I have a system where users upload wsgi applications and we serve them using apache/mod_wsgi. For scaling reasons, we're simply using the WSGIDaemonProcess directive and setting them to dynamically allocated UID/GIDs. The problem is, we don't have associated users with these UIDs. Is there a w...

I've got this small problem, I've got a HG repository server set up and it works fine (at least as far as being a repository & working with HG) I'm having a problem with the web view because it seems my server wont serve .cs or .csproject files (even though it technically isn't from the cont...

Greetings again. I am about do move a server from one Ubuntu box to another. I'm not cloning the old box to the new; I'm creating a new system and will move data as needed. I want to install all the software that I have on the old box on the new one. Is there a simple way to find the history of ...

Does having a master-slave mysql setup over long distances (50-60 ms) slow down the responsiveness of INSERTs or SELECTs on the master locally?

I am developing a deamon for my VPS. The program works perfectly in local (that has pthread-2.11.so) but in the vps (witch have pthread-2.5.so) it have a memory leak related to threads (each thread use too much memory and that memory isn't free after thread termination), a know bug in old pthread...

It's been a few days that I'm trying to set up fastcgi with apache on a Kubuntu server. Despite searching everywhere, I cannot make it to work. If I try to run the site with the cgi application, apache hangs and after the timeout returns a 500 error. Here is what I did: I made sure that mo...

Hello, i am trying to have all sites come up as site.php instead of site.php?abc=1...etc currently my .htaccess file reads: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .+ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L] Options -IndexesBut this is not working. Any help would be appreciated

How do I setup a domain to forward to another domain via DNS or apache?

Let's say a server is connected to internet through limited bandwidth, and more than 1 user try to download a file from that server simultaneously. If we ignore the bandwidth limitation at the user side, may I know how the server side bandwidth will be allocated to different users? If there are ...

Coming from ASP-Classic, I previously used Persits ASPEmail to handle email queueing. It makes the website faster to offload email in a queue so the webapp can continue handling other immediate user requests. Is there some kind of queueing method using IIS7 and PHP5? I've tried creating a COM o...

I've recently moved one of our servers from Server 2003 and IIS6 to Server 2008 R2 and IIS7 (technically IIS7.5 I suppose). In doing so I am transitioning a small account management tool written in classic ASP and have run into a problem with user impersonation. Extensive searching hasn't been m...

How do I add email accounts to postfix? Are they simply linux users? I followed the PostFix guide on the Ubuntu web site to set it up, but it didn't say anything about setting up email accounts.

Want to use a ION machine to create a router + NAS + web server in my home which only have one Lan Port. Want to buy a new USB stick and provide a AP for my home. Which USB Wifi stick is fast and stable with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? Thanks

No dns suffixes configured. Ping a multiple-label invalid name, that's less than 15 characters: "d1.invalid" DNS query is performed and fails then nbname (udp port 137) broadcasts are done for "D1.INVALID" NetBIOS computer names can not contain a dot, so this NetBIOS broadcasting is pointless...

I try to install SQL2008 enterprise ON WINDOWS 7 64bit & 32bit but I got the same error when I installed it I chose instance feature only and the error which I got "on Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed. Check the SQL Server error log for potential causes." How can I solve th...

I'm interested in a domain-name (.com) that is about to expire. What happens when the registration-expiration date is reached?

Hi I've been trying to install CouchDB on my webfusion virtual server. I followed the latest instructions from the webfusion forum (see: http://forum.webfaction.com/viewtopic.php?id=2355 ) and it runs (just) Futon is very sluggish and I get 502 errors. Anyway when I run the test suite it fails o...

We're having a site setup at a very good hosting provider, but I'm thinking if its a good idea to transfer the domain name to them as well. On the pros side, it should be faster + less hassle from the management point of view. On the cons side, it means all eggs in one basket. Although if the h...

I have absolutely no idea how did the server crashed, the only exceptional thing I found is the following graph from munin: http://i.imgur.com/Jm08n.png Please don't tell me I need more RAM, as you can see, before the incident occurred, everything was stable. I just don't get why suddenly the s...

Hi, I'm purchasing a server from a hosting provider and the order form is asking for the following pieces of information: Hostname eg. server1(.yourdomain.com) NS1 Prefix eg. ns1(.yourdomain.com) NS2 Prefix eg. ns2(.yourdomain.com) Root Password We need to have the webservice on this...

Hi, I need to "search" for domain names that might be infringing on my companies' trademarks. Is there any site/services which allow "searching" through the registered lists of domain names (right now for .com only) and shows me what have been registered already. I'm not looking for a service w...

I'm running a webserver at slicehost and decided to delete unused/unnecessary users. But I really don't know which ones are necessary for the system to work I use it as apache webserver with mysql, php, memcached, ssh and proftpd. This is the list of users in /etc/passwd. How can I decide whi...

I've just brought up a new installation of SQL Server 2008. I installed the default instance as well as one named instance. I'm having a problem connecting to the named instance from anywhere besides the server itself with any user besides 'sa'. I am running in mixed mode. I have a login/user...

My house is Vat6 cabled for ethernet. I want to do some speed measuring. Background: Below the stairs is a small server room for the router, DSL modem, a EEE-Box (ubuntu) and a LaCie-Nas used for Backups (TimeMachine). There are Linux (3), OS X (3), and Windows XP (1) machines on the lan H...

I have an forum running invision power board 3 which has page generation times of just under 5 seconds. I have enabled wincache. Is there anything else I can do to increase the responsiveness of this application under PHP + FastCGI? Can we use IIS Output Caching? Unfortunately the forums are ref...

It's an InnoDB database. The query cache has 1.2GB in size with 300k queries in the cache. Most of the cached queries are related to 3 major tables (260MB data length plus 600MB index length altogether). Everytime I tried to insert new entry or update existing entries in these 3 tables, MySQL slo...

Running an SBS 2008 server for a client, who added a new office. I set up a Windows 2008R2 server at the new office, which was promoted to domain controller and GC (logon) server. Both servers are connected via VPN and we can ping both over this. However, something is wrong with the AD replicat...

Hello, I am trying to introduce nice urls: RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?arianne_url=content/$1 [L] And i want to externally rewrite access to the old style urls: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} arianne_url=content/([^&]*) RewriteRule ^.* /%1.html? [R=301] The problem is that this ends...

I have got a puppetmaster and a mix of CentOs 5.4 and Lenny 5.0.3 clients. The CentOs have puppet-0.25.5-1.el5 installed and are working fine to retrieve files. The Debian boxes have the 0.24.5-3 puppet from the repos, and are failing with the following errors; notice: Starting catalog run de...

I'm trying to install BugZilla on our server. The issue is that perl scripts of BugZilla define the path as /usr/bin/perl, and my perl installation is located at /usr/local/bin/perl. I've had this issue while installing other applications as well, i had to manually edit the interpreter paths. H...

Is there a way to force DFS replication to happen? I've added another share to an existing DFS link, and it's 24 hours later, and the 2 folders are not in sync! The newly added share has only about 30% of the files there. I could have manually copied the data to the two servers shares in 10 minu...

hello, some other programer before me made some changes on server, and now if i call html files, they are treated as php. if html file like that have included css it is also treated as php, and it makes problems... they tryed to connect to mysql database, despite the thing that in those css are...

Gamer-Source.com is not showing up properly, it's showing Starcraft-Source.com instead of it's own site. Can anyone point out any issues with the configuration below? /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 spireprod 127.0.0.1 www.battle-report.com 127.0.0.1 www.gamer-...

I have a group of users in AD which reside at DOMAIN\mediapeople and i can assign this group to a share, like i have done on to a file share on the domain controller. I have a new server, which also hosts some large media files, (this is it's purpose). I wish to add this group DOMAIN\mediapeople...

I want to add new ACL rules to a Cisco router. I have no previous experience with cisco. Many resources about Cisco acls have instructions on applying the acl rules to an interface. But I need to know which ACL rule is already active in an interface, so that I can add new rules to it. show int...

Hi. I would like to load scripts automatically based on certain triggers/conditions into cisco routers. Can anyone provide me a link or tell me how to do it? what does the scripts does? 1. Once the user authenticate to a NAS(cisco router), it will grab its userID and password. Then, it will do...

Hi, i'm trying to set up a backup system with s3fs and the amazon s3 service. i followed this 2 guides: http://qugstart.com/blog/linux/how-to-mount-an-amazon-s3-bucket-as-virtual-drive-on-centos-5-2/ http://blog.eberly.org/2008/10/27/how-i-automated-my-backups-to-amazon-s3-using-rsync/ anyway m...

I have a .NET (MVC2) website that is in development. I have deployed it to some production infrastructure, and tested it over the internet with anonymous access (as it will be once it is live) and it works fine. Between now and the go-live date I would like to restrict access to a small test grou...

hello guys i have build my ownd windows server 2003 with exchange 2003 iis 6.0 how i have used selfssl to make my ownd ceritificate. owa works fine. i have noticed that rpc over https dont work not i have discovered this website:https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ ExRCA is testing RPC/H...

My IPTables rules are as follows: # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.4 on Mon Aug 23 18:34:35 2010 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [9356:4246018] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport ...

When I read tutorial on how to create /add virtual hosts, the last sentence is always something like: ... now restart apache and you are done! Now, many (most|all) web hosts have a panel that allow you to create new virtual hosts which are activated almost instantly... and I am sure they didn't...

I'm trying to benchmark and load test various web server setups (mod_php vs php as fastcgi, max/min worker/thread configuration, and so on). I'm starting with ab, but would be interested in other recommended tools for this job. The web server is a Linux server, but I can run Windows based testing...

on Windows XP/server 2003 When telnet some remote host on a specified port, after connection established, sometimes press ctrl+] doesn't quit. Is there any command can quit instead of just close the command line window? Thanks.

My cron commands are "php -q PATH-TO-FILE" I'm getting "/bin/sh: php: not found" errors. What path should I be using to execute PHP, or how can I find out?

I a ubuntu installation which has two nic, NIC 1 -> Public facing with public ip, 74...* NIC 2 -> Internal facing with internal ip 192.168.3.1 What i am trying to get out of it is NIC 1 will be listening on port 80 and 443 and respond back But this machine can't do any out going communication ...

I'd like to know what sklls or traits you expect to see when you see someone with the title "Sr. Systems Engineer". Do certifications matter? If so, which ones? Do you expect them to obtain any other special recognition or achievement within the industry?

Hello, I've setup a mongrel_rails cluster which worked correctly until I decided to reinstall ruby/rails/mongrel. I'm able to get an output when I visit the website, but I'm obtaining the page source instead of a parsed html file... From what I understand, the returned header is incorrect: Da...

Imagine if you will you have a 2 node Red Hat NFS Cluster; each node is RHEL5.4 64bit and they share a SAN LUN for the data. The primary interface on each server is HA failover bonded (bond0, eth0+eth1) and there is a standard floating cluster resource IP for NFS. The cluster configuration is set...

I'm talking about all the traffic, including complete incoming and outgoing HTTP requests and responses. I'm using the latest Ubuntu, Apache2 and PHP, and need both the headers and the page data--the whole nine yards. I'm aware of mod_dumpio, but I'm only getting the headers logged that way, an...

I have a Lexmark X3550 printer and a computer running Ubuntu. Is there any hope in being able to print to this particular printer using Ubuntu? I am not familiar with CUPS. Is this an option?

I have several sites set up in my http-vhosts.conf file, and in the plain http.conf file, my DocumentRoot is set to a folder with no files in it. But if I visit my web server's IP address, I get the document root of the first defined VirtualHost entry, even though all of my VirtualHost entries s...

Looking for a caching reverse proxy that can do the following: 1. be installed at satellite locations to take load off central content server 2. cache 5-10 gb of static img/swf assets from origin server & detect media updates 3. NO browser reconfiguration needed (no proxy setting tweaks) 3. s...

I'm getting a Deprecated warning despite the following setting in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini I don't see a CLI specific php.ini, Do I need to create create one? Where else would this setting be coming from? error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED

I have a very simple task called update_feeds: desc "Update feeds" task :update_feeds do run "cd #{release_path}" run "script/console production" run "FeedEntry.update_all" end Whenever I try to run this task, I get the following message: [out :: mysite.com] sh: script/console: No such ...

Hi Folks, I successfully configured postfix & dovecot on my Debian Lenny system. Therefore I'm able to receive mails via pop3 protocol, but it looks like dovecot keeps mails after receiving. More precisely, it looks like it keeps mails from the last 3 days. Is there an option somewhere in t...

Is there a canonical way to remove the ".git" suffix from listings of gitweb? This is the only thing bothering me when viewing the repositories... I could probably change this in the source, but upon updates, the modification would be overwritten. So I am looking for a more persistent solution.

I'm looking at purchasing a .tel domain for our company to be used with our phone system. I'm wondering what the setup would look like to enable this domain dialing (sorry I don't know what the proper term is). I have seen something like [extension]@domain.tld but I'm wondering if there is any ...

Is it possible to use Application Request Routing to forward requests from non-SSL IIS7 to SSL Apache2.2 both on the same machine running Windows Server 2008?

How much it will be difference (for speed and other benchmark results) for something about 5 and even 10 GB MSSQL 2000 DB to move to MSSQL 2008 version? its running on windows 2003 (thats run on VMWare in CENTOS) and if osmeone can give more information about upgrading it will be grate.

I'm a sysadmin and become pretty good at ASP.NET development and .NET in general, but I haven't really mastered PowerShell or the other scripting languages. What development/scripting skills are needed for a Sr. Engineer (assuming I have all other skills)? Is there a chance that my .NET skills...

I have a laptop that I would like to access the full suite (Analysis Services, Management Studio, etc...) from the laptop, but SQL Server 2008 will be running on my local server? How can I accomplish this? Do i have to install Sql Server 2008 on my laptop as well?

Hi Guys, Can you tell me or if there is any tutorial on how to use wsus api ? Thanks

I have two certificates MUPCAGradjani.crt and MUPCARoot.crt downloaded from http://ca.mup.gov.rs/sertifikati-lat.html Certificate path is MUPCARoot > MUPCAGradjani and I would like to validate MUPCAGradjani against the other. After converting both certificates to PEM format and saving them by ce...

CentOS 5.2 My VPS host rebooted (checking with host support now) and I noticed the following in /var/log/messages Aug 28 11:57:52 echo avahi-daemon[21633]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 70) and group 'avahi' (GID 70). Aug 28 11:57:52 echo avahi-daemon[21633]: Successfully dropped root privileges. A...

system -> appearance gives the fonts dialogue which I use to set fonts for the entire gnome session. Is there a way I can setup fonts for a specific application. I have imported fonts from the windows 7 fonts folder and applied Segoe UI to all the applications. chrome is my browser of preferenc...

I want to point a sub domain to a google apps account, what is the best way to do this in DNS. For example email.example-site.com -> https://www.google.com/a/example-site.com.com What should the DNS record look like?

I have a barely getting by file server running Windows 2008 R2 (it also is the PDC, and exchange server, and DNS and DHCP and Certificate Server) I am setting up a second server running Windows 2008 R2 on much beefier hardware which will become the PDC, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Server, and I'll be...

Hey guys, I have tried allowing the scanners IP to be accepted through IPTABLES into the SMTP port, but the scan still fails. This is the error: The remote SMTP server is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. The SMTP server doesn't even crash. I have tried white listing the IP in Exim but the scann...

I've setup php5-cli and everything's working great except I keep getting emails containing deprecated notices such as: PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 Within the cron files that are running I also have...

I've installed Apache server on my machine. I've set it up and designated the root folder, etc. When I go to http://localhost/, it works fine, telling me that Apache is installed correctly. However, when I enter my IP in the browser, it does not work and comes up with "connection timing out" erro...

To put a long story short I have to connect a normal Linux based server a Sprint DataLink VPN which uses RADIUS (AAA stuff?) to authenticate. I'm unfortunately having issues where to start (primarily the RADIUS portion). If anyone can shed some light on to the procedures involved that would be g...