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Getting my younger brother started on programming

- by SmartLemon

My younger brother is 13 years old, I started programming when I started to develop Android applications when I was 15, last year my brother gained an interest in it and he would always pestering me about letting him make something himself, so I wrote him a few tutorials and he built himself a small application that had a few buttons that did something, I think you put in your dob and it would tell you what day you were born on, he took a couple of days building up to his final application, maybe even a week, learning everything he needed. Since then he hasn't really done much more because I have been engulfed in work and such where I have my own programming problems to sort out. I told him that when he was my age (I am 17) that he should be better then me, he was a bit sceptical about this however. I dont think he has as much logical reasoning as I would think he needs to solve more complex problems, but shouldnt that just develop over time as it did with me? He has been pestering me for the past week or something to write him more tutorials, but I didn't have time. All I had with me was a playlist I had downloaded from the new boston from youtube for C++, it's about 73 videos. He is currently about 20-30 videos in, he has come to ask me a few questions about it and thats it. Should I have really properly started him with C++? Should I stop him now and start him again on python or ruby? I know that C++ shouldn't really be a beginners language, especially for someone who is only 13, by the time this question is answered will probably be up to learning about inheritance or something. Some people may see this as not a real question, but it is, and should be used as a reference for others. I want to know, should I start him on a different language whch is more easy? What language then? And would it be better for me to teach him myself (I would make time) or just continue him with the new boston? There are a few more questions throughout this question but these are the main ones. Part of the question people seem to be neglecting is me asking whether I should change what language he is learning to another, or since he is already pretty far through the tutorials should I just leave him with C++ and he can learn the other languages freely by himself?

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How to set up an rsync backup to Ubuntu securely?

- by ws_e_c421

I have been following various other tutorials and blog posts on setting up a Ubuntu machine as a backup "server" (I'll call it a server, but it's just running Ubuntu desktop) that I push new files to with rsync. Right now, I am able to connect to the server from my laptop using rsync and ssh with an RSA key that I created and no password prompt when my laptop is connected to my home router that the server is also connected to. I would like to be able to send files from my laptop when I am away from home. Some of the tutorials I have looked at had some brief suggestions about security, but they didn't focus on them. What do I need to do to let my laptop with send files to the server without making it too easy for someone else to hack into the server? Here is what I have done so far: Ran ssh-keygen and ssh-copy-id to create a key pair for my laptop and server. Created a script on the server to write its public ip address to a file, encrypt the file, and upload to an ftp server I have access to (I know I could sign up for a free dynamic DNS account for this part, but since I have the ftp account and don't really need to make the ip publicly accessible I thought this might be better). Here are the things I have seen suggested: Port forwarding: I know I need to assign the server a fixed ip address on the router and then tell the router to forward a port or ports to it. Should I just use port 22 or choose a random port and use that? Turn on the firewall (ufw). Will this do anything, or will my router already block everything except the port I want? Run fail2ban. Are all of those things worth doing? Should I do anything else? Could I set up the server to allow connections with the RSA key only (and not with a password), or will fail2ban provide enough protection against malicious connection attempts? Is it possible to limit the kinds of connections the server allows (e.g. only ssh)? I hope this isn't too many questions. I am pretty new to Ubuntu (but use the shell and bash scripts on OSX). I don't need to have the absolute most secure set up. I'd like something that is reasonably secure without being so complicated that it could easily break in a way that would be hard for me to fix.

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How can I combine my FTP queries? [migrated]

- by ryansworld10

My program has several times where it queries an FTP server to read and upload information. How can I combine all these into one FTP class to handle everything? private static void UploadToFTP(string[] FTPSettings) { try { FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(FTPSettings[0]); request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.MakeDirectory; request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(FTPSettings[1], FTPSettings[2]); FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); } catch { } try { FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(FTPSettings[0] + Path.GetFileName(file)); request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile; request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(FTPSettings[1], FTPSettings[2]); StreamReader source = new StreamReader(file); byte[] fileContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(source.ReadToEnd()); source.Close(); request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length; Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream(); requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length); requestStream.Close(); FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); response.Close(); RegenLog(); } catch (Exception e) { File.AppendAllText(file, string.Format("{0}{0}Upload Failed - ({2}) - {1}{0}", nl, System.DateTime.Now, e.Message.ToString())); } } private static void CheckBlacklist(string[] FTPSettings) { try { FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(FTPSettings[0] + "blacklist.txt"); request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(FTPSettings[1], FTPSettings[2]); using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse()) { using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream()) { using (TextReader reader = new StreamReader(stream)) { string blacklist = reader.ReadToEnd(); if (blacklist.Contains(Environment.UserName)) { File.AppendAllText(file, string.Format("{0}{0}Logger terminated - ({2}) - {1}{0}", nl, System.DateTime.Now, "Blacklisted")); uninstall = true; } } } } } catch (Exception e) { File.AppendAllText(file, string.Format("{0}{0}FTP Error - ({2}) - {1}{0}", nl, System.DateTime.Now, e.Message.ToString())); } } private static void CheckUpdate(string[] FTPSettings) { try { FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(FTPSettings[0] + "update.txt"); request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(FTPSettings[1], FTPSettings[2]); using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse()) { using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream()) { using (TextReader reader = new StreamReader(stream)) { string newVersion = reader.ReadToEnd(); if (newVersion != version) { update = true; } } } } } catch (Exception e) { File.AppendAllText(file, string.Format("{0}{0}FTP Error - ({2}) - {1}{0}", nl, System.DateTime.Now, e.Message.ToString())); } } I know my code is also a bit inconsistent and messy, however this is my first time working with FTP in C#. Please give any advice you have!

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Zelda-style top-down RPG. How to store tile and collision data?

- by Delerat

I'm looking to build a Zelda: LTTP style top-down RPG. I've read a lot on the subject and am currently going back and forth on a few solutions. I'm using C#, MonoGame, and Tiled. For my tile maps, these are the choices I can see in front of me: Store each tile as its own array. Each one having 3-4 layers, texture/animation, depth, flags, and maybe collision(depending on how I do it). I've read warning about memory issues going this route, and my biggest map will probably be 160x120 tiles. My average map however will be about 40x30. The number of tiles might cut in half if I decide to double my tile size, which is currently 16x16. This is the most appealing approach for me, as I feel like I would know how to save maps, make changes, and separate it into chunks for collision checks. Store the static parts of my tile map in multiple arrays acting as the different layers. Then I would just use entities for anything that wasn't static. All of the other tile data such as collisions, depth, etc., would be stored in their own layers as well I guess? This way just seems messy to me though. Regardless of which one I choose, I'm also unsure how to plan all of that other tile data. I could write a bunch of code that would know which integer represents what tile and it's data, but if I changed a tileset in Tiled and exported it again, all of those integers could potentially change and I'd have to adjust a whole bunch of code. My other issue is about how I could do collision. I want to at least support angled collision that slides you around the corners of objects like LTTP does, if not more oddball shapes as well. So do I: Store collision as a flag for binary collision. Could I get this to support angles? Would it be fine to store collision as an integer and have each number represent a certain angle of collision? Store a list of rectangles or other shapes and do collision that way? Sorry for the large two-part(three-part?) question. I felt like these needed to be asked together as I believe each choice influences the other.

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PHP or C++? I just want to choose a language and focus on it!

- by user19177

I love C++, but I feel I don't know if I should focus on web, so PHP, or C++. It's just an hard choice because right now I want to focus on one language and don't want to switch it a few months later. With C++ I'd program in SDL, while with PHP I don't know yet. I am not a very advanced programmer but I know basics of programming and can get going very well if determined. The problem is I just don't know.. I'm like OK! I'll go for C++! Then a minute later, wait what if I went with C#? Why this that.. ! I've read milion threads about C vs VB C# Python Ruby etc, all of them which I could find! It got me nowhere. The problem is probably I need to know something from some experts I guess.. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels/felt like I do right now yeah? Uhm... I guess I might help you with some details so your answer may be easier to write! ( And also, if you want to say something else which is not related to PHP or C++, you can do that, I've just got to the conclusion that C++ and PHP are the ones that are worth it but yeah. C# I've discarded due to some stuff I read which says in future the projects I'd start now could just be useless and stuff like that.. ) Ok well : I'm 18 years old, and I program as hobby right now, but I do hope to go to a programming college in future. ( That would be in 2 years ). Hmm, I like programming games, and I'm mostly bothered by the fact "this language could be useless to what I need to do" ( I don't know how to explain this feeling! ) I don't know which other details I could add... I hope you guys can help me choose my path, this is really stressing me I'm wasting my time not doing anything right now because I don't know which language to use..! Thanks!

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Did I choose proper career path? [closed]

- by Liston Catch

I am a C# Junior. My company has it's own enterprise documents-flow system written, my job along with 10 other programmers is to write modules/add-ons for it. I am totally bored of this job, I dont like Microsoft's technologies stack (dont hate me here, just subjective), but it's plain boring, enterprise is boring (subjective again, everyone's tastes differ), days on this work last long and I am tired of it. In short - I dont like my job. In my spare time I am doing PHP-development and I totally like it. I am also doing web-design, so I am LAMP-kind of guy who loves his Ubuntu and does design aswell. I know that most programmers don't do design themselves, so some person is either all about design or all about coding, but I enjoy both and do both. I often get interesting sites orders, I love to make whole websites with all the design, I love the feeling of site completeness, I enjoy talking with customers. I like that PHP is simple and skill cap is lower than one of java, meaning I can become expert in it after some years. But C# (and J2EE also) pay more, and I am doing really good in C#. But I dont like it. I can go for J2EE, platform itself seems more fun to me rather than .NET, but EE development is still boring to me. But it seems higher payed, easier to find job (since PHP is too common for its easiness. But if you are expert in something it doesnt matter, right? Just a higher skillcap.) Question: I want to go on with freelance. I want to have an opportunity to start my own startup in web. Actually I have a browser-game already written by myself, it earns me around 500$ per month which I am really proud of since I am 21 only and still noob in coding. I want to find part-time PHP job. 3 days per week so I can get some stable income, I can work in team and learn from them, social factor matters aswell as ensurance and diversity. I also want my total income (freelance + part-time job + own startup maybe)to be not too much less than one I have working in EE development sector. Maximum of 25% lower, but not more. Is it all possible if I stick with web-development (LAMP + HTML/CSS/JS/Jquery/AJAX)? Or is it easier to reach my goals with EE development?

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Ubuntu 11.04 is not opening

- by Fortunate

I am using Ubuntu 11.04 with Windows 7. Ubuntu was working nice but now when I choose Ubuntu 11.04 from boot loader, it is not opening. Just Purple screen is coming but then nothing change. I can't see login menu, it doesn't pass to the login menu. What should I do? Has anyone this problem? Thanks for your answer. I did the steps you wrote Frantique. But now I have a black screen and then nothing. When I choosed ubuntu 11.04 from bootloader, first purple screen is opening then after 1 second it is going to a black screen. And I have nothing again. I can't write anything. Just I have a black screen. It is not openining. Before those problems they work together nice. There aren't any errors. Lets I tell you what did I change: I installed docky, and theme of MACOSX. They were working nicely. And I tried to install a nice calendar. To do this installation I changed a litle bit the file sources.list. That calendar program was working succcesfully too, after installation. The theme MACOSX was working succesfully there weren't any problem. After some days maybe meeks I had that problem which I asked in the above. Now when I tried to update I have a lots of errors. Like: Failed to urls... can't access archive something... .... Failed to urls... can't access archive something... .... ..... Failed to urls... can't access archive something... I hope you will solve the problem. I want my MacOSXUbuntu back :)

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laptop will not boot after attempting upgrade to 13.10

- by naerwenya

I wanted to update my OS to the new 14.04 LTS. I was running 12.04 LTS before and followed the advice that upgrades should be done in steps. I first upgraded to 12.10, which seemed to work fine, and later to 13.10. This was all done through the Software Manager. After the last upgrade, I am no longer able to boot up my computer. The GNU GRUB menu opens up, but after selecting Ubuntu, it just stalls with a blank purple screen. If I select one of the other kernels, it also stalls after "Loading initial ramdisk...". I can't get into the Recovery Menu, either. I'm still rather new to Linux and may have possibly made the situation worse. Unfortunately, nothing has worked yet. I tried reinstalling from a flash drive and on my first attempt, the wizard recognised a previous installation. Unfortunately, the wizard also didn't like how my partitions were set up (I didn't change anything) and gave an error before closing. Unfortunately, I didn't write the error down, but it was about the boot partition. On the next attempt and ever since, the installation wizard has stated that "This computer currently has no detected operating systems." This is strange, because I could see the disk and even access my files when booting up from the USB. At this point, I decided to back up my important files using dropbox. Before losing all my files, I wanted to try the Boot-Repair tool, which also produced no results, and the files are no longer visible when booting from USB. The link to the Boot-Repair log is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/7457249/. If I then proceed through to the "Something else" installation option, I can see that the partitions still exist. This is what they look like: /dev/sda free space (size indicated 1MB) /dev/sda1 efi (33MB of 98 MB used) /dev/sda2 efi (352634MB of 746330MB used) /dev/sda3 swap (3725MB, none used) free space (0MB) Is there any way I might be able to get my computer to work and preserve my files as well?

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11g ???:Active Data Guard

- by JaneZhang(???)

?Oracle 11g??,????(physical Standby)???redo???,???????,???mount??11g??,???redo???,????????read-only??,????Active Data Guard ???Active Data Guard,?????????????????,?????????????? Active Data Guard???????????,??,????????????,????????,????redo??,????????????,??????????? Oracle Active Data Guard ?Oracle Database Enterprise Edition?????,?????????????? ????Active Data Guard, ??????? read-only ????,???? ALTER DATABASE RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY DATABASE????????????:??????COMPATIBLE ????????11.0.0? ???????Active Data Guard,???V$DATABASE????"READ ONLY WITH APPLY': SQL> SELECT open_mode FROM V$DATABASE; OPEN_MODE -------------------- READ ONLY WITH APPLY ????????????,???????real-time apply: SQL>ALTER DATABASE RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY DATABASE USING CURRENT LOGFILE; ?????????read-only????????: • Issue SELECT statements, including queries that require multiple sorts that leverage TEMP segments • Use ALTER SESSION and ALTER SYSTEM statements • Use SET ROLE • Call stored procedures • Use database links (dblinks) to write to remote databases • Use stored procedures to call remote procedures via dblinks • Use SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY for transaction level read consistency • Issue complex queries (such as grouping SET queries and WITH CLAUSE queries) ??????????read-only????????: • Any DMLs (excluding simple SELECT statements) or DDLs • Query accessing local sequences • DMLs to local temporary tables ?????Active Data Guard ??: • ????????????????? • ???Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) ,?????? • RAC???RAC?? Oracle Data Guard ?????,,????????: * ?????????????????: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28294/create_ps.htm * ???Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) ,??????: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-wp-10g-racprimarysingleinstance-131970.pdf * RAC ???RAC ??: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-wp-10g-racprimaryracphysicalsta-131940.pdf ??Active Data Guard???????,?????: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-wp-11gr1-activedataguard-1-128199.pdf ??Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Best Practices?????,???: http://www.oracle.com/goto/maa

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Cannot create a project TFS 2012 - TF218027

- by GrandMasterFlush

I've just installed TFS2012 and am trying to create a new project in the default collection via Visual Studio 2012 but I keep getting this error message: TF218027: The following reporting folder could not be created on the server that is running SQL Server Reporting Services: /TfsReports/DefaultCollection. The report server is located at: http://<servername>/Reports. The error is: The permissions granted to user '<domain>/grandmasterflush' are insufficient for performing this operation.. Verify that the path is correct and that you have sufficient permissions to create the folder on that server and then try again. I've checked the permissions and my user is a member of the Project Collection Administrators and the Project Collection Administrators group has the 'Create new project' permission set to allow. The only thing I think it might be is that the user that I created during installation for the Sharepoint access and reports viewing does not have permission to write to the reports folder, however if I select "Do not configure a SharePoint site at this time" then I still get the error messages. I can't find the reports folder to check the permissions either. TFS is using an instance of SQL 2012 that was already on the machine when TFS was installed. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong please?

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Watchguard Firewall WebBlocker Regular Expression for Multiple Domains?

- by Eric

I'm pretty sure this is really a regex question, so you can skip to REGEX QUESTION if you want to skip the background. Our primary firewall is a Watchguard X750e running Fireware XTM v11.2. We're using webblocker to block most of the categories, and I'm allowing needed sites as they arise. Some sites are simple to add as exceptions, like Pandora radio. That one is just a pattern matched exception with "padnora.com/" as the pattern. All traffic from anywhere on pandora.com is allowed. I'm running into trouble on more sophisticated domains that reference content off of their base domains. We'll take GrooveShark as a sample. If you go to http://grooveshark.com/ and view page source, you'll see hrefs referring to gs-cdn.net as well as grooveshar.com. So adding a WebBlocker exception to grooveshark.com/ is not effective, and I have to add a second rule allowing gs-cdn.net/ as well. I see that the WebBlocker allows regex rules, so what I'd like to do in situations like this is create a single regex rule that allows traffic to all the needed domains. REGEX QUESTION: I'd like to try a regex that matches grooveshark.com/ and gs-cdn.net/. If anybody can help me write that regex, I'd appreciate it. Here is what is in the WatchGuard documentation from that section: Regular expression Regular expression matches use a Perl-compatible regular expression to make a match. For example, .[onc][eor][gtm] matches .org, .net, .com, or any other three-letter combination of one letter from each bracket, in order. Be sure to drop the leading “http://” Supports wild cards used in shell script. For example, the expression “(www)?.watchguard.[com|org|net]” will match URL paths including www.watchguard.com, www.watchguard.net, and www.watchguard.org. Thanks all!

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Good bug tracking with Sharepoint?

- by torbengb

At my place of work, it has been decided to move many processes to Sharepoint. I'm now looking into how Sharepoint can be used for bug tracking (à la Mantis, FogBugz etc. but within Sharepoint). Specifically, we're using a collaboration room and the solution must work inside that. I know that I can create lists using an "Issue tracker" template, but it lacks workflow, integrated correspondence (like FogBugz), and audit log (any user can edit any field any time, without it being noted anywhere). That's not sufficient, so I am looking for "bigger" solutions but haven't yet found anything at all. This question is similar but aims at Helpdesk use; we aim at bug tracking and change requests to a system. I'm open to suggestions! As I'm not an administrator, I can't just grab a Sharepoint component and install it for testing. I'm looking for experiences, documentation, white papers, screen shots -- the actual downloadable will be relevant later. Ideally, some of these matters should be covered: Support for different ticket types (bug, feature, inquiry, internal task). Configurable workflow per ticket type, no fixed number of steps. Configurable read/write permissions per field and per workflow status. Configurable dashboard for managers with nice charts. Configurable email notifications. Correspondence à la FogBugz. (Challenge: we use Notes, not Exchange.)

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Dell VRTX - slow cluster shared storage

- by NorbyTheGeek

I have a brand new Dell VRTX box set up as a Failover Cluster running HA Hyper-V virtual machines. This is my first time setting up clustering, and my first time with one of these boxes, so I'm sure I've missed something. The virtual machines are experiencing high disk latency and bad performance when accessing their VHD(x) files located on a Cluster Shared Volume. The VRTX has 10 x 900 GB 10K SAS drives in RAID 6 configuration, and the VRTX has the redundant Shared PERC 8 controllers. Both blades have full access to the virtual disks. There are two M520 blades installed, each with 128 GB RAM. MPIO is configured for the PERC 8 controllers. Operating system on the blades is Server 2012 (NOT R2). The RAID 6 array is split into a small (8 GB) volume for cluster quorum witness and a large (6.5 TB) volume for a Cluster Shared Volume (mounted on the nodes as C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1) An example of slow disk access: logging into a Server 2012 VM and having Server Manager come up automatically. Disk access goes to 100%, with write speeds at 20 MB or so, read speeds of 500 KB or so, and Average Response Time of over 1000 ms, sometimes spiking at 4000-5000 ms or so. It's the latency that really worries me. Is there something specific I should look at in my configuration? It doesn't seem to matter whether I use VHD or VHDX, dynamic or static.

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Diagnosing permission problems with Cobian Backup to network share

- by DaveBurns

I'm running the latest Cobian 11. I have a Synology DS412 NAS. All of my machines (Mac and Windows) access this just fine when I'm logged in and I browse to it manually. I have Cobian installed as a service on two Windows machines: WinXP SP3 and Win7 x64. On both machines, the service is set to log on with my user account which is in the Windows administrator group. Backups on both machines fail with the message "Couldn't create the destination directory "\nas1\backups\foo\bar\": The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect". I have tried setting the NAS's share to allow anonymous read/write access but it made no difference. Although I want the backups to run unattended in the middle of the night, I have tested them by running them manually while I'm logged in but no luck. Before starting that, I make sure that I can browse to the NAS with Explorer to ensure that any authentication session with Windows and the NAS has not expired. Still no luck. I have tried creating that destination directory both on the NAS before the backup and deleting it so the backup job could create it with the client's credentials but no luck. The usual answer in the Cobian support forums is that there is a permission problem. I agree. But at this point, what can I do to diagnose this further?

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Occasional disk I/O errors in SQLite

- by Alix Axel

I have a very simple website running PHP and SQLite 3.7.9 (with PDO). After establishing the SQLite connection I immediately execute the following queries: PRAGMA busy_timeout=0; PRAGMA cache_size=8192; PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON; PRAGMA journal_size_limit=67110000; PRAGMA legacy_file_format=OFF; PRAGMA page_size=4096; PRAGMA recursive_triggers=ON; PRAGMA secure_delete=ON; PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL; PRAGMA temp_store=MEMORY; PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL; PRAGMA wal_autocheckpoint=4096; This website only has one writer and a few occasional readers, so I don't expect any concurrency problems (and I'm even using WAL). Every couple of days, I've seen this error being reported by PHP: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 10 disk I/O error' in ... Stack trace: #0 ...: PDO-exec('PRAGMA cache_si...') There are several things that make this error very weird to me: it's not a transient problem - no matter how many times I refresh the page, it won't go away the database file is not corrupted - the sqlite3 executable can open the database without problems If the following pragmas are commented out, PHP stops throwing the disk I/O exception: PRAGMA cache_size=8192; PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL; PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL; Then, after successfully reconnecting to the database, I'm able to reintroduce these pragmas and the code with run smoothly for days - until eventually, the same error will occur without any apparent reason. I wasn't able to reproduce this error so far, so I'm clueless about the origin of it. I'm really curious what may be causing this problem... Any ideas? Environment: Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS PHP 5.4.15 SQLite 3.7.9 Database size: ? 10MiB Transaction (write) size: ? 1KiB EDIT: Might these symptoms have something to do with busy_timeout?

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Task scheduler "hidden" only hides task, not process

- by Brandi

I am trying to make an application that acts like a desktop application for all the computers in our network. I have already got a windows forms app that works like I want it to, and I'm using the task scheduler to start it on login. We would really like it if the process as well as the task is hidden from the task manager in order to avoid accidental deletion. Selecting "Hidden" in the task scheduler hides the task (good!) but the process is still visible (not good enough). I tried using the option to run as "SYSTEM" or "LOCAL SERVICE" so that the user would get "access denied" when trying to delete or just wouldn't even view it by default. However, running as a service makes the process invisible on Vista and 7, and the point of my app is to display information interactively. (User can click, sort, etc). Is there any other alternatives to either run the process as someone/something besides the logged in user and still have the logged on user be able to see and interact with it? (Therefore it would list as someone else's app?) From what I've read on the internet, the only ways to actually hide something from the task manager seem hacky and/or difficult and rather involved. I don't really want to write a bunch of C or whatever only to maybe not have it work on Vista/7 anyway. Besides which, for a legitimate app with a legitimate use, I shouldn't have to go to those extremes... I see "Access Denied" all the time for system processes... why is it so hard for me to do the same? So does anyone have any simple solutions? Is it easier than I think to just list something in the task manager as another user? Thanks in advance for any replies.

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Can't join OS X Mavericks to AD Domain

- by watkipet

I'm attempting to join an OS X Mavericks (10.9) client to a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory domain, however the bind fails with this error in the OS X client's system.log: Oct 24 15:03:15 host.domain.com com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice[5547]: -[ODCAddServerSheetController handleOtherActionError: gotError: Error Domain=com.apple.OpenDirectory Code=5202 "Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation." UserInfo=0x7f9e6cb3e180 {NSLocalizedDescription=Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation., NSLocalizedFailureReason=Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation.}, Authentication server encountered an error while attempting the requested operation. I've joined (bound) Ubuntu Linux clients to the same domain with net ads join in the past with no problems (using the same administrative user). I don't have access to any server logs. Here's the GUI error (from Directory Utility) on the OS X client: Here's the GUI error (from User's and Groups) in System Preferences on the OS X client: Update After some Wiresharking I've got some more info: OS X Client - KDC (over UDP): AS_REQ (no padata) OS X Client <- KDC (over UDP): KRB5KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED OS X Client - KDC (over UDP): AS_REQ (this time with PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP in padata) OS X Client <- KDC (over UDP): KRB5KDC_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG OS X Client - KDC (over TCP): AS_REQ (also with PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP in padata) OS X Client <- KDC (over TCP): KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP ...and that's it. This is what I think is going on: The OS X client sends a kerberos request. The KDC says, "You need to pre-authenticate. Try again" The OS X client tries to pre-authenticate (all this so far is over UDP) Something gets lost on our network and the KDC says, "Oops something went wrong" The OS X client switches to TCP and tries again. Over TCP, the KDC says, "You're using an encryption type I don't support" Note that in its padata records, the OS X client is always using "aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96" as its encryption type. However, in its KDC_REQ_BODY record it lists the aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96, aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96, des3-cbc-sha1, and rc4-hmac encryption types. When the KDC comes back with KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP, it uses rc4-hmac as its encryption type in its padata record. I know next to nothing about Kerberos, but it seems to me that the OS X client should go ahead and try the rc4-hmac encryption type. However, it does nothing after this. Update 2 Here's the debug log from Directory Services on the OS X client. Sorry--it's long. 2013-10-25 14:19:13.219128 PDT - 10544.20463 - ODNodeCustomCall request, NodeID: 52A65FAE-4B24-455D-86EC-2199A780D234, Code: 80 2013-10-25 14:19:13.220409 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - client requested OU - 'CN=Computers,DC=domain,DC=com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.220427 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Binding using '[email protected]' for kerberos ID 2013-10-25 14:19:13.220571 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - new kerberos credential cache 'MEMORY:0x7fa713635470' for '[email protected]' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.220623 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: loop 1 2013-10-25 14:19:13.220639 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - KDC send 0 patypes 2013-10-25 14:19:13.220653 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - fast disabled, not doing any fast wrapping 2013-10-25 14:19:13.220699 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - Trying to find service kdc for realm DOMAIN.COM flags 0 2013-10-25 14:19:13.221275 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - submissing new requests to new host 2013-10-25 14:19:13.221326 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to host: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00000001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.221373 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - writing packet: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00000001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222588 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - reading packet: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00000001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222617 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - host completed: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00000001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222665 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_sendto_context DOMAIN.COM done: 0 hosts 1 packets 1 wc: 0.001960 nr: 0.000000 kh: 0.000560 tid: 00000001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222705 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: loop 2 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222737 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: processing input 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222752 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: got an KRB-ERROR from KDC 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222775 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: KRB-ERROR -1765328359/Additional pre-authentication required 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222791 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - KDC send 4 patypes 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222800 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - KDC send PA-DATA type: 19 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222808 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - KDC send PA-DATA type: 2 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222816 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - KDC send PA-DATA type: 16 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222825 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - KDC send PA-DATA type: 15 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222840 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: using ENC-TS with enctype 18 2013-10-25 14:19:13.222850 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: using default_s2k_func 2013-10-25 14:19:13.227443 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - fast disabled, not doing any fast wrapping 2013-10-25 14:19:13.227502 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - Trying to find service kdc for realm DOMAIN.COM flags 0 2013-10-25 14:19:13.228233 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - submissing new requests to new host 2013-10-25 14:19:13.228320 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to host: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.228374 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - writing packet: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.229930 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - reading packet: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.229957 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - host completed: udp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.229975 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_sendto trying over again (reset): 0 2013-10-25 14:19:13.230023 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - Trying to find service kdc for realm DOMAIN.COM flags 2 2013-10-25 14:19:13.230664 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - submissing new requests to new host 2013-10-25 14:19:13.230726 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to host: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010002 2013-10-25 14:19:13.230818 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to 11: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010002 2013-10-25 14:19:13.231101 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - writing packet: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010002 2013-10-25 14:19:13.232743 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - reading packet: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010002 2013-10-25 14:19:13.232777 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - host completed: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00010002 2013-10-25 14:19:13.232798 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_sendto_context DOMAIN.COM done: 0 hosts 2 packets 2 wc: 0.005316 nr: 0.000000 kh: 0.001339 tid: 00010002 2013-10-25 14:19:13.232856 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: loop 3 2013-10-25 14:19:13.232868 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: processing input 2013-10-25 14:19:13.232900 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: using keyproc 2013-10-25 14:19:13.232910 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: using default_s2k_func 2013-10-25 14:19:13.236487 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: extracting ticket 2013-10-25 14:19:13.236557 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_init_creds: wc: 0.015944 2013-10-25 14:19:13.237022 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - Trying to find service kdc for realm DOMAIN.COM flags 2 2013-10-25 14:19:13.237444 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - submissing new requests to new host 2013-10-25 14:19:13.237482 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to host: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00020001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.237551 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to 11: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00020001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.237900 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - writing packet: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00020001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.238616 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - reading packet: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00020001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.238645 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - host completed: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00020001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.238674 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_sendto_context DOMAIN.COM done: 0 hosts 1 packets 1 wc: 0.001656 nr: 0.000000 kh: 0.000409 tid: 00020001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.238839 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - Trying to find service kdc for realm DOMAIN.COM flags 2 2013-10-25 14:19:13.239302 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - submissing new requests to new host 2013-10-25 14:19:13.239360 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to host: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00030001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.239429 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - connecting to 11: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00030001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.239683 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - writing packet: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00030001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240350 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - reading packet: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00030001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240387 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - host completed: tcp 192.168.0.1:kerberos (192.168.0.1) tid: 00030001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240415 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_sendto_context DOMAIN.COM done: 0 hosts 1 packets 1 wc: 0.001578 nr: 0.000000 kh: 0.000445 tid: 00030001 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240514 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - krb5_credential - krb5_get_credentials_with_flags: DOMAIN.COM wc: 0.003615 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240537 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - valid credentials for [email protected] 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240541 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - switching to cache 'MEMORY:0x7fa713635470' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240545 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - switching GSS to cache 'MEMORY:0x7fa713635470 2013-10-25 14:19:13.240555 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Bind Step 5 - Bind/Join computer to domain - 'domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.241345 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - resolving 'server.domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.241646 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - added socket 12 for host 'server.domain.com:389' address '192.168.0.2' to kqueue list 2013-10-25 14:19:13.241930 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Setting kerberos server for 'Kerberos:DOMAIN.COM' to 'server.domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.241962 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - switching to cache 'MEMORY:0x7fa713635470' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.241969 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - switching GSS to cache 'MEMORY:0x7fa713635470 2013-10-25 14:19:13.242231 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI allow Confidentiality 2013-10-25 14:19:13.242234 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - setting realm 'DOMAIN.COM' for node '/Active Directory/domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.242239 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI allow Integrity (signing) 2013-10-25 14:19:13.242274 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI using hostname 'server.domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.242282 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI using initiator credential '[email protected]' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.250771 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Authenticate to LDAP using Kerberos credential - 0 2013-10-25 14:19:13.250784 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - verified connectivity to '192.168.0.2' with socket 12 2013-10-25 14:19:13.251513 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - locating site using domain domain.com using CLDAP 2013-10-25 14:19:13.252145 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - using site of 'DOMAINGROUP' from CLDAP 2013-10-25 14:19:13.253626 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - resolving 'server2.domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.253933 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - added socket 13 for host 'server2.domain.com:389' address '192.168.0.1' to kqueue list 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254428 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Setting kerberos server for 'Kerberos:DOMAIN.COM' to 'server2.domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254462 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - switching to cache 'MEMORY:0x7fa713635470' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254468 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - switching GSS to cache 'MEMORY:0x7fa713635470 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254617 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - setting realm 'DOMAIN.COM' for node '/Active Directory/domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254661 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI allow Confidentiality 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254670 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI allow Integrity (signing) 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254689 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI using hostname 'server2.domain.com' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.254695 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - GSSAPI using initiator credential '[email protected]' 2013-10-25 14:19:13.262092 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Authenticate to LDAP using Kerberos credential - 0 2013-10-25 14:19:13.262108 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - verified connectivity to '192.168.0.1' with socket 13 2013-10-25 14:19:13.262982 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Computer account either already exists or DC is already Read/Write 2013-10-25 14:19:13.264968 PDT - 10544.20463, Node: /Active Directory, Module: ActiveDirectory - Adding record 'cn=spike,CN=Computers,DC=domain,DC=com' in 'domain.com' The failure point seems to be Computer account either already exists or DC is already Read/Write, however, I can search for 'spike' on the Active Directory server using Active Directory Explorer and it's not there. If I do the same search for the Linux and Windows PCs I added previously, I can find them.

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WinXP: Error 1167 -- Device (LPT1) not connected

- by Thomas Matthews

I am writing a program that opens LPT1 and writes a value to it. The WriteFile function is returning an error code of 1167, "The device is not connected". The Device Manager shows that LPT1 is present. I have a cable connected between a development board and the PC. The cable converts JTAG pin signals to signals on the parallel port. Power is applied and the cable is connected between the development board and the PC. The development board is powered on. I am using: Windows XP MS Visual Studio 2008, C language, console application, debug environment. Here is the relevant code fragments: HANDLE parallel_port_handle; void initializePort(void) { TCHAR * port_name = TEXT("LPT1:"); parallel_port_handle = CreateFile( port_name, GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 0, // must be opened with exclusive-access NULL, // default security attributes OPEN_EXISTING, // must use OPEN_EXISTING 0, // not overlapped I/O NULL // hTemplate must be NULL for comm devices ); if (parallel_port_handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { // Handle the error. printf ("CreateFile failed with error %d.\n", GetLastError()); Pause(); exit(1); } return; } void writePort( unsigned char a_ucPins, unsigned char a_ucValue ) { DWORD dwResult; if ( a_ucValue ) { g_siIspPins = (unsigned char) (a_ucPins | g_siIspPins); } else { g_siIspPins = (unsigned char) (~a_ucPins & g_siIspPins); } /* This is a sample code for Windows/DOS without Windows Driver. */ // _outp( g_usOutPort, g_siIspPins ); //---------------------------------------------------------------------- // For Windows XP and later //---------------------------------------------------------------------- if(!WriteFile (parallel_port_handle, &g_siIspPins, 1, &dwResult, NULL)) { printf("Could not write to LPT1 (error %d)\n", GetLastError()); Pause(); return; } } If you believe this should be posted on Stack Overflow, please migrate it over (thanks).

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Why does my PowerShell script hang when called in PSEXEC via a batch (.cmd) file?

- by Kev

I'm trying to remotely execute a PowerShell script using PSEXEC. The PowerShell script is called via a .cmd batch file. The reason we do this is to change the execution policy, run the powershell script then reset the execution policy again: On the remote server do-tasks.cmd looks like: powershell -command "&{ set-executionpolicy unrestricted}" powershell DoTasks.ps1 powershell -command "&{ set-executionpolicy restricted}" The PowerShell script DoTasks.ps1 just does this for now: Write-Output "Hello World!" Both of these scripts live in c:\windows\system32 (for now) just so they're on the PATH. On the originating server I do this: psexec \\web1928 -u administrator -p "adminpassword" do-tasks.cmd When this runs I get the following response at the command line: c:\Windows\system32>powershell -command "&{ set-executionpolicy unrestricted}" and the script runs no further. I can't ctrl-c to break the script and I just see ^C characters, I can type input from the keyboard and the characters are echoed to console. On the remote server I see that PowerShell.exe and CMD.exe are running in Task Manager's Process tab. If I end these processes then control returns to the command line on the originating server. I have tried this with just a simple .cmd batch file with a @echo hello world and it works just fine. Running do-tasks.cmd on the remote server via an RDP session works ok as well. Why is my remote batch file getting stuck when executing via PSEXEC?

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Commvault Oracle RMAN Restore to new host

- by Glenn Stauffer

We use Commvault Simpana 8 and I have a situation where I have backups of an Oracle database on tape that were taken from Host A. Host A suffered a disk failure (lost its raid configuration) and the sys admins are trying to restore it; in the meantime, I'd working to bring the database back up on another host - Host B. I'm running into problems and am trying to sort out the parameters that need to be passed to the Commvault media agent to get this to work. Unfortunately, I do not have access to Commvault support and the backup person is unavailable. Any one have a clue? The backups are there and the media agent reported a successful write when they ran last night. This is what fails: RMAN run { allocate channel t1 device type sbt_tape parms='SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/local/galaxy/Base/libobk.so,BLKSIZE=262144, ENV=(CvClientName=dbsrv2,CvInstanceName=Instance001, CVOraRacDBName=BBDB, CVOraRACDBClientName=BBDB)'; restore spfile to pfile '/tmp/bbdb.ora' from autobackup; }2 3 4 allocated channel: t1 channel t1: sid=34 devtype=SBT_TAPE channel t1: CommVault Systems for Oracle: Version 7.0.0(Build76) Starting restore at 09-MAY-10 channel t1: looking for autobackup on day: 20100509 channel t1: autobackup found: c-3941155360-20100509-01 released channel: t1 RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 05/09/2010 18:01:35 ORA-19870: error reading backup piece c-3941155360-20100509-01 ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="c-3941155360-20100509-01", parms="" ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text: sbtrestore: Job[0] thread[26316]: InitializeCLRestore() failed.

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Server 2008 RAID5 resynching

- by benpage

I built a W2K8 R2 server last weekend, and built a R5 array using Disk Management, 5x 1TB drives. For the next 60 hours the status said 'Resynching (X%)' as it built the array. during this time i did read and write to the drive (slowly) and once the rebuild was complete speeds were quite fast. I was copying over some data from a USB hard drive overnight, and the machine crashed (looking in the error i believe it was the driver for the usb drive) and so the RAID5 went back to resynching, since the machine was not shut down properly. The issue is, it's been about 48 hours since that started and I'm happy to say it will take roughly 60 hours again to resynch, however.. all this time in Disk Management, the status has only said 'Resynching', not 'Resynching (X%)'. The hard drive light is going nuts, and read/writes are slow again, so I'm assuming it is actually resynching. The question is - is that a correct assumption? and why is disk management not telling me what %age it's done? Is this normal behaviour for a not-properly-shut-down r5 array?

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Existing open source software for wireless mesh networking?

- by user70352

Hello! My goal: Build a wireless mesh network with some ALIX 2D2 (500 MHz AMD Geode LX800 x86 CPU, 256MB RAM, Atheros wireless card) Aside from working like a normal wireless mesh network users should be able to read/write data from/to the ALIX Boxes and the ALIX boxes should be able to process data. Questions: Should I try to flash dd-wrt x86, voyage linux (linux.voyage.hk) or something else? What (open source) software should I look into before I start? Should I use a 'server' for data storage and processing instead of the ALIX boxes? Is it even possible to use the ALIX boxes for routing AND data storage and processing? Final notes: Data can be anything, for example, I want to setup a wireless mesh using the OLSRD protocol so my whole town gets wifi and can access songs on the network. It's not for that, but that's the idea. I'm not afraid of programing, compiling or working with *nix. This is mostly 'for fun' rather than for practicality. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

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How to tune down the Hyperic built-in postgresql database for a small setup

- by Svish

We are testing out Hyperic 4.5.1 in a quite small environment for now. Currently there are just 1-5 agents and there probably won't be any more than 10-15. When I run ps ax there are 20(!) postgres processes running. For a small setup like this, that can't be necessary, can it? I'm a software developer and don't have much experience with setting up servers and such though, so don't really know. Either way, what settings are appropriate for a small Hyperic setup like this? Current, default and untouched configuration file, hqdb/data/postgresql.conf: # ----------------------------- # PostgreSQL configuration file # ----------------------------- # # This file consists of lines of the form: # # name = value # # (The '=' is optional.) White space may be used. Comments are introduced # with '#' anywhere on a line. The complete list of option names and # allowed values can be found in the PostgreSQL documentation. The # commented-out settings shown in this file represent the default values. # # Please note that re-commenting a setting is NOT sufficient to revert it # to the default value, unless you restart the server. # # Any option can also be given as a command line switch to the server, # e.g., 'postgres -c log_connections=on'. Some options can be changed at # run-time with the 'SET' SQL command. # # This file is read on server startup and when the server receives a # SIGHUP. If you edit the file on a running system, you have to SIGHUP the # server for the changes to take effect, or use "pg_ctl reload". Some # settings, which are marked below, require a server shutdown and restart # to take effect. # # Memory units: kB = kilobytes MB = megabytes GB = gigabytes # Time units: ms = milliseconds s = seconds min = minutes h = hours d = days #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # FILE LOCATIONS #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The default values of these variables are driven from the -D command line # switch or PGDATA environment variable, represented here as ConfigDir. #data_directory = 'ConfigDir' # use data in another directory # (change requires restart) #hba_file = 'ConfigDir/pg_hba.conf' # host-based authentication file # (change requires restart) #ident_file = 'ConfigDir/pg_ident.conf' # ident configuration file # (change requires restart) # If external_pid_file is not explicitly set, no extra PID file is written. #external_pid_file = '(none)' # write an extra PID file # (change requires restart) #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # CONNECTIONS AND AUTHENTICATION #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Connection Settings - #listen_addresses = 'localhost' # what IP address(es) to listen on; # comma-separated list of addresses; # defaults to 'localhost', '*' = all # (change requires restart) port = 9432 # (change requires restart) max_connections = 100 # (change requires restart) # Note: increasing max_connections costs ~400 bytes of shared memory per # connection slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction). You # might also need to raise shared_buffers to support more connections. #superuser_reserved_connections = 3 # (change requires restart) #unix_socket_directory = '' # (change requires restart) #unix_socket_group = '' # (change requires restart) #unix_socket_permissions = 0777 # octal # (change requires restart) #bonjour_name = '' # defaults to the computer name # (change requires restart) # - Security & Authentication - #authentication_timeout = 1min # 1s-600s #ssl = off # (change requires restart) #password_encryption = on #db_user_namespace = off # Kerberos #krb_server_keyfile = '' # (change requires restart) #krb_srvname = 'postgres' # (change requires restart) #krb_server_hostname = '' # empty string matches any keytab entry # (change requires restart) #krb_caseins_users = off # (change requires restart) # - TCP Keepalives - # see 'man 7 tcp' for details #tcp_keepalives_idle = 0 # TCP_KEEPIDLE, in seconds; # 0 selects the system default #tcp_keepalives_interval = 0 # TCP_KEEPINTVL, in seconds; # 0 selects the system default #tcp_keepalives_count = 0 # TCP_KEEPCNT; # 0 selects the system default #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # RESOURCE USAGE (except WAL) #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Memory - shared_buffers = 64MB # min 128kB or max_connections*16kB # (change requires restart) #temp_buffers = 8MB # min 800kB #max_prepared_transactions = 5 # can be 0 or more # (change requires restart) # Note: increasing max_prepared_transactions costs ~600 bytes of shared memory # per transaction slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction). work_mem = 2MB # min 64kB maintenance_work_mem = 32MB # min 1MB #max_stack_depth = 2MB # min 100kB # - Free Space Map - max_fsm_pages = 204800 # min max_fsm_relations*16, 6 bytes each # (change requires restart) #max_fsm_relations = 1000 # min 100, ~70 bytes each # (change requires restart) # - Kernel Resource Usage - #max_files_per_process = 1000 # min 25 # (change requires restart) #shared_preload_libraries = '' # (change requires restart) # - Cost-Based Vacuum Delay - #vacuum_cost_delay = 0 # 0-1000 milliseconds #vacuum_cost_page_hit = 1 # 0-10000 credits #vacuum_cost_page_miss = 10 # 0-10000 credits #vacuum_cost_page_dirty = 20 # 0-10000 credits #vacuum_cost_limit = 200 # 0-10000 credits # - Background writer - #bgwriter_delay = 200ms # 10-10000ms between rounds #bgwriter_lru_percent = 1.0 # 0-100% of LRU buffers scanned/round #bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 5 # 0-1000 buffers max written/round #bgwriter_all_percent = 0.333 # 0-100% of all buffers scanned/round #bgwriter_all_maxpages = 5 # 0-1000 buffers max written/round #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # WRITE AHEAD LOG #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Settings - fsync = on # turns forced synchronization on or off #wal_sync_method = fsync # the default is the first option # supported by the operating system: # open_datasync # fdatasync # fsync # fsync_writethrough # open_sync #full_page_writes = on # recover from partial page writes #wal_buffers = 64kB # min 32kB # (change requires restart) commit_delay = 100000 # range 0-100000, in microseconds #commit_siblings = 5 # range 1-1000 # - Checkpoints - checkpoint_segments = 10 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each #checkpoint_timeout = 5min # range 30s-1h #checkpoint_warning = 30s # 0 is off # - Archiving - #archive_command = '' # command to use to archive a logfile segment #archive_timeout = 0 # force a logfile segment switch after this # many seconds; 0 is off #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # QUERY TUNING #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Planner Method Configuration - #enable_bitmapscan = on #enable_hashagg = on #enable_hashjoin = on #enable_indexscan = on #enable_mergejoin = on #enable_nestloop = on #enable_seqscan = on #enable_sort = on #enable_tidscan = on # - Planner Cost Constants - #seq_page_cost = 1.0 # measured on an arbitrary scale #random_page_cost = 4.0 # same scale as above #cpu_tuple_cost = 0.01 # same scale as above #cpu_index_tuple_cost = 0.005 # same scale as above #cpu_operator_cost = 0.0025 # same scale as above #effective_cache_size = 128MB # - Genetic Query Optimizer - #geqo = on #geqo_threshold = 12 #geqo_effort = 5 # range 1-10 #geqo_pool_size = 0 # selects default based on effort #geqo_generations = 0 # selects default based on effort #geqo_selection_bias = 2.0 # range 1.5-2.0 # - Other Planner Options - #default_statistics_target = 10 # range 1-1000 #constraint_exclusion = off #from_collapse_limit = 8 #join_collapse_limit = 8 # 1 disables collapsing of explicit # JOINs #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ERROR REPORTING AND LOGGING #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Where to Log - log_destination = 'stderr' # Valid values are combinations of # stderr, syslog and eventlog, # depending on platform. # This is used when logging to stderr: redirect_stderr = on # Enable capturing of stderr into log # files # (change requires restart) # These are only used if redirect_stderr is on: log_directory = '../../logs' # Directory where log files are written # Can be absolute or relative to PGDATA log_filename = 'hqdb-%Y-%m-%d.log' # Log file name pattern. # Can include strftime() escapes #log_truncate_on_rotation = off # If on, any existing log file of the same # name as the new log file will be # truncated rather than appended to. But # such truncation only occurs on # time-driven rotation, not on restarts # or size-driven rotation. Default is # off, meaning append to existing files # in all cases. log_rotation_age = 1d # Automatic rotation of logfiles will # happen after that time. 0 to # disable. #log_rotation_size = 10MB # Automatic rotation of logfiles will # happen after that much log # output. 0 to disable. # These are relevant when logging to syslog: #syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0' #syslog_ident = 'postgres' # - When to Log - #client_min_messages = notice # Values, in order of decreasing detail: # debug5 # debug4 # debug3 # debug2 # debug1 # log # notice # warning # error #log_min_messages = notice # Values, in order of decreasing detail: # debug5 # debug4 # debug3 # debug2 # debug1 # info # notice # warning # error # log # fatal # panic #log_error_verbosity = default # terse, default, or verbose messages #log_min_error_statement = error # Values in order of increasing severity: # debug5 # debug4 # debug3 # debug2 # debug1 # info # notice # warning # error # fatal # panic (effectively off) log_min_duration_statement = 10000 # -1 is disabled, 0 logs all statements # and their durations. #silent_mode = off # DO NOT USE without syslog or # redirect_stderr # (change requires restart) # - What to Log - #debug_print_parse = off #debug_print_rewritten = off #debug_print_plan = off #debug_pretty_print = off #log_connections = off #log_disconnections = off #log_duration = off #log_line_prefix = '' # Special values: # %u = user name # %d = database name # %r = remote host and port # %h = remote host # %p = PID # %t = timestamp (no milliseconds) # %m = timestamp with milliseconds # %i = command tag # %c = session id # %l = session line number # %s = session start timestamp # %x = transaction id # %q = stop here in non-session # processes # %% = '%' # e.g. '<%u%%%d> ' #log_statement = 'none' # none, ddl, mod, all #log_hostname = off #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # RUNTIME STATISTICS #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Query/Index Statistics Collector - #stats_command_string = on #update_process_title = on stats_start_collector = on # needed for block or row stats # (change requires restart) stats_block_level = on stats_row_level = on stats_reset_on_server_start = off # (change requires restart) # - Statistics Monitoring - #log_parser_stats = off #log_planner_stats = off #log_executor_stats = off #log_statement_stats = off #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # AUTOVACUUM PARAMETERS #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #autovacuum = off # enable autovacuum subprocess? # 'on' requires stats_start_collector # and stats_row_level to also be on #autovacuum_naptime = 1min # time between autovacuum runs #autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 500 # min # of tuple updates before # vacuum #autovacuum_analyze_threshold = 250 # min # of tuple updates before # analyze #autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.2 # fraction of rel size before # vacuum #autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.1 # fraction of rel size before # analyze #autovacuum_freeze_max_age = 200000000 # maximum XID age before forced vacuum # (change requires restart) #autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = -1 # default vacuum cost delay for # autovacuum, -1 means use # vacuum_cost_delay #autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit = -1 # default vacuum cost limit for # autovacuum, -1 means use # vacuum_cost_limit #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # CLIENT CONNECTION DEFAULTS #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Statement Behavior - #search_path = '"$user",public' # schema names #default_tablespace = '' # a tablespace name, '' uses # the default #check_function_bodies = on #default_transaction_isolation = 'read committed' #default_transaction_read_only = off #statement_timeout = 0 # 0 is disabled #vacuum_freeze_min_age = 100000000 # - Locale and Formatting - datestyle = 'iso, mdy' #timezone = unknown # actually, defaults to TZ # environment setting #timezone_abbreviations = 'Default' # select the set of available timezone # abbreviations. Currently, there are # Default # Australia # India # However you can also create your own # file in share/timezonesets/. #extra_float_digits = 0 # min -15, max 2 #client_encoding = sql_ascii # actually, defaults to database # encoding # These settings are initialized by initdb -- they might be changed lc_messages = 'C' # locale for system error message # strings lc_monetary = 'C' # locale for monetary formatting lc_numeric = 'C' # locale for number formatting lc_time = 'C' # locale for time formatting # - Other Defaults - #explain_pretty_print = on #dynamic_library_path = '$libdir' #local_preload_libraries = '' #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # LOCK MANAGEMENT #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #deadlock_timeout = 1s #max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10 # (change requires restart) # Note: each lock table slot uses ~270 bytes of shared memory, and there are # max_locks_per_transaction * (max_connections + max_prepared_transactions) # lock table slots. #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # VERSION/PLATFORM COMPATIBILITY #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # - Previous Postgres Versions - #add_missing_from = off #array_nulls = on #backslash_quote = safe_encoding # on, off, or safe_encoding #default_with_oids = off #escape_string_warning = on #standard_conforming_strings = off #regex_flavor = advanced # advanced, extended, or basic #sql_inheritance = on # - Other Platforms & Clients - #transform_null_equals = off #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- # CUSTOMIZED OPTIONS #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #custom_variable_classes = '' # list of custom variable class names SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity; datid | datname | procpid | usesysid | usename | current_query | waiting | query_start | backend_start | client_addr | client_port -------+---------+---------+----------+---------+---------------------------------+---------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+-------------+------------- 16384 | hqdb | 3267 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.036781+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.02413+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47892 16384 | hqdb | 3268 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.050994+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.047393+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47893 16384 | hqdb | 3269 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.056661+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.053201+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47894 16384 | hqdb | 3271 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.062351+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.058822+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47895 16384 | hqdb | 3272 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.068328+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.064517+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47896 16384 | hqdb | 3273 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.07444+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.070755+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47897 16384 | hqdb | 3274 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.080941+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.076983+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47898 16384 | hqdb | 3275 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.08741+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.083697+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47899 16384 | hqdb | 3276 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.093597+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.089977+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47900 16384 | hqdb | 3277 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> in transaction | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.133974+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:20.096149+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47901 16384 | hqdb | 3308 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-09 10:49:27.402197+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:29.826321+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47902 16384 | hqdb | 3309 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.572395+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:29.865243+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47903 16384 | hqdb | 3310 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.586273+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:29.874346+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47904 16384 | hqdb | 3311 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-09 10:10:03.024088+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:29.883598+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47905 16384 | hqdb | 3312 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> in transaction | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:35.804457+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:29.892925+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47906 16384 | hqdb | 3418 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.580207+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.56911+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47910 16384 | hqdb | 3419 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.59781+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.588609+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47911 16384 | hqdb | 3422 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-09 10:10:02.668836+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.603076+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47914 16384 | hqdb | 3421 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.770427+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.603086+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47913 16384 | hqdb | 3420 | 10 | hqadmin | <IDLE> | f | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.680785+01 | 2011-02-08 15:51:55.637058+01 | 127.0.0.1 | 47912 16384 | hqdb | 18233 | 10 | hqadmin | SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity; | f | 2011-02-09 10:49:29.688949+01 | 2011-02-09 10:48:13.031475+01 | | -1 (21 rows)

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Using a GoDaddy SSL certificate with Virtualmin (Webmin)

- by Kevin

A client of mine decided to go ahead and move from a self-signed certificate to a commercial one ("GoDaddy Standard SSL"). The first service I wanted to move to the commercial SSL cert was Webmin/Usermin... However, upon migrating to the new SSL cert and restarting Webmin, I got the following error: [21/Oct/2012:13:12:47 -0400] Restarting Failed to open SSL cert /etc/webmin/miniserv.cert at /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 4229. Error: Webmin server did not write new PID file And that's all it says. Here's Webmin's config file (/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf): port=10000 root=/usr/share/webmin mimetypes=/usr/share/webmin/mime.types addtype_cgi=internal/cgi realm=Webmin Server logfile=/var/webmin/miniserv.log errorlog=/var/webmin/miniserv.error pidfile=/var/webmin/miniserv.pid logtime=168 ppath= ssl=0 env_WEBMIN_CONFIG=/etc/webmin env_WEBMIN_VAR=/var/webmin atboot=1 logout=/etc/webmin/logout-flag listen=10000 denyfile=\.pl$ log=1 blockhost_failures=5 blockhost_time=60 syslog=1 session=1 server=MiniServ/1.600 userfile=/etc/webmin/miniserv.users keyfile=/etc/webmin/miniserv.pem passwd_file=/etc/shadow passwd_uindex=0 passwd_pindex=1 passwd_cindex=2 passwd_mindex=4 passwd_mode=0 preroot=virtual-server-theme passdelay=1 sudo=1 sessiononly=/virtual-server/remote.cgi preload=virtual-server=virtual-server/virtual-server-lib-funcs.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-unix.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-dir.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-dns.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-mail.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-web.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-webalizer.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-ssl.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-logrotate.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-mysql.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-postgres.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-ftp.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-spam.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-virus.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-webmin.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-virt.pl virtual-server=virtual-server/feature-virt6.pl anonymous=/virtualmin-mailman/unauthenticated=anonymous premodules=WebminCore logouttimes= extracas=/etc/webmin/miniserv.chain certfile=/etc/webmin/miniserv.cert ssl_redirect=0 Here is a screen shot of the Webmin SSL config screen as well, for what it's worth: http://postimage.org/image/r472go7tf/ Edited Mon Oct 22 10:45:24 CDT 2012: When running the command openssl x509 -noout -text -in /etc/webmin/miniserv.cert as Falcon Momot suggested, I get the following error: unable to load certificate 139760808240800:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:696:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE

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Excel techniques for perfmon csv log file analysis

- by Aszurom

I have perfmon running against several servers, where I'm outputting to a .csv file data like CPU %time, memory bytes free, hard disk I/O metrics like s/write and writes/s. The ones graphing the SQL servers are also collecting SQL stats. The web servers are collecting .Net relevant stuff. I am aware of PAL, and used it as a template of what data to capture based on server type actually. I just don't think the output it generates is detailed or flexible enough - but it does a pretty remarkable job of parsing logs and making graphs. I'm borderline incompetent with Excel, so I'm hoping to be directed to some knowledge of how to take a perfmon output .csv and mine it in Excel to produce some numbers that are meaningful to me as a sysadmin. I could of course just pick a range of data and assemble a graph out of that and look for spikes and trends, but I'm convinced there is some technique to this that makes it more manageable than looking at a monsterous spreadsheet of numbers and trying to make graphs of it. Plus, it's pretty time consuming and not something I can do as a "take a glance at the servers" sort of routine. I'm graphing CPU, disk use, network b/sec, etc. in Cacti as well, which is nice for seeing big trends. The problem is that it is 5 minute averages, so a server could have a problem but it's intermittent and washes out in a 5 min average. What do you do with perfmon data that I could learn from?

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