On Windows and .Net 4.0 What is the best web based log viewer that is free / open source.

Hi All, My XServe G5 is beeping constantly because of a RAID drive that has failed. We're going to get a new replacement drive tomorrow evening. The beeping is very annoying and I was wondering if there was a way to turn it off? I've found some articles about this on google but they all seem ...

I strongly dislike antivirus software. In my opinion, the av software behaves much like a virus. The recent Symantec incident of actually causing server crashes, resource use, software interference, and user safety bias are each very problematic. If I have locked down servers behind a firewall...

You can boot into the XP cd (which I have) and use those commands, but I'm making a legal custom recovery CD. I need these files to put on it? I've searched the internet, scoured the actual cd, etc. but I can't find it. Anyone have help? Thanks!

My newly rebuilt Windows Server 2003 doesn't automatically assign drive letters to external usb devices. I have to manually open the Disk Management Console and assign it a drive letter every time. It does this with two different drives in all USB ports. I have been doing some reading and I don...

I'm a developer who has been assigned the task of managing and configuring a new IIS7 instance on a remote server. My domain account has been added as to the local Administrators group on the box, but IIS7 has been configured to accept connections only from accounts with Windows credentials. I'...

Given: A server room containing about two dozen rackmount servers and a PBX About a dozen APC Smart-UPS 2200s providing power to this equipment A fire suppression project requiring immediate shutoff of power to all servers in the event that the fire suppression agent is released to extinguish a...

Executive Summary The basic question is: if you have a very limited bandwidth WiFi to provide Internet for a small meeting of only a day or two, how do you set the filters on the router to avoid one or two users monopolizing all the available bandwidth? For folks who don't have the time to rea...

I'm planning to move two separate vmware ESXi 4.0 hosts into a cluster to use the vMotion and HA capabilities of ESXi (essentials plus). Right now we have a dev vm host and a production vm host and want to be able to use the dev vm host as an HA host if the production vm fails. We use almost excl...

I have a SunFire T2000 server which has 2 mirrored disks pairs. The server required an exchange of the system battery. After swaping the battery first no disks were found. After booting from CD we managed to find the disks, but now one disk is broken and the raidctl reports a failed synchronisati...

I have some problems regarding to eucalyptus private cloud building. And two versions of this problem here, a simple one, and a long one. Simple: Anyone familiar with private cloud could draw me a picture to illustrate the 'IP SCHEME' of he cloud? I'm having trouble to decide where should be eac...

I want to know which ports are open on my ubuntu machine. I just want to initially block all ports in iptables and then slowly and slowly will open only those ports which i need. Currenly i have no idea how many services have opened their ports on my system any idea to know

I have windows 7 64bit OS. and i have sql server 2008 Developer edition.whenever iam trying to install sql i get the error as i cannot install 32bit sql server on a 64bit Os. but in the sql pack it says it have both 32bit and 64 bit. please can u give any ***links to download SQL server 2008 Deve...

Would it be possible to have a closed question really closed rather than sort of, kinda, nearly, half closed? This question is currently listed as having been closed 10 hours ago, yet was edited only 3 hours ago. Am I a fool for thinking that when a question is closed it should no longer be poss...

In /etc/vimrc ,how to disable ctrl-v featurei.e, disable visual block Thanks..

I've just done a simple nmap scan of my network with nmap: nmap -sP 192.168.1.1-255 networkserver@networkServer:~$ sudo nmap -sP 192.168.1.1-255 Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-26 17:46 NZST Host RTA1320.home (192.168.1.1) is up (0.00060s latency). MAC Address: 00:26:B6:C9:E7:...

i want to know what is the difference between these two commands iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT - iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

nltest.exe is unable to lookup the primary domain controller from a host which is the part of the active directory domain. Output of nltest /DCNAME:dir Status = 2453 0x995 NERR_DCNotFound what could be the reason?

what command do i suse to check machine specification running novell server using the command line tool or GUI?

I have a problem in a script where i need to select a string and put it into a file. I need to use the "Get-Website" cmmdlet in powershell to pull the ID right now i am using Get-Website *sitename |fl ID now the output comes along like "id : 15" i need to drop this down to sjust the ID number an...

can you suggest linux tool that can crawl given page in search of 404s? yes - i can use wget in recursive mode or just watch access logs but maybe you have hints for better suited tool? thanks!

Hi all, I have vhost config file on ubuntu and same file under xampp. I had this rewrite rule which worked on both environments: RewriteRule ^campaigns/([^/]+)/([^/]+) /home.php?referrer=$1&camp=$2 Now I want to add another parameter so I changed the rewrite rule to: RewriteRu...

I just want to create a simple virtual host for apache in windows 7. Please let me know the step by step guide for that.

how do I set an environment variable in my .profile file that takes into account if the variable exists and appends to it? To explain: I want to do export ANT_OPTS=-Dparam=value but if the ANT_OPTS already exists I want to append to it. I want to do something similar to set ANT_OPTS=%AN...

I was playing with iptables rules. When i type ping 127.0.0.1 Then i don't get any response. I have deleted all firewall rules. using iptables -F System shows no rules but still i can't ping even myself what should i do

I have a Debian box with some jobs scheduled using at. I know I can list the jobs with their times using atq, but is there any way to print out their contents, apart from peeking into /var/spool/cron/atjobs?

i want to LOG my droppped packets in firewall. The tutorial told me write some lines in /etc/syslog.conf I have searched but could not foound anything named syslog.conf There was the file called rsyslog.conf Are both same

Hello, How do I create an iso which automatically enters product key,activates windows,selects timezone,creates users,randomely names the PC and gets it ready to go? I need help.... Thanks

We have SBS 2008 running Exchange 2007. Our clients are running Outlook 2007. For one user there are items in the Outbox that are not sending, they're just sitting there. If I try to delete them, nothing happens. No error message. I have full control over the mailbox (thus why I'm able to see it...

Ok every so often my website which runs on a ubuntu 9.04 vps seems to fall over as apache does not seem to respond. a simple apache restart solves the issue but obviously it's not a good scenario having to manually restart the server every time this happens. the site is a wordpress site with mi...

Hi all I have a sharepoint site hosted on windows server 2008 r2 and iis7. the sharepoint site is hosted on port 80. when I browse the site by typing the IP of the machine I receive a login window asking for credentials to connect the Machine. after providing credentials another login window a...

We used to have mostly MyISAM tables (only 1 InnoDB). Our backup solution uses mysqldump. However we noticed that sometimes the backup "broke" the site for a couple of minutes. So we've switched to InnoDB, to have more reliable backups and remove the table locks that MyISAM uses. Now I was wond...

I understand that this question had answered before many times, but I can't find something to help me. I try Nagios and Munin from a linux VM but i don't find them so helpful. (maybe my fault on configuration) Does anybody know any other program Windows friendly for monitoring Servers,Network?? ...

Greetings I am not able to add any users to the sudo users as my sudoers file has the wrong permission. My only access is SSH thus this(via recovery mode) solution doesn't seem to work for me. I will be grateful for any idea. My ubuntu is 9.04 server edition. Regards user@server:~$ sudo nano ...

Hi all. I have used cryptsetup to encrypt an external hard drive. I have no problem at using the encrypted hard drive in this way: /sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 backup // typing password // mounting the partition // doing something // unmounting the partition /sbin/cryptsetup luksClose /d...

We have recently migrated from an inhouse exchange server to gmail (using google apps for business). The migration has been far from flawless and I'm about to lose my mind! Almost all problems have been corrected and sorted out except for this one which is really confusing. When one of our use...

I want to prepare my database for sharding in the future. But right now I only need 1 node. What I'd like to do is to shard the database into virtual shards, say 12 shards, and put all of them onto the same server node for now. And when I need to scale out, I could just then get a 2nd server an...

I've inherited a poorly designed web app, which has a certain file that needs to be publicly accessible, but that file is inside a directory which should not. In other words, I need a way to block all files and sub-directories within a directory, but over-ride it for a single file. I'm trying t...

We have a server with multiple SSL-enabled vhosts, certificate is the same for all of them. SNI does not seem to be enabled. When I try to open any url (even the one which is supposed to throw 404 error) apache2 child failes with segfault (11) under firefox, and works fine in IE. Solaris 10 A...

I'd really like something that integrates with Lighthouse, or possibly Trac. I've tried Codesion but for some reason, the permissions just didn't seem to work at all (a user was able to commit to a folder they had no access to) and have generally heard unsatisfactory things about them. Tried Co...

In terms of schema updates does 'Exchange 2007 SP3' adprep /forestprep and 'Server 2008' adprep /forestprep do the same thing? I'd like to add a 2008r2 DC to an existing 2003-level forest (which requires 2008 adprep on the forest) and I've not yet had the need to apply SP3 to Exchange (which bri...

I have the following crontab set up, to automatically start a server if it crashes ('start' has no effect if it's already running): root@www:/home/admin# crontab -l */10 * * * * /var/foo/live/foo25/bin/liveinstance1 start >> /dev/null 2>&1 # */10 * * * * /var/foo/live/foo25/bin/liv...

I know I'm probably doing something terribly wrong, but I copied the source files from one computer to another running IIS7, then I visit the site and get this error: Error Summary HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration d...

I have a database that is currently set up for merge replication between Server1 to Server2 with Server1 being the publisher. There are multiple publications set up between Server1 and Server2 that handle different sets of tables within the database. For performance reasons, we wanted to switch...

hi for internet access, i config squid to authenticate users with win active directory. when a user enter username and pass check with AC users. is a way to know what user from what ip connected?

Hi, we have SVN configured using a custom tunnel. Every time I commit, svnserve is started on a remote Linux machine. Thus it is possible to have several svnserves running simultaneously accessing the same repository on a network. I have found this question, but it seems somewhat different. I kno...

Hi, I'm trying to use filexists in php to check if a file exists on a network server. It keeps coming back with false and I think this is probably to do with permissions, as it seems to work from localhost and not the webserver I'm running it from. I've tried to log the World Wide Web Publish...

Is there any multi-boot loader available for Linux(ubuntu) as primary OS? Because need to run Ubuntu, Solaris and Red-hat on same machine.

sorry guys im a bit new to this, im not sure if im asking the right questions here!!! im creating an iphone app for my website, and most of my users are going to use it through the iphone rather than the website, i was wondering is that good thing for the servers or not!! thanks

I'm running Ubuntu and I have a deb file installed. I've made deb packages before, so I know there is a debian changelog (debchange). Is there anyway to see the debian changelog for any package that I have installed? Assume I don't have access to the deb source file for this package, and I don't ...

Exactly how un-secure is this scenario, please note that I can't use SSL due to restrictions in the website application (yeah go figure!): We have a domain that is only known to the users who need to know The user will be inputing user name + password details into this site How easy is it for...

I am running MySQL on Windows XP. My data directory is: c:/database/data/ I want to create a new database but store it's data on m:/database/data/ Is it possible to keep the existing data on c:\ and the new data in m:\?

I am using function NetGetDCName, but this seems to fail (err 2453) on a production Active directory I used nltest.exe to test Output of nltest /DCNAME:dir Status = 2453 0x995 NERR_DCNotFound However nltest/DCLIST:dir seems to list all the domain controller including the PDC. How does nltes...

I'm behind a firewall which only allow ports 80 and 443 out. I have an Ubuntu server at home which got an SSH server running on 443 and it works fine. Therefore I can tunnel my traffic behind this firewall through SSH. However, I want to make an VPN connection between the computer behind the fi...

I periodically need to make changes to tables in mysql 5.1, mostly adding columns. Very simple with the alter table command. But my tables have up to 40 million rows now and they are growing fast... So those alter table commands take several hours. In a couple months they'll take days I'm gue...

I started the vsftpd on Ubuntu 10.04, but can't connect to it. The error says(FTP Client): Status: Connecting to 124.205.xx.xx:21... Error: Connection timed out Error: Could not connect to server I've checked the server status, and vsftpd is running: $ ps ax | grep vsftpd 23646 ? Ss...

I have implemented a HttpModule in ASP.NET (framework 2.0). From my logging on the server, I can see that the http request is being picked up by my HttpModule, and my code runs successfully (writing content back to the Response stream). However, the web browser (IE, FF, Chrome, all the same) ju...

Hello, so we have a life server Farm, conventional stuff not virtualized. This is to stay that way for the time beeing. The servers we are talking about are: Loadbalancer, DB master, DB Slaves (2x), Webservers (2x), CMS server. All in all 7 servers per farm. We want to have one to many rather e...

How to eliminate typing the search query twice in this one-liner (search for something)? git grep "search for something" $(git log -g --pretty=format:%h -S"search for something")

At what conditions does a NTLDR error comes with no other options than just ctrl+alt+del? How can we rectify it, is it a HDD problem? thanx

This is probably a noob question but I have a SMB network with AD domain corp.local and external hosting with a DNS domain corp.co.uk. As a result if I add web services on an internal machine (like cool-app.corp.co.uk) we can't resolve it internally. I tried adding a corp.co.uk domain to my DNS...

I was wondering if anyone knew of an idiot proof tutorial describing how to: Install SQL Server 2008 on both a server and development PC environment Get it set up to handle ASP.NET's built-in user management system I've run into some problems with getting it to work on my end, and I think par...

Info Server A – Windows 2003 with SQL 2005 SP3 Server B – Windows 2008 with SQL 2005 SP3 Server A is running transactional replication for 20 articles of 30 articles with 30 subscribers in different time zones and wan speeds that have been created with a snapshot. Server A is the distribution se...

What is the unix equivalent of the Windows Event Log - the tool that logs all processes that start and stop. Need not be exact - with the whole GUI and everything. Anything close would do.

i have decided to have a separate mail server for my app. When i use php to send email, postfix sends successfully to other domains(gmail.com etc), but uses local relay for the addresses hosted on my mail server. The MX record works fine. All i need is to get the local addresses out. I dont know ...

I'm trying to restore some files, that were accidently deleted by a user, using the restore previous versions functionality of 2k8r2. I can see the previous version just fine however no matter how I try and restore them -same location, new location, copying - I get an error stating that the sour...

Hi I'm using php-fpm. In 5.3.2 when I'm opening phpinfo page in access log I get: ip - - [26/Aug/2010:16:35:32 +0400] "GET /phpinfo.php HTTP/1.1" 200 13322 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5" But in 5.3.3 I'm getting: ip - - [26/Aug/2010:16:...

I'm using a pair of SunRay 2 thin-clients in a dual-head configuration (via SRSS, with Xinerama). On the secondary display, the mouse cursor will sometimes decide to jump to the upper left corner of the screen while I'm moving it (very rarely it will jump to other locations). While not moving, ...

I don't fully understand the default Authenticated Users security filtering for group policies in Windows. When I set up WSUS I left this even though that falls under "Computer Configuration" and is only attached to Computer Objects. Should this basically always be left in place, if so, what is...

I'm working on an application that does network traffic generation. The application has eth1 in promiscous mode. So it directly handles all incoming and outgoing traffic. One of the features I'm implementing is IP fragmentation and defragmentation. Incoming fragments need to be reassembled, and...

Hi, I have the session time-out for a site in IIS 6 set to 1 minute. I am finding that the session is actually lasting up to 10 seconds longer than 1 minute. I'm measuring this via a cookie that I set on Session_OnStart (in classic asp), which should change every 1 minute when the site receives...

I am looking for a good image backup solution. I have a Windows Server 2003 file server that needs to have images done about every week or so. I do not think that 2003 server comes with such an option. I know that Since windows vista and up everything has had a full backup option. I've heard of N...

Hi all! I am interested in becoming learning to administer Windows Server 2008 (and possiby do a MCSE). I need a version to use at home but can't afford to buy it. Is there a free/cheap alternative? If I wanted to learn Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and do the RHCE) I could download CentOS. Thxs

Apparently, whenever I attach a database in SQL 2008 R2, it has the database physical version number increased to 660. Is there anything I can do to prevent this behaviour? I have to share database files with SQL 2008 ("plain") users and the server has also not yet been upgraded to R2. I acci...

I have two Dell PowerConnect switches I want to connect together via Port-Channel links (2 ethernet links). Spanning tree is enabled on both switches, so therefore applied to all interfaces unless otherwise specified. Here is the configuration I would expect to work, but doesn't. Switch A - De...

I want to setup a MySQL cluster setup of two servers (M1-M2). I also want to setup MySQL replication between two servers (M1-M3). Is it possible to setup both clustering and replication as above. Is it a good idea to have a setup like this ? I want to have server M1 and M2 in the amazon cloud a...

Hello I have a windows 2008 - 64 bit server and host about 250 small web site on it. there is one web site ( Asp.net 2 , Ajax using SQL Server 2005 ) that make many problem for me. I create a dedicated App pool for it , web site work for awhile and then App pool crash , the site dosent open and j...

I have a java application that runs on my work machine, but wont connect on the production server. Heres the connection code: String db = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/"+database+ "?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull"; connect = DriverManager.getConnection(db, username, pass...

Hello, I'm trying to setup views in my bind9 configuration. I use ubuntu 10.04. When I add view "general" { match-clients { any; }; }; I try to reload bind9 and rndc but it fails. rndc: 'reload' failed: failure Does any one know how to solve this ? Or where I can find the logs? Andrew

I set the owner of all the files on my site to nobody:ftp and at some point they all changed to me as the owner instead of nobody. This is a bit annoying, what can I do to prevent this?

We're having an outside consultant come in to do some work on a specific project. We only want this person to have access very specific shares. I've create a "Limited User" role in the SBS Console/users and groups/groups tab, but there doesn't seem to be anything about security in there. Only ...

Have an older wyse 3360 winterm thin client device, firmware 3.5.1 sp2, build 441.22. We have several of these units that work fine when a manual ip address is assigned. But when dhcp is used on the thin client, they won't connect to a windows 2003 rdp server. The windows 2003 rdp server in que...

How can I upgrade php to 5.3 version at Debian lenny from squeeze packages?

I have plugged a Wordpress installation into a site running on Ruby on Rails. I stuck the Wordpress into /public/blog, and then I created a .htaccess file in /public with the following contents: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog.* RewriteRule .* - [L] I also added to my Apache vhost configura...

I have a Cisco 4500 that I would like to perform network throughput monitoring on. Which OID should I be looking at to get this information? What options to I have at otherwise getting this information? Where should I look at for browsing the MIBs available on this switch?

I have a .NET web application that users will be running on their own servers. The installer I am writing will provide the user with a default installation directory. My question is what is the optimal default directory for installing a third party web application in IIS? My feeling is that th...

I'm having problems with my mobile connection (UMTS/HSPA). Signal strength is at max and connection quality / speed are good. I can surf for hours, without problems. Sometimes, when I'm having a lot of connections at the same time and/or to many (too small) packets (at least I think that's the tr...

I try to evaluate a infrastructure for a customer on my local win32 machine. The infrastructure should be based on a j2ee webapp running on a tomcat (6.0.20+), behind a secur apache httpd (httpd-2.2.16/openssl-0.9.8) which only forwards those requests which are authorized (with a client certifica...

Exchange 2003 to 2010 Transition in a lab environment in VMware ESXi When I move all of the legacy Exchange 2003 mailboxes to the Exchange 2010 server I see a lot of warnings in the event viewer. Why is the Event Viewer full of Warning events saying: "User John Doe ... failed to log on because ...

I have a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 [Desktop] LTS running inside a virtual machine using VMWare workstation on a Win 7 host sitting behind an ISA Server on a corparte network. I am unable to connect to the outside world from this VM except through a web browser. I cant use apt-get, ruby gems (install ...

I renamed local PC name and after reboot SharePoint 2010 Foundation does not work anymore. At this page it is described to use the PowerShell command: Rename-SPServer [-Identity] <OriginalServerName> -Name <NewServerName> I launched PowerShell with Administrator permissions but th...

In the school division I work for, we have an Open Directory Master in each of a dozen schools. There are settings I'd like to manage in multiple directories for multiple work or computer groups. The brain-dead way to do this is to bring up each directory in turn (with Workgroup Manager), selec...

We are unable to get hudson to connect to our SVN server. We are using SASL and we can connect just fine with tortoisesvn and the standard cli client. However when we try to use hudson we get this error: Passing user name someuser1 and password you entered Failed to authenticate: svn: Authorizat...

A host which part of Active directory domain does authentication from the logon server (domain controller). LOGONSERVER env var has its value. C:>echo %LOGONSERVER% \PUN5OPSDIRPIN01 Is there any API using which I can retrieve this value?

Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to configure a separate VPN connection on windows server 2008. Here is the situation: I'd like to maintain a VPN connection for only a set of programs (Mail, IM...). However I would use the regular (direct connection to my router) as the default network connec...

I'm using wget to download useful website recursively: wget -k -m -r -q -t 1 http://www.web.com/ But external website also downloaded along with the website I want. How to prevent this external website from being downloaded?

I have a web site which will be featured in a place which will send a large peak of one-time traffic in a couple of weeks. The server hosting the website also hosts the control panel my customers use. The website part is simple and mostly static. But it includes a wordpress blog. My question H...

Hi. I'm newbie on FreeBSD. I configured a BSD on VM for Erlang. For private use only, NOT for production service. It was very easy setup and installing, now I can call erl console. Next, I want to upload my Erlang source file from my Mac into BSD. What kind of file transferring option available...

I just installed SQL Server 2008 with reporting services on Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard. When I run Reporting Services Configuration Manager, it shows the the connection URL should be http://[servername]/ReportServer_SQL2008. (SQL2008 is the instance name, so that makes sense.) When I go to ...

As mentioned on the Windows 7 blog the only supported upgrade path is from Windows Vista to Windows 7. So your users would have to go XP->Vista->Win7, that's supported. However direct XP->Win7 is not.

Hello! I have to solve a problem but I don't know what way I should choose. There are 2 servers which are NOT in a LAN network, both have static internet IP addresses. If you connect to Server1 on a specific port, it should forward the connection ("proxy") to Server2. Also Server2 should still ...

I am on a network, and I'd like to control people mapping my drives. Is there a way to globally stop all people from mapping any of my drives?

I'm trying to write a script in python that takes a certificate file and the private key, and installs the SSL certificate on the Apache server. The ssl.conf file on my machine is located in the directory /etc/httpd/conf.d/ which I think is normal. However, what are the other directories the ssl....

We use apache as our web server and it has mod_deflate enabled. We have been using httperf to test it for load but we've not been able to get it to talk to the webserver with gzip/deflate encoding enabled in httperf. I tried --add-header='Accept-Encoding : gzip, deflate' to httperf's command li...

That is going to be part of a site app tool i am creating that has many different functions. But my question today, is for sql, iis, coldfusion administrators, what kind of daily checklists, do you use or do. Can any of those be checked/done/verified via coldfusion/sql/wmi? For example, in this...

I have a database of user agents that I need extract all of the unique browsers from in SQL. The field is like... Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; In...

How can block files be mounted on osx? I tried hdiutil attach filename however this only seems to work for iso/dmg images. On ubuntu this can be done by mount -o loop filename mountpoint Background: I used vdfuse (http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=33355&start=0) to m...

Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm having issues with tasksel. I tried to install lamp-server, but php5 isn't installed. user@host:/var/www$ aptitude show apache2 | grep -i installed State: installed Automatically installed: no user@host:/var/www$ aptitude show mysql-server | grep -i insta...

I'd like to allow certain users access to our network via Citrix. We're using XenApp 5.0 and we will allow Internet Explorer, but want to restrict what sites they can visit. For instance, I'd like to allow browsing Intranet site A, but not sites B or C, or any external sites. Can this sort of ...

I'm setting up a couple of wordpress installs and am habitually running into permission problems. I suspect the main problem is that I'm not a shared hosting environment, just a plain Ubuntu VM and so whatever the default settings are on Ubuntu is not what WP expects. Examples of problems: upg...

When Mac users connect to my network, they receive a message via dialog box saying: Message from server Welcome MAC user...bet you feel special! Hilarious and all, but I'd like to do away with it. It was put in place by a previous, disgruntled admin. Thanks in advance.

I have a 32-bit Windows 2003 Terminal Server that is running a local copy of SQL Server (full version, not express) and hosts a Visual Studio 2008 development environment for several developers. The machines ia Virtual Machine running on vSphere 4, with 4GB of memory allocated to it. When I h...

Facebook recommended that I change passwords to other accounts because of a suspected security breach. I did this for my Yahoo mail account but forgot the new password. I followed the security questions requested by Yahoo and answered the first security question but not the second which is what ...

Folks, my server written in C++ periodically crashes but produces no core dump at all. Core dumps are produced for sure: "ulimit -c" and "/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" are set properly. The weird thing is that I tried to kill the server manually for several times using "kill -s SIGSEGV $pid"...

I need to check some old data. I need to check data from last night compared to data today. I am going to use SQL Data Compare to do this but I need to setup a fresh database to restore the backup to so I can compare it against the existing database. My question is if I have a full backup from ...

Error messages: The replication agent has not logged a progress message in 10 minutes. This might indicate an unresponsive agent or high system activity. Verify that records are being replicated to the destination and that connections to the Subscriber, Publisher, and Distributor are still active...

I'm trying to setup 2 remoteapp servers with a bit of fail-over in the design. I keep running into a few dead ends where there is no load balancing... or connections take a ridiculous amount of time to reconnect if the gateway fails... or broken sessions won't resume when reconnecting (starts ne...

I have a FreeBSD server that I like to be able to get to from anywhere. Normally I use SSH publickey to log in, or if I don't have my SSH private key available then I might use regular password over SSH. However, when logging in from an untrusted machine there's always the risk of a keylogger cap...

Hello I would like to install cpanel in a new server with nas storage. I need some advice on where to mount the nas storage (using iscsi). What's is the best practice ? Mount only /home directory ? Thanks for any help roberto

hi all, how can i find out which application is sending emails? on server i have qmail. i would like to check is there some kind of script or application that sends emails (something like spam application). is it possible to find out that?

Netgear routers and I are not the best of friends, but we are starting to get along a little better now. The problem started when I first bought the router. I had to work long hours back then so my brother, who was visiting at the time, hooked up my cable modem and my router. I never thought h...

MRTG defaults to titling each traffic graph as "Traffic Analysis for ${port_int}" I would like to instead have each graph titled by the description of the switchport. How could I do this?

Hi, I have a little SVN server, old dell optiplex running debian. I don't have that high demands on my server, because its just a little SVN servern... but do want it to be secure. I just renewed my server to a newer and better optiplex, and started looking a bit into the old server. I took it ...

I have a domain who's users send email from an isp's smtp server. I'm trying to set up SPF for that domain using: v=spf1 a mx include:mail.isp.com ~all When I checked the record using The 2nd tool at http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html it gave me an error becuase the isp doesn't have SPF...

Most of the configuration and example I've seen out there, the backend server are either on the same machine or the same network network. Has any body done this with backend servers located in different physical location, over WAN ? If you so what were your experience ?

Blackjacking is a technique used to connect internally to a corporate network using a typical BES device. It was announced at DefCon a few years back and is hardly new. How does this work, and what are the ways to reduce risk from this exploit?

I am using snmpget in order to get the description of a specific switch port. How could I read each not null value? I.E. do a "for-each" sort of operation on the set of IF-MIB::ifDescr values?

Hello, I wish to upgrade my php version but unsucessfully... I just found over the net some redhat tweaks with yum but here on ubuntu i don't know how to do it. Anyone can help me please ?

I have a server that is multi-homed (it is NOT a DC). The problem is that the 2nd IP creates a DNS entry as well which sometimes takes priority over the 1st IP. As such, when somebody tries to connect to a file share on this server by server name it will try to connect to the wrong IP and it won'...

How do I set Ubuntu to login automatically on startup in the command line, and also, how do I set it to run a script on startup as well?

Is there a way to monitor the exchange logs in realtime like using 'tail -f /var/log/mail.log' in linux? The GUI tools for exchange under SBS 2008 suck for looking at what's going on in realtime.

Our current main filer server is a Windows 2003 R2 cluster with 3 2TB disks connected to a backend SAN. Our main issue right now is 1 of the 2TB disk is getting full. What options do I have? Mount another disk to a folder within the 2TB volume Use GPT disks to go beyond the 2TB limit I'm ju...

We have a Small Business Server 2k3 that we recently demoted as the domain controller when we moved offices last week. Starting this afternoon, the server shut itself off as we're now violating the EULA since it wants to be the domain controller. We're trying to figure out the fastest way to rem...

Hi all! Need experts opinions. Have disk. Here is smart output of Seagate "Barracuda 7200.10 family": ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 096 089 006 Pre-fail Always - 71906027 ...

I would like to be able to set up my clustered JBoss5 instances to write log4j messages to a database. I am trying to use a DBAppender (rather than a JDBCAppender, for the reasons given in this question). Has anyone done this? As of now, I've added an tag to jboss-log4j.xml and put the logback-...

I am using linux server and a file is missing and I need to find all the files matching a name MyMissingFile ...how can I issue a command that will do a recrusive search of all the directories under root and tell me where the file is Thanks

Hi, I'm trying to decide to between using MojoPortal for my organizations CMS or Commerce Server 2009 with SharePoint 2010. We already have SharePoint 2010 for our intranet. In that thinking, perhaps it would make sense to deploy the same technology? We do not have a lot of traffic but do nee...

I have an iPad I can't get to connect to VPN. I have tried a variety of tasks to troubleshoot the issue: I have verified that another iPad on another network can connect to the VPN I am trying to connect to I can connect to this VPN from the same network the iPad uses on a Windows machine I ha...

Hi, I'm having some problems with redirects. I have 1 server, that will be handling all 3 sites www.foo.com [permanent redirect to foo.com] foo.com [temporary redirect to subdomain.foo.com] subdomain.foo.com - the working site... Basically, foo.com will be the main page in the future, but for ...

When we started our company we have implemented Small Business Server 2008 but now we are growing so fast so we need to upgrade. Can anyone suggest me which server is more efficient to get. limit of users is actual about to finish.

Is this possible with Tomcat?

I am using Tasks in Outlook 2007 to manage Tasks assigned to different people. When a person receives a task request, and accepts it, the Task is added to his list of Tasks. This is working correctly. However, if we then try to delete the actual Task request email, it deletes the actual Task as...

I am trying to connect to a filezilla server running on a windows server 2008 R2. If I put the hostname in to the filezilla client it tries to resolve it to the IPv6 address of the server (I can connect to the TS on the server fine through the same IPv6 address so I know it is not a issue of IPv6...

Hi, I dumped my svn to different bathces of revisions, 0 - 500, 501 - 1000, 1001 - 1500, 1501 - 1572. Now I imported 0 - 500, but can't import anything else onto it because the path db exists. How can I import the rest? Or is it OK with just the last one? Regards, Paul Peelen

Hi, I created an SSIS package to transfer logins from one server to another in SQL 2005 SSIS project using BIDS. I want to transfer all packages but skip 3. So I changed the maximum number of error count to 3. But it didn't help. can anyone please help me in achieving this? Thanks in advance

How can I list and edit pwd for mail accounts on a dedicated server using ssh?

Hi Everyone, I have a contact list in the public folders and have many contacts inside of it, however I now want to create a group for distribution, however when I create a new group and click select members Outlook doesn't give me the option to select contacts from the contact list in the public...

I am running FreeBSD 7. running MySQL 5.1.36 from ports. I am trying to check some data in the MySQL binary log files, and I get the following error: # mysqlbinlog mysql-bin.000021 mysqlbinlog: unknown option '--ssl' Why does mysqlbinlog not know about the option ssl? This server was compile...

Hi I am using SMF to manage a service under Solaris10. This service is itself a process manager, and forks off many child processes, some of which die occasionally (or are killed for various reasons). The service process itself is very robust and never dies however. The problem I have is that ...

I am using Windows Virtual PC under Windows 7 Ultimate. My VM starts up fine and goes to the login screen, but when I try to enter my current network password it says it is incorrect. However once I enter an older password I can log on fine. The problem though is once I try to access network fold...

Since this is more of a Bash question I think this is better suited for serverfault than superuser, even though I'm talking about media files. I had to make a batch conversion of several media files, and all the output files have a new timestamp. /somedir/ file1.mpg (correct timestamp) ...

RabbitMQ keeps failing and we fix it by restarting the service but we don't know why it fails. Has anybody else experienced these issues?

My Environment: I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine with Hyper-V installed. Inside of Hyper-V, I have a few other virtual desktops running (all Windows operating systems with Remote Desktop enabled). My Goal: I was wondering if it would be possible to log directly into one of these virtual ...

I’m working on a plan to replace a number of router/firewalls in our company’s and customer’s networks. We have 2 offices and a number of servers hosted in a datacentre that have IPSec VPN links to around 100 customer sites. In the main office we need a LAN and 2 DMZs and in the datacentre 3 LANs...

I appologise if this is the wrong site to post on, but it seemed the most relevant in the Stack Exchange. I run a small time file host and we're quickly expanding. Because of this, I'm looking to buy two new dedicated storage servers, and I could use your help to find a dedicated server that sui...

I'm using Zimbra's handy RESTful xml API (http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/ZCS_6.0:Zimbra_REST_API_Reference:Get_Folder) to pull down important emails from a user's email account. I'd like to make them link back to the message on their webmail client, but I can't find the url I'd use. I've got all t...

I would like to have as many connections as humanly possible in Windows Server 2008, in order to support a Comet-style application. The application is written in C#. The connections will not be chatty, they just need to be open. Buying boatloads of memory and fast CPUs are not a problem. As far ...