@Basil If you're asking if a MSA8900 is appropriate for a 12 DL380G7 cluster running MySQL. Then no, that's shopping. But asking how to size a SAN, what metrics to look for; and how to measure/estimate the necessary metrics on a SQL server.. That'd be on topic. =]
@MDMarra well if it's not vendor X versus vendor Y but more "solution X with these features, versus solution y with those features" I'd be more sympathetic to it
@ChrisS right. Something that can be applied to more than just your one environment and particular vendor pissing contest :-)
@ChrisS So specifically, can you have the use of one tag recommend the use of an additional tag? And have the first one clarify that it's almost never used alone?
@Basil You can have that recommendation as the first line of the tag except so that people see it, but AFAIK, there's no method to force an additional tag
yeah, but that's not even on a dependency - it's "all questions must have one of this set of tags". @MDMarra is right - the best general solution is noting it in the tag excerpt/wiki
@Basil If we cleaned up "storage" it'd be easier to just blackhole it; then when people type that tag in it would simply suggest the existing "storage-*" tags
There's no way to ask for additional details or better tagging based on what tags the user has put in already. We've talked about it before, too lazy to find the links right now but I think Apache has been targeted in the past.
If you don't have a specific binary requirement for TigerVNC, you could try one of the other VNC packages. Especially if you don't want to manually update the packages manually.
Running Aptitude should show you the available packages if you're connected to the Internet on that server.
aptitude s...
@Adrian I'm thinking he doesn't know what he wants. But that's because after reading the comment I don't know what he wants
"Take 10 steps back from the keyboard, take 10 deep breaths, walk in a circle counterclockwise three times, then clockwise once, step back to the keyboard and try again."
@voretaq7 Well, I popped a comment in there in response. We'll see what kind of response it gets. If he starts shouting we'll know he's not got a clue.
@voretaq7 You've never looked at some piece of script or code you did in the past and though of a "better" way of doing the same thing without making it more complicated?
If anything, I could see the lamp one being called NARQ, because it's just so freaking big. The rhel5.5 one is specific enough that it could be written up.
@84104 Specific to 5.5 as opposed to 5.4? Or RHEL5 compared to FreeBSD? The concepts are pretty much the same, but the specifics could be different. Compare the CIS guides, for example.
David's answer is a good baseline of the general principles of server hardening. As David indicated, this is a huge question. The specific techniques you take could depend highly on your environment and how your server will be used. Warning, this can take a lot of work in a test environment to bu...
@84104 Yeah, the Helper Addresses (or whatever the technical name is) contains a list of typically broadcast protocols, and will translate a broadcast into a unicast. DHCP is the best use of it, really.
DHCP Snooping on Cisco is pretty odd nowadays. It was originally implemented to detect and block DHCP servers on non-approved ports (e.g. an OFFER coming in from a user port as opposed to an uplink). Now it's used as the base framework for all manner of auto-detection and remediation fiddly thingies.
I installed oracle 11g on ubuntu 11.10, but it seems that every couple of days I'll get to work and the database isn't running but the listener is.
To fix it, all I have to do is login and start it up:
su - oracle
cd /path/to/oracle11g/bin
./sqlplus sys as sysdba
startup;
exit
and then everyt...
@Adrian We have a big old systemwide Oracle contract covering 23-24 campuses. Individual students can run it on their workstations, etc etc. But each campus only has a few actual support contacts.
I run CUPS printing on a number of multiuser Linux application servers. The systems are RHEL or CentOS version 4, 5 or 6. Starting the EL5, the CUPS print server defaults to an error policy that basically disables the printer when there's an error or interruption (USB cable disconnect, network er...
@voretaq7 Oracle isn't bad. Pure Oracle DBAs who don't do anything else annoy me since they always seem to have their head in the sand about anything outside the Oracle install directories.
@Adrian the disctinction between "commercial" and "educational" can be a fine line. The educational institution I work for owns a for-profit corporation, for instance.
I'm running Ubuntu with POSTFIX and I have spam mail continually trying to be sent out. I have blocked it all from the email server that they are going out on and now they are just continually being queued up. The server is running php/mysql with a number of websites on it. How can I tell where t...
Environment:
Windows 2008 Server at Data Center 1 - call it Server A
Another Windows 2008 Server at DC 2, call it Server B
Fiber link dynamic IP client, connected via VPN to Server B, call it Client A
Client A wants to see shared drives from Server A. Server A can't allow everyone through th...
Can someone take a look at the comment he just left on my answer to that? It doesn't make any sense to me. I think he just doesn't understand what DFS does
# Parse out the datetime for the log entry
timestamp = datetime.strptime(line[0:15], "%b %d %H:%M:%S")
timestamp = timestamp.replace(year = datetime.now().year)
So another admin moved this nice big 8 processor 1TB on like... 12 drive? system from real Linux to Linux in VMWare... and I can now move an astonishing 5MB/s to the disk. Yup. That's my write speed.
@MikeyB Seriously. What the fuck could he need it to work that way for? I can't think of anything other than a shitty design to work around a shitty policy.
Environment:
Windows 2008 Server at Data Center 1 - call it Server A
Another Windows 2008 Server at DC 2, call it Server B
Fiber link dynamic IP client, connected via VPN to Server B, call it Client A
Client A wants to see shared drives from Server A. Server A can't allow everyone through th...
