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Revoke all AWS security group ingress rules

Is it possible to revoke all the ingress rules in an AWS security group? Is it possible to revoke all the SSH ingress rules? I'm trying with the cli command below, but it's not working: aws ec2 revoke-security-group-ingress --group-id GroupID…
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Apache 2 Administration Tools on Ubuntu or Windows

I am totally new to Apache and Ubuntu, is there an admin tools where the available functions and features and settings are more accessible? I am finding it very difficult to do even the simplest things.... please help. Cheers.
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What is good server performance monitoring software for Windows?

I'm looking for some software to monitor a single server for performance alerts. Preferably free and with a reasonable default configuration. Edit: To clarify, I would like to run this software on a Windows machine and monitor a remote Windows…
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How much a programmer should know about system admin?

How much should a programmer should know about system admin? I mean, obviously the more the better. But for the sake of argument, what is the average a programmer should know? I have seen my friend ( a programmer) does database schema design,…
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What is the best way to log out another user from their session on macOS?

In other words: Log on as Bert (who is an administrator) Using fast user switching, log on as Ernie (Bert remains logged on) Switch back to Bert Bert logs Ernie off What is the best way to achieve step 4?
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ubuntu broken python installation by mistake

I've tried to update Python and I didn't know about isollation of version instead delete the versions, so, I've deleted all of my Python version inside my Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. Now i'm not able to install nothing trough apt-get. : root@vps15:/# apt-get…
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Recovering from a slightly out of date subversion repository backup

A problem I ran into a while back I never found a good solution for... Say you have a working copy checked out from subversion at revision 7500, and the disk holding the current repository dies. You've got a backup of the repository at, say,…
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What is the difference between PHP and libapache2_mod_php

I’m new to system administration and while launching oho files with Apache 2 server I had to install php on my Ubuntu 16.04. I tried the basic sudo apt-get install php, which only loaded a blank page (php file). But installing libapache2_mod_php…
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How to force delete an open file using PowerShell

Remove-Item command does not delete files which are in use. Is there any way where we can delete all the files irrespective of their state?
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"--target list" meaning in qemu installation

I am new to qemu. I have the following question. I needed to emulate some new instructions using qemu. Basically I modify the target-i386 to something like target-i386-extended. Add tcg/i386-extended.Since qemu supports many architectures, normally…
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run a script when a new veth interface is added

Docker creates a veth interface connected to a bridge (docker0) for each of the containers it create. http://docs.docker.io/use/networking/ I want to limit the bandwidth these new veth interfaces have. I found a way to do this with wondershaper.…
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Gmail thinks our email is NOT from the FROM domain and puts it in Spam Folder, how to solve this?

We have a website where we allow you to reset your password (say if you forget your password). This is standard on many websites. Basically you enter your email address which you've used to register on our website, then we send you an email…
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How can I run an OpenGL application installed on a linux machine from my windows machine?

In the spirit of being helpful, this is a problem I had and solved, so I will answer the question here. Problem I have: An application that has to be installed on on Redhat or SuSE enterprise. It has huge system requirements and requires…
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Python App ouput to syslog server

I'm trying to do some searching on google (looped for every 5 min or so). When it gets a hit I want it to push the results to a syslog server. I'm very new to python so please forgive the ignorance, I have searched for ages and can't find an answer…
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When should server maintenance affect implementation descisions?

Here's my situation... I'm writing a .Net/C# security system (authorization and authentication) for a large collection of web applications that require a single sign-on process. I'm using Active Directory as a data store and have written a very nice…
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