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Questions tagged [administration]

Refers to a wide range of system administration tasks. Please consider using more specific tags.

What to tag?

You should probably use one of the more specific administration tags, or the tag for your specific system instead, such as:

  • database-administration
  • windows-administration
  • jboss6.x

Meaning

performing operational activities on a system. these operations may require elevated permissions, special knowledge, or a limited user base.

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Magento: Detect if admin is logged in in frontend pages

I have created a magento extension. I want to implement access to the extension. The extension creates a page in frontend and i want only admin to access that page. So basically i need something that would detect that if admin is logged in in…
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How to skip role executing in Ansible

I try to write the playbook.yml for my vagrant machine and I'm faced with the following problem. Ansible prompt me to set these variables and I set these variables to null/false/no/[just enter], but the roles is executed no matter! How can I prevent…
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WKHTMLTOPDF Installation error on Ubuntu

We require features like header, footer, table of contents and cover page of pdf, which we want to generate from html/css. We tried WKHTML on windows and it worked like a charm, when moving to our server, we installed WKHTML on our ubuntu server,…
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How can I recursively copy a directory into another and replace only the files that have not changed?

I am looking to do a specific copy in Fedora. I have two folders: 'webroot': holding ALL web files/images etc 'export': folder containing thousands of PHP, CSS, JS documents that are exported from my SVN repo. The export directory contains many…
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TFS: Moving a Team Project from one server to another?

is there a (simple) way to move a single TeamProject from one server to another? Including source code, work items, documents, project site... We don't want to move our server from one machine to another. Just a single project from server A to…
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Should you include non-development tasks in your Scrum backlog?

We're having trouble incorporating certain types of tasks into our product and sprint backlogs: Meetings with clients Training and knowledge-sharing Administrative tasks Some of these aren't directly related to the project, so it's easy to put…
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how to get phyiscal path of windows service using .net?

I have to get the absolute path of a windows service in a .Net Admin application. I am using ServiceController of .Net as shown below. ServiceController serviceController = new ServiceController(serviceName); But I don't see any property here to…
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Can I add range of ports in netsh add urlacl?

I use the following command to allow listening of specific HTTP ports: netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:[port]/ user=DOMAIN\UserName But if I need to open a range of ports, can I setup a single rule?
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How to keep abreast of known bugs and bug fixes in R packages?

Is there a standard R community resource for keeping up to date on known bugs or bug fixes for packages? My current approach is rather manual. (NB: I'm restricting this to CRAN - see Note 1.) My use case is basically bug surveillance and the…
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When to develop using Powershell vs C#?

I'm just getting started in PowerShell and one of my sysadmins told me that Powershell can do as much as C# can for systems management, if not more. Please forgive the ignorance of this question, but when would I use Powershell over C#?
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ColdFusion mail queue stops processing

Our CF server occasionally stops processing mail. This is problematic, as many of our clients depend on it. We found suggestions online that mention zero-byte files in the undeliverable folder, so I created a task that removes them every three…
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POST vs GET method for a search form in CMS

I'm a bit stuck with one thing. Just can't make up my mind on whether to use POST or GET method at my search form. Normally I would use GET method for such a form, so users could bookmark their results they got. But this time, the search form is…
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Why ulimit can't limit resident memory successfully and how?

I start a new bash shell, and execute: ulimit -m 102400 ulimit -a " core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 20 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending…
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ASP.NET MVC - Area or Separate Web Application for Administration?

Up until now I've been using an MVC Area for the administration part of my mvc applications, but recently I've been rethinking this due to the fact that you can't have more than one configuration for forms authentication per application. This has…
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Restarting ColdFusion mail queue

We are currently experiencing intermittent mail queue stoppages. I'm seeking diagnostic help in another area. In the meantime, is there a way to restart the CF mail queue without restarting the service as a whole? CF8 standard Win2k3 Solution: We…
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