Gb in size) via HTTP and was surprised that IIS7 didn't allowed me to do so. The attempt was seemingly blocked - got a 404 page.
Where should I go in the ...
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Linux Shell - How to copy directory without symlink
I would like to get everything inside one directory.
How can I copy entire directory (that originally contains files and symlinks) to a new directory that should contains all files but no symlink??
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Bad WAN Transfer Speed (Windows Server 2008 R2)
We have two servers in different data centers which are geographically separated by several hundred miles. The RTT (round trip time) for a ping between them is 61ms over our VPN. Both servers are on a ...
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How to quickly remove hundreds of thousands of files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Doing an rm -rf on a massive directory tree takes hours
I'm running a simulation program on a computing cluster (Scientific Linux) that generates hundreds of thousands of ...
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finding files that match a precise size: a multiple of 4096 bytes [duplicate]
I have several drupal sites running on my local machine with WAMP installed (apache 2.2.17, php 5.3.4, and mysql 5.1.53). Whenever I try to visit the administrative page, the php process seems to die....
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Finding Hidden files that are causing drive to fill up
What is the best way to find out what files are sucking up so much space? My Windows directory lists its size as 15 GB but when I run a powershell script against it, it shows 40 GB. It seems 40 GB ...
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File movement monitoring and alerts
We have applications that integrates to other applications through files exchanging.
We needed to be able to be notified on the following situations:
Files are accumulating on a certain folder, ...
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Secure file downloads on IIS 8 (mod_auth_token or similar)
I'm trying to set up secure file downloads (for example, where a temporary link can be generated to download a file instead of using obscure URLs, which can be insecure). Something like mod_auth_token ...
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