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Questions tagged [system-administration]
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How to launch a .cmd file using Task Scheduler?
I have a folder with a PowerShell script and a .cmd file that executes it (among other things).
I want task scheduler to launch Run.cmd but it won't work. Manually launching Run.cmd works and so does launching just the .ps1 by itself. Here is how I…

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DNS A record and PTR record delete
I have a duplicate in DNS record when adding new instance. My goal is to use "nsupdate" to be able to delete A record by IP if new instance IP is found. This is what I did. However, it didn't delete any duplicate when ran this script. what will be…

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Linux Different Distribution Commands
Hi I am a Linux Beginner, While reading Linux I found three types of commands doing the same job service,chkconfig,systemctl I know these are differ from distribution to distribution . can anyone suggest how to learn these command for different…

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Programmatical manipulation of Windows Local Security Policy
I am looking for a method to access and modify local group policy settings in a PC programatically.
For example, if I want to check / modify a value for a setting
"Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Audit…

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I have access to windows server 2012 but not to ** SQL 2012**
I faced this issue last week. my manager told me that we have access to the windows server but no to SQL. he asked me to add an AD group . I went in the 'local users and groups ' and tried to add them to that administrator group but the AD groups…

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How to setup the passwords-less authentication between two different accounts
Can we setup a password less authentication between two different uses in two machine.
Eg: Computer A has user A,Computer B has user B.
Can we setup passwords ssh that User A from Computer A to log into computer B using his User account(A).
Thank…

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Use a Virtual machine for learn how to install Archlinux for beginner?
I'm a newbie in sysadmin.
I have a laptop from my school with windows7/opensuse on grub.
I would like now to install archlinux however I would like to avoid every risk of error that will delete my existing partition. (Because it will be very…

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SQL EXECUTE AS Clause
I have an SQL user 'ABC', having sysadmin rights and access to all the databases, lets say database A and Database B, of the specific server. Where as my application uses users having access to only one database A.
I have created an stored procedure…

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All my sent mail is marked as spam
I've configured Postfix and Dovecot in my server (in this server I've my website and my mailserver), but if I send an email, it is marked as spam! I've also configured DKIM!!
So, here some information:
$ host MYDOMAIN.COM
MYDOMAIN.COM has address…

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How to copy database backup (created by maintenance plans) files to remote machine
I would like to copy backup files after MS SQL Server maintenance plan to a new shared folder in another server.
How to do that??

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Change default port number of Sql server 2008 through commad line
I want to change the default port number 1433 to another in SQL server 2008. Is there any command line option for this? I know that how to change the port number through SQL Server Configuration Manager but I need to change this from my java…

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How can I kill this process?
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3316 root 20 0 5356 1176 736 R 32.7 2.0 1650:09 lighttpd
It's runnning on my dd-wrt router. I tried kill -9 3316, but I can still see the process in top
service…

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Install mrtg on boot
I am trying to install mrtg on boot.
apt-get install mrtg
is the required command. But when installing it comes up with a GUI asking me to say "Yes/No". This is good if I am running the script manually, but on boot it gets stuck. Is there a…

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Not able to connect localhost with system ip
I have deployed my java web application using apache tomcact in my system through Eclipse. I can access the same page with
https://localhost:8080/Home.jsp
as well
https://mysystemip:8080/Home.jsp
But the same page is not able to connect…

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How to access a BitLocker-encrypted drive in Ubuntu 16.04?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 along with windows 10. I have encrypted my drives using BitLocker. Now my encrypted drives are not visible in ubuntu 16.04. But I want to access my encrypted drives using BitLocker password like windows. How can I do this?

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