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Finding resources about switching CIFS from soft to hard mount

We have some NFS shares and smb CIFS shares mounted over TCP/IP on our RHEL 7 machine. The shares are part of a HNAS that sits on a VSP. As per default the NFS shares are mounted with the "hard&...
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Ansible says Invalid options for debug: ansible.builtin.debug

I've been quite busy building a script. At some point I need to generate a password and store it in a file. The password is generated with - name: Generate new password debug: ansible....
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What's is the purpose of a trailing '-' in a Kubernetes apply -f -

I was passed the following, which does a dry run of the creation of a kubernetes secret from an appsettings.json file, which is then piped to a kubernetes apply. I think that the -f will take the ...
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I can't set the default options for the mysql command (v8.0.19) client in Windows 10. How can I fix this?

When I run mysql --verbose --help I get values that are different to those that are in my my.ini file. In particular, the following properties are set in my my.ini file (based on the recommendations ...
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Configure NGINX by passing CLI parameters instead of config file

I am looking for a way to change some config parameters dynamically before running NGINX. Perfectly by using command line parameters. I want to write a bash script that takes for example two ...
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Does linux accept a DNS reply that comes after configured timeout if it is in the middle of the next attempt?

/etc/resolv.conf is configured with: options timeout:1 attempts:5 rotate nameserver A nameserver B Both configured nameservers have a delay of 3 seconds. The following exchange of messages occurs: ...
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Options +/- interaction with All, which is default in 2.2 but not default in 2.4

I have a series of servers which I am upgrading from 2.0/2.2 to 2.4. The previous admins made rather a hash of various Options. I am confused because the 2.0/2.2 documentation say that Options All (...
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Generate multiple Bash options from a text file?

I have a command that takes domain names as options. I have a long list of domain names to include and so I'd like to automate the parsing of that list of domains into the command. For example, the ...
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Is there a way to emulate "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" calls to a server?

I know that OPTIONS calls are normal, and I have read up on how to exclude them from the logs, but there seems to be an inordinately large number of them, eg. 1525 of the last 10k requests were OPTION ...
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Linux: "fstab" with additional mount options?

I'm using "GlusterFS" Client, to mount the GlusterFS Volume on my Web Server. Below is the MOUNT command when i manually mount from commandline: # mount -t glusterfs -o aux-gfid-mount gluster1:/gv0 /...
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Apache 2 responding with 301 redirect on OPTIONS request

I'm trying to get my Angular 2 application running and everything is going relatively smoothly until I hit the API for some data. Apache is responding with a 301 redirect when Angular's http module ...
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Apache Options missing Plus/Minus sign [duplicate]

I have to migrate an Apache web server from version 2.2 to version 2.4. In Apache 2.2, I find the following Options directive in the virtual host configuration files: Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks ...
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How to restore with Duplicty if Temp space has 0 available?

Normally this command works properly for restoring: duplicity restore -t7D --file-to-restore folder/to_restore file:///where/is/the_backup/ /where_to_restore --no-encrypt But today I am having this ...
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service mysql restart with default options

I have Ubuntu 14.04 with MariaDB Galera cluster installed. My cluster has just one node now, so I restart the mysql service using: sudo service mysql restart --wsrep-new-cluster How can I set this ...
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Kernel config options explained

Can anyone explain what the following options from my centos 5.9 box do CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y ...
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What is D option in linux yum assisted install?

When I install something with yum installer on linux, I get something like this: Is this ok [y/d/N]: _ So... what is the "D" option?
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How to change default duplicity archive directory?

How can I change the duplicity default archive directory (~/.cache/)? The following option seems to be ignored. Option --archive-dir=/volume4/duplicity/cache/ --name backup duplicity 0.6.21 (...
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Defrag options in Windows Server 2012

I am looking at the command line options for defrag.exe as well as the "ScheduledDefrag" task on Windows Server 2012, and I don't understand some of the arguments. In particular, when I view defrag /?...
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mysqldump has a "quick" option. Why isn't this enabled by default?

In the mysqldump docs I see a "--quick" option, however there is no indication as to why somebody would want this disabled. What are the disadvantages to enabling it or why is it even an option? ...
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Pass --nogpgcheck to yum via puppet

How would one get a --nogpgcheck option to yum via puppet? I've tried package { 'unsigned-package': ensure => latest, install_options => ['--nogpgcheck'], } and package { '...
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How to configure Apache to handle OPTIONS request without invoking script

We built a RESTful server with CORS enabled which means it will be getting OPTIONS requests from the clients. We would like to have the webserver handle these, not our downstream REST-server. How can ...
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RHEL6: Specify Rescue Method from initrd append options

I have a PXE menu configuration that I'm working on. It incorporates the RHEL6 Rescue option in order to perform repairs after booting from the network. The Rescue boot environment asks three basic ...
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How to ignore upper directory .htaccess Options?

How do I have a current directory .htaccess ignore Options from upper directory .htaccess?
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Is is possible to configure ISC's DHCPD to configure resolv.conf options like timeout and attempts?

The resolv.conf supports a line called options that allows for some fine tuning of the behavior of the resolver. In my environment we are using ISC's DHCPD to provide DHCP services to our services. ...
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Windows Server 2008 r2

I am using VMware ESX 3.5. I installed my first Win Server 2008 R2. I could select which version to install (Full Installation or Server Core) Now when I am installing a new copy, it is not ...
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DRBD LVM - backed vs. physical & LVM filter

We're experimenting with DRBD/pacemaker on top of an existing Debian 6 Encrypted RAID1 setup. We have one comparatively general and one comparatively specific question: 1) DRBD - backed vs. ...
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What is "Data Protection" option in WebBIOS 6.1-45-Rel of ServeRAID M5110e controller?

What is "Data Protection"`option in WebBIOS 6.1-45-Rel during creation of new Drive Group? Server is IBM x3650 M4 with ServeRAID M5110e controller. User's Guide (here http://www-947.ibm.com/support/...
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Check DHCP Option content

Is it possible DHCP client check the contents of an option ? I need provisioning a Linux server with DHCP option 140 (option-140). But the server behaves as if the DHCP did not contain the ...
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Apache Options in .htaccess file

I am using Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews within a .htaccess file that is stored within 1 folder above the images folders, but this causes issues for seeing the images in these directories when ...
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IIS7 logging options - Difference between Server and Site level

I am setting up my first IIS 7.5 server and have come unstuck. Is there a difference between the server logging options and site logging options. I am assuming that the server logging options relate ...
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How to install Windows service from command line while setting recovery options

I have a Windows service that I build on a build server and then install on multiple remote servers using Sysinternals PSExec and sc create. This was worked well to this point but I now have a need to ...
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error svn: OPTIONS could not connect to server

I'm trying to checkout a repository with an http address. I tried with different machine but I obtained every time time the same error: svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/...
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Bash getops: allow, but not require arg

I'm writing a bash script, parsing options with getopts like this: #!/bin/bash while getopts ab: ; do case $opt in a) AOPT=1 ;; b) BOPT=$OPTARG ...
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Logging all the commands executed during a kickstart installation to file and screen

I'm using the following kickstart post installation logging options: %post exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 chvt 3 echo echo "################################" echo "# Running Post ...
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Office 2010 Privacy Options Automation

How can I remotely disable all of the Privacy Options within the Microsoft Office Trust Center?
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OPTIONS request vs GET in Ajax

I have a PHP/javascript app that queries and returns info using an ajax request. On every server I've used so far, this works as expected, passing an Ajax GET request to the server and returning json ...
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How to avoid Apache "options * http/1.0"

I have apache server on a VPS. Sometimes the cpu loads is skyrocketing (more than 15), while there are no many visitors to the website (invision board forum). I checked the apache status, it shows a ...
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Apache: How to redirect OPTIONS request with .htaccess?

I have Apache 2.2.4 server with a lot of messages like this in the access_log: ::1 - - [15/May/2010:19:55:01 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 400 543 ::1 - - [15/May/2010:20:22:17 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1....
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What does the -P option do to mount?

I'm migrating from an archaic version of Red Hat to Ubuntu 9. When going through my old nfs mount script, I found that it contained the -P option. So my script looks like: sudo mount -t nfs -o -P .....
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HTTP Headers - need to check OPTIONS

I've received the results of a pen test and there is some unwanted exposure in the HTTP OPTIONS where the fact that Frontpage Server Extensions was available (now removed) was reported. I need to ...
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How to get IIS6 to respond to the OPTIONS verb?

I have a WCF webservice hosted in IIS6 that another site will POST to in a cross domain manner using jquery. Because it is a cross domain POST, the browser first sends an OPTIONS verb with Access-...
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find files modified in an interval on unix

I am on linux and have tried to figure out the find command for a while to be able to list the directories modified in a 24 hour period a certain number of days ago, but I can't get it to work. Among ...
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Why is Apache ignoring the "Options Indexes" directive?

I have the following block in my .conf file but when I load the appropriate URL (which points to a directory with just a dummy .txt file in it) I get the Apache 2 Test Page instead of a directory ...
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