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How to test for file absence with serverspec?

The serverspec guide on resource types doesn't explain how to test for the absence of a file, rather than its presence. This is the best I could come up with: describe command('/bin/bash -c "[[ ! -e /var/foo ]]"') do its(:exit_status) { should eq…
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Activating windows virtual machines for testing? good/bad?

I am being asked to set up a battery of windows 7 flavours for a guy over in QA using VM's so that his office isn't filled with boxen. Is the common practice to activate these temporary machines or do folks just set them up, run the tests and then…
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How is a testing domain useful?

I've come across this article about Testing Domains and I don't understand why this is useful at all... Why does this differ from using localhost ? Can you give me a concrete example, because in the article it is not clear to me. Is this different…
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Looking for a software alternatives to a Fluke Meter

I have cat5 ports through out the office that seem to not work 100%. I wanted to know if there is a software alternative to the $1000 Fluke Meters, that I can do the same thing with. Maybe something I can load it on a small netbook??
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How do I write integration tests for cron jobs?

I have a series of cron jobs and I would like to test them in a more timely and automated way than the following: Test individual jobs in isolation by running them manually. Install job and update crontab. Wait for cron to execute jobs. Observe…
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How do I know to which node of my Oracle RAC I am connected?

Is there an easy way to determine to which RAC node of an Oracle 11g R2 system I am connected? I am trying to perform some failover tests and I want to make sure my application is correctly connected to one node and upon the shutdown of this node…
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How do I tell if OpenLDAP is installed on CentOS, and test that it's working?

What's the easy way to do this?
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Can a service spawn a login session? Build server woes

To run some acceptance tests on my build server, I need to have a logged in user session open (the white testing framework needs to have a "screen" to test the WPF UIs) all of the time. This is obviously a fragile setup, and it introduces quite a…
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There is a way to unit test servers?

I am a developper, but since I know Unix and use Linux at home, I have to handle ten webservers and hundred of websites, DNS adress, webservices, well, too many bits of informations to check. We are moving from one IP class to another one, and it is…
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Penetration testing - common examples?

I was charged to do some basic penetration testing on our system. I tried to find some favoured practices but I was not successful. I guess SYN attack is retired (no NT here). Could anyone advice some basic steps of what to test in order to proceed…
Mirek
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How do you test a new email filtering system?

What method do you use to test or evaluate potential new email filtering systems before you set it up on your production network? I am particularly interested in methods that are appropriate for small/medium sized organizations with a single mail…
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Is there a way to test RAM on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 machine?

Is there a way to test RAM on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 machine? I have 6GB of RAM, and I suspect one of my 4 sticks may be bad.
Bob the builder
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Route host through a docker openvpn container

I am new to networking so I am trying this for the first time. I created an openvpn docker that connects to a VPN server. Running wget -q -O - https://api.myip.com inside the docker container confirms that the docker's network is appropriately…
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Intranet speed test

Does anybody know of any internal intranet bandwidth test applications I can install on our internal servers? I would like to test the speed of our WAN links like those online boradband speedometers do. We run IIS7 on Windows 2008.
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What do you use for automated testing of Debian package installations and updates?

I am using a Debian repo (based on reprepro) for Wheezy and custom packages. I modify my custom packages from time to time and test them manually on different systems, e.g.: Test a) Installation of the new version of the Debian package Test b)…
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