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How do I start MySQL server in an Amazon AWS Elastic Beanstalk instance? [duplicate]
I am relatively new LAMP dev who is trying to learn Linux primarily through AWS. I have a live Elastic Beanstalk instance up and running. I did a yum install of the following packages:
mysql55.x86_64 ...
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Remove a port from a VLAN (HP ProCurve)
I'm not too familiar with switches but I want to remove port 6 from the following 'VLAN 12' I've tried searching for an easy explanation to no avail - How do I do this please?
Port Information Mode ...
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Network shares best practices - Windows environment
We have, at the moment, over 23 mapped network shares, and we are running out of letters. Each network share is nothing else than a folder on a file server (CIFS).
We're thinking of mapping one ...
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Does IP fail-over help me?
I'm having dedicated server from OVH and I have ordered IP failover.
Now I'm wondering is it an additional IP?
The reason I ordered it is:
I'm running an application which uses port 3900, and I need ...
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Group Policy for Setting Passwords: Server 2003 Domain
In my 2003 domain, I am being requested to set a password policy to require passwords to expire every 4 months, and also require users to change their password on their next login, due to a security ...
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Local IP address same as Google's external
I'm exampling Google's IPs, but you get the idea.
What happens if somebody configures a router's LAN address pool to range from 62.231.75.2 to 62.231.75.255, then his computer's IP address to 62.231....
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Disallowing certain user from dumping database (MySQL)
Under the privileges that can be assigned to a user, I can't find whether to allow or disallow a user from being able to dump a database.
I want to disallow a user from taking backup of a database.
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Handling range in CNAME
We have different set of CNAMEs pointing to different subdomains. These subdomains (a.domain.com, b.domain.com) are pointing to different IPs on different machines.
# Server A
a1.domain.com pointing ...
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How to uninstall emailmail server?
Mail was accidentally installed on my debian server and I want to remove all mta, mail related software. I do not know what exactly was installed, how can I find out and uninstall this stuff? I don't ...
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Why can't I access a webserver through a load balancer on my local network?
When I try to use curl (or wget, lynx, etc) to connect from a server on our local network to our website, which is on a local server behind a CoyotePoint load balancer, curl fails. Ping does not have ...
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Domain Expired, Renewed it but not refreshing on computers, only Cell phones
Our domain had expired. We renewed it but now we are having a problem viewing our website from our work computers. We have both Mac and Windows machines and both give us an error viewing our website, ...
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Disable server access by hostname
I'm using Apache HTTPD Server under Debian Squeeze.
How can I prevent users to access my server by the server hostname(dummy.xxx.com) or ip address(xx.xx.xx.xx)?!
For example:
I do not want them to ...
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How can I disable account lockout policy for one user in a Windows domain
My company is running a Windows based domain. The domain has a group policy of locking out a user after several failed log-in attempts, for 5 minutes.
Unfortunately, this account functions as a ...
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How to access Amazon EC2 instance by HTTP?
I have installed Amazon EC2 instance and have set up tomcat7 on it with sudo yum install tomcat7 command. Also I have added a rule
8080 0.0.0.0/0
in instance's security group.
Also I ran tomcat7 ...
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Virtual Machines and rebooting the host machine
I'm using virtualbox on Windows Server 2008 R2.
How do you handle virtual machines when you have to restart the server?
How do you make the virtual machines save and close properly before the host ...
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Fresh SQL Server DB restore works most times, but fails sometimes
I'm working on an automated setup of a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core with IIS and SQL Express
I'm starting with a fresh (just installed) OS in a VM (virtualBox in this test case)
My scripts then ...
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how to install apache modules with apt-get
Like this titles say, can you install Apache modules with apt-get? or do i have to find the .so file and configure it all manually? I thought i saw that some could, didn't know if that applied to all ...
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Recursive deletion of files (bash)
I'm familiar with how I would tackle this with PHP, however I'd like to get some more practice with bash scripting.
The task is to delete all files in a folder, which itself contains subfolders (...
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Evaluating nameserver
We are planning to set up our own dns-server for managing all our subdomians. I wan't to set the leasetime to 1 hour. We going to expect a peak amount of 20 Million DNS requests per hour.
I want to ...
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cron script won't delete files? [closed]
I copied this from a blog entry, studied it, tweaked it a bit and more or less it works:
#!/bin/bash
GZ_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
GZ_TIME=`date +%H`
BK_PATH=/mnt/usbbk/sql
BK_FILE=$BK_PATH/$GZ_DATE-$...
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Loss of inbound emails from external domains after replacing firewall with new ASA5510
To start, I'd just like to admit my lack of knowledge in setting up/maintaining critical hardware like firewalls and exchange servers. I am the Technology Coordinator for a small charter school and ...
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Is there any way to get control back over a hijacked domain name?
I recently started making a website for a company and they gave me ftp and cpanel access to the hosting which used to work alright. This domain was purchased by their former developer, so he was the ...
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What is the middleware in a typical Debian LAMP stack? [closed]
I am researching on the topic of scaling, and I discovered something called the middleware which is basically handling the requests, correct? If that is true, what is the middleware in a LAMP stack? ...
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SpamAssassin sending legit emails to spam, despite sender being whitelist
I can not for the life of me figure out why emails from a "white-listed" sender are still getting very high scores from SpamAssassin and not being delivered.
The email headers are:
From orders.usa@...
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How can different users share computers in a windows network?
I am a programmer with zero sys admin skills. A friend of mine has a small business and he asked me to setup a computer network in his office with 10 windows 7 workstations.
He has 20 employees and ...
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I would like to know the equivalent command to curl in Solaris
I would like to know equivalent command to curl in Solaris. As in Linux, the curl command is used to find the website activity.
Kindly let me know command to check website in Solaris.
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How to speed up SMB connection between a Mac client and Isilon storage server?
So we have a Isilon Storage Cluster, and both Windows and Mac Clients connecting to it. Windows (for obvious reasons) connects and performs extremely well using SMB.
OSX on the other hand, does not. ...
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How do I configure my router as a DNS server?
I have a question regarding router configuration: How can I configure it to direct certain packets sent to certain addresses (like Facebook, Youtube and other procrastination sites) to be sent to a ...
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Possible to install Windows 7 32-bit on an HP ML350 G6 server
We have an application that does not support running on a 64-bit OS and also has no need for additional features present in Windows Server. We already have the ML350 G6 hardware but do not see Windows ...
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EC2 instance store cloning or to ebs via gui management console
I have found similar questions here but the answer are either outdated or are from the command line.
The case is this. I have an EC2 instance using instance store (this was the only AMI available for ...
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Server bandwidth usage monitoring
I'm using ubuntu 11.04.
What I would like to be able to do, is to be able to view in a browser front end, the amount of in/out network data of the PROCESSES running on my machine.
Anyone know if and ...
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PCI Compliance SSL Certificate Cannot Be Trusted fail
The server is a CentOS box with the default LAMP stack running. A PCI scan lists this as a fail:
SSL Certificate Cannot Be Trusted https (443/tcp)
Severity: Medium
Notes: none
We don't actually ...
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Setup VPN on Linux, connect through ssh [closed]
I want to securely connect to linux through ssh. I heard that to setup a VPN is more secure.
But I don't know how to setup VPN-connect-only in Linux.
I want to restrict directly connection except ...
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RHEL server Yum dependencies not working
I have a redhat server that isnt resolving dependencies correctly.
I want to install httpd via yum "yum install httpd" and it installs correctly, but when i go to start httpd I get the following ...
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My CRON job won't run, any ideas?
I've installed the following CRON job using 'crontab -e' through putty on my server, but it won't run and I have no idea why.
This is the line I'm putting in and saving using 'crontab -e':
00 09-18 *...
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SMTP Unreachable from Specific Networks
I host my business site through a VPS account. The instance runs Ubuntu and I'm using POSTFIX+Dovecot as my mail server.
For the most part, the mail server works fine. I have noticed, however, that I ...
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How do tape backups work? [closed]
We are backing up to tapes but more often then not the tape will be spat out and we will have an error like The requested media failed to mount. The operation was aborted. which from what I can tell ...
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Is it possible to use a single VM image to run many guests (Windows (Server?))?
Is it possible to use a single VM image to run many guests, where each guest is a Windows Server OS (specifically Windows 2003R2 to begin with, we would evetually migrate to 2008R2 or whatever's up to ...
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Shared Hosting Shell limitation? [closed]
I have a small project for a client and there are some requirement that initially pointed me toward using a VPS.
However, after reading a bit more online, I saw I could work out with shared hosting ...
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How to create different printer profiles for different paper types on Windows XP?
I am often switching between different types of paper and lanscape/portrait for printing on the same computer on Windows XP. Can I create different profiles for the same printer so I can easily switch ...
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Configuration to send postfix mail logs to a database [closed]
I have a CentOS 5.5 64 bit mail server using Postfix as the MTA.
I want to create a database of content and the time of mails sent and received from this mail server. Can anyone tell me how to do ...
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The more secure iptables script imaginable. Does one exist? [closed]
I plan on buying a server soon. I'd like the server to be as secure as possible, only having POP3, SMTP, SSH and HTTP open. I know how to write an iptables script to only allow those connections and ...
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Windows 2008 Critical Vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Could Allow Remote Code Execution
A windows server 2008 web edition that hosts some personal blogs of mine have been hacked with all my php files injected whereas the blog wasn't even active.
The password is very lengthy about 50 ...
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How to give a user account root privileges in Fedora 14?
I want to give my user account root access rights permanently, how can i do that? (i don't want to login using the root account). thx!
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HP ProLiant ML350 G6 driver problems
We have fresh installed SBS 2011 standard on ML 350 G6 and I ended up with two driver problems
- IPMI interface
- Base system device
We cannot find drivers for them, and I don't know what are those ...
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Best way to share storage between multiple computers
I need to provide shared storage for multiple application server nodes in a cluster in a Linux environment. In other words, each of the nodes in my cluster needs to be able to read/write files to a ...
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Thin Client Environments - Where to Start
I'm new to the Thin Client / VDI concept but it seems like my environment might be a good candidate for converting. Currently we run Windows 7, so I would like to investigate a TS/VDI solution with ...
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ServerAlias stopped working
I had this working, then my VM server crashed.
I'm running Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox. Now I'm trying to add some server aliases, but it's not working.
In my 'sites-enabled' folder I have a file ...
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Setup a Windows Server to receive emails for a sub-domain to a folder
I have a slightly odd requirement, in that I need to setup a Windows Server to recieve emails to a certain sub-domain. I just want the raw messages to end up in a folder on this server, so don't need ...
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Multiple Exchange Mailboxes to One AD Account
Is it possible to have multiple Exchange 2010 mailboxes to one Active Directory account?
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