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what's mix of software/hardware are better to use for remote installation/reinstallation of OS via webinterface? [closed]
I'm going to make my users happy to have some possibility automatically re-install their servers via web interface, go in rescue mode , almost the same functionality like LeaseWeb has. What kind of ...
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Difference between chroot and jail
I read this tutorial - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot - and what I understood is that, chroot is the process of changing the / while the new restricted environment created is the ...
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cannot useradd/adduser when /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} are symlink (debian squeeze)
i'm having trouble with useradd
when im moving
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
from /etc to /home and create a symlink in order to have /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} respecively pointing ...
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Windows “net use” command throwing error, “System error 1909 has occurred” [duplicate]
What is the likely cause of this, if the command is run on Windows Server 2008? It appears that this account is an administrator on this box. I'm running the Windows command line as an administrator ...
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How do sysadmins perform large tasks quickly? [closed]
See this scenario:-
"Hello, I would like the user 'bob' created on these servers with sudo rights: list of 10 IP's"
How does a Unix sysadmin typically go about creating the user 'bob' with sudo ...
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Starting a server as a local service, not my user account
I have a third party tool (CordaServer.exe) that I start right now manually on my Windows Server 2008 machine. When I remote into that machine and start it, it starts under my account and not the ...
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How to create unreadable files in linux [closed]
I have a configuration file with me and want to make the file unreadable to others.. What can be done with it?? Encryption is a way to do it.. But Encryption makes the file uninstallable in Linux ...
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Bandwidth Aggregation [duplicate]
I have two ILL connections of 2 Mbps from different ISP's. How could I merge both the connections to get the merged bandwidth. Also I want to give the single range IP address like : 192.168.x.x to my ...
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Where to put system partition on 12 disk hardware raid setup
I'm going to rent a server with 12 SATA disks hardware raid(planned to be configured as raid5), and I'm wondering what's the best practice where to put system partition in that case and the most ...
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RF Modem failed to detect in Windows &
I installed a RF modem in Windows XP machine and it works fine. But when I use the same RF modem card in Windows 7 machine, it failed to detect.
I could not see any Resource allocated for the RF ...
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Why do I have more users logged on than there are?
On an old GNU/Linux Ubuntu box I see something like
lorenzo@metropolis:~
$ w
09:58:18 up 651 days, 19:30, 5 users, load average: 0.28, 0.30, 0.24
The problem is, I am logged on other three ...
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Troubles with Dovecot + Webmin on Debian 6.0
I installed Apache, PHP5, MySQL and Webmin on a vps. I host my website on that.
I completely reinstalled whole VPS with fresh installation of Postfix and Dovecot. But Dovecot fails to start, so ...
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How to install email system on Debian 6.0
As title says i wanna full email support on my Debian 6.0 VPS.
It can send/Receive emails thround roudcube or something
I cann add more email accounts to my domain
I used Google and didn't find ...
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Difference between network and system admins' duties [closed]
After the network is set, really exist any difference between both roles?
According to first Google results, network admin tasks after configure the network is check firewalls, proxies, create and ...
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Managing multiple linux\freebsd server? [closed]
I currently have 5 FreeBSD servers that I'm handling on my own.
I just bought 10 more servers and I want to start using some centralized configuration system like Puppet.
I was wondering if there ...
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Live USB to load small app to see system specs
I have a bunch of servers in storage. But i dont know the specs for each one. Most of which dont have hard drives. I want to load a small app, to scan and tell me the specs of the comp. CPU, Chipset, ...
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How to know which disk partition is mysql and domain/php/web files is installed?
I want to ask what ssh command or any way I will know which disk partition is mysql and php is installed?
Thanks.
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How to properly mount the extra hard disk space?
I am asking for help on how to properly mount the extra hard disk space.
Here is my situation.
Running fdisk -l, give this result
root@ ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
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File system loop detected in /var/named/chroot/var/named/ CentOS6.3 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
File system loop detected in /var/named/chroot/var/named/
When I use find command on shell, I got the following error.
find: File system loop detected; ...
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Fault tolerance with a pair of tightly coupled services [closed]
I have two tightly coupled services that can run on completely different nodes (e.g. ServiceA and ServiceB). If I start up another replicated copy of both these services for backup purposes ...
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Separating user resources - Windows Server 2008 (Terminal Server)
At the moment I am running a Windows Terminal Server 2008 for around 10 clients that use the server to run programs and access data.
Is there anyway to separate the resources of each user so that ...
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What are the pre-requisites to NFS Mount in between two servers?
I understand port 111 and port 2049 needs to be accessible; but what are the other pre-requisite that's needed to be present before being able to NFS Mount?
We have tried NFS Mount using "mount -v -t ...
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delete service by “system” user failed [closed]
I'm runnig a software to be tested. the software is running by SYSTEM user, and can apply actions on the machine. The software has a service that runs.
In one Win7 machine, when the SYSTEM user is ...
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Reboot Encrypted System Remotely Without Password Query
Are there any standard solutions to rebooting an encrypted system remotely without requiring a password on the next boot?
The system in question is an Ubuntu encrypted with LUKS root partition and an ...
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x3650 no video output
I am rebuilding an x3650 chassis and am not getting video output out of either VGA port. There are no diagnostic diag LEDs lit, however, other than the locator LED which as far as I have read is ...
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Why does one system take so much more time to “apply personal settings” when it boots?
The story is that I have one server (Windows 2003 server) and 10 systems with XP Professional. I have a local area connection to connect them all. I also have DNS on the server and systems logon on ...
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Ubuntu Server forgets how to connect using ethernet
I have encountered a series of errors after my Ubuntu server was restarted. It seems to have forgotten how to connect to my router as it cannot ping local or other IPs.
When I start it up it says
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Simple Linux Live System Backup to file(s)
I am looking for a simple backup solution for backing up my Linux server (RHEL5-x86_64).
I must be automatic (run at night, so I cannot baby-sit it)
It must be run on a live system (or semi-live - I ...
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Port 80 being used by Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
It's been quite a few days that port is being used by some strange process which i don't know Initially i thought it's related to SQL Server. I tried stopping all the services which starts from SQL ...
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How can I tell if a system rebooted as well as the time of the reboot by looking at the system logs?
How can I tell if a Linux system rebooted and determine the time of the reboot by looking at the system logs, such as /var/log/messages?
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Apache and PHP causing first exec call to be really slow (and OS X)
Consider the following PHP program:
<?echo date("c");
`date`
echo date("c");?>
The backtick-operator `` simply executes the specified command via the shell.
Output on my local windows-box ...
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Read-only file system VPS SSH error
I have a VPS and today I noticed apache was not running, I got in SSH, the httpd status says:
[root@adrimail ~]# service httpd status
httpd dead but pid file exists
Tried to restart it and I get ...
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Windows: making a system backup with vshadow+robocopy tools
For years, I have used vshadow + robocopy to backup data partitions to a remote iSCSI volume. This has been a very efficient method.
This has allowed me to have a "perfect" copy. Open files are ...
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What is causing ntoskrnl aka the System process to continue accumulating handles
I have a server which is accumulating handles on the System process aka c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. The handles go to 18,000 in one day and keep going forever up at that rate. The server is ...
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ffmpeg fails inside PHP exec(); [closed]
I am trying to get info from a file with ffmpeg, if inside php I have this code:
exec("ffmpeg -i ffmpeg_directory/4.flv");
Returns nothing, even tough same command inside SSH would print a large ...
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MCMS 2002 Minimum system requirements
I am setting up a server to use MCMS 2002, just wondering if anyone knows the minimum system requirements for such an install?
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What Are the Underlying Protocols/Standards a “Windows File Path” as Opposed to a NFS-Like Linux File Path? [closed]
This is probably a very poorly worded question, but the taxonomy of this question is what I'm looking for (so unfortunately at this point I can't help it).
Here is my question.
We don't walk around ...
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Windows DFS - file locking & replication?
I'm in a small company that has offices on the east and west coasts of America and also various people working from their homes. There are Windows Servers already in the offices. I think that ...
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What qualifications are required for a fresher to be a system administrator? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What a beginner should know/learn for sysadmin job?
I am a student and want to be a system administrator. But I don't know that what types of qualification are expected ...
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remote gateway and web servers down [closed]
I was asked this challenging question, which was quite tricky.
It goes like this.
Say there is a clustered environment of 40 web servers and the website is unfortunately down. You are in a remote ...
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msyql replication time
I am planning to setup mysql master-master or master-slave configuration. Yet to be decided.
But my question is, is there any way to specify in the slave or master saying that it needs to check for ...
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Best open-source HelpDesk software? [closed]
Good morning,
I'm currently researching 3 different open-source HelpDesk solutions, and am interesting in hearing your experiences with them, to help me decide which to implement in a small-sized IT ...
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Is there a convential way to manage Ruby on Rails server dependencies?
We use Chef to set up our servers, but I'm looking for a way to consolidate our server dependencies into a single config file that lives in source control.
We use capistrano for deployments, a custom ...
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Connecting PABX to PC? [closed]
I would like to purchase a system that can help me to auto-dial out, just by double clicking on the monitor screen, so that i can save the contacts on my pc and dial out easily without pressing every ...
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LAN Traffic Monitoring Tool
I am searching for a windows desktop application which will monitor the LAN traffic (promiscuous mode -- PORTS and Destination IPs) and show me stats, graphs etc
I need to know if anyone PC is ...
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Command line tool to retrieve linux server information
I used to ssh into many linux systems for some kind of administration tasks. Most of the times I don't even know what are the characteristics of the machine I'm logged onto. Is there a command line ...
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Best Solution for Load Balancing geographically distributed NFS File Access?
I'm trying to find an optimum solution for accessing the NFS file share in my company. We have a central file server in North America and has 30GB~50GB of updated data everyday. And it's very slow for ...
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How high can system load go?
Every time I login to my servers via SSH it flashes me a bit of server info. IE IP Address, Swap Usage, Memory Usage, etc. One of the other things it flashes me is System Load. Now most of the time ...
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How often are servers attacked/hacked/going down? And why? [closed]
We all hear about spectacular stories in the medias about high profile companies' server going down or being hacked or being attacked. However, it does not necessarily mean that it happens all the ...
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What does scalability mean when talking about ethernet networks [closed]
I need to do a homework and write a bit about ethernet. I am totally new to the topic, so i thought maybe some one could give me a hand by explaining me a bit about what scalability is, when talking ...
