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Configuration is a general term that can refer to the arrangement of functional units according to their nature and characteristics. Also, it can refer to software configuration which more suitable for server-related topics.

Configuration is a general term that can refer to the arrangement of functional units according to their nature and characteristics. Also, it can refer to software configuration which more suitable for server-related topics.

A configuration file is usually a text file associated with a specific software which describes the initial settings of the software. Some applications provide tools to generate configuration files.

Some computer programs only read their configuration files at startup. Others periodically check the configuration files for changes. Users can instruct some programs to re-read the configuration files and apply the changes to the current process, or indeed to read arbitrary files as a configuration file. There are no definitive standards or strong conventions.

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How to Run vnc4server on Ubuntu in Certain Resolution?

There's a headless Ubuntu instance used as a host for our build server. I have some UI code that requires some graphical output. Installing a vnc4server and redirecting a DISPLAY to it worked like a charm. Not that my UI tests are running but test…
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Step by step guide for asa 5505

Is there any step by step guide for configuring an ASA 5505 out there? Most of the info that i keep running into are repost of the same article. The most useful guide i found so far was this one.…
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MySql service stops under 2008 r2 x64

I have installed MySql 5.5 server under windows 2008r2 x64 Apparently I can see that MySql service stops even if is configured to start automatically What can I do to find out why this is happening? MySql database is used as backend of ASP.Net web…
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Upgrade no raid server to raid

I have just learned that our PDC has a single drive with 2 partitions. I also know that this drive has bad blocks as recorded in the event log. What I would like to do is to convert this to a RAID solution with a nice balance between economy and…
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What's comparable to Chef for Windows?

What's a good tool to automate Windows server configuration, a la Chef on *NIX? I know that Chef is somewhat working on Windows, but I'm sure there are some more full-featured tools that others are already using.
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nginx - config for several domains

So in the past, I've just had one nginx.conf file. I'd like to separate this out for each domain (right now there's two), but to stay organized in case there's more. How is this possible to let each domain have it's own .conf file?
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Can't get self-signed SSL certificate to work

I am getting a "Unable to connect" error message when I try to load the https version of a website in Firefox. There is no error message in the log file, only: [Thu Dec 09 16:55:24 2010] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint:…
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Forward (Alias? Redirect? Route?) subdomain to a directory in Nginx config

I would like to alias m.example.com so that the requests are forwarded/aliased to example.com/m/ but without the user being redirected to the /m/ directory. For example, the user accesses m.example.com, m.example.com/1.htm, m.example.com/2.htm but…
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Keeping a consistent configuration across load-balanced servers

First off -- I'm not a sysadmin so I'm not even sure what I'm doing is right. Basically I have two Amazon EC2 webservers that are essentially clones of each other. I've created an Elastic Load Balancer, and I've added both instances to it. I'm…
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Are there compelling reasons to separate BOOT and DATA on a server, to increase performance?

I think that it is easy to see some benefits of separating BOOT and DATA into two partitions or drives; it makes for each backup. However, I was always under the impression that it is better to separate your BOOT from your DATA drives to increase…
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MySQL config recommendation script

I want to be able to get an recommendation of what values I should set my my.cnf to. Especially the query_cache_size and join_buffer_size. Is there a script out there that can monitor my server and give me a recommendation? Or any other solution? I…
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Can I store multiple configs on a Cisco device?

Since we are a small shop without the means to have a test environment, I often find myself using the live equipment after hours for testing. I'm always backing up configs to the tftp, testing a different config, and then just restoring the old…
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General question about PHP ./configure&&make clean&&make&&make install

I would like to understand better what happens during the process of compiling(?) PHP... What do these 4 steps do? Do they have good (meaningful) names, e.g. I think make install is what actually should be called configure. What are the…
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Are gnomes gconf schema files mandatory

I have an app that uses gconf for configuration and I have notice that some apps install a schema file that lists keys and gives descriptions on them. Is this mandatory or schema files are optional? It is certainly working without them. My…
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Windows Server 2003 basic versus dynamic disks - what are peoples' experiences with dynamic?

Okay, we've all heard the apocryphal stories about problems with server drives configured as "Dynamic", but the ability to make changes without having to reboot is clearly beneficial. I'm adding a second disk, a RAID1 virtual disk, hardware managed,…
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