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How can I test apt-get updates on a test box before deploying to production?

I would like to schedule updates on my ubuntu servers, but would like to test the updates first on a test server. I'd like to run all updates on the test box at the beginning of a development cycle, giving QA time to test our code changes + ubuntu…
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Testing application timing

We've developed an in-house application, with several related crons that execute at some time during the day. These crons are designed in such a way that they make sure that they ignore, for example, being executed before 7:00 am, or only execute…
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smartctl -t long isn't finishing

I been running smartctl -t long on a drive for about 2 days now and it seems to be stalled at 10%. short and conveyance both passed. I have to send 1 of 2 drives purchased back I found badblocks with badblocks (none on this drive and I'ts made over…
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How to: mirror a staging server from a production server

We want to mirror our current production app server (Oracle Application Server) onto our staging server. As it stands right now, various things are out of sync, and what may work in testing/QA can easily fail in production because of…
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IPv6 testing for embedded devices

I would like to test the IPv6 stack on an embedded system. How can I do that? Would establishing a test link between this device and another PC be a "good enough" test? I was thinking about using a tool like socat to establish the link. Should I ask…
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Considerations when building a virtualization test server?

What I'd like to do is buy a server to be used for testing purposes only. I'd like to be able to restore virtual servers from backups to the test machine, and then run a few client VMs on the machine to test configuration changes on the server…
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ffmpeg on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) Server

I'm trying to get ffmpeg running on my server so I can use the PHP Video Toolkit successfully. I'm currently setting up my testing platform, which is a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Server. Obviously, my first attempt was apt-get install…
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Simple test plan template for Change management

We're looking for short checklist/template for to show that the change has actually worked and hasn't broken anything. This is being introduced as part of a more formal change management process. Anyone got any experience of doing this and what…
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Safely conduct tests that require unplugging server

So, basically I am testing and diagnosing my UPS's as well as the power sources (PSU) of my server. For that purpose I am powering down the server "the hard way", by unplugging it from the wall as to simulate a power loss. This I have been doing…
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Testing strategies for f5 bigip

I am a developer who is used to being able to test and debug code. Occasionally I have to make changes to our load balancer configuration. As far as I can see, if I mess this up it could stop the whole site working, but we don't have a way to test…
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What is the best setup to have around 5 VMs running simultaneously?

I am trying to run a bunch of VMs to have a dedicated web testing environment for a massive corporate type project. I will need VMs for xp, vista, 7, ubuntu, and maybe hackintosh otherwise 2000. The base OS will either be windows 7 or ubuntu I…
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How to test an email address, MX records updated, it works, some users get returned mail

I had a small issue with an email address recently, after a few changes of MX records with the help from my hosting company these were resolved. I have tested the email address from multiple accounts, my server, gmail, aol, hotmail etc. I have…
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Behavior-driven development for servers?

I've been looking to see if there are any BDD's for servers, something that would be similar in respects to Cucumber or Behat? Something that has some syntactic sugar such as: Feature: jre In order to use our monitoring software As a UNIX user …
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Test if iptables would pass a given ip/ip-range

I am currently trying to debug problems relating to our firewall configuration and found myself in the situation where I would like to test a config. Ideally I would like to take the iptables config and give it an IP or an IP range and get the…
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Testing software on lots of PCI cards

I am developing software that needs to work across the largest possible array of PCI adapter cards. Consider PCI ethernet cards. I can collect dozens of different cards, and I have a Windows XP machine dedicated to testing. My first guess is to…
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