With each new server comes at least one more daily crontab email. The FreeBSD servers even send two: a daily and a security run output. Thanks to my obsession with virtualisation the number of emails I need to read (and then often discard without further action) is becoming too much.
What ways are there to manage / automate this process? Can emails be replaced by something that is web based? Surely some of you must have found creative ways for this.
I'm trying to use an old parallel-port based printer with a USB-to-parallel port adapter on Windows 7. When I plug it into the USB port on the computer it's listed as an unrecognized device. I know that these cables typically use the "USB Printing Support" driver with makes USB ports show up as printer ports in the printer dialog. Is there a way to manually add USB Printing Support to Windows 7, since it isn't being added automatically?
I hope I am asking this at the correct forum. I have a client from whom I have developed a PHP based Facebook project, who is hosting their site on IIS with ASP and no access to PHP, so they have created a sub domain to point to my server to host the site. I have an SSL on www.mydomain.com, but their sub domain does not have SSL (app.theirdomain.com).
Would redirection from their side be possible to SSL on my side so that the FB app works?
I run a small PBX based on the FreePBX distro of Asterisk. The installation has been steadily upgraded but for various reasons, we want to start again on a new server with a clean install from the distribution media.
Will I be able to take a backup from the old server and restore it to the new server, even though the installs are different versions? How sensitive are FreePBX backups to the build version? Is it possible to get at least a partial restore?
Hello,
A professor at the university asked me if I could install some software for him on his laptop that runs SLES 11. I'm not familiar with SUSE (I typically work with debian based machines) so I'm having some trouble finding/installing some software.
Here's the list of software he needs installed:
-xv (plotting software)
-xmgrace
-LaTeX
Can someone point me toward some rpms for the above-mentioned software?
I have grow to prefer x86 based router OS's like Vyatta and pfSense over their competitors Cisco and Juniper (Well, I never really used Juniper, but still.). However, they feel "fake" to me, like "Frankenstein" routers. I think my greatest worry is that I am missing out on something by not using the main contenders.
Are there any benchmarks out there that compare the main metrics (throuput, etc.) of x86 router operating systems to their proprietary counterparts?
I seems i did some mistake, and installed Ubuntu server on my home based ubuntu box.
and the problem is that GRUB places the server edition as a priority boot in the menu, especially when I upgrade the kernel or the release.
How can I remove the server from the GRUB menu permanently? can I un-install Ubuntu server edition?
I am running a wsgi based application that has concurrent users accessing it. For my logs needs I tried logrotate but found that logrotate is not too friendly to Python applications, so I tried using RotatingFileHandler and even worse found my logs all chopped up and part of it went missing!
I am considering ConcurrentRotatingFileHandler, my question is, has anyone out there experienced the same thing and better yet do you have any battle tested solution for Python wsgi, concurrently accessed applications?
I'm trying to use an old parallel-port based printer with a USB-to-parallel port adapter on Windows 7. When I plug it into the USB port on the computer it's listed as an unrecognized device. I know that these cables typically use the "USB Printing Support" driver with makes USB ports show up as printer ports in the printer dialog. Is there a way to manually add USB Printing Support to Windows 7, since it isn't being added automatically?
Hi, on Mac, you know there is no 'merge files' when you command+c/command+v some folder on another one, it actually replaces it. I'm simply wondering on what UNIX is this based? Because correct me if I'm wrong, but "cp - R" DOES merge files, no? And that's what I'm doing via the Finder, copying some files and folders...
thanks!
How to configure Active Directory Domain Services Configuration if i dont have a domain.
problem statement
I have a server and i want to install RDS inorder to have session based virtualisation so that 5-6 users can access this server .
so i wanted to install RDS from adding roles and features. when i start this process i get an
error saying local server must be joined to the domain to complete the RDS installation
please help me out
I have several laptops so I use a USB key version of Firefox to keep my environment as I move around. I followed the suggestions offered on the Firefox web site (turn off the cache and history etc.) and its better but still much slower than the normal version.
Other than buying a new, super fast flux-capacitor based USB key, what other tips and tricks can I use?
Hi,
I'm a pro user of vim, however, somehow I don't seem to have definitively figured out the use of time based undo, or maybe I don't really like it.
Is there a way I can undo a deletion caused by Ctrl-w
W3I will be really grateful for the help.
Thanks.
Is there any way to get APT to install packages to my home directory?
I don't want to make changes system wide.
Alternatively, are there any home-directory based linux package managers?
Is there a possibility to store nginx locations in DB instead of the config to serve them dynamically?
The task is to create dynamic URLs for video files based on user's IP and video ID.
The idea is when the user visits my website such an dynamic URL is created and added to the db as a new nginx location that exists just for this user and not for others.
Or nginx doesn't fit my task and I need to use another tool?
Thanks.
Not a linux geek I am looking for a recommendation which Linux distro to use for a hyper-v based hosting envfironment (so access to the enlightment part easily is important).
I Would also love to have something that alloows me to split operating system read only files and user files easily without too much tinkering onto two discs, so that the boot disc can be read only.
(reasoning: This would allow me to set up a read only disc that is shared between multiple server instances, with the server disc only containing basically the user files)
Shotwell helps me keep my photos organized. It would be nice if there was something similar for my videos. I prefer something Gtk-based, but I'm open to ideas.
Oh RHEL 5.5, there are 31 ACPI PCI hotplug slots by default:
acpiphp: Slot [1] registered
...
acpiphp: Slot [31] registered
Is there a way to increase this number? I haven't been able to find an argument to supply to modprobe, or a sysctl knob to tweak, but I know there must be ways to get more slots based on some Google sleuthing.
(For the curious, this is just preliminary experimentation to see how many virtual disks I can hot-add to a running KVM guest.)
Is it possible to configure Google somehow to permanently ban search results from domains that I know 100% are never, ever going to make me happy? Something cookie/session based maybe?
E.g.: I want to ban (permanently, forever and always) results from experts-exchange.com. Every time I click results that take me to their page I just want to scream.
I'm trying to find out whether VMware ESX 4.x Fault Tolerance (FT) is supported on a particular server and VMware's HCL is confusing me. It says that some servers with FT-supported processors (specifically the Xeon 3400 Lynnfield) do not support FT and some with almost identical specs (same chipset for instance) do support FT.
Could this be a mistake on the HCL itself? To my understanding FT support is based only on the CPU.
Thanks.
RC
I would like to do an automatic audit of bandwidth of my remote offices. I understand that there are many websites where I could ask each user to go to a webpage and run the test. I was hoping there was some software that I could run on our web server and a script that I could send out that would run the test and record the results to a central web interface. The remote sites are all running some form of Windows and the server environment can be Linux or Windows based.
Hi,
Oh RHEL 5.5, there are 31 ACPI PCI hotplug slots by default:
acpiphp: Slot [1] registered
...
acpiphp: Slot [31] registered
Is there a way to increase this number? I haven't been able to find an argument to supply to modprobe, or a sysctl knob to tweak, but I know there must be ways to get more slots based on some Google sleuthing.
(For the curious, this is just preliminary experimentation to see how many virtual disks I can hot-add to a running KVM guest.)
I am going to be administering a small network of linux based workstations for a charity institution (not all have the same distro- some are ubuntu and some are fedora). Is there something in Linux that is similar to group policy in windows?. For example I would like to standardize the wallpapers - have only firefox as a browser - default VLC as the media player etc etc.
Thank you, any suggestions are very appreciated.
Hi
I've just build a 64bit Windows 7 PC but am unhappy with the piddly performance of the linksys USB wireless dingle I've used. Can anyone suggest a good PCIe alternative that will be stronger for connection and maybe faster. I dont see why my desktop should show a weaker performance on wireless than my laptop when its sat next to it or even my Palm Pre for that matter.
any thoughts?
UK based max around £60ish.
thanks,
Ben