Hi, i'm testing solution with open-iscsi and multipath on debian (lenny) with dell md3000i storage. Configuration of storage is rather simple: i've got one virtual group of disks with several testing luns on it. I also have one server with 2 physical paths to storage. After some problems at begin...

Currently, I have a (fairly powerful) workstation with XP x86 and Win 7 x64 loaded as dual boot. There's another Win 7 x64 workstation that I'm going to have to use from time to time. What I want to do it to virtualize all three existing OS's (with Disk2VHD), load 2008 Hyper-V Server Core on my w...

In http://windows.php.net/downloads I couldn't find any x64 built for download. Further I have to choose among "Thread Safe" and "Non Thread Safe" with no explanation whether one is safer than the other or it performs better. The install.txt inside the available ZIPs for download seems out-dated ...

Hi, I'm brand new to nginx and I am trying to convert the app I wrote over from Apache as I need the ability to serve a lot of clients at once without a lot of overhead! I'm getting the hang of setting up nginx and FastCGI PHP but I can't wrap my head around nginx's rewrite format just yet. I kno...

Hi, I would like to acces to redmine with this url redmine.mydomain.com instead of redmine.mydomain.com/redmine. How can I do it please? Here is my .conf apache of redmine <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName redmine.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html <Directory /var/www/html&g...

We are using Xen Center to manage all of our cPanel VPS servers. The hardware has two CPUs(Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410@2.33GHz) and 32GB memory. Each hardware has 4 cPanel VPS and each VPS has 8GB memory and 4 Virtual CPUS. Every one or two months, one of the VPS server will hang because one Virtu...

Hi, I've recently inherited administration of an Xserve running OS X Server 10.5.8. I have a specific need for teaching staff to access the home folders of students via network shares. Ideally in groups - i.e. the home folders of students in Class A, the home folders of students in Class B etc. ...

I'm trying to capture all of the traffic to and from an Apache2 web server for troubleshooting purposes, so I did the following to try to set mod_dumpio up properly: Used a2enmod to enable mod_dumpio Changed LogLevel to "debug" in apache2.config Added "DumpIOInput On", "DumpIOOutput On" and "Du...

I'm having trouble finding the exact documentation to do the following: I have a SIP Account. I want my Asterisk Server on a VPS somewhere in the United States to accept the credentials of the SIP Account. When people call into my SIP account phone number at 111-222-3333 extension 55, it shoul...

How can I create a BAT or CMD which will iterate through a folder tree and run same command agaists each folder file? E.g myexe.exe C:\Documents and Settings\folder1\filename.txt myexe.exe C:\Documents and Settings\folder2\filename.txt Notes: The filename is the same on each folder found. The f...

Bascially i need to set up a configuration like the following: http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Ethernet#Capture_using_a_machine-in-the-middle I have a computer with windows XP and 2 nics. I dont have a clue on how to set it up though, most of the articles i see dont relate to what I want...

My server is CentOS 5. When I edit /etc/crontab or edit any user(including root) crontab via "crontab -e" command, it just adds "(system) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)" or "(admin) RELOAD (cron/admin)" in the log. No CMD in the /var/log/cron. Sample entry in /var/log/cron: Aug 10 10:21:33 localhost cro...

I would use xattr in python, but found the xattr's keys() is empty, does that indicate the libattr feature wasn't enabled? I've learned the libattr feature is disabled in ext3/ext4 by default, but how to enable it? Expect your help! Thank you~ >>> import xattr >>> x = xattr.xat...

How can I automatically power off a server at 20.00pm and turn It On again at 8.00am in the morning? Is there any sw or hw tool that makò me able to schedule On/Off time? The server could be anything Linux/Mac Os X/Windows.

I have a server that allows both asp.net and php to be run on the same server. There are 2 applications that run on a single domain, and both the asp.net and php site make use of re-writes. Since enabling the php application on the same domain, the asp.net re-writes stopped working. Is it poss...

Hi, I have a laptop with Windows 7 ultimate enterprise edition installed. This is a company laptop so i have domain account as I am a domain user but also a local administrator on my laptop. My problem is that now i am out of the company premises for some days and when i login via my account it...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/510170/the-difference-between-the-local-system-account-and-the-network-service-accou tells: Local System : Completely trusted account, moreso than the administrator account. There is nothing on a single box that this account can not do and it has th...

Hi folks, Do most popular proxy servers cache the response data based on the Uri? Also, lets exclude HTTP Headers like Cache-Control, etc... and assume they have been set to public, max-age: xxxx s-maxage: yyyyy etc... So .. assuming the proxy server says 'this resource needs to be cached' .. w...

What's either a good rule of thumb or a method to estimate load on a Windows server for a php application? How do I estimate bandwidth required for 1000 users on the site, or 10,000?

Hello, I am trying to authorize certain router commands stored in SQL Database via ClearBox TACACS+ Server. I have a table name "DeniedCommands" with a column "Denied", under "Commands" Database. My SQL query command was SELECT Denied FROM DeniedCommands. I chose the authorization attribute as "I...

Hi everyone I am trying to change the default port on my jboss server to port 80. i have had a look around the web and i have had suggestions of editing this file jboss5\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar\server.xml which is fine. changing this file alone still does not fix the issue. There h...

Although I know the immediate solution to a problem I was facing yesterday (thanks to the folks over at IRC #puppet), I still don't understand how it solved the problem, or rather what's the fundamental difference between classes and defines in this particular scenario: The original define, whic...

In SQL Server 2008 EE, how can I create a local server group? And also, what is the benefit of using local server groups?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/510170/the-difference-between-the-local-system-account-and-the-network-service-accou tells: Local System : Completely trusted account, moreso than the administrator account. There is nothing on a single box that this account can not do and it has th...

Problem: I run a WordPress (Apache/PHP) site that even under low to medium load can take up to 5 seconds to respond to an initial connection from a new user -- once that initial connection is established (and KeepAlive kicks in) navigation throughout the site is very fast. I'm trying to figure o...

I have quota enabled for /. I have two users currently. quota applies to both users. When add new users say user3. Editing edquota -u user3 won't work? Do i need to run quotacheck after running edquota?

I've come across this statement on the apache web site. The OpenSSL library is cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encr...

The trend in tagging is towards merging tags and tag synonyms, so I imagine this will be quite contentious. Given the different default behaviours and configurations of different Ubuntu releases (6.06 vs. 8.04 vs. 10.04, and everything in between), would it be worth splitting the generic ubuntu ...

I have a Windows Server 2008 64bit environment running Terminal Services, and I have tried to install Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010. When I go to run the program or try to remove it, it looks as if it is still trying to install and comes up with the error: ERROR: Failed to have succe...

Hi everyone, We have a network with 1 primary domain controller and 3 additional domain controllers. We're trying to identify a user who attempted to use someone else's credentials to access some resources in our organization. At this point we want to see from what computers there were failed l...

Hi all, Is it possible to create a "universal" script that checks the first three alphabets of a hostname and moves the host into the appropriate OU? E.g. A hostname that begins with TKYxxxxx is a host in Tokyo and when the script detects TKY, it would move this host to the Tokyo site OU. Woul...

I've gone as far as I can go on my own, but I'm not a Linux guru and am now stuck. I've got an Oracle database running Enterprise Linux 5.1 on an Amazon EC2 instance. I migrated it from a box that was connected via a home broadband connection, and it was sending emails without problem via the IS...

The Creative Zen is a range of digital audio players and portable media players which allows you to enjoy your songs and TV episodes or other videos at any time and anywhere. Creative Zen has the following models-- Zen X-Fi2, Zen MX, Zen Mozaic and Zen X-Fi. The main video formats are supported ...

Im new here on serverfault.com and i want to know what is media hosting, i can't find it on google. so what is media hosting???

Hi all, I asked this question in SuperUser without much luck and so I am posting it here to see if anyone can assist. We have a central syslog server and we want it to capture event log events from Windows hosts. We are specifically interested in logging service start/stop events. We installed ...

On our production server we get the following message when we log in after 1 week uptime Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system. DETAIL - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. System s...

I set up my first http proxy server in Non-transparent mode :) I then set it up to for auto-detection. Even better. But my favorite browser, firefox, is storing my credentials. So I can't switch users. I have tried: restarting firefox changing the passwords for the users Switching networks Cle...

Hi, reaching out for any guidance for a problem I am seeing currently, one of my SQL servers is not releasing space after rows are deleted. I am running SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 with SP1 CU4 (10.0.2734) and have a four node peer-peer replication configuration. I am seeing large numbers re...

hello everyone, i have an exchange server 2007 installed on windows 2008 server r2, i want to create distribution group and assign emails to it,but these emails have diffrent scope like (asd@yahoo.com , qwe@hotmail.com , zxc@asd.com ......and so.) can i do it thanks.

Hi Is it possible to do this using htaccess? User access -> http:// mydomaina.com/dir/filename and it will display the content from -> http:// mymainsite.com/anydir/mydomaina-filename i did have a htaccess code but its not working maybe theres something missing <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>...

Is it possible to set quota's on filezilla server accounts? If not is there a work arround? cheers

I had my servers configured by group policy to download updates and notify for install. Unfortunately it seems microsoft did publish a recent update on the 2nd of course which cause the servers to install only this update. This update required a restart after installation. So most critical server...

The error message is: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.30_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell', which is also in package passwd How can I solve this problem? I'm doing aptitude safe-upgrade

Is it possible to set up an email rool directly from the exchange server without having to log into the users account and setting up a rule from within their outlook rules? Basically, I would like to setup a rule saying that the user is not in the office at the moment, email so and so instead.

I'm using Gmail as a spam filter, whereby it forwards mail to hendry@example.com and I use mutt to read my email. However hendry@example.com accepts mail from everyone currently, so I want to restrict what it accepts to just Google gmail servers. Any recipes for that?

This command copies the program test.exe to the remote system and executes it interactively: psexec \\marklap -c test.exe However I need to pass some arguments to the text.exe program. This doesn't work: psexec \\marklap -c "test.exe /S"

I have setup a website on a MAC server 10.5.8, i would like to be accessible over the internet, I need to enter a DNS entry for the website on the MAC server. How do I do this?

Does anyone how to install reviewboard with nginx? It currently only has docs for apache and lighty. Thanks

I understand that keyservers are using the port 11371 but in many cases you are not allowed to connect to this port and you cannot add There a many cases when you cannot modify the firewall configuration. Example command that fails gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0A5174AF ...

Hello, I am interested in purchasing a SSL/TSL certificate for my website and I would like to know which retailer allows me to add my custom message in the green address bar like in this image : http://tinyurl.com/33yug4y You can see there : "COMPANIA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORTURI AERIENE ..." I wa...

Hi! I have a ibm xseries 336 v8837 with an integrated sata controlled (in mainboard) and integrate scsi controller. The server works fine if I don't install any sata driver. I have installed a fedora core 13 and it's boot and run pnerfectly but if I connect a SATA hard disk, the server won't bo...

I've just noticed there are currently 128 64-bit tags and 89 x64 tags. While that's a fair few of each I really think they should be merged before it gets much messier.

Ive created a sharepoint event listener that listens on itemadded,itemupdated and itemdeleted and attached it to a list using the event manager found on codeplex. When testing it worked great cause im the admin. The problem is that as soon as I change over to a "normal" account the events are n...

Hi all. This is the scenario. I have a local server in the office that I want to back up programmatically (via a bash script) everyday to an external hard disk that I will bring home. The data in the hard disk must be encrypted. I can see three viable solutions for that and I am here to ask yo...

My server has been running slightly slower than normal. I was wondering what strategies I could do to evaluate the speed of my server, and enhance it This question covers database interaction, I/O, and anything else someone might need to know

I want a peer-to-peer CDN. So, I'm trying to install CoralCDN on my own server according to http://www.coralcdn.org/download/ I've tried cvs -d :pserver:coralcvs@coralcvs.scs.cs.nyu.edu:/cvs login but it got message cvs [login aborted]: Name or service not known

I know how to add the extra IPs for the additional VLANs on the single NIC, but I'm not sure how to go about directing the traffic to the separate VLANs. On the Windows level is there anything I need to do besides enable tagging on the NIC? On the switch side I'm guessing I just need to add mul...

Hi Evan, I refer to your answer at http://serverfault.com/questions/33108/getting-alerted-when-a-windows-scheduled-task-fails I've tried your script but I constantly have the error 800A0CC1. My csv file is this one (I attach only the first task, which is actually the one I'm interested to): "...

We're starting to roll out Win7 machines out to developers and interesting things are happening with svn -- "svn update" cause the machines to intermittently freeze for 10-20 seconds at a time. Freeze to the point where Win7 starts graying out program windows and giving the "this program is not ...

I am trying to segregate the traffic on the VLANs, as one is our visitor VLAN. It is a Cisco 881W router. Here is my configuration: ! ! Last configuration change at 08:13:57 PCTime Tue Aug 10 2010 by admin ! version 15.0 no service pad service tcp-keepalives-in service tcp-keepalives-out servi...

Hi, Rather than playing the F8 game on startup, is there a way (command line etc.) of configuring windows so that shutting down Window and rebooting will always come up with the advanced boot menu or alternatively is there a way of shutting down windows so that it will always come up with the Wi...

how i can make Trigger, sql to oracle and fetch from oracle to Sql. please give me the answar

We're looking into the idea of moving an ASP.NET MVC app into Windows Azure, but I'm interested to hear if SQL Azure is safe enough for me to store customer data, such as their home addresses, etc. We're not storing bank details or anything like that, and are looking to utilise the power of the ...

We don't have any log management aside from every now and then going in and clearing it out. We have a server that doesn't get too much traffic (most logs are from our live chat). But it made me wonder, what kind of log management procedures should be in place to manage logs properly? Do you s...

I'm a developer, not much of a networking person, trying to configure one of my sites running on IIS 7. I expect this is a pretty basic question. The application uses forms authentication. I also have a 'heartbeat' service running on the server, which regularly hits an IIS-hosted WCF service t...

Hi, I've been having an issue configuring two servers for sending mails, the escenario is the following: We have a SERVER A, it is a Windows Server 2003, it has installed SMTP Services, but it is not the server for mailing. It holds an .Net application called MAILER, which is configured to send ...

We are using Clonezilla with its Debian based OS and want to make a bootable image on a USB. All PCs are exactly identical, the hard drive is sda1. The PC runs under Windows XP and has about 4GB of used HD space. Both the cloner as well as the restorer are end users. Therefore the process is too...

Does anyone know of a way to set the 'Name of Sender', 'Time Received' etc in the Fax Center of Sharepoint? The reason I need to do this, is that we use a Kyocera KM-C3232 Scanner/Fax/Copier which receives Faxes and send them to an networked folder as a PDF. So I can send my files to \companyweb\...

Hi , My questions is; I want to update automatically proxy exceptions list in the IE 8 using a REG or VBS. How can I do this? Thanks in advance Cheers,

I would like to install an open source video player for a media wiki. It should support most of the file formats. There are several extensions. Right now, I am considering (MetaVid) Please let me know what is a good choice (for installation, integration, and maintenance). Thank you.

I dont have any mechanism to protect my data (images, video, etc) from disk corruption. I just wonder how youtube protect their videos. What is the best practice to protect data from disk corruption?

Hi, I'm building a streaming server for a customer. People have a daily quota they shouldn't reach. If someone reach this quota, I would like quickly to close the stream (and not to wait the visitor quit the page) By the way, quota are deduced from apache logs, analyzed every minute. Is there a...

I'm looking to create a graph somewhat similar to this: But instead of graphing requests, graph responses, with a line for each HTTP response code (200 OK, 404 Not Found, 500 Server Error, etc). Creating the graph isn't the issue (use RRDtool, Server Density or something similar), but how can...

I'm trying to install some Lucid VMs on a Lucid host using virt-install. After I create the image, I want to go through the guest installation without using a GUI, such as virt-manager or VNC. Is there a way to access the installation screen via terminal?

I infrequently work on about 20 Windows servers via remote desktop. There are times when it'd be really convenient to know if and where I have disconnected sessions open. Is there a powershell script or query or something I can use to make this process simpler than logging into each machine and ...

Hello superior server gurus! I'm running a Ubuntu server that hosts an apache tomcat service along with an MySQL database. The server load is always close to zero, even during the busiest hours of the week. Despite that I am experiencing random hangups 1-2 times per week, where the entire server...

I can update code correctly, but cannot commit code. I get the following error when i try to commit code: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to MKACTIVITY request for '/site/!svn/act/080632f7-e62d-4987-96ce-88852bf86f46' svn:...

when i try to start easyphp i get this error message: apache cannot be runned, another web server use the web port or port is blocked by firewall. though, apache is running but mysql isn't. i can browse web server by typing http://localhost but cannot use database functions. i had never had such ...

Sometimes people delete files they shouldn't, a long-running process still has the file open, and recovering the data by cattingh /proc//fd just isn't awesome enough. Awesome enough would be if you could "undo" the delete by running some magic option to ln that would let you re-link to the inode...

I installed SQLServer 2008 Express and pretty much took all the defaults. After about a week of running an app that hits this database I changed the administrator password for the server. About a day later, the SQLServer service wouldn't start. I assume these events are related so I go into the S...

We have a system running CentOS 5 with Plesk 8.6 and Qmail running. Our primary domain is hosted through Media Temple. When Plesk and Qmail are hosted on a single Dedicated Virtual server, it reads the primary server IP and domain and reports that when sending emails from the system. Our pages a...

Hi, I have a newly build Solaris LDOM, I need to check the same for accpetance. Can anybody tell me which commands shall i perform to check whether the LDOM is properly build? Thanks in advance

I've created a user account to run some tasks, If I run the task with my account but using "Run As" taskmanager user, the task runs ok (no permission problems, and get what I'm expecting). But if I run the same task using taskmanager It fails 0x1 and I get the next error on Security EventLog (in ...

Is there a good way of changing permissions on the SysWOW64 directory on Windows Server 2008? It is owned by "TrustedInstaller" and Windows claims that it is "Unable to save permission changes on SysWOW64" because "Access is denied". (The error messages are actually from Windows 7 which suffers f...

man screen: Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical ter‐ minal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ISO 6429 (...

I have an vbs script that I want to execute through Windows scheduler every 2 weeks. The script calls a subprocedure within an Access application that generates a report and then sends it through email to various addresses. My concern at this point is that the server would be down for that criti...

I don't have a local SMTP server installed, but I heard sendmail command can do the favour for me, but seems I encountered a problem... /usr/lib/sendmail -v foo@example.com < /etc/hosts foo@example.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... foo@example.com... Deferred: Connection refused...

We have production server(windows server 2008) with 8GB Ram and around 15 websites are hosted on the server. What is the optimum memory that needs to be reserved for OS, so that remaining memory can be divided between the websites. We don't have any other processes or applications running on the ...

Recently we've had quite a few requests where clients are changing their domain names and want to keep the same email addresses and have the new domain be the main site. The old domain will then forward to the new one. What I'm wondering is, what is the best way to approach this? We changed the ...

Here is my situation. Clients connect to a public IP which is redirected to an IP on my Windows VPN server. All the users coming in through that IP then I would like to be immediately forwarded to an IP on one of our internal firewalls. I have a 2nd IP on the VPN server for other clients which ...

I need to build a server which is capable of capturing 20 Gigabit/second network traffic (2 x 10g network adapters - 99% utilization) and store them on a disk with zero packet-lose. The requirements is supply the ability to record 20-30 minutes of continues traffic. Not being an “Hardware Expert...

I've been trying to setup nginx + fastcgi-mono server. All seems well except that it seems to be ignoring the $MONO_PATH for my shared libraries. I am issuing the following command on os x 10.6 sudo MONO_PATH=/Users/alex/Development/csharplibs/bin/Release /usr/bin/fastcgi-mono-server2 /applicati...

I was wondering if there is a way to configure Apache to respond to http requests sent to the broadcast address (ie. 192.168.1.0). Thanks

The situation: I have these virtual machines that are used for building software, and I'm trying to keep all the builds on the same "disk", if you will. The virtual machines: 2 x Windows 4 x Linux (3 Mandriva and 1 CentOS) What is the best way to share a drive between virtual machines? I am c...

Having a problem with a particular table. Was using Kimberly Tripp's script to rebuild indexes based on fragmentation level. The job failed with this error: Msg 2501, Sev 16: Could not find a table or object named 'CMS_InfoObjects6'. Check sysobjects. [SQLSTATE 42S02] I checked sysobjects and s...

hi, i want to send emails to an address with a java program (using javamail) via smtp. it actually send the emails to the destination. the problem is the body of the email isn't send fully each time. considering that the body of my mail is extracted from a database. here's my code: public static...

I want to allow anyone access to SSH with a valid identity key BUT allow only one IP address to have SSH password access. How do I do this? (I'm running on Centos 5.5)

I'm using OpenVPN 2.1.1 with Windows XP x86 SP3 and Windows 7 x64 clients to an Endian Community 2.4.0 box which includes OpenVPN 2.1-rc15. Connecting from both works fine, but accessing resources on the green LAN does not work from Windows 7, and works for XP. So: I can ping the hosts on the pu...

Hi, my OS died today, so I have to copy the data onto working machine. I've set up the new environment including MySQL, then copied contents of /var/lib/mysql from an old machine to the new one. Unfortunately, while looking at the results I have noticed that some (yes, only some) databases are co...

my Yum repository doesn't have anything newer than glib-2.0. But glib is a fairly core animation library, is my understanding. Is there an easy way to upgrade that won't brick my system?

Linux Bible ist a good start if you want to cover different distributions.

I have a customer complaining about anonymous access to named pipes, he claims that our Windows Server 2003 SP2 system is not secure. The claim about named pipes: The setting controls which of these pipes anonymous users may access: COMNAP, COMNODE, SQL\QUERY, SPOOLSS, LLSRPC, EPMAPPER, LOCATOR,...

I'd like to setup my Windows Server 2003 VPN system as follows: User A connects to public IP 1.2.3.4 \/ Firewall redirects 1.2.3.4 to internal IP 10.10.1.1 which is an IP setup on the Windows Server 2003 box running VPN \/ The 10.10.1.1 VPN server assigns an IP of 10.10.2.2 User B connect to ...

A recent server fiasco left me with a by-all-appearances intact ibdata file but only half of my .frm-containing directories. I've copied all of this to a fresh mysql install, and have successfully recovered the databases which I still had .frm files for. My question is - is it possible to regener...

Having read in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154501/EN-US/ (How to disable automatic machine account password changes): "You have two separate installations of Windows NT or Windows 2000 on the same computer in a dual-boot configuration. In this case, the only way to share the same...

I would like to test Sharepoint. Since I'm short on time, I'm looking for fast solutions. It must be for Sharepoint 2007 or above. I only have access to my PC wich runs with Windows XP Pro SP3. The only thing I came up with is to install VirtualBox, install Windows as my guest and install Share...

As I understood the joined to Windows AD computers are always securely identified/authenticated before DC (using automatically changed computer accounts passwords). Now, I read (in non-English article) that IPSec always should be configured in AD. Why is it? Suppose that AD is well secured from...

Hey All, As always, I would like to thank all of your help and assistance in advance. I am looking for a way to automatically redirect a user to a site and maintain the redirect site as the referral site. Let me explain the process and what is needed in a step by step format. User clicks on a...

I installed ImageMagick via MacPorts, but unfortunately it was installed with "--without-lcms" and "--with-lcms=no" even though it lists lcms as a dependency on the website: http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=imagemagick There is also no lcms variant to turn this on, that I can ...

What are some of the most common and wrong ways to configure a firewall? I'll start the list with the following: Blindly blocking ICMP. This might have been useful in 1998 when smurf attacks were all the rage. Today you're just introducing a PMTU black hole and making it hard to diagnose problems.

Is there a program which will allow me to convert a VMware guest host VM into a physical image? I know how to go P2V, but I need to go V2P.

Hello, I have a domain registered with a Directi reseller and I'm attempting to have the domain resolve to a VPS I have recently rented. I've read about the term "glue record" which I think is required if I want mydomain.com to use nsX.mydomain.com rather than the nameservers of my registrar or...

Setting up remote access to their desktop computers for several several employees. Running SBS 2008 R2, but not ISA server. Was hoping to use Remote Web Workplace (RWW) with some form of two factor authentication (2FA), but cannot find solution for this while also protecting direct access using...

Is there any software out there which will allow a disk drive to be tested, which boots via PXE? I have a fully functional PXE environment which allows memtesting, installation, and drive nuking - but to test a disk I have to boot into an NFS-root system, and run badblocks/fsck. Neither of thos...

My office has about 120 Windows clients. We need a way to deploy and update free/downloadable software like Flash, Firefox, Skype etc.. This means that we want our clients to always have the latest versions of these pieces of software. We tried Googling, and found solutions like wpkg... but th...

I'd like to copy my SLES10SP3 and OES2SP2 disks to the system so I don't need to continually insert them for package management. What's the best way to do this?

I have SpiceWorks 4.7, installed and added the sql monitor extension to monitor our SQL servers. It does identify our sql servers correctly, but when I put the login information in it can't authenticate, with the following error message. Authentication failed. Check the login and password, and e...

Hello. I'm wanting to get my firewall on my new webserver to be as secure as it needs to be. After I did research for iptables, I came across UFW (Uncomplicated FireWall). This looks like a better way for me to setup a firewall on Ubuntu Server 10 LTS and seeing that it's part of the install, it ...

I have a managed server (unable to control apache settings) with the default document root of: /var/www I have a web app running in: /var/www/subdomains/app/webroot I have a dedicated domain managed by the host that has the aforementioned webroot which works perfectly. I would like to allow ext...

Hello all, Having a strage issues with VSFTP at the moment whereby the folder is has been chowned and chmodded like so: drw-rw---- 2 james staff 4096 Aug 10 20:52 folder So the user and group has read and write access. The VSFTP conf looks like so: anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES ...

I just mounted a newly purchased XServe. I have turned on the XServe. I have installed Apple Server Admin Tools on a second computer. I can see the newly purchased XServe under "Ready for Setup" in Server Admin. I can select the server and press the "Set Up..." button. ... and nothing happens. ...

I have a bucket on Amazon S3. Lets call it "webstatic.mydomain.com". I have a DNS alias setup for that bucket webstatic.mydomain.com CNAME -> web-static.mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com. This all works great, however for some rather complicated reasons I now need: webstatic.myOtherDomain.com to p...

Is there a guide somewhere on how to minimize the Windows Server 2008 R2 installation folder? I am talking specifically about all the features and roles that come with the Windows Server 2008 R2 during "Expanding Files..." in Installation Process. Even a few extra gigabytes of space would really...

I have researched as much as I can think to do and am stuck trying to get a telnet connection working between two windows 2008 servers. An application on Server A needs to make a connection to Server B via port 1433 (ms sql). I have verified that Server B has it's firewall open and is accepti...

I am trying to restart Apache on my server but it does not seem to kill all the processes that Apache is currently running. The command I am using is sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Is there something else I should be doing that will kill all the child processes too? Thanks Josh Pennington

As far I know, corrupt files cannot be copied or moved. So automatic daily backup to other storage or server is great choice. But how about tar.gz? Can corrupt files tar.gzipped?

I like to be able to detect the cpuinfo from during boot using grub2. Can this be done? What function should I call? Is there a manual that lists all of the function available to the grub2 env?

I'm looking for a command line application that will artificially burden the CPU. It needs to be better than just a busy loop. We're testing how the system holds up under heat stress and the CPU needs to generate as much heat as possible.

I was futzing around with DTrace on Mac OS/X and found the following script that prints out information about connections being established: $ cat script.d syscall::connect:entry { printf("execname: %s\n", execname); printf("pid: %d\n", pid); printf("sockfd: %d\n",arg0); socks = (struct so...

Regarding your third question: I always run a local repository. Even if it's only for one machine, it saves time in case I need to reinstall (I generally use something like aptitude autoclean), and for two machines, it almost always pays off. For the clusters I admin, I don't generally keep expl...

Hi, I am trying to access a public calendar on Exchange Server 2010 using php, but I cannot find the right URL. Previously, when the server was running 2003, I could use the URL http://server.domain.com/public/calendar and then parse the data. But when I try this in 2010 I am redirected to htt...

Turns out that the IP of a much-needed new website is blocked from inside our organization's network for reasons that will take weeks to fix. In the meantime, could we set up a reverse proxy on an Internet-based server which will forward SSL traffic and perhaps client IPs to the external site? ...