Questions tagged [administration]
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How can I delete a service in Windows?
I have a couple old services that I want to completely uninstall. How can I do this?
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How SID is different from Service name in Oracle tnsnames.ora
Why do I need two of them? When I have to use one or another?
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Access is denied when attaching a database
I am using SQL Server 2008 developer edition. I was trying to attach the AdventureWorks2008 database.
When I tried to attach, I received an "access is denied" error. According to the event log, it ...
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How to transfer Google Cloud project ownership?
I would like to transfer ownership of Google Cloud project completely. By completely I mean rather than sharing ownership between multiple users, removing my account from project. Is there any way to ...
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Command line tool to delete folder with a specified name recursively in Windows?
I want to delete every "_svn" in every folder and subfolder...
For example
c:\
proyect1
_svn
images
_svn
banner
_svn
buttons
_svn
Then I run something like
rm-...
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MongoDB won't start after server crash
My Ubuntu computer had crashed, and when I restarted it MongoDB wasn't working. I tried the following commands, and got the following output:
$ mongo
Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 ...
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SSL Multilevel Subdomain Wildcard
I bought a wildcard certificate for *.example.com. Now, I have to secure *.subdomain.example.com. Is it possible to create a sub-certificate for my wildcard-certificate?
If it is, how I can do this?
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What do you do if the file in TFS is locked by someone else?
Someone left the organisation but before leaving, he locked all the files for an unknown reason.
How do you unlock them all so that the other developers can work?
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Can I just kill mongod to stop mongo?
I am very new at Mongo. I am running mongod as described here in Mac OS X. I am running two mongod processes from the command line. If I need to stop the mongod processes I just execute kill <pid ...
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Running IIS Express with admin privileges
This has been asked before but was closed as "Not a real question"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7450813/how-to-run-a-site-with-administrative-privileges-in-iis-express-7-5
However I think it ...
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What is the best way to see what files are locked in Subversion?
I finally got my group to switch from SourceSafe to Subversion. Unfortunately, my manager still wants to use exclusive locks on every single file. So I set the svn:needs-lock property on every file ...
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CouchDB backups and cloning the database
We're looking at CouchdDB for a CMS-ish application. What are some common patterns, best practices and workflow advice surrounding backing up our production database?
I'm particularly interested in ...
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Migrating R libraries
I'd like to move several R libraries (*) from one drive to another, on Linux, and would like to know whether a simple move is feasible and safe or if I should uninstall and reinstall the packages. I ...
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What's the difference between the Oracle SYS and SYSTEM accounts?
What are the differences between the Oracle SYS and SYSTEM built-in accounts?
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Administration Area in Asp.Net MVC
My question may be obvious but I'd like to build a well-designed web application.
As for any administration area, the admin should be able to list/create/delete/modify users, articles, posts, etc...
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Magento: Detect if admin is logged in in frontend pages
I have created a magento extension. I want to implement access to the extension. The extension creates a page in frontend and i want only admin to access that page. So basically i need something that ...
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How to skip role executing in Ansible
I try to write the playbook.yml for my vagrant machine and I'm faced with the following problem.
Ansible prompt me to set these variables and I set these variables to null/false/no/[just enter], but ...
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WKHTMLTOPDF Installation error on Ubuntu
We require features like header, footer, table of contents and cover page of pdf, which we want to generate from html/css.
We tried WKHTML on windows and it worked like a charm, when moving to our ...
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How can I recursively copy a directory into another and replace only the files that have not changed?
I am looking to do a specific copy in Fedora.
I have two folders:
'webroot': holding ALL web files/images etc
'export': folder containing thousands of PHP, CSS, JS documents that are exported from ...
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TFS: Moving a Team Project from one server to another?
is there a (simple) way to move a single TeamProject from one server to another? Including source code, work items, documents, project site...
We don't want to move our server from one machine to ...
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Should you include non-development tasks in your Scrum backlog? [closed]
We're having trouble incorporating certain types of tasks into our product and sprint backlogs:
Meetings with clients
Training and knowledge-sharing
Administrative tasks
Some of these aren't ...
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how to get phyiscal path of windows service using .net?
I have to get the absolute path of a windows service in a .Net Admin application. I am using ServiceController of .Net as shown below.
ServiceController serviceController = new ServiceController(...
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Can I add range of ports in netsh add urlacl?
I use the following command to allow listening of specific HTTP ports:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:[port]/ user=DOMAIN\UserName
But if I need to open a range of ports, can I setup a single ...
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When to develop using Powershell vs C#? [closed]
I'm just getting started in PowerShell and one of my sysadmins told me that Powershell can do as much as C# can for systems management, if not more.
Please forgive the ignorance of this question, but ...
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How to keep abreast of known bugs and bug fixes in R packages?
Is there a standard R community resource for keeping up to date on known bugs or bug fixes for packages? My current approach is rather manual. (NB: I'm restricting this to CRAN - see Note 1.)
My ...
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POST vs GET method for a search form in CMS
I'm a bit stuck with one thing. Just can't make up my mind on whether to use POST or GET method at my search form.
Normally I would use GET method for such a form, so users could bookmark their ...
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ColdFusion mail queue stops processing
Our CF server occasionally stops processing mail. This is problematic, as many of our clients depend on it.
We found suggestions online that mention zero-byte files in the undeliverable folder, so ...
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Why ulimit can't limit resident memory successfully and how?
I start a new bash shell, and execute:
ulimit -m 102400
ulimit -a
"
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 20
file ...
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ASP.NET MVC - Area or Separate Web Application for Administration?
Up until now I've been using an MVC Area for the administration part of my mvc applications, but recently I've been rethinking this due to the fact that you can't have more than one configuration for ...
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How to open Neo4J Webadmin to remote control?
I have installed a Neo4J instance on my server on port 7474. My domain is also using that server and I want webadmin to be used remotely with a username and a password like this:
example.com:7474
Is ...
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Restarting ColdFusion mail queue
We are currently experiencing intermittent mail queue stoppages. I'm seeking diagnostic help in another area.
In the meantime, is there a way to restart the CF mail queue without restarting the ...
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Cannot Add a Sql Server Login
When I try to create a SQL Server Login by saying
CREATE LOGIN [ourdomain\SQLAccessGroup] FROM WINDOWS;
I get this error
The server principal 'ourdomain\SQLAccessGroup' already exists.
However, ...
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Is there an easy way to generate a graph of Ansible role dependencies?
Since version 1.3, Ansible has supported role dependencies to encourage reuse of role definitions. To audit and maintain larger orchestrations, it would be nice to have some way to easily generate a ...
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Memory utilization in redis for each database
Redis allows storing data in 16 different 'databases' (0 to 15). Is there a way to get utilized memory & disk space per database. INFO command only lists number of keys per database.
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How can I remotely execute a script in Windows?
I would like to have a Windows 2003 server fire a script to fire another script in a separate Windows Server 2008 computer.
I have been told that Powershell can do that, and that's fine, but I need ...
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Rails application settings?
I am working on a Rails application that has user authentication which provides an administrators account. Within the administrators account I have made a page for sitewide settings.
I was wondering ...
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IIS7 Profiling
Is there a way to profile IIS7? (freeware?)
Number of connections
Bandwidth usage
Errors (Event Viewer?)
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thx, Lieven Cardoen
ps: Something similar to mssqlserver profiling
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How can i check if ini_set will work on the server?
How can i check if server configuration allows me to set an option like:
ini_set('upload_max_filesize', '8M');
in a PHP script? Here is a list of php.ini directives but i can't really figure out how ...
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Is there any free GUI for administering AD LDS (ADAM)? [closed]
I am researching if ADLDS or ADAM is suitable for handling the users of a company product. Currently we are using AD, but we are planning to scale to more customers without needing to buy CALs.
I got ...
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Is there such thing as a client-side administration panel framework for RESTful resources? [closed]
I've worked with Rails in the past, and I used ActiveAdmin to make administration panels. I'm moving to Node and I'll be using Sails as a framework for a one-page app, and probably AngularJS on the ...
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Best practice for creating administrator interface in Laravel 4
I would like to create an administrator interface for my Laravel project, which is completely separated from the user side.
For example, in Yii framework I can make a module and this will ensure full ...
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Is it possible to configure VS2010 to always run as Administrator?
Does anyone know if you can do this by default rather than having to use context menu?
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What is the Difference Between Windows Administrator and Windows System Users
Is there any privilege difference between the Windows Administrator User and the System User?
There have been some times, where I have to promote a cmd window to system privilege to delete some files....
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How to check if the Key Pair is still used in EC2?
Our previous Devops created several Key Pairs in EC2. It looks like some of them are not used anymore. So I would like to delete them. How can I find when the Keypairs were created and if they are ...
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How to create an alias path on local IIS?
Unfortunately searching the web didn't make me any smarter. I have a web application running under my local IIS 7.5: http://localhost/myWebpage/
Now I'd like to create an alias path pointing to the ...
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Tomcat 6.x Administration
With the Administration tool was not ported from Tomcat 5.x to Tomcat 6.x, how do people manage Tomcat configuration?
Are there other 3rd party Admin applications available? Or is all configuration ...
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The best way to separate admin functionality from a public site?
I'm working on a site that's grown both in terms of user-base and functionality to the point where it's becoming evident that some of the admin tasks should be separate from the public website. I was ...
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How do I set up a local CPAN mirror?
What do I need to set up and maintain a local CPAN mirror? What scripts and best practices should I be aware of?
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How to comply with the new Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), which will remove local administrator access for all users? [closed]
As developers, we believe that not having local administrative access is going to severely handicap our productivity. We will be restricted from running IIS (we’re a web development shop), installing ...
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How to handle RabbitMQ Logs?
We're running RabbitMQ and the .log it's writing to the log folder get quiet large.
What's the right thing to do there, can we just delete it from time to time, should we rotate them away and then ...
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