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.
Questions tagged [system-administration]
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Windows & NIST time servers giving erroneous times to Windows 12 Server?
I am running a LTI tool for my university LMS on a Windows 12 Server and it was failing today. It turned out that the server time was about 20 minutes ahead of the correct time and my tool was timing out.
It was synched with the windows.com time…
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Is it possible to create a VM on Linux then export it to a Windows Server?
I'm trying to install and configure some apps in VM in Windows Server but have a limited access to the Windows server so I'm trying to do all the configuration in a local VM in my Ubuntu system then export the VM to the server. Is it possible?
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new Ubuntu 14.04 VPS, can't log in as new user
I'm pulling my hair out. I created a new VPS, I created a new user and there's no way I can log in! I tried to tackle it from every possible way but I just ran our of ideas. So here's what happens
New user: demo
ralf@futurelab:~$ ssh -vvv…
Ralf
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Unix Bash Script - Monitoring User Home Directory Growth
I'm trying to create a script that will monitor all non-admin user home directories under /HOME for growth of over 100MB in a 20 min period, and send an email to root if this occurs. The email needs to contain a list of users that were found in…
Student
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Can I store an email to database once it entered to inbox?
The exact problem is:-
I'm currently developing ticketing system using PHP. System will send emails automatically to the concerned departments once a ticket is opened. The emails recipients will reply this email using their third party application…
user3787671
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Check if Windows credentials have sysadmin privileges for each SQL Server in list
I need to write a script [in anything, assumed powershell would be best] that checks to see if the given Windows or SQL Server credentials have sysadmin rights for each server in a list. I would like to loop through list pf SQL Servers within my…
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What kind of scripts or applications can be reliably executed at boot time?
In another post, I am told that this is the way to run something at startup. A registry key is created:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
I am supposed to place a filepath under that key.
What file types are allowable…
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