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The process of applying, or files used to apply, improvements to a system or program. An update is typically encompasses minor changes and improvements, relative to an upgrade.

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Debian startup - start a daemon after postgresql

i'm configuring my debian server and i don't manage to start a daemon correctly. In order to start, my daemon has to find the Postgresql socket (located at /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432), but the daemon doesn't start. I checked the logs, it's…
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Script on startup without update-rc.d

I've a debian minimal installation, and I just want to start a custom script at startup. I've a script at /etc/init.d/myscript, I put a chmod 700, and create symlinks to S20myscript into : /etc/rc2.d /etc/rc3.d /etc/rc4.d /etc/rc5.d But then,…
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Best tools for keeping a FreeBSD 7.x system up to date?

I have had on-and-off contact with FreeBSD for 15 years, but I haven't maintained a FreeBSD system since 4.x. Now I need to install and maintain a couple of 7.x systems; first for development, then an Internet-facing server. Looking through the…
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How do you handle updates on a server?

I have around 25 virtual machines running on Xen. I don't really feel like going through 25 VMs and running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. I would much rather have it do that for me and in some way contact me if there are any packages to…
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Wsus only allow some updates?

Right now, from fresh install it looks like WSUS downloads all available updates for the product I've selected (win 7). I don't have any nvidia stuff in my environment, is there a way to make wsus download only applicable updates/drivers to my…
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Server 2008 stuck in update-configure-fail-restart loop

I have a Windows 2008 Standard server, fresh install, fully patched with no roles installed. This morning I went and installed the following roles: AD Certificates Terminal Services IIS When the server restarts, it goes into "Configuring Updates"…
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What is the way to update /lib/modules after copying disk to a different system?

I have transferred the disk of a a Hardyvirtual machine to another virtual machine with a different kernel but there is no equivalent of /lib/modules// on disk. How can the /lib/modules of the new kernel be added to the image to let it boot without…
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Solaris host no longer boots after pkg update: intel_iommu0 generated fault event

I've just been doing some regular maintenance on my Solaris 11 box. I issued a pkg update command to be told that I needed to update pkg. This I did, and rebooted into solaris-1. I then issued another pkg update, and it downloaded and installed…
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How to update Adobe Flash from command line?

Something I can stick in a shortcut or, ideally, run silently and remotely using psexec (from Sysinternals). A WSUS server is out of the question. Machines needing the updates run Windows XP as kiosks. I can't use the following call because this…
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yum update dependency error (already installed)

i'm facing the following error: Transaction Check Error: package apr-1.3.12-1.jason.1.x86_64 (which is newer than apr-1.2.7-11.el5_6.5.cloudlinux.2.i386) is already installed This is on cloudlinux. apr-1.3.12-1.jason.1.x86_64 is installed from a…
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How do you manage software's local forks?

As a system administrator, I often have to modify programs for my company. Example: We're using an web interface to manage our local DNS. After downloading and extracting the tar.gz file from the internet, I have to do some changes: I added a LDAP…
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Is delayed restarting a security issue after updating a Windows Production Webserver?

As a small software development company, we run a few Windows production webservers and manually install Microsoft updates and security patches. Most of the time, a restart is required. After the updates are installed and the server asks for a…
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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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Web Development with SVN

I am running VisualSVN Server on my server, and I have TortoiseSVN installed on both my dev PC and my server. I want to be able to push through updates to the website over SVN without manually checking out the latest version on htdocs. How can I…
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XServe G5 to Ubuntu

I currently have an Apple XServe G5, running OSX server 10.4. As you can imagine, 10.4 has become increasingly annoying due to the high difficulty of updating the server software (Apache, PHP, MySQL, not to mention ClamAV). I am considering putting…
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