I have the following services running: sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off tcsd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off vsftpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on ...

Recently I ran into some issue related to the UDP sending on Windows. When the application tries to send the packets over UDP, often it received socket error 10035 (WSAEWOULDBLOCK) in the send(), so likely that the socket buffer is full. I only seen this issue on Windows 2008 and did not see t...

I have these settings on /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dp...

I want to finally spend some money upgrading my company's virtualization infrastructure, but I've been looking at hardware for a couple of weeks now and I'm not quite sure what's appropriate for our needs. In addition to buying some actual server hardware, I want to replace our current VMware Se...

I'm implementing a Google like search box in my asp.net application. Each keypress in the box sends an Ajax request to IIS webmethod that queries the txt and return matches - works pretty cool. However, on loading up activity (e.g. 300 users), I'm getting errors that my 100 Pooled connections are...

I would like to know if there's a way to tell which local branch is tracking which remote branch in Git. I'm using one remote server, which is named "origin".

I'm newbie on BSD. I installed FreeBSD with minimal configuration, so there's no package installed. I tried pkg_add -r emacs, the command tried installing X11. There are so many ports on BSD ports website, so I'm confusing what's suitable for me. I'm finding a light-weight Emac with command-lin...

Hey all, I currently work for a company that has purchased a number of different SAN solutions (whatever was cheap at the time!) and i want to setup a HA ZFS file store over fiber channel. Basically I've taken slices from each of the sans and added them to a ZFS pool on this box (which I'm call...

I have an organization with about 50 users. We are currently using a Sonicwall Pro 2040, but are looking to upgrade since it is getting old. I am comparing two UTM solutions–the Sonicwall NSA 4500 and the Endian Mercury–and they seem pretty evenly matched. I have two questions: Are these over...

sometimes, we found our server's cron process auto repeated, repeated 2 or 3 times when use ps command, I get this: server_xx14:~ # ps aux | grep cron root 2596 0.0 0.0 11188 392 ? Ss 2009 0:25 /usr/sbin/cron root 21706 0.0 0.0 20812 944 ? S 09:30 0:0...

I've been using vhosts on my XP dev machine with little to no problems, but I can't seem to duplicate the environment on Ubuntu. I've already added a line to /etc/hosts like so: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 test # ADDED Then, a new Host entry in server.xml: <Host name="test" app...

I am new to linux and tried few editors (vi/nano). Currently use nano but still little off from dos/windows world. Which is the easiest editor in linux(ubuntu) for windows person?

I'm trying to launch jobs via torque from the frontend of the cluster, and I'm running into the situation where torque is seeing the job submitted from the "wrong" interface. This front-end is configured to run KVM, so there's a virtual interface for NAT addressing that looks like this: virbr...

I am running an Ubuntu server having 255 IP addresses. I want to write down a PHP script that uses each IP to do a curl request. Is this possible ?

My posts are frequently hijacked by comments: "Stop typing and start reading" don't make so many revisons Generally understanding this people, I should explain that I cannpt do any of this, because I do not see rendering pane of my typing after first dozen lines due to: - "Related Ques...

I have a server running on my VPS which hosts the .com that it runs off of. Normally I Remote into this VPS and open management studio and do what I need to do. How can I connect to the database on my webserver from my office using Management Studio. Can I?

Running a Xen 3.2.1 dom0 on Debian Lenny. Paravirtualized guests work flawlessly, but HVM guests interrupt traffic briefly on whichever bridge they're connected to whenever they're restarted. After a few seconds, connectivity is restored. I've done some googling on this issue and can't seem to...

I'm into a little dilemma here. I bought a server, running Ubuntu, having 255 IP addresses and now I need to see them. I've searched the internet before posting here and found out that the command "ip address show" would spit up all my IPs, but instead it shows me this : 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,...

I have ubuntu8 and ubuntu10 on my system, and want to also install windows 7. i have read that i need to first install windows and then ubuntu etc, but i currently have ubuntu first. once i install windows, i think it will mess up with grub. How will i access ubuntu after i install windows and fi...

Can we get a free disk space report from SCOM. Also can it be filtered to only show SAN disks? since we have few management hosts through which me manage the storage.If i want to filter this to only show SAN disks space utilization , will it be possible to do this? The same goes for NAS ( few Na...

I have the mentioned router and I seam to have somehow removed my ability to access it via the browser...I can connect to it through the serial and it still allows connections through it to the internet but I would like to reset it back to stock so that I can take another go at this. After conne...

Can the EMC grab utility be used on ESX hosts.please help

I'm attempting to set up a firewall on my church's WRT54GL running dd-wrt v24. I've not found many good guides at setting up a firewall, and nothing that seems to be recent enough with these routers. Basically, I want to set the firewall to block all incoming traffic on the non-essential port...

hi i configure squid to authenticate using win AD, but users can connect from different ip address and i cant set policy base on ip for different user. is any way to set acl base on username? i found ident http://www.visolve.com/squid/squid24s1/access_controls.php is it work for my testcase?

Hi I just got a mail from someone notifying me of an out of office reply she received after she sent a meeting request to 3 different people, not including the one that's on leave. She said my colleague (who is out of the office himself and who I won't bother for unimportant things) knew about ...

Is it possible to associate in serverfault an existing "unregistered user" account (email and cookies based) to a later "registered user" account (openID based)? I have already answered one question as "unregistered" user, providing only my email. Now I have registered using openID, but in my pr...

My company just changed it's old firewall (Zyxel ZyWALL 70) with a new one (Zyxel ZyWALL USG 300). Everything seems to be working fine but sometimes, in a non-periodic span of time, connectivity seems to drop. Web navigation stops, ftp uploads get interrupted and email checking fails. Everythin...

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and installed apache2 HTTP server. On the security page @ apache.org documentation they recommend to change the permissions on the file /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd to 511, but I don't understand why ? Why shouldn't the root user be able to write to that file? The current ...

I've been writing an application for the company I work for, and when sending a HTML formatted body to QMail it's sending out to external mailboxes fine but loses all formatting when sent internally. I've looked at the actual file in the Maildir folder on the server and the formatting is on the e...

I have a table with about 10,000 rows. I imported about 2000 rows into this table last week. All seemed to be going fine, however when I try to search for these new items using the simple syntax: SELECT * FROM FreeTextTable(tablename, columnname,'search_string') It only seems to return result...

It existed in version kernel version 2.6.31-14-server but it appears to be missing in 2.6.32-22-server and greater. Did it get moved / renamed / forgotten about or deprecated?

Consider the following output from fileacl on a folder (Rob N) and a sub-folder (CAMRA) on our network: [S:\Temp]fileacl "s:\temp\Rob N" s:\temp\Rob N;BUILTIN\Administrators:F[I] s:\temp\Rob N;CREATOR OWNER:U/F/F[I] s:\temp\Rob N;COMPANY\Domain Users:F[I] s:\temp\Rob N;NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F[I] ...

I'm trying to get an idea of where the bottlenecks are in our backup system. Are there tools available for profiling this? If not, any pointers to a home grown method would also help. I guess most of the info would be in the bacula logs, but I'd also like to see things like what gets saturated ...

Hi, We have a dedicated server running on Godaddy. We have hosted on this server java web applications and few wordpress blogs. Java web applications running on Tomcat 5.5+mod_jk+Apache 2. I'm trying to optimize the Apache server and i see there are several modules loaded. Please let me know, whi...

We have a Dell poweredge 2970 with 4 drives. Someone claimed to have shutdown the server and no one mention of any hardware changes. But when we tried to start we have a Memory error saying is not optimal and also 2 logical drives failed and the server is no more booting.

I'm developing one web application, using PHP eclipse IDE. For an instance i want to switch from one PHP version to another version which resides in different location. Below is my working environment : 1) Having Centos OS 2) PHP 5.1.6 have installed already while installing centos OS 3) Abov...

His machine boots into Windows 7, and for him to boot to xp this is what he does as he has described it to me: Go to cmd, right click cmd, click on "run as administrator", click "yes" at user account.In DOS window, type "diskpart", enter "select disk 0", type "select partition 3", type "active." ...

I have always been wondering why Windows Installer only allows you to install one program at a time. It is very frustrating not to be able to launch multiple installations, especially when setting up a new installation of Windows. What is the reason for that?

Hi, I've got two Netgear GS716T's which I want to link together, the problem is that when I link the two together one of the switches I think goes into a loop, all the LEDs power on and the switch resets itself and does it all over again. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

I have a small AD in which I am deploying software to domain computers through GPO (using msi installers). What is the best method to deploy software that has no .msi installer, but has switches for silent installs All I can think is to use startup scripts (that will do detect->install/unin...

Storage system: HP Smart Array P410i. Operating system: RHEL 5.5 x86_64. I have created a RAID 1+0 logical drive consisting of 12 disks, stripe size 128KB. With this logical drive, I'm about to create a new LVM volume group. Now, what physicalextentsize should I choose?

I have a number of Virtual Machines that were created from physical servers. Some of these have (in my opinion) an inappropriate number of processors - for example, we have a web application, accessed internally only, running on a VM with 4 processors allocated. This is the highest specced of o...

There are two email servers. It is necessary that some boxes were stored on the first server, others on the second . They should be allocated in one domain @qwerty.com. How can i make it? Configuration: postfix,cyrus,sasl,debian

Hello, How do I specify an interface for multicast traffic? I need to connect to multicast group through vlan interface (tcpdump show traffic there) but I believe that IGMP request are sent throug eth0. Should I add a route for multicast adresses?

We have 5 3com 4200 switches forming a ring (connected using 10GBase-CX4 XENPAK modules) and would like to add a few servers with 10GbE adapters soon. The offer we are currently looking at consists of a Voltaire 6024 10GbE switch and various transceivers so we can add it to our ring: 2 SFP+ 10...

How different is the Amazons RDS DB Instance different from The normal EC2 Instance other than the fact that RDS DB Instance has a Database server running on it? When an EC2 Instance goes down all the data associated with it also vanishes(when you dont attach an EBS). Is this true for RDS DB Ins...

Some time in the future, I may need to build a dedicated SSL farm (as described in Making applications scalable with Load Balancing) or something similar to handle lots of SSL traffic. While it's not an immediate issue for me, I'd like to plan a little bit ahead. So my question is: Is it more co...

Hi, I have a Windows Server 2008 system, which has 12GB of RAM. If I list all processes in the Task Manager, and SUM() the memory of each process (Working Set, Memory (Private Working Set), Commit Size, ...), I never reach more than 4-5GB that should be "in use". However, task manager reports t...

My apache redirects to my tomcat <VirtualHost www.example.com:80> ... ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/ ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/ ... </VirtualHost> But my tomcat has more webapps, and I would have another apache http virtualhost pointing to this tomcat. I ...

Our database has a custom server role attached. If I copy the database to a new server and recreate the database, the following error is reported to the event log: Message: ERROR : errorCode=-1073548784 description=Executing the query "sys.sp_addrolemember @rolename = N'slim_sp_exec', ..." fai...

The situation is an nfs4 server and client using rpc.idmapd to map ids. The id mapping is working on the client for existing files served up from the server. On the server: [root@server ~]# id user1 uid=500(user1) gid=502(user1) groups=502(user1) [root@server ~]# ls -l /mnt/san/temp total 0 -rw...

I have a Networking test in about 6 hours and I lost my notes on the subject matter and can't recall what the acronym was! Here's the problem case: Given the address 150.20.0.0/27 find the following subnets and appropriate 'subsubnets' (what's that called as well). The graphic then goes on to s...

Hi, I am thinking of installing MS Exhange server in windows server 2008 running as a VM inside VMWare Esxi. I am not sure about the performance and reliability. Can anyone provide his experiences in this issue? Thanks

Hello, the question might sound trivial for whoever of you guys is able to install and manage a server on his own. For the rest of us who are not able to do anything (almost anything) without cPanel/WHM, I have a curiosity. I can not say I'm completely satisfied with cPanel due to their lack of...

I think this falls into the category of 'never ask a developer to do a server administrator's job'. I'm a developer writing a couple of ASP.NET MVC 2 sites. I've attempted to use the ASP.NET Configuration Tool to create some user roles, but it keeps giving me an error stating that it can't find...

Hi everyone, I want to purchase a Poweredge T710 server to install ESXi 4 on it, and I am not sure about its compatibility. Can anyone inform me if it is supported? Thanks

I’m running a ASP.NET application on Win2003 32bit that tends to allocate a lot of memory. To avoid OutOfMemoryExceptions that start to appear when the W3P process exceeds 1 GB, I have set a maximum virtual memory limit of 850 MB for the this application pool, so the application will restart inst...

This is not really a programming question, it's more about settings that I can alter visually. I first asked this at stackoverflow but was told this was a better place. I have bought a domain and am wondering how I can get it work in such a way that everything before the .example.com except for ...

Imagine I have two networks: 192.168.20.0 192.168.21.0 How can I find the common supernet to give to a router so any external router can access these two network by using only the supernet address?

I'm using Ubuntu for developpement and I need to use really recent versions of gcc, mercurial and several other applications. Is there a repository that I can set to get all my software that would be always up to date? Some people tells me to switch to Fedora, but I don't understand exactly wha...

My Question: How does Outlook 2007 decide if it should redirect an e-mail to the Junk E-mail folder? Background Story: When I send a simple HTML e-mail from my domain mailbox, it's being redirected to the Junk E-mail folder. Here are two sub questions: Does Outlook 2007 care if the s...

Hi I have just hopped over to Amazon for serving my .net sites and one site requires SSL. I have an elastic IP pointing at my EC2 instance, and I have my site setup in IIS 7 all working fine. I also have an SSL cert from a vendor. I have installed the SSL cert in IIS but my https connection wi...

Hi guys, Is there a way to encrypt or password protect Oracle database files so that they can not be used in case they were copied to other servers? Thanks

As per standard procedure we've been using for years for previous versions of both Oracle and SQL Server, I have installed Oracle's latest ODAC package, which includes the Oracle OLE driver onto our new SQL Server 2008 R2 x64 nodes. I have done the recommended system reboot, but OraOLEDB.Oracle d...

I want to move all website data from one drive to another as the storage is almost full. As I also want to keep the drive letter to the website drive I thought of switching the drive letters in windows to move to the new drive. Here is what I thought to to: 1. Stop IIS 6 and all services accessin...

Hi, I can't get the RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} to trigger when I just use foo.org. It just seems to ignore it, but www.foo.org and sub.foo.org seem to trigger the rewrite condition. I'm probably missing something simple, and was hoping some more experienced eyes would be able to help. <Virtual...

Can "traditional unix permissions" conflict with or override ACL permissions in OSX? Are there cumulative effects between these or are "traditional permissions" ignored when ACL permissions are enabled?

All my virtualhosts have their own directive open_basedir, like: php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/user/data:." How can I add a path to open_basedir globaly to all virtualhosts?

So one of my customers has started the process of moving from CentOS-4 to CentOS-5. We are also looking at using NX to consolidate user sessions, moving login sessions from edge workstations to centralized, beefier server-room systems. Our engineers environment requires access to a bunch of CAD...

I am currently setting up DPM 2010 with my HyperV cluster and have found the following powershell script to automatically add new Cluster VM's http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2009/12/03/hyper-v-protection-with-dpm-2010-beta-how-to-automatically-protect-new-virtual-machines.aspx I can get...

I ran apt-get upgrade on my debian/testing system and now I get the error above. How can I fix this? shell transcript follows: 136 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 182kB/143MB of archives. After this operation, 3671kB dis...

I have a self-hosted web site that allows users to log in and view data stored in different files across a network. The web server is running a service that accesses the data and sends it to the users. The setup is simple: The web server is a dedicated machine, networked with other data servers ...

When booting Centos 5.5 on a vmbox running on windows XP I get the following message. Memory for crash kernal (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissable range

I have three tier solution viz database <-> Application <-> Client My application server query to database and prepares XMLs in pre defined time intervals and sends these xmls to the cleint. On the client side we have a presenatation apps which does the presentation.Now I have 5 clients ...

I know with apache you can rewrite subdomains to folders dynamically, as shown in the following: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/08/20/redirecting-subdomains-to-directories-in-apache/ but is it possible to do such a thing with tomcat?

Hi All I am thinking to get to know nginx better, I have a home box which I can install Fedora, Ubuntu or any flavor linux. Goal : To have a wordpress (blog), mediawiki (wiki), forum script in subdirectories under the www root. so for e.g. www.mydyndnsdomain.com/blog, /wiki/, /forum and so on...

Hello, I have a client using Hosted Exchange 2007. As the owner of the company, they automatically receive copies of all emails which are sent to their team (using auto forwarding). The problem arises when the boss sets his out-of-office. When this happens clients who email members of the tea...

Running IIS 6 on a handful of Windows 2003 Web Ed. servers. Each has some App Pools configured with "Idle Timeout" of x minutes. No recycling, just the idle timeout from the Properties Performance tab. I'd like to see when these guys shutdown from idle in the Event Viewer logs. So far haven't ...

My sql error log is full of messages telling me one or another of my dbs is starting up - sometimes the time spacing is only fractions of a sec apart: 2010-08-27 10:07:00.98 spid59 Starting up database 'myDb'. 2010-08-27 10:07:03.11 spid59 Starting up database 'myDb'. 2010-08-27 10:07:...

There are so many options with Sharepoint that I get a little overwhelmed/confused with all the patches, upgrade options etc. What is the most current/reliable way to install SPS on Windows 2003 in "web farm" mode with a remote SQL database? I'm installing SPS 2007 32 bit.

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IIS isn't serving files with + in the name e.g. hello+world.txt Where would I go to change this?

I’m on a Windows 2008 server and would like to delete 15 users (user1 till user15) without having to do this by hand. After deleting them completely I’d like to readd them (again, with a script) and give all of them the same password for which the script should ask for. Any help (hints, complet...

Hi there, What dose mean dev/null and dev/null 2>&1 ? if i run php -q /http/get_pdf.php

Three months ago for several reasons I had to quickly setup a regular desktop PC with Windows 2008 R2 as our Primary Active Directory server. I have certificate server on it, as well as running DNS and DHCP, and we also share files off of that server as well. At the same time we moved our email f...

not sure if this question rely belongs here but what sort of training would someone need to become a SQL Server DBA? Going for a job as a junior DBA which includes training so just wondering what that might include? Ta, Jonesy

I got a new VPS on the same machine on which I already have a VPS. But up-/download is much slower on the new VPS. Is there a possibility to check if there are clients trying to connect to a closed port and block the bandwith with these requests? For example if the previous owner of the IP addres...

Performing initial setup: * Connecting to directory service on server . * Collecting site info. * Identifying all servers. ***ERROR: There is an inconsistency in the DS, suggest you run dcdiag in a few moments, perhaps on a different DC. I have made sure the support tools are up to ...

I have a file that exported a bunch of file names that need to be removed. I need to know how to go about removing each file without having to issue it one at a time at the command line. I've thought about just cating it inside a for loop, which would probably work, but wanted to know if there ...

i enabled my windows 7 firewall to by default block all outbound connections by default. i configure each and every program that needs network access in the 'Windows Firewall with Advanced Security' mmc. problem is sometimes i cant find the program that needs network access. i enabled firewall lo...

Greetings. I'm the new IT guy after the last IT guy just up and left. He took all knowledge of the network including router and switch passwords. I've been running the password recovery procedure on all of our switches and have been successful on all but one. I've gone through the steps of Cisc...

What differences exist between the pay and free version of MSSQL2008R2? Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2.aspx and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/ A complete answer might explain why someone would choose o...

Coming from the questions, for ex., Sharepoint 2010 - “We did not find any results for” keyword which identified the problem (but not solution) with the help of Mike Hacker's blog Crawler Issue with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Server 2008 R2 The latter tells: "The one that was working was...

I see something interesting when I install the Exchange 2003 Best Practice Analyzer. It installs something called "HBA API". Does anyone know what this is, or how I can use something similar to access HBA information of local and remote servers?

Hey All. I've got a 2X dual-port NIC ESXi web server and a dual-port NIC Linux backup server behind an ASA 5505. On DMZ subnet (172.16.x.x) I have VMs for Apache/FTP, Mail, and outside/public DNS. On private subnet (10.1.x.x) I have VMs for MySQL and inside DNS. I just bought a layer 2 Linksys ...

I'm so new to DRBD, please help me fixing the problem below. Enclosed my drbd.conf. Many thanks [root@skonkwerks1 ~]# drbdadm create-md all open(/dev/hdb3) failed: No such file or directory Command 'drbdmeta /dev/drbd0 v08 /dev/hdb3 internal create-md' terminated with exit code 20 drbdsetup exit...

Rob Farley in SQL Server Developer Edition versus SQL Server Standard/Enterprise excellently summarizes: Developer Edition is just Enterprise Edition without the license to be used in a Production environment. Also, it doesn't need to be installed on a Server OS (ie, you can put it...

I've been trying to track down the cause of intermittent slowdowns of our Tomcat server. We get the slowdowns several times a week, where Tomcat will stop responding or take several minutes to process requests, and the cpu loads on the (Linux) box, as shown by uptime, spike from typically around...

Hi there, I am looking for a free Windows SMTP Server that supports some kind of external authorization (SMTP AUTH) through scripts or a database. I need to offer a mail relay for a dynamically changing user base, and their credentials are stored in a MySQL database table. SMTP Server Requireme...

Can I boot Windows from (usb-connected) external HDD? My sysadmins told me that it was not possible. I believed them for very long time. Then, I installed and run Windows XP Pro SP3 from external HDD. What are possible issues with this? For ex., I read that MS SQL Server cannot be run from exter...

I just want to capture the output of a time command i.e: X=$(time ls) or $(time ls) | grep real The time function spits it to the console though. How do I do this?

I setup a couple of Window 2008 64bit systems about 5 months ago. Initially all seemed well. Now however, for no apparent reason, things are dog slow, apps hang, explorer hangs, just clicking on something can cause a CPU spike of 100%, and often it's explorer that is eating it up. As I have two ...

How can you wipe a set of Oracle schemas? By wipe I mean remove all data, tables, views, procedures, synonyms, etc, etc.

I'm looking for a simple way to log when a file/folder has been deleted or moved. I'm sort of surprised there doesn't seem to be a way within Windows to do this. I see there's several programs out there to do this, what should I go for?

Having issues similar to the following: $ jruby -S glassfish Starting GlassFish server at: 0.0.0.0:3000 in development environment... Writing log messages to: /tmp/foo.log. Press Ctrl+C to stop. Missing the Rails 2.3.8 gem. Please `gem install -v=2.3.8 rails`, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION sett...

I have a networked printer on a place without cable access. So I thought an Access Point in client mode will do. The printer has the ability to announce itself over mDSN to other computers on the net, so I do not have to assign a static IP and configure it on every client. And here is where the...

Our organization has less than 100 people all on laptops running Windows XP. We encourage Firefox, though a number of people still use IE7. But lately we've gotten some spyware/virus attacks that have come in through outdated plugins. Everyone is at different levels with plugin updates, and it te...

We have a website and it's current architecture is as follows: There's squid in the front which caches images. Then there is apache httpd with mod_rewrite enabled. httpd then talks to apache tomcat(with mod_jk) for dynamic requests and servers static stuff like js,css on it's own. Apache httpd r...

We have a clustered SQL server (2k5 Std) that's currently being hosted on 1 of 2 subnets on the server. We'd like to retire the subnet the SQL cluster is on as we're experiencing default gateway issues with the servers being multi-homed. My question is what is the best way to migrate the SQL clu...

I've been looking for some best practice instructions on how to do this, but everything I have found thus far refers to an internal/AD-based DNS migration. This project is public-based DNS, no AD, primary DNS hosting is on Windows 2000 and I want to migrate it to Windows 2003 (secondary DNS is al...

Hi, I'm planning on upgrading my OpenBSD to 4.7 (from 4.6) and as you may or may not know, they changed the syntax for pf.conf. This is the relevant portion from the upgrade guide: pf(4) NAT syntax change As described in more detail in this mailing list post, PF's separate nat/rdr/binat...

On a guest Windows OS under VMWare ESXi, is configuring software raid 1 between 2 virtual disks, residing on 2 seperate physical disks, a good idea? Performance, scalability, managability and fault-tolerance -wise?

Is there a security configuration in WSS 3 that would allow end-users to add documents to a site, but then not be able to change this document?

I have a website running under IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008. It's just being used by 2-3 people at any point in time under very light load. It runs fine for about 30 minutes, but then fails with the error: Server Error in '/' Application. Dynamic view compilation failed. c:\Window...

I'm running Uniserver on windows 7, and it's been extremely difficult so far. At first, only files in subdirectories would not run properly. Now though (after a restart), all files do not work. Basically, instead of running, the source file is downloaded in my browser (unless the server isn't o...

We recently moved a site into production running Server 2008 x64 and IIS 7. The ASP.NET pages apparently load just fine, but when it comes to IE 7 and 8, a weird caching issue has cropped up with the CSS and JavaScript files on the page. On a very sporadic schedule, IE does not get all the files...

I am working on setting up new networking for datacenter hosting a web site. We have following topology Internet -> Firewall1 -> ReverseProxy(for security) -> Web Server -> firewall2 -> databse Firewall is linux iptables hardened We do not have any IPS or IDS in here. Question is Is ips/ids...

My computer randomly crashes and receives a BSOD. The BSOD is IRQL_IS_LESS_OR_EQUAL I checked the event viewer and I'm seeing the following error: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000116 (0xfffffa800e66c4e0, 0xfffff8801076d5b0, 0xffffffffc000009a, 0x00000000000...

Whilst trying to commit some files to SVN, we're suddenly all getting this error Can't move '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/txn-protorevs/2002-8.rev' to '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/revs/2/2003': Permission denied I compared the permissions in the repository, and they look the same as all our ...

I would like to use powershell to find all available mail servers in a given network segment, or domain wide. Is this possible and how could you do it?

I'm trying to set centos to authenticate to a server 2003 AD. I run authconfig-gtk and select ldap for "User Information" and "Authentication" and configure it as such base dn: dc=test,dc=com ldap server: 192.168.0.1 and no TLS encryption (need to get it running first) on the optio...

I found the AppScale project that lets anyone set up their own GAE service. Have any hosting providers actually done this yet? I haven't been able to find any. Right now I have an App that I wrote for App Engine, but I don't want it to use Google IP space for external connections. So I need to h...

I'm not sure if this a serverfault or superuser question. A client of mine shipped me a Windows 7 box that I am supposed to work on. Unfortunately the machine is joined to his domain (which I cannot access - legally or physically) and the local administrator account appears to be disabled. Is ...

I have an IP address and time of being spammed that I'd like to find out who it bleongs to. I found that the IP belongs to the ISP: cogeco cable and that it is a commercial account. Is it possible to find out which company is responsible? I know I can report to the ISP the IP but I'd like to fi...