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Add new shard - always best? [closed]
In our setup, we currently have 3 shard set sharded cluster, each shard being a replica set of 3. Our writes are about to go up significantly to implement a new feature, and we know the extra data ...
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Approach to update SharePoint 2010 CU's [closed]
I have recently helped take over administration of a relatively simple SharePoint 2010 system (one web server, a separate database cluster). We have installed SP1, but haven't updated anything on ...
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SharePoint 2010 Updates since SP1
I would like to preface I am new to administering SharePoint. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, I have not had to deal with it before. However, I am at a new company ...
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Looking for guidelines for java updates
Partly related to Updating production Ubuntu boxes the dos and don'ts, but more specific to java updates. We are also based on Ubuntu servers.
Wondering how others keep up with java updates which ...
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Issue on yum update with kernel
--> Running transaction check
---> Package e2fsprogs-resize2fs-static.x86_64 0:1.42.3-3.el6.1.ovz will be installed
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-358.2.1.el6 will be installed
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How to notify about security updates only on Ubuntu (per mail)?
I want my server to notify me about pending security updates. But I don't want to get notifications about all available updates. How can I do this?
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How quickly should I action the update announcements on the CentOS mailing lists?
I've recently subscribed to the CentOS mailing lists so that I can keep up to date with any new releases or updates. I'm subscribed to CentOS-announce.
I get quite a lot of emails regarding bug fixes ...
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yum not showing any updated package
I have a CentOS 6.3 machine. I'm running yum update but it doesn't show any updated package. I have already tried yum clean all and yum clean expire-cache. Any help will be really appreciated.
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Hardware Drivers on Servers, update or not?
I recently got into a debate with a coworker about whether or not to update hardware drivers (such as NICs or RAID controllers). I have always followed the motto, "If it aint broke, dont fix it." ...
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Keep RHEL at a particular minor revision level? [duplicate]
I'm working with a large database platform (Or#&%@) that requires a specific revision level of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this case, it needs EL6.2 in order to retain support and compatibility ...
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Chrome Flash Updates in a Domain environment
One of the business critical applications for us is powered by Adobe Flash. Naturally, this comes with plenty of associated problems.
The company wide browser in use is Google Chrome. We run a ...
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Disable Update in Java 7.13+
My users cannot install their own software.
I'm using GPO and an .mst to customize and deploy Java 7 with the following options under Properties:
AUTOUPDATECHECK = 0
EULA = 1
IEXPLORER = 1
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Installing Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 fails
I'm unable to install KB2746164 (Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2).
I've tried also a manual install (with elevated cmd prompt) but that didn't work either.
"Product: ...
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setting up centos to apply updates automatically
How do I set up my centos instances to automatically apply security updates?
Is it as simple as setting up a cron job that does yum -y update at 1:00am ?
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How to determine if a Debian upgrade updated the kernel
Let's say I have just done an aptitude safe-upgrade on a Debian system, but I was not paying attention so I did not notice if the kernel was updated or not.
How can I now determine if there was a ...
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patching .net framework
im in the process of creating the company 'model' client machine, its based on windows 7. and i was wondering if i need to install the updades to all the versions of .net framework installed, or i ...
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update manager for updating computers on a network (linux) [closed]
Is there some kind of open source software available that manages updates to various computers on a network? for linux in general, ubuntu/debian in particular. I intend to build one such system for ...
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Is there a way to identify remotely that shutdown required for updates to apply?
Is there a way to remotely find out if a Windows Server (2003, 2008) has downloaded the Microsoft Windows updates and is just waiting for the user to confirm "Install Updates and Shutdown"?
I saw an ...
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Where to get FW/BIOS for Sun Fire X4150
I have been trying to get the lastest software for the X4150. I get to this link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/patches/firmware/release-history-jsp-138416.html#X4150
but it gets me no ...
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WSUS performance for unneeded updates
We have a WSUS server serving around 300 PC's and a couple of dozen servers and a discussion came up at work as to what products to include.
We have a single SQL 2005 instance on one of the servers ...
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Windows Update / Server 2008 R2 SP1
Fresh install of Server 2008 R2 with SP1 from disc. Installed all drivers and software needed. Go to Windows Update and change settings to download but NOT install. After 4 hours, it only downloads 3 ...
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YUM error. Is this a cert error
Nov 13 13:38:57 host abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/bin/yum'
Nov 13 13:38:57 host abrtd: New client connected
Nov 13 13:38:57 host abrt-server[3508]: Saved Python crash dump of pid ...
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Is there a way for tar to check for new files not in an archive?
Is there a way to for the tar command to check for new files that are not already in the archive, or those that have been deleted (for good measure)?
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How do I disable automatic updates on OpenSUSE 12.2
For reasons unknown, OpenSUSE seems to have half a dozen different places that mention auto-update. Is there a way I can definitely, permanently, irreversibly disable auto-update so that new software ...
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Best way of updating my (non-critical) website? [closed]
Somehow I couldn't find a related question that quite fit me.
Anyway, I run a small blog. When I first started my blog it had next to no traffic, now it receives a couple hundred views per day ...
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How can I persist certificates in Java's cacerts?
We need to have a certificate in Java's cacerts keystore for one of our servers that is authenticated by LDAP. We are using Ubuntu server.
We have successfully done this by updating the cacerts file ...
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ESX 3.5 refuses to update
I have a set of ESX 3.5 servers in 2 different datacenters. One is DR, one is production. They are on the same vlan and so I can access any of them on the private network from my vCenter server. Last ...
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Do I need to update some of my Debian Squeeze software?
I have installed Debian 6, and LAMP stack from squeeze repository (default).
After upgrading Apache 2.2.16 from unstable repository to 2.2.22, thanks to this post - how to upgrade already installed ...
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WSUS All updates view
As you can see in the next screenshot, there's a lot of drivers update for a lot of different network adapters. So these updates are all updates available from microsoft, regardless of my computer ...
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Necessary proxy exception list for RHEL updates
Anyone know if I need to allow more than *.rhn.redhat.com on 443 & 80 via a proxy exception to allow my RHEL servers to go out and grab updates ? Haven't received the hardware yet, but I'm just ...
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Updating Applications in a Corporate Environment
I am very new to this subject and was hoping someone could shed some light on it.
I am working on creating a corporate network that will obviously have multiple servers and multiple workstations.
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WMIC command to find update
Is there a way to find if multiple MS updates are installed using WMIC command:
wmic qfe | find ?
Thanks
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Windows updates behind a physical firewall with only IP based rules and generic outbound connections are turned off
I have some boxes that I do not want to allow any in or outbound traffic to the internet Except for windows updates. However the fire wall in place (Cisco ASA) apparently only supports ip based ...
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Java seems to ignore global “update” setting in registry
I have installed JRE 1.7.0_04-b22. I disabled the "update" setting in administrator - update requests disappeared, but in ordinary user's account it is nagging me about updates and I can't turn it ...
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on Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS, what is creating /var/run/reboot-required?
On CentOS 5.8+ and Red Hat Enterprise 6+, when installing/updating packages, I notice a flag file /var/run/reboot-required is created when appropriate. On Ubuntu (and Debian too, I'm guessing), if ...
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File conflig on package updates
I have a CentOS 5.X with Kloxo panel.
It's a test enviroment but i have 2 pages there.
I noticed theres 113 packets to be update (php, kloxo, wget, openssl, and a long etc)
But when i do the ...
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Symantec AntiVirus virus definitions file version date is not updating
I'm keeping tabs on a remote sever that is running Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Server 10.1.7.7001. About a month ago, the Virus Definition File version date stopped updating and hasn't updated since ...
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Using a package manager vs compiling from source for latest updates
I run a Ubuntu 11.10 server at my house and in the past I have been using apt-get to keep all my packages up to date. Recently I noticed that when I run apt-get update/upgrade the version of some ...
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CentOS 5.8 update from CentOS 5.7
'yum list updates' doesn't show centos-release for 5.8 on some CentOS 5.7 machine.
What does this happen?
machine A
[dnd@one:~]$ yum list updates | grep centos-release
[dnd@one:~]$ cat ...
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php 5.3 and libxml2 nightmare
My CentOS 5.7 ships with libxml2 2.6.26 that is very outdated and also causes many problems with my current PHP 5.3.3. I need to update libxml2 to 2.7.8 version or at least 2.7.3+ i've readed many ...
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Windows Server patch management (email notification when patch applied?)
Patch management (WSUS) hasn't been in my court until recently so I am trying to get acclimated to its functionality. So currently we are using WSUS version 3.2 for our Windows Server patch ...
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System updates for many servers
We have many servers and still want to update them all. The actual way is that any of the sysadmins go from server to server and make a aptitude update && aptitude upgrade - it's still not ...
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Easy packages versions management
Can anyone recommend about a way to have an up-to-date list of packages?
I know that I can register to the mailing list / RSS feeds (if available) of each and every package, but this creates much ...
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Upgrading multiple Debian servers at once
I'm currently working at a SaaS company, and at the moment we have multiple Debian servers running in our data centre to support our application.
In the past, when a security update was released, we ...
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Yum update on LAMP
When I do a yum check-update on my server I get packages like php which I haven't dared to update.
I'm wondering whether it would be safe to update these on my production server (I do have a backup ...
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What order do I apply Update Rollups?
I need to apply an update rollup to Exchange 2010 SP1. In Exchange 2003 I would do the FE's first, then the database.
Is this still the case with 2010?
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how to upgrade or update the currently installed php version?
my current version of PHP installed in my ubuntu 11.04 box , is PHP5.3.5, now how to update it into the latest stable PHP5.3.8 version?
this tutorial didn't work for me
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Yum update info from what version, to what version
Is there some simple yum command so I can know what is current and what is future version of package for updating.
I now about:
yum list updates
But that only prints new version of packages...
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When Microsoft Security Updates are “re-released” is the most recent patch cumulative?
While trying to script deployment of .msu's I realized that certain KB articles had multiple releases. One example of this is KB2524426.
KB2524426 was released May 2011 and re-released June 2011. ...
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Looking for a general solution: How to get notified when a software update is released [closed]
this is a general question about software and i hope this is the right platform for it.
maybe superuser.com is the right place but i will try it here first.
i already searched the net for anwers but ...
