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SQL SERVER 2008

I changed my domain name last week. So the administrator@domainname also changed. Now i am not able to log on windows authentication mode in sql server. I want to change the windows authentication ...
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How to use psexec in Windows XP

I read some related document on above query: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx http://ss64.com/nt/psexec.html I used this command on in my comman d prompt : psexec \...
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Repair ext3 partition on external disk from Ubuntu 10.10

Currently, what is the best way or tool to repair an ext3 partition? There used to be fsck, but the disk is an external USB, and using the latest Ubuntu 10.10, I wondered if there might be a new tool ...
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One of my VPSes is very sluggish usually past midnight ( 1-5AMish )

I've noticed that on one of my VPSes ( debian 5 lenny ) ( not my linode ones but a host I used prior to linode ), the filesystem is very, very sluggish past midnight. If I try to use the command ...
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Discover server responsible for serving a PTR for a specific IP?

Just as the title reads: How do I discover what nameserver is the authoritative nameserver for PTR records for a specific IP?
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I bought a new IP address from my server host. How do I find out what that IP is...?

I purchased an additional IP for my server a couple days back and I have no idea what that IP is. When purchasing the IP, the only email I received was a notice saying it will take between 24-48 hours ...
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Trace process which changes filesystem Windows 7 x64 Enterprise edition

There is some malware process which is writing the folder $RECYCLE.BIN to every drive in my system. How can I find out which process is doing that. Is there a sysinternals tool? i'm pretty sure of ...
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Apache rewrites to Nginx

I'm trying to install thebuggenie on my Nginx server. Unfortunately, it sits in a subdirectory (nothing I can do about it) and uses apache rewrites for ALL of it's URLs. I had some success when I had ...
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Nginx response trouble when aliasing to a specific file with regex

Basically, I'm trying to handle nice URLs mapped to actual HTML files on the server. I have URLs like so: /posts/nice-blog-post/ That need to return an HTML file on the filesystem like: /path/to/...
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Windows 7, HTTPS WebDav: Asks for password twice and fails. Any workarounds?

I have a Dav server running with PHP SabreDav (code.google.com/p/sabredav/wiki/Windows) on Cherokee at an HTTPS secured URL. It's set to use https, and uses Digest Authentication. I can log in with ...
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Connecting to a VPN with OpenVPN on Ubuntu 10.04

I'm trying to connect to a VPN through OpenVPN on Ubuntu 10.04. I first tried the network-manager-openvpn package, but unfortunately, Network Manager seems to have a few bugs that prevent me from ...
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DNS: Why does my DNS take so long to look up?

I have a web-application that I'm testing the frontend performane using looks like YSlow and http://www.webpagetest.org/ One of the things I notice the most is that the time to perform the DNS lookup ...
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Run netcat in background on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

I am trying to do a pg_dump from one server and simultaneously restore at the other server. The command on source server (192.168.3.94): pg_dumpall -v | nc 192.168.3.95 4000 The command on the ...
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How to setup rails 3 with apache on windows 7

Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to configure Rails 3 with apache on windows?
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Host is missing hostname and/or domain

i use puppet 0.25.4 on ubuntu 10.04,when puppet installed ,i got the infor below : Nov 29 10:30:30 puppet puppetmasterd[4422]: Host is missing hostname and/or domain: pclient.example.com Nov 29 10:30:...
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sudoers config to allow edit of files in particular directory (and children)

How can I provide sudo access for a user, but restrict them to only editing of files, and only files that are under a nominated directory. For example, I would like the user abc to be able to edit ...
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Log network traffic with process ID on Mac OS X?

I want to log all network traffic on a Mac OS X server (like tcpdump does), but including the ID of the process that is responsible. Using lsof only gives me the current connections, not the past ones....
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SQL server placement

I have a small user site of about 6 users. They have two servers a SBS 2008 box and a server 2008 terminal server. I would like to know where the best place is to install SQL server. I know that it ...
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Move home directory in Ubuntu

We are running an Ubuntu server and have several people in the company that need to have SSH access. This is a web server and the different sites reside in /home. When I create a new user on the ...
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How to jump to a specific heading in a man page?

I've set a filetype in vim for this. I want the help program to be man. Of course this does not work. For instance, with ssh_config's manpage, if I am on a word, say ServerAliveCountMax, I get an ...
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PF firewall rules help

I'm having a heck of a time creating a pf ruleset for FTP. What I'm trying to do is : Only allow $WHITELIST to connect to FTP port 21 Open ports 49152 - 65535 for Passive port range Can anyone ...
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Move contents of current directory to parent directory

On my server, I am in the folder: /path/to/www/some_folder/ Now I want to move all the contents of this folder to the parent folder i.e. www What should I do? Will this work: /path/to/www/...
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Requests to subdomain should point to subdirectory

Is there a way to have requests to subdomains have files served from subdirectories? The sites should regard their folders as root. example: A request to blog.mydomain.com should serve the page ./...
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Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition (cluster's ip address)?

My question is first of all for guys who had experience with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition. As i found i can bake cluster (Failover Cluster Nodes). This cluster gives me one ip adress. So ...
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How to safely backup MySQL using VSS-based backup solutions

One of my clients is running MySQL on a Windows Server 2008 system. Their regular backups are performed using StorageCraft's ShadowCopy, which uses the VSS service to perform backups of open files. ...
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My website folders are owned by me, not www-data, how to recursively change to www-data user and group?

I am getting a 403 forbidden when trying to view a rails website, and I am guessing this is a permissions issue. All the files and folders are owned by the user I logged into the computer with, and ...
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Installing MS SQL Server 2008 R2 side by side with MS SQL 2008 R2 Express edition

I have to install full version of MS SQL 2008 R2 (it's Web edition) side by side with MS SQL 2008 Express (for a short period, before migrating all db's to full version). I guess that it can be ...
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How do I backup my customer's data?

If you run a SaaS app, or work on one, I would love to hear from you. Where the safety and security of your customer's data is paramount, how do you secure it and back it up? I would love to know your ...
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It is XFS reliable? In case of a power gone off is xfs riskier that ext3 in data corruption/safey?

I have been having some electrical issues,mostly power going out suddenly for a few months,and although ups solve the thing mostly. But still i am worried about filesystem corruption,and data lost. ...
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Is it possible to break nginx config files into seperate files for each site?

I installed nginx using the phusion passenger installer, and it installed nginx in: /opt/nginx/ It has a config file in /opt/nginx/confg/nginx.conf and doesn't seemed to come with the sites-...
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Active Directory SYSVOL not synchronized across domain controllers

I have two domain controllers and I noticed that their SYSVOL shares were inconsistent when a random sample of client machines started to fail at executing their logon scripts (they were executing an ...
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Subnetting/VLSM Help

i'm having trouble creating a IP Adressing Scheme, I have been given 15 sites each of these are connection via MPLS or leased line. For the first site I have determined I need 1700 nodes my tutor ...
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Why is there a 10 second delay when printing on Ubuntu Server 10.04?

I've seen tons of posts asking this and similar questions on various forums, but no one seems to be able to provide a solution. The basic problem goes like this: Printing worked fine on [Insert ...
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Host your own website

I understand completely how to host my own website but my question (i hope this is the right place to ask it) is how to guard against, say your ISP going down or your router failing, things like that? ...
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load balanced nas

we have two NAS as our storage with data sync. ips for the NAS are as follows 10.10.0.5 10.10.0.6 we want to create a scenario such that when a client machine requests data from the servers request ...
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How to configure server such that all XMPP traffic goes to Google Chat? (Google Apps vs Gmail)

I have an XMPP (Jabber) application which talks to jabber servers. It works great with accounts on gmail.com, but does not work at all with accounts on Google Apps hosted web sites. Google says this ...
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Intermittent error when using mod_proxy to do reverse proxy to SOAP service

I get this error every few minutes when using mod_proxy as a reverse proxy to a SOAP web service. There's probably 3 or 4 requests going per seconds so we're talking around 1 or 2 out of every ...
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How do I properly install my FTP Extension on Windows 7

I have written an extension to the FTP server on Windows 7. When I try to log in, I get a 503 error. The logs don't show any issues. I've tried to monitor the file with filemon, but nothing ...
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How to populate RRD database with CPU and MEM usage data?

I have a Lighttpd server (on Centos) and would like to display 4 graphs: lighttpd traffic, lighttpd requests per second, CPU usage and MEM usage. I've set place for rrd database for lighttpd config ...
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Round robin DNS and fault tolerance (web service, windows 2008)?

What "Round robin DNS" services do you know/use? I am interesting in free and commercial variants. I have domain and a few ip addresses from each server. But i think that some servers (Windows Sever ...
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How do I make tcpdump not print the tcp headers?

I tried this: tcpdump -s 1500 -A -l -i eth0 '(port 6667) and (length > 74)' I need only the ascii part of it. How do I remove the rest?
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How to configure dns server for new server

Scenario: I've purchased a new server with ABC company. In return they've given me two IP Address e.g (10.10.1.1, 20.20.1.1) I've already a domain (www.example.com) working with a different company ...
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How do I learn about professional server storage?

I need to learn more about current state of storage. I was taking advices from various storage consultants but I would like to be able to engineer server storage myself. I'm interested in everything ...
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Readonly folders in Apache installation on Windows 7

I installed Apache 2.2 on Windows 7 to folder: "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2". Unfortunately, all folders in "Program Files" are for "read only". When I removes this flag from ...
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How to compare server hard drives?

What are the metrics and their priorities to compare various hard drives and their accessories for servers?
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Nginx rewrite rule equivalent to Apache version

I'm using the PHPThumb script to resize image in a little slider/carousel on my blog, www.muylinux.com. I've completed the migration from Cherokee (we had problems with this webserver) to Nginx, but ...
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How to make a subdomain record point to a subfolder of my website "godaddy domain manager"?

I have a dedicated server on a webhosting company "not godaddy", and I manage my domains through godaddy. I want to add a new subdomain and want this domain to point to a certain folder in my website. ...
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ubuntu 9.10 Rc scripts no honored

I have created following rc.{#}d structure; however my ssh server is not starting. I see Kill - /etc/rc0.d/K84ssh /etc/rc1.d/K84ssh /etc/rc2.d/K84ssh /etc/rc4.d/K84ssh /etc/rc6.d/K84ssh Start - /...
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What is a "Cloud Provider"?

Sorry if this is the wrong S/E for this type of question. Well, I am asking what is a "Cloud Provider"? Is it just a hosting site? Is it something special? I know that the "Cloud" means internet, ...
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Linux server memory upgrade partially invisible

Yesterday, I replaced two 256MB DIMMs in a server of mine (dating from 2006 or 2007, I think) by two new 1GB DIMMS. I also upgraded the Linux kernel from 2.6.30 to 2.6.35. Now, top and free report I ...
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