how can i get a file or directory to be owned by two people? (have read/write permissions) i understand this involves groups, so i added user www-data to group user, then did chown www-data:user dir but i am not getting the effect i want. more details: all my web projects are rooted in drop b...

I was tasked to install revision control software intergrated with a bug tracker for the production team on a server (self-host). My boss prefer "ease-of-use" rather than "speed" as the project that will be developed are kinda small (eLearning materials). After researching on various SCM &...

Is it better to have user logins based on a unique number or the users name. eg Numeric: sc12345 Based on name: simon.cropp, scropp or simoncropp Some context. Windows environment MS Active Directory

Alright, I'm just learning how to work with AD, so I have two VMWare virtual machines set up. The server, running Windows Server 2008 - r2 (elron), and the client, Windows 7 64bit (). I know the virtual machines can talk to each other, because each can ping each other (by IP). I created an AD ins...

looking for a security to secure MySQL server. i am trying SSL using OpenSSL but I have no idea on how to do it for Windows without the shell command line. are they any more direct or easier security for MySQL server? anyone have any idea? thanks.

I can see how to alert when a regex appears in a log file. I can see how to alert when a regex does not appear on EVERY line of a log file. But I can't see how to alert when a regex has not appeared in a log file over a period of time. I could create a bash script which regex's the file for me, ...

So I have a RAID5 spanning across 5 disk. Last week, we had 1 drive completely went bad, plus another drive that mdadm took offline due to bad sectors. I got a new drive and mdadm is rebuilding it. However, I notice that later, YET ANOTHER drive (3rd drive) went offline with a bad sector. So ...

I have an Amazon AWS instance that is hanging after a reboot. I can tell via the System Log in the AWS control panel that it is waiting for me to type in my SSL passphrase: ... [80G [74G[ OK ] * Starting periodic command scheduler crond [80G [74G[ OK ] * Starting web s...

I always use more than one terminal, but always have to type login information in each one before using. How can I specify in inittab to only prompt for login info in tty1, and after successiful login automatically logon with the same user in all other virtual terminals?

We are going to implement LDAP for centralized authentication in our organization. Which is the best simple LDAP management tool available ?

We are attempting to install ServletExec and get this puzzling error during the installation: we can install to XPSP2 with out getting the error. we get the error when attempting to install on server 2003 hosts. however we have an existing installation of ServletExec on another 2003sp2 host ...

Hi, How to get list of all newly added files on a branch in clearcase which are already checkedin

My brother runs a comedy venue. He wants a LAMP stack running on a cheap old PC I'll supply with NanoDNS and Apache configured so that all patrons of the venue can order drinks via wireless from their iPhone/Android phones. This means all DNS requests need to redirect to one IP (which NanoDNS do...

My brother runs a comedy venue. He wants a LAMP stack running on a cheap old PC I'll supply with NanoDNS and Apache configured so that all patrons of the venue can order drinks via wireless from their iPhone/Android phones. This means all DNS requests need to redirect to one IP (which NanoDNS do...

We have Subversion running on our Debian development server. We have setup a post-commit hook to checkout the contents of the repository to /var/www/ourwebsite There are about 2GB worth of files and each checkout takes about 10-15 minutes. If we are simply changing a couple lines of code, it w...

I am writing a large PHP application (with setup) for the first time and am wondering about the security precautions I should take for permissions. setup.php uses uses fopen/fwrite to generate a config.php based on POST data that comes from setup.php. This works, but it seems that I cannot write...

Hi! Easy question this time.... I have a installation file, and a registry edit in my script. How do I set up a ODBC-connection as well, actually I need to script up 2 ODBC-connections. Any advice for me?

i'm writting a application running as service (an agent in background) and i search an api for asking the kernel to know if someone is connecting to the station or not (like the who command in unix world)

Hello, I have a Windows 2008 server and 4 other client machines on my home network. I have two internet connections. The main connection is setup with a home router and DHCP on that for all the clients on the network. The secondary connection is just a cable modem which is plugged directly into ...

On a linux server, how do you find out how long the DNS cache expiry time is? Thanks

Hi All, After debugging for 6-hours - I am giving this up :| We have a nginx+php-fpm+mysql in LAN with almost 100 wordpress (created and used by different designers/developers all working on test wordpres setup) We are using nginx without any issues from long. Today, all of a sudden - nginx s...

after execute $svn list command i found a large number of repository ...and it is complex to find all repository(some svn repository exist in folder within folder within folder and so on) ...if you can help me by give me a method to design a something to write this repository list in excel sheet ...

Domain started out as a 32 but windows server 2003 then I upgrded to 32 bit windows server 2008 standard sp2 but my windows 7 machines just dont proform right. doing some reserch I am seeing that 64 bit windows server 2008 R2 is the perferred NOS for running windows7 host workstations. Will wind...

Hi, Is it possible to Link two user accounts to the same exchange mailbox ? (exchange 2003) Thanks Alex

Hi, Is it possible to Link two user accounts to the same exchange mailbox ? (exchange 2003) Thanks Alex

I use a MacBook Pro as my primary machine, but my work targets Linux servers. I'm currently on a project with multiple dependencies, and which is configured for Ubuntu. Configuring all these dependencies on OSX is a pain. I've been through Macports, Fink and Homebrew. They are all nice, but the...

Hello! Our customer when he opens our website instead of the website itself sees the following mistake: "error: setting the last user activity" IF he refreshes the webpage, then the website opens up ok. The customer uses IE 8 What could be a problem and the nature of this error? Thanks for your...

I have 50 GB on servers in switzerland, that need to be copied over our wan connection. After the data is migrated we'll switch the users to our newer server based computing solution. The only problem is that it's live data. So I was wondering if there is a way to copy the 40 GB before the migra...

How can I setup inadyn to load on Ubuntu startup?

Hi, I am totally new to JBoss. Basically i am needed to setup a JBoss clustering environment on windows. Meaning, JBossA sits on machine A and JBossB sits on machine B. So when JBossA fails, it will redirect the clients to JBossB. I have downloaded the enterprise-installer-5.0.1.jar. After whi...

Hi all, I need to delete files older than two days inside a folder, except files last modified the 1st of each month. Forfiles does not support exceptions. Operating System is Windows Server 2003. Any idea? Thank you all for help!

Hi All, I've been encountering problems getting into Citrix from certain sites in our WAN. Everything points to proxy configuration so I've been trying to debug the current PAC file which is used by the machines on our network. Using the excellent PacParser library, I've discovered that when tr...

Is there any standard http header which a ssl termination point should set? I'm asking because currently we have a loadbalancer which is the termination for https. Behind there's an application server, and at the moment we have no clue wether the request came over http or https. Should the loadba...

Goal: join a Solaris 10 machine to an existing Active Directory. Steps I did: Installed software (Samba 3.4.2 from http://www.sunfreeware.com) Received a Kerberos ticket with kinit admin-user@KERB.EXAMPLE.ORG Join domain: net ads join -U admin-user Start Samba and winbind All steps are ok, c...

In the results for netstat what does the [::] mean? example [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN

Hi, I am having a real issue with windows FTP server. We have it running in passive mode due to the firewall restrictions. Most of it works fine. People can connect, get and put files and list directories, but filezilla keeps failing to list one directory. I get the following: Command: L...

Hi all! I am developing a video surveillance system that records and streams back many video streams from many remote IP cameras. One server would be run on one machine that handles around 500 video streams (250kbps per video stream). One server would be a part of large server farm which is con...

My query ./mysqlslap --user=root --concurrency=50 --iterations=1 --pass=toor -vv --create-schema=db --query="SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy ON (wp_term_relation...

Hi IT experts and pros! First Question: I would like to inform myself about NetApp, and I'm looking for a good, complete database where all products and solultions are regrouped, with their features and technical informations. The website is full of informations, but I'd like something more c...

Can anyone with experience of implmementing / running a Lucene.NET solution recommend rough system specifications for a live environment. Is it processor, memory or disk intensive. Does it only use a single processor, so having a box with multiprocessors / cores wouldn't return much benefit, et...

Running GPEDIT.msc: Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Account Policies > Password Policy I am unable to change any of these policies as they appear to be locked (the icons have a little padlock against them and when I open properties all the options are greyed out) ...

Hello, We want to setup/configure AutoScaling on Amazon EC2 services using some GUI Intrerface. Is it possible to do? As per our research, we found that it can be setup via API Queries or commandline tools only. Is it correct? Thanks in advance

Is there any way of creating a public folder calendar using the Exchange Management Shell? Outlook is not installed on the Exchange Server nor do I want to install it. Access is very limited to client computers so I would rather create it from the server itself. Surely it can't be that difficu...

I'm going to setup a Linux server on a remote site. This server will be absolutly clean, nothing installed on it. People on remote site will receive the server, plug in network, power on and put in a CD/DVD. They cannot do anymore. I cannot get the server before for initial setup. I was thinkin...

I upgraded from windows vista to windows 7 yesterday. The upgrade went fine and windows properly detected the screen resolutions, but when I selected 1920x1080 it worked but I got black sidebars. This was using the latest driver release from Ati. I also noticed that the selectable refreshrates mi...

how i can execute more than one command at the same time ? (OS = sun solaris)

My mac server's processors are showing 100% on all the four processors. I am running server 10.5.8 and this server is the master LDAP controller Looking at the activity monitor, I find that the process 'slapd' is hogging all processing time What could be the issue here

If I host an ASP.NET page with: <%@ Page Language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html> <script runat="server"> protected void btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { lbl.Text = HttpContext.Current.Session["a"] == null ? "null" : ...

I am upgrading a client's 2003 Terminal Server soon and they still need to run a 16 bit DOS app. I know R2 won't support this, but would prefer to use it anyway if there was a way around it via virtualization. Would it be possible to install a 32bit guest OS to run the 16 bit app, and have the r...

I am trying to setup a 2-node cluster with NLB on Windows Server 2008 R2 standard. One the first node (node A) I successfully create a cluster containing it. However, when from node A I attempt to add node B to the cluster it fails with the following error message: "The specified host is alread...

A new domain with a new domain controller for the engineering department was recently installed in the workplace. A GPO needs to be created to include various password policies, account lockout policies, audit policies, local user rights, and security options. The GPO has to be able to be applied...

Hi, We are new to AIX environment, and experiencing some performance issue running our application. When it happens, we use the vmstat command and found the fre value under memory usually very low. A sample is as follow System configuration: lcpu=4 mem=3920MB kthr memory pa...

I need to monitor a SaaS by going to a specific URL (is currently done either manually in a browser or by sending an HTTP request programatically in C# ) and if the response is other than HTTP response code 200, send an email and/or sms to predefined list of addresses/phone numbers. We'd like to...

Is there an usb soundcard with linux support and 192khz sampling rate? It's pretty hard to find one..

Hi, I want to setup magento enterprise edition for my site for that i want to go for two environments like one is development& testing environment and another one is live site. But i have only one server hosting with rackspace. Is there any possibility to separate two different environments ...

Hello Is there any way to limit amount of emails user can send per day ? I run different php.ini for every user so ideal would be to limit this in .ini file ty.

I wish I had found this before starting in, but it's too late for that... I am running CentOS 5.5. I started following this guide for setting up two NICs on different networks. Everything was going fine until I hit this step: This part allow the routing to the direct neigbor over the good...

I'm currently running Exchange 2003 SP2 Cluster on a Server 2003 AD Forest (in native 2003 mode), and we beginning to plan the upgrade to Server 2008 AD and Exchange 2010. We have two main sites, one middle-sized office, and a couple of smaller sites which have DCs (which may be RODCs after the ...

I have problem with a new HP ProLiant DL320 G6 server. From the beginning it had to less memory, and now I have ordered more memory two times. Now I am struggling to populate the server with these memories. I have two memories: HP 4GB 2Rx4 PC3-10600R-9 Kit How should I populate them on the moth...

A while back, we set up an internal microsoft certificate server to issue certificates to our internal servers. However, when a certificate expires, we do not realize it until we start getting errors in our applications. Is there a way to set up the certificate services to generate e-mail notif...

I'm attempting to use the below reference to create a re-direct for my local site with no luck. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/6b855a7a-0884-4508-ba95-079f38c77017.mspx?mfr=true I want absolute links on my local site that point online to point to my l...

Hi All, We have Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic installed on our network and Windows Media Player is set as the default to play DVDs, CD's, Music, etc. Is there a way in AD to change to Media Player Classic?

I'm on a Windows 2003/2008 corporate network with 100 users. I've been tasked with increasing the RAM on all end-user workstations. The problem is we have a mixture of different computers in our environment. Some are Dell, some HP, and some workstations we built from scratch. Needless to say,...

Hi I have a server on a network I used SelfSSL to generate the certificate when I tick "Require Secure communication" option in a website security tab, the web site cannot be opened anymore. Thanks

When trying to install IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2 Using the following script as described in this technet article I get errors about "encountered unknown option "featurename" with the value .... " Script: CMD /C START /w PKGMGR.EXE /l:log.etw /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHtt...

I'm having this problem with two programs: Visual Studio 2008 and Notepad++. If I'm making a webpage and I add a debugger statement to the javascript, it opens up a prompt asking me if I want to debug. If I then click "new instance of VS2008", it will try to open it but fail and give me an error...

I'm looking for a preferably free NTP Server for Windows Server 2003/2008. We have already tried the built in Windows Time Server, but our tests did show that it is not very accurate, we see time differences up to 500ms. The max time difference we can allow for our application is ~100ms. Now we ...

My computer is called "neil" and I want to set some values using WMI in vbScript. I adapetd the script below from one supplied by Microsoft. When I run it in my browser I get Error Type: (0x80041003) /dressage/30/pdf2.asp, line 8 I suspect it is some registry/security setting. Any advice? J...

We're using RHEL 5.4 and need to clone some hard drives. What would be a good (or "correct") way to do this? I'd like to avoid using dd if I can, since that's somewhat slow. (If that's the only choice, however, then so be it.) A few caveats: 1) Using other distros is not possible - inlcuding li...

I'm having a bit of an issue getting roaming profiles setup with Server 2008 R2. Here are the permissions that I have set on the roaming profile share: Share Permissions Administrators - Full SYSTEM - Full Authenticated Users - Full NTFS Permissions Administrators - Full CREATOR OWNER - Full...

Hello, Instalsled a fresh Centos installation today, anyway, I'm facing a problem. I tried to customize my Gnome look by downloading and installing a theme from gnome-look.org. The problem is that after I install theme, I choose its name on the list and...nothing happens. Just nothing. I tried ...

Have you watched the full video of the episode at True Blood Season 3 Episode 12 ?

I have been researching System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2 and struggling to swallow the SCCM pill. The tool seems outdated and not well equipped for managing an environment with the latest versions of Server 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, etc. I need software...

Hello! I went through a painful Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration and faced a new problem - the utility I used for Active Directory management does not support Exchange 2010. Please advice a piece of software that could help (I run network for less than 1000 users). Features I need to be...

Hello! I went through a painful Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration and faced a new problem - the utility I used for Active Directory management does not support Exchange 2010. Please advice a piece of software that could help (I run network for less than 1000 users). Features I need to be...

Hi, I have a large (6mb) PDF file which is static content on an IIS web site. If the web site is on IIS7 (windows server 2008 r2 64-bit) and the user is using Acrobat 7, the download stalls and acrobat hangs, sometimes with an error saying the file could not be read. This happens for different ...

How do i redirect one domain (www.abc.in) to another domain (xyz.com.) in DNS Server setup in forward Zone file ? thanks !!

I want to look at Web Analytics reports older than 30 days in SharePoint Foundation 2010. According to TechNet, I should be able to: Log onto Central Administration as a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group. In Central Administration, on the Home page, click Monitoring. On the Mon...

Hello, I'm looking into possible ideas for off site backup for my SQL Server database backups. I have a ton of space a dream host. I could create a SFTP account and automatically SFTP new backups to that site. And store them in a folder the the public cannot access. However I was also looking a ...

http://www.openstack.org/ I'm looking for a good cloud hosting company with utility style costs (paying for how much bandwidth, hard disk, cpu is used.

I have three Tomcat instances running behind an HAProxy. When I roll out changes to my web applications, I'd like to do a rolling deploy (i.e. bounce one Tomcat at a time) so users don't see any downtime. How do I do this? I see that a running instance of haproxy can be hot-reconfigured (which...

I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. I migrated a server from NW6.5SP8 to OES2 Linux. All the trustees on the NSS volumes came over and at some point in the past week, they started being ignored. It's almost as if all the users have supervisor rights from the top down. I don't see this ...

Hi, I have two systems and I need to setup a folder on one of them that is completely read/write-able by the other. Questions: 1) How do I setup NFS on the server(s)? It is not installed as an available filesystem/module. 2) Where should I place this folder / what is the conventional place for ...

I want buy host apache windows but i dont see how to buy. I should buy host Linux or Windows order to have Apache server ? Now, i have free host but type server is IIS -Windows, what i change to have apache server I use cakePHP...

Due to a failing harddrive on my windows homeserver where my personal subversion repository resided im having some missing repository files (the files in db/revs/n/nnnn), and thus my checkins/checkouts are failing… Is there any hope of recreating those files in any way or am i going to have to h...

Dear All, I am intending to use cloud computer for my test lab. As this will required 4-5 hrs of daily testing, I am looking for a cloud server provider charges at reduced rate (or not at all) if my machines are off. Can anyone please advice me few names ? Thanks in advance. Cheers

Hi there! I want to get computer reachable from the Internet, but I don't have a public IP. It's because I am connected through my provider's NAT. Due I have a own server in the Internet, I want go through my server in the Internet and additionally forward a couple of ports to my network. How c...

CentOS 5.x My CentOS server appears to have jumped ahead 7 months. I'm not sure how or why. Are there any logs in CentOS that could provide more insight here? Unfortunately, ntpd was not running. I've since configured/enabled it and the time/date has been corrected. -M

I have to automate several tasks on a windows 2003 server machine. I have been struggling with all sorts of quirks in windows batch files (like the lack of SLEEP command and the fact that WMIC is not PSEXEC friendly...). Is there a free resource out there that can act as a reference for windows s...

The situation is this, I have a desktop machine at home and a work laptop which i connect to my home network via wireless. I then connect to my works network using a vpn. When the VPN is connected on the work laptop all of the remote machines are visible on my desktop so it looks like hundreds o...

I have a machine containing a large number of files that were originally created on a mac with some sort of special character in the name (not sure what). When I do an ls in a bash terminal, these files show up something like the following: $ ls -al ls: cannot access ._BLM?OAS: No such file or d...

I'm trying to trace the source of postgres queries identified by a pid. Normally you can do this by finding the client_addr and client_port fields in the pg_stat_activity table. However, some entries have client_port -1 or NULL. What does this mean and how can one go about finding the source of ...

There are several things that are keeping IPv6 deployment from being a topic of active discussion here at my work. There are the usual technical issues, but one non-technical one appears to be a major stumbling block on the path to actually getting a deployment project going. Addresses, memorizi...

I have one SSL certificate that is valid for multiple domains. It's not a wildcard cert and it is not for sub-domains. I have the site1 setup properly on IIS7 with the SSL cert bound properly. This binding for site1 maps * IPs with no host header to port 443. I need to setup site2, a totally dif...

I'm trying to compare 2 versions of a backup software product. I setup all IO to go to a dedicated drive. Is there a way with performance monitor (or anything else) to track the number of IO operations. I know I can measure disk queue length and different stats like that, but I'd like to know t...

I am running the version of softwares mentioned in subject. Apache was installed from standard centos repo, fastcgi was install from http://centos.karan.org/kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo and PHp was manually compiled and install to /usr/local/php5-fastcgi. I keep getting 5xx Server errors when i tr...

I need to add another secure instance of Tomcat in a server that already uses port 80 and port 433. Is there any way to hide the port number of the new instance, since I'll need to use one which is not universally accepted? Thanks in advance.

I need to add another secure instance of Tomcat in a server that already uses port 80 and port 433. Is there any way to hide the port number of the new instance, since I'll need to use one which is not universally accepted? Thanks in advance.

Greetings, I have a Windows Web Server 2008 VPS and two client machines. One is a Windows 7 box and the other XP. I configured one folder as a share on the 2008 box and attempted to mount it on each of the clients. The catch is it won't work with XP. Same username/password but I get Access g...

Greetings, I have a Windows Web Server 2008 VPS and two client machines. One is a Windows 7 box and the other XP. I configured one folder as a share on the 2008 box and attempted to mount it on each of the clients. The catch is it won't work with XP. Same username/password but I get Access g...