Questions tagged [system-administration]

Use this tag for asking about programs you have written to perform system-administration tasks. Non-programming questions about system administration are off-topic for Stack Overflow and should not be asked here.

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ElasticSearch stats API taking long time to response

We have an ES cluster at AWS running with the following setup: (I know, i need minimum 3 master nodes) 1 Coordinator 2 Data nodes 1 Master Node Data nodes spec: CPU: 8 Cores Ram: 20GB Disk: 1TB ssd 4000 IOPS Problem: ES endpoints for Search,…
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How do you configure I/O throttles on multiple block devices within one cgroup?

I have set up my system to use cgroups through the cgroup-bin package, which includes a few nice utilities for mounting and configuring cgroup subsystems. In my /etc/cgconfig.conf, I have a block like the following: group limitio { blkio { …
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ckan create new user issue

I installed ckan from source recently. After installation, when I try to make a new admin user by the following command: paster sysadmin add seanh -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini I see this at the terminal: User "seanh" not found Create new…
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Create a new Jenkins job automatically when a new github repository is created

I search a manner to Create a new Jenkins job automatically when a new github repository is created. I use auto-job plugin for automatically creating Jenkins jobs from scm branche but it's not work when I create a repository. Any plug-in exist for…
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Salt Stack: Requiring packages installed before formula executed

This is more of a clarification request. I have two formulas that rely on a bunch of packages being installed by the init.sls formula before they're run. At the moment I have something like the below. I was wondering if anyone could confirm this is…
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how to permanently remove startup item in msconfig?

How to permanently remove the Startup items in Windows's msconfig? (to start it, type Win+r, then msconfig. This is Windows Vista)
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Should we really use chef to manage the sudoers file?

This is my question. I am worried that if Chef breaks something in the sudoers file, probably by a Chef user using the cookbook incorrectly, then the server will be entirely inaccessible. I would hate for us to completely lose a production server…
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How do we determine the class of the IP address?

I am currently trying to understand the IP address's class. I came across two ways to determine the class of IP address: 1) Format (eg. N.H.H.H = class A, N.N.H.H = class B) 2) bits in the beginning of the IP address ( eg. 0xxx.xxxx.xxxx = class…
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Apache2 won't start - Mac OS X - Passenger

I've installed passenger a little while back and when I restarted my mac tonight, Apache2 won't start. Here is what I get. Anyone have any ideas? Re-install Apache2? dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.0.dylib Referenced from:…
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how to install rpm package to non-default path?

i have a rpm package, and i need to extract some files from it. The package is not relocatable, i have try "rpm --root/--prefix", which doesn't work. what methods i should take to do the extraction? Thank In Advace.
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Move .out log file from default location to custom location in weblogic 12c?

I want to move *.out log file of Node manager to my own custom location. Thanks in advance.
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Puppet remove defined 'message' as ' in output

On my puppet client I have the same message twice and I want to only have once. Example : Info: /Stage[main]/box::Backuppc/Notify[todo]/message: todo... Info: /Stage[main]/box::Backuppc/Notify[todo]/message: defined 'message' as 'todo...' How can I…
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How to build software limiting user action to one single App on Android?

I want to build an app for android and ensure that the user can only use this app. (i.e. user should not be able to open or install any other app.) Is it possible to force such restrictions on an Android device ? And if it is where should I start ?
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open gnome terminal tabs programmatically and execute commands in sequence

When working remotely, I have a series of tabs that I open in gnome-terminal, and commands that I execute in them. I would like to automate all this setup as a single command. If these commands could run independently and in parallel, I'd just adapt…
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File last access time. How to mount root filesystem with atime,norelatime

I've installed a simple LAMP system based on Debian 7.2.0 (32 bits). On my server I want to know when each of PHP files was used (accessed) by web server. When I check last access times of php files (with command ls -alu), they are wrong. I've…
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