I have a weird problem. I have a MacBook with Snow Leopard installed. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate in another partition via Boot Camp. Before this afternoon, my wireless internet worked in the Windows partition (which is my default). I installed the Boot Camp update that was requeste...

I updated my iptables in unbuntu 10.04, but it doesn't seem to be having any affect on the opened ports. When I run iptables --list, the following line shows up Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywher...

I'd like to see if a hard disk is being actively used right now (a hddled-like indicator) and what particular files are being accessed. How can I achieve this in command line with SSH?

Hi, is it possible to do a rewrite rule in a htaccess that redirects from www.example.com/index.php, to www.example.com? Thanks!

Hey guys, we got a new linux server for the office, and my boss decided I would install the software, but I have no clue what software to use. I am looking for network drive support for window boxes (both laptop, and desktops) on our local LAN, and a SFTP. I also need a nice user/group sys...

I wonder, if there are any faster builds of zlib around with more advanced optimizations? If it's possible to optimize it using SSE instructions or Intel C++ compiller, or some trick which were patented earlier (I know patents were a serious limitation during gzip/zlib development), ha...

I have the following problem: Connect:Direct client process does not return after successfully delivering a file. It just hangs forever. I wonder if anyone has any idea why that might happen.

Yesterday we got some connections timeouts running a specific stored procedure in a SQL Server 2008 instance. after a while it starts to work as usual, and there weren't any additional timeout errors. So I'm trying to get additional info about the error. Does SQL server 2008 ha...

When I do doesntexist.example.com It shows a parking page rather than just not resolving (that's what I want). Is there anyway to stop name.com from redirecting my domains like that?

I have a asp.net 3.5 web application running fine on Windows2003 IIS6. I published same exact application to IIS7.5 (Win2008R2) on a faster box (i5,8Gram) and it is significantly slower. 5-6 sec per page vs. 1-2 sec per page. During that time the Task Mgr CPU is always under 10%. Both attach t...

I have the following situation: I have a production site running on SQL 2005 Express (only because it's free), and it's a reasonably big DB, and i'm always incredibly close to the 4 Gb limit. Every now and then I actually hit it and it's a big mess. Now that SQL 2008 Express has 10Gb a...

I have a vlan configured behind a PIX and the main network can get to the internet but the vlan devices cannot get to the internet. I have tried configuring a virtual vlan interface on the inside interface but that didn't help either. Any suggestions?

I have a simple (and working) network setup on a Procurve switch. VLAN 10 is LAN VLAN 20 is WAN The Comcast connection is plugged into a port that is an untagged member of VLAN 20. The Firewall WAN interface is plugged into a port that is an untagged member of VLAN 20. One of our serve...

What is the difference between renice and chrt commands in Linux?

Hello, I've created a JavaFX program, which works fine when I upload it to my webserver. But when I upload it to Heart Internet's server, it returns the wrong content type when I try to open a xxx.JNLP file. It gives text/xml not application/x-java-jnl...

I am trying to get authentication and authorization working with my ASP MVC project. I've run the aspnet_regsql.exe tool without any problem and see the aspnetdb database on my server (using the Management Studio tool). my connection string in my web.config is: ...

Looking for open source Twitter / Facebook alternatives for use in the workplace... any suggestions? I see some pages for things like echowaves, but looking for a list of options/thoughts. Preferably Ruby based :). Thanks in advance.

Hey all, I'm trying to move to another domain, but have many subdomains under the existing domain. All the subdomains will be the same but just mapped with the new domain. [subdomain].xyz.com => [subdomain].abc.com The DNS is set up so all requests are going to the proper box,...

Every now and then a bunch of really slow HTTP clients decide to suck down pages off my web site. This is bad because when enough of them do this, it dramatically lowers the number of free Apache processes available to handle requests from the rest of the world. I don't know if it's some lame ...

When writing documentations about a system I usually can use the sysinfo command on the command line to output most configurations and Hardware Specs. This saves a lot of time and makes the job of documenting a system (a little bit) easier. Now I would like to know if the same is possible for ...

I've been using Virtual PC XP on windows-7 and it keeps loosing the password. But even worse I now have a windows-7 user called "le" when before I always log on as "Developer" ! I assume it is the same account because the password works. I've been using the new Virtual PC integ...

Hi! I'm running a Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 XServe, its job is to provide file services to a group of graphic designers. They really liked the idea of Spotlight server and it was running well for a year or so. A while a go they told me that they can't find a file which is there for sure s...

I am moving resources from Mac and Unix boxes onto our windows storage server. I need to replicate permissions from Mac and Unix using the users active directory equivalent. So: File A On Location A With Permissions A to File A On Location B With Permissions B

We're about to do a major office move, which will involve re-cabling everything in our premises. We're in two floors of a single office building, with 2-4 comms cabinets on each floor; each of these cabinets contains a Catalyst 3560; currently these are all connected to a single "core" switc...

I have problem on site to site vpn as i show in description.Cant establish tunnel ,i get error 3 713902 IP = 80.65.70.100, Invalid packet detected! 5 713041 IP = 80.65.70.100, IKE Initiator: New Phase 1, Intf inside, IKE Peer 80.65.70.100local Proxy Address 10.151.11.216, ...

I have feeling that mine mysql server is slower than normal while processing queries from the PHP website. Is there anything like i can allocate more resources to Mysql server to make it speedy? I don't know much about this , So need your help . I am on Ubuntu 10 serve...

Im using IIS7 with the URL rewrite module and I can not make it work properly. The rule looks like this in web.config <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="Redirect to new enviroment" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="defaul...

I am making some HTTP Live Streaming files (an Apple based way to segment video files so they can be 'streamed' by downloading specific chunks of a file (more info)). It's possible to 'encrypt' each of the segments w...

I'd like to use user_xattr on my ext4 filesystem, running 2.6.32-4-xen-686 on Debian 5.0.5. mylah:/space# mount /dev/mapper/mraid-space on /space type ext4 (rw,user_xattr,acl) mylah:/space# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/mraid-space tune2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Filesystem magic number...

So, I have the following question: Given a server with public (routable) ip's, let's say: x.y.z.1, x.y.z.2, x.y.z.3 - x.y.z.31, I want to configure OpenVPN as a proxy or masquerade server for some clients as follows: each client has a unique public static ip address: a.b.c.d. He will connect t...

I am trying to find a pattern in some random wireless connectivity issues. We have an Apple Airport as access point. Normally we have both a MAC and a Sony Vaio with Ubuntu installed, and everything works fine. Whenever a second MAC is added, it looks like the Ubuntu Sony Vaio ...

Hello, I plan to host email services on Ubuntu (Is the distribution I'm more familiar with). I just want to offer really decent email services including: Easy account creation by custommer Good webmail interface Spam filtering. Is ...

Hi, I fired up fdisk and got this warning: WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to sectors (command 'u'). I didn't even know that my previous Linux ins...

I have a (as it seems to me) strange problem with my DVD burner (Sony AD7540A) which I would like to use as master device on a IDE bus. There is a HDD on the bus as well that should be (is) the slave dev...

Hi everybody,,,I just to know what is the major difference between win server 2008 ent edittion and std edition, what is support, functionality, pls tell me.....

I am trying to get PSPELL 0.5.3 to work (i use Apache 2.2.12). I used the latest win32 installer and installed the latest german and english dictionaries from the GNU page. Now when executing this test snippet functio...

Hey, we try to monitor the file age on some of our workstations. Works fine with NSClient++ - but we do not want to get any CRITICALs when the computer is shut down. For the host, we do have a dummy check, returning OK every check. But when the workstation is offline, the check for the...

How to change primary user group of a user? Preferably without losing the current primary group altogether as the user is part of 'staff' ie. admin. I suppose I could create another admin user and then recreate the original user, but is there a simpler way?

Today we run DataBK SQL Server Backup for our MS SQL Server backups. This is a small simple backup application that works very well. THE MAIN FEATURE for the QUESTION: The reason that it was choosed is the STORAGESERVER feature that allows us to ins...

I would like to install a monitoring services (Monit or others) on my web server and am looking for recommendation. I have no idea which is good, and what parameters which I should evaluate on, and which is a good for for my needs. Some which I saw and am evaluating are

I am new to network topic. What is the difference between DNS alias name and the primary DNS suffix? By primary DNS suffix I mean, My computer >> properties >> Computer Name >> Change >> More >> Primary DNS suffix of this computer (in Windows 2003 server). Thanks.

We need /usr/local/bin in cron's path! this way: discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=213759 didnt work for us.

Hi :) I want to create an email account which will accept image attachments. download the attachments, process the images with the batch script I have ... please tell me which email server I should use to do this ( Linux only ) and also please tell me if I can use gmail account to do this ?? t...

We are already hosting one website on the server and want to host another one that is LOCAL only ie(192.X.XX.XXX/Website) how do we need to set up IIS to handle this? The local site does not need to be seen from the outside world, only those on our direct network.

An application running on one of my VMs is experiencing memory issues, what logs on ESX are available and where for me to consult regarding exceptions, memory issues etc for each VM?

On a Mediatemple gridserver, I'm trying to run this by a cron set in the control panel: python /home/xxxxx/html/sitemap_gen.py --config=/home/xxxxx/html/config.xml But I get the error "python: can't open file '/home/95809/html/sitemap_gen.py': [Errno 2] No suc...

Hi guys, We currently serve most of our Rails and LAMP apps over Apache and Apache passenger, but we're considering adding Nginx or Varnish as a reverse proxy to reduce the load on our servers somewhat. I'm aware that you can use Varnish and Nginx together, but given t...

I set up Ubuntu Desktop 10.0.4 LTS i386 on a PC and installed openssh-server (default port 22), neatx (NX), nessus (over https) This Ubuntu system and my Macintosh were on the same network when I set it up and tested it. I was able to access ssh, https, neatx from Mac > Ubuntu while on...

Hello I've been trying to get this server working but so far no luck. I have an ESXi v4 server collocate where I'm being supplied one public IP. By default the management interface is attached to the physical NIC so right now I'm able to connect to server using vSphere client. I tried using...

I've been following this guide on how to setup svn and trac. Svn was already running, and is functioning as expected, but trac is not. When I go to the t...

Hello, i am a professional in web software development but know little about hosting. I selected Bluehost because of good reviews. Every day i experience between 30 min and 2 hour downtime, which is in direct contradiction to all i read about this Hoster. My problem now, how do...

Hello! This may be a very simple question, but I'm not sure what the best solution would be. Thanks in advance for your help! We have a couple of users in our domain that need to access network shares (remotely. We don't have a VPN set up, and in the past this had been accompli...

I cannot create a new SCVMM VM from a template. The creation fails with: Error (10644) Virtual Machine Manager cannot access the WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) Image Manager DLLs. Recommended Action Install WAIK and ensure that the Image Manager DLLs...

Base licence configured CISCO ASA 5505 is not capable of routing based on interpretation of the inbound http request headers - affectively host header redirect - am I correct? If I am correct will an upgrade from the base licence help me - or is device not the best for this type of req...

Hi I am using a ASA5520 with 8.2.2(ED) Image and the RDP Java Plugin for Termialserver connections. The version of the Plugin is 1.1.1. "rdp-plugin.090915.jar" and "rdp2-plugin.090211.jar" everything is working fine, except the fact that clients are not able to do fullscreen. ...

Hi, I'm generating large filesets (~20GB) nightly on a single Windows host and multicasting them out to about ten other hosts (also Windows) using uftp. I've had to write my own wrapper to make this work and it needs a central controller with full knowledge of the network. I'd much r...

What is the best way to monitor a rails app that is behind a login page? We are currently using Zabbix for all of our monitoring needs, but based on this forum post it doesn't seem like it is currently possible due...

Found this problem that mirrors mine exactly: serverfault.com/questions/125395/… However, VMware tools didn't fix this for me.

I am used to using profilers for software development. I have had multiple windows pcs which all have slowed down over time, as well as had work PCs become slower. I understand this is probably the fault of programs that are installed, but I have no way of identifying the culprits. Is there a ...

I have a web server which serves some content from an nfs filesystem mounted like so; nfsserver1:/somemount /var/www/html/somefiles nfs rw,soft 0 0 # mount | grep nfs nfsserver1:/somemount on /var/www/html/somefiles type nfs (ro,soft,addr=xx.xx.xx.xx) ...

I am running vsftpd 2.2.1 on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine with a pretty straight-forward configuration and am experiencing a strange issue regarding uploads to the machine via FTP. If I upload text files the transfer speed is about 70 KB/s, if I upload binary data (zip file, etc.) the transfer spee...

The current way we authenticate wireless users is to pass their credentials to a NPS server and allow as long as their credentials pass Active Directory. I'd like to put users that either fail the AD check (bad password, no account, etc), invalid authentication attempts (we only use PE...

Hi All. First, I am not sure if Varnish can be used as web-cache to speedup internet in small offices. We have an office with 20 systems around and we frequently browse same set of websites. I setup squid and it worked fine for sometime. But I couldn't get to cache yout...

I wrote a web proxy that runs as it's own service, and I'd like to use ssl with it. in order to do that, I need to install a cert and bind it to port 443 using netsh. How do I generate the CSR for the cert? I don't have IIS 7 installed, so even if I could use a CSR created ...

I've seen an increase in spam recently, and a lot of it has included .html attachments. Some emails masquerade as bounce messages, encouraging users to open the HTML to see what message bounced. Others use similar techniques to trick the user into opening the file. I'm considering blocking ...

I am trying to set a custom environment variable in Windows 7. When I create it, it exists for that session (i.e. in DOS when the command window is open, or in Powershell when the ISE is open) - however, when I close the session the variable disappears? How do I make it permane...

When linkedIn sends and email to you about adding someone to your network, the email appears to come from this person's individual email address (not something@linkedin.com). To me it doesn't seem like a 'reply-to' header either but perhaps i'm missing something. Seems like it would be...

I compiled a program from source on mac os x which tells me to use the supplied example config files, but how can I run a specific config file? Readme shows what to edit in the config but not how to load it. More specifically this program (github.com/carsonmcdonald/HTTP-Live-Vid...

I'm in the market for a sub-$1000 NAS solution for a small development/QA network. Needs to be reliable and something we won't worry about overnight, but does not need to be bulletproof/5 nines/what have you. A few avenues we have explored are: the Sans Digital AccuNAS se...

I've set up this post to discuss how users choose to set up their filesystems, such as: HDD Interface RAID / LVM Mount points Partition Size Filesystem Type Thanks to all for posting!

I have a raid with two USB drives in a mirroring setup. It works pretty well, but the USB bus is pretty flaky and about once a week, for reasons unknown to me (apparently nothing relevant in the logs) a drive will disappear and come back on a different /dev path. Now, mdadm does a great job ...

We're moving a small remote office to a new location which means a new internet connection and a new router. I noticed that they are configured currently to use the remote gateway through the VPN, thus all their internet traffic goes through the connection in the central office which just seem...

I have a few 1u rack mount servers sitting around that are running nicely but have older CPUs (eg. AMD Opteron 252's). I was thinking of throwing some new CPUs and extra memory in to get a performance boost. What's a good way to figure out what CPUs (if any) are compatible?

Hi, I'd like to get the timezone of a system. Now some caveats... Im using Linux, and the target systems will be UNIX. I'll be using only system images, ie. not the live system, but the partitions will be mounted. I'll eventually be scripting it.

I am trying to get php with sqlite working on my fedora server. In the phpinfo is see that ./configure was set with the option --without-sqlite3. From what I have read these means that I might have to recompile or reinstall php with with sqlite. I was wondering how I would go about installing ...

Hello, Some-thing or Some-one is changing file permissions occasionally on files on my Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. I'd like to track these changes. Initially I thought one could do this with Auditing via the Default Domain Controllers Policy, but while there is File ...

Hi, I am using Google Apps to send mail through my private domain. I have used WHM to set my DNS TXT record to "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all" for mydomain.com. as

We have a virtual dedicated server with a fairly large amount of traffic. We use GoDaddy using CPanel. We have 10GIG of space of which about 80% is not our content but logs and server utilities. Godaddy support is evasive and they are trying to encourage us to migrate to new service wi...

Hi! What'is the alternate command for "net send" on computer running windows-7? I've try "msg", but this command, seems cannot send message to one computer over the lan. Thank you Luciano

I have an exchange server 2003 running in Windows 2003. I have an unnamed program that listened for incoming mail, signs it with DKIM and then should relay it back to the Exchange server. I am a little lost on how to configure the SMTP in exchange 2003 system manager to relay sent mail...

I have a web application that I have created that uses the basic asp.net authentication. The authentication systems are working fine code-wise, however I cannot get IIS7 to send the cookies to IE web browsers. When I browse to my site in Chrome or Firefox, everything works great and...

I just hooked up a Dell PowerConnect 2824 in 'unmanaged mode' into our network and our router, a DLink DI-524, will no longer ...

Managing EC2 access keys and X.509 certificates can become challenging when you start do deal with large numbers of instances. Do any EC2 users here have good policies and/or tools for: rotating EC2 access keys and X.509 certificates preventing copies of keys / certs fr...

Hello, how can I unlock a bitloker-locked disk via batch (or cmd line)? Thx

Hi there, I'm running a VPS and have several websites being served under 1 Apache instance. Issue with this is that I'm working on a Django application which would probably require me to restart Apache. Is there any issue to running multiple instances of Apache and each one would be s...

I have 2 servers running 1 website. Server #1 is dedicated to Apache, serving the website files to the Internet. Server #2 is dedicated to MySQL, serving the database to the Server #1. Gigabit ethernet connects the 2 servers. The problem I'm having is with Server #2, when traffic spik...

I know that PCoIP can route display, sound and power controls over Ethernet to a remote user. But for my new workstation, the vendor is not providing PCoIP support but only IPMI. I want to know that if I would be able to route true video output with all OpenGL and 3D rendering at the server (u...

Environment OS : Windows Server 2008 Architecture : 32 bit Service pack level : SP2 Edition : Enterprise Intent : Stand-alone test workstation, not part of a domain or a work group. I did a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 32...

We have a VM Ware ESXi virtual machine, where the guest is reporting high fragmentation. The host virtual machine file is not fragmented. The datastore is on a RAID 5 array. Does the fragmentation of reported by the guest OS matter?

We're in need of a software application that will be able to generate reports each month for the following items: Email the server is handling broken down into POP3, SMTP, Exchange, etc. DNS hosting done by the server. FTP sites hosted by the server. We...

Every time I change tabs in SSIS or minimize/maximize the program, every node loses everything but its text, making it very hard to follow the diagrams. The image/border/etc. returns when I click on a node.

Ok, this probably subjective and has been answered before but i cant find an answer anywhere. Who would be considered the best uk web host offerring php 5.3 support and unlimited web space. Also important is reliability and that they allow transfer of domains in. The most important ...

Can someone direct me on how to install cURL on a CentOS server. Preferably through WHM if it's possible to recompile PHP that way.. I am a noob in SSH and this is a production server.

Hi, I have a C++ binary compiled using VC++2008, this code uses my GPU (NVIDIA GT 8600) for some calculations. The program first checks for the graphics card vendor using the glGetString(GPU_VENDOR) function in openGL. When I run this program from the command line it works with...

I have two machines I work on: Windows Client (Development Machine) Linux Web Server (Ubuntu) On the Linux server I have installed Apache, Samba and SVN. I've created a samba share that maps to the htdocs/ directory so that I can access the web fil...

All I want to do is install postfix, and forward emails. I don't need anything to stay on my server. This is giving me hell. I tried the best I could, but postfix is denying all relays. What I want is this. Say my server is at example.com. I want this: Email forwarding: user1@e...

I have a fresh install of fedora 12 and am trying to get php and sqlite working I installed php through: yum install php php-devel php-pdo and restarted apache. Php pages are working just fine but whenever I try to load a page that uses sqlite the page is not processed and returns...

I have an external server (foo) and an internal server (bar). On bar, I have a website that I want to make available to my users, but users don't have Windows accounts on that machine. They have Windows accounts on foo. I've configured foo as a reverse proxy to bar with ARR, when acces...

Hi, One of our RedHat Linux server simply stopped responding for a few minutes. For that period of a few minutes there is absolutely no entry in the log files (under /var/log/ - messages etc) or application log files. What else could I check ? For that period the users could no...

We have a number of legacy domain names that are setup as a site in IIS7. This site then forwards those domain names to the new domain name. The logs of the legacy sites store the name of the legacy domain that had been referenced. We would like to run a report that shows the raw numbe...

I have a server running CentOS (with Fasthosts UK). Running a "yum upgrade" lists - and processes - a LOT of packages that it has upgrades for. Everything is downloaded and installed. The problem is that if I do a subsequent "yum upgrade", it list all the same upgrades again! A...

I am attempting to enable web-management functionality on my Dell PowerConnect2824. From what I can tell by reading the manual I need to connect via the serial port to enable web functionality. I picked up a serial to usb connector and installed the drivers onto my Win7 machin...

My company has an in-house certificate authority that is currently self-signed. Since we want to start using it for external SSL and secure email to our customers, we need to get it trusted. Does anyone have a ballpark as to what it costs to get trusted root certificate for an in-house...

How can I run a console command (like cp or tar, for example) without needing to keep an open SSH?