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Questions tagged [system-administration]
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How to setup cookieless domain in Lighttpd?
I want to setup domain with disabled cookies, to serve static content.

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Managing Net TCP Port Sharing Configuration through Group Policy
Our organization has an application infrastructure that consists of many WCF services deployed over many different servers on our network. We'd like to move towards using the Net TCP Port Sharing service so that we can remove the need to assign a…

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Changing Hostname / IP Address of Windows System Mounted as an Image
I'm looking for a way to change the hostname and IP address of a Windows XP system that is mounted via a loop-back image on a Linux system. So basically I have access to the Windows XP system on a file level, but I cannot execute any programs on it.…

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Config vars in apache environment vars
I'm running a few different PHP shopping carts at work and we're trying to get the various config files under version control. Up to this point we've just been ignoring them in git because, of course, we don't want production level passwords to be…

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Managing the patch level of multiple windows systems
In an environment with multiple windows servers what is the best way to ensure patch compliance accross all systems?
Is there a simple tool (some sort of client/server app?) that allows reports to be generated showing the status of all the systems…

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started an infinite procedure in phpmyadmin
I call a procedure that includes an infinite loop in phpmyadmin:
WHILE i < 10 DO
INSERT INTO ...
END WHILE;
Then I can't get into phpmyadmin anymore. It just shows 500 error. Is it possible to resolve it without root permission?

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How to find potentially duplicate files in the current folder?
How to find potentially duplicate files in a given directory? Is there some existing tools for this sort of thing? Some heuristics I can think of:
it should be recursive.
it should only compare file names and size and nothing else
it should be able…

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How to hide complete volume?
Using Windows Server 2003 in a multi-user environment (via Remote Desktop, using it as an application server), how to mount a (preferably encrypted) volume in a way, that won't show up on any other user's desktop?
Tried, and failed…

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How to kill many instances of a process at one go?
I have several instances of a process (i.e. with a common command line). I would like to kill all of them at one go. How to achieve it?

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Creation of solaris zone
For these part :
zonecfg:[zone name]:net> set address=
zonecfg:[zone name]:net> set physical=
How do i know what kind of values i should set?
I am using a vmware machine open solaris and current setting up a zone.
I want to be able to putty in to…
Jeffery Ang
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NodeJS: how to run three servers acting as one single application?
My application is built with three distincts servers: each one of them serves a different purpose and they must stay separated (at least, for using more than one core). As an example (this is not the real thing) you could think about this set up as…

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ClientAliveInterval is not closing the idle connection
I have the task to close the idle ssh connection if they are idle for more than 5 minutes. I have tried setting these value on sshd_config
TCPKeepAlive no
ClientAliveInterval 300
ClientAliveCountMax 0
But nothing seems to work the idle remains…

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Laravel 5.1 - Some pages are not found on production serveur - "Page you are looking for could not be found"
I have a problem with some "routes" in my old Laravel 5.1.46 project.
When I try to access to some routes, like admin/exercices/creer or admin/exercices/1928, I have this: "Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.".
I can access to…

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kubernates rook+ceph OSD full delete data
I have a situation where my OSDs are full
1 full osd(s)
2 nearfull osd(s)
2 pool(s) full
and deleting the PVC is just stuck in "terminating". I tried the trick of forcing finalizers to null, but that still leaves data around. Next time I create a…

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How to to trace malware orignation on ubuntu server and stop it
I have a ubuntu server with self hosted giltab-ce and two days ago my server started using 400% CPU.
My hosting provider advised me to update my Gitlab (which was version 13.6.1), that I updated to 13.9.
Still, periodically, there is some process…

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