Summary
Risks of using LVM:
Vulnerable to write caching in kernel and hard drive/SSD on kernels before 2.6.33, or in VM guests
Harder to recover data due to more complex on-disk structures
Harder to resize filesystems correctly
Snapshots are hard to use, slow and buggy
Requires some skill to c...
For directories like that I tend to use the full name sans slashes. If you put hyphens in the names then weird things can happen, like the devices actually having two hyphens.
@ewwhite OK, so I have VMware Workstation here. It stores .vmdk files as flat files on the host filesystem. Last week one of my guests ran out of disk space. So I added another .vmdk, then in the guest used LVM to extend the logical volume onto the second virtual disk. Then just resize2fs and voila!
@ewwhite On one hand I can see these things being helpful, but on the other hand, satisfied people don't usually track down an outlet to vocalize their happiness like dissatisfied people do
@ewwhite Funny you should be stabbing your eyes out with auditd. I just got my introductory blog post on it written up last night. Should be scheduled soon.
The upper IT management (CIO) does not connect with the infrastructure department staff to glean the facts. If they did, they could make rational decisions on what solutions would best meet the demands of both customers and the end user base. Instead they listen to salesmen and people who don't know what is going on.
The budget is small and when money is spent, it is never spent on what is actually needed until situations are critical. The disasters and complications that could be prevented, are ignored.
For my role here I'm less interested in customers using our service or an outside service, and more interested in making sure that they are doing right by the data and policy. So, to be fair, I was more asking so I had the name of a hosting provider that was, supposedly, HIPAA/HI-TECH compliant.
Do any of you Windows guys know why the hell PowerShell doesn't import system modules by default? Is it part of some effort to make PowerShell useless or a pain in the ass to use, or something?
@ScottPack We do... but the element of the provisioning process I saw seem to blacklist the kernel... leaving situations where you'll have RHEL 5.8 running a 5.5 kernel
@ewwhite I can mildly relate. In order to test a PGP Universal upgrade I've got a virtual box instance so I can run vSphere so I can console into a Windows 7 system.
@HopelessN00b Cheap work around: Append this to the PS shortcut: -command "Get-Module -ListAvailable | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "$PSHOME*"} |Import-Module"
But as @ChrisS says. be prepared for an irritatingly long wait.
@Chopper3: We have run into a network problem getting VMWare up with teamed NICs on our new Nexus 5/2k setup. The Nexus switches are in vPC (Each Fex is single homed to a Nexus, with with two nexus head connected to each other). With VMWare, the management network seems to die (but can still be pinged). We tried virtualizetips.com/2011/03/… but it still seems to die after a while. This sound familiar in anyway?
@KyleBrandt oh mate, only had another dose of chemo the other day, my IQ is, seriously, about 75 right now, can barely get off the toilet sorry, can barely understand the question sorry :(
Hey @KyleBrandt, as you're here, is there a SE-opinion on people offering help here? Say someone drops in asking for help setting up [y] and someone else looks up and says "here's my e-mail, here's my rates" is that okay? Something I was wondering about.
@SmallClanger Yeah, it's not a problem, per se, I'm just doing some IIS//Exchange troubleshooting, and after trying forgetting to import the modules and being unable to run basic commands a few times, I was curious as to whether or not there was a reason for the default behavior.
@tombull89 I'm not aware of it, but honestly a bit more out of touch (Busy running server / team of SAs these days :-P ). My personal take would be I guess that is fine unless that is just what the person does all the time
Probably the scope matters to. So if it is pretty specific that is kind outside of the spirit of SF in my option. But if it is "How do I set up a Windows network for a medium office" then they probably need a consultant, or should be prepared for a journey :-P
I've had people on here ask me for help with implementing an answer, and I'm not even a consultant, just some guy. So there's interest there from people asking the questions too, I'd say
@tombull89 I know I've done that at some point, as has @MDMarra , when some guy's pushing hard on one of those do a major project/my job for me requests, and yet to see anyone bitch about it.
@ewwhite Not specifically, no. I like to have a couple of names or products in mind that I can mention. I can't really recommend specific products or vendors, but I can give names for them to investigate.
@HopelessN00b I think we've all said "You need to hire someone" to people who are clearly out of their depth or who want someone to do the job for them. I personally think its fine at that point to mention that you're prepared to be that someone if that's what you do. But none of us want this being a place where people go to tout for business right (not suggesting you, or any other reg, does)
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@RobM My biggest gripe by far is that Exchange is a sealed-box product... If anything isn't working right, you have to rely on the most cryptic and incomplete logs MS could manage to crap out. It's much less configurable than most e-mail packages (a double edged sword, usually problems with my home server are a config typo). And it's a F***ING MEMORY HOG. Only a few other MS products are worse.
Exchange should have (and commonly actually uses) 100-200MB of RAM per user... Really? That's a craptonne of memory! My home server (which serves just as many users as my work Ex server) 33MB total.
Problem:
Can't connect to OWA or the Exchange Management Console/Shell on our Exchange 2010 server (Server 2008R2 VM).
Background:
We have an Exchange 2010 VM (ESXi 5.1) we're "in the process" of doing a mail migration to (from Exchange 2003). We're currently in a co-existence situation, and ...
@MichaelHampton like it's ok if you're joking, and once in awhile. But EVERY TIME I do something, he says it. I'm about to be like "I HAVENT BROKEN ANYTHING YET. JUST FIXES ALL THE STUPID SHIT YOU GUYS FUCKED UP"
@MichaelHampton If you're running Linux and have a clue there's better options available... But yeah, it's there. I haven't used it so I'm not sure if it's identical to the Windows version.
I imagine the whole site will be clean in a moment if it isn't already.
It was redirecting to some fake check advance website. Which seems odd as people who would use such a service probably don't have good enough credit or money in their bank account to make it worth stealing their identity.
I hate forums so much... So many idiots. Trying to find out how many b-frames a RaspPi can decode. TONS of people saying it will decode a Level 4 x264 stream, so just lookup what bitrate that equates to...... OMFG, Level 4 isn't just a "bitrate", and neither have anything to do with b-frames. Where's the "reach through the computer and strangle people" button?!
I work in security operational center engineer in one company. We manage a lot of customer FW, proxy,..etc. An example of our daily tickets could be the user can't access some site, so we check the customer proxy,...
During our troubleshooting and as we already managing all devices, we have some...
All,
Any advice in this matter is much appreciated. I am currently being investigated at work for accessing files from my computer that I was not supposed to access. As I was browsing for a document that I could not find, I thought it might be in a certain folder. I double-clicked a shortcut and...
@MichaelHampton On a related note, how to simulate yourself as if you are located externally behind the trusted zone of a FW?
@tombull89 Nah, OP might be screwed, but like the top voted answer says, if he wasn't supposed to have access, his access should have been blocked. My guess is after he accessed it, some admin changed t he ACLs to what they should have been in the first place.
@HopelessN00b Yeah, that was my guess too. Someone ballsed up the permissions, he found his way where he shoudln't have done because of it and now he's taking the major fall.
Not much any of us can "do" about it... It's pretty obvious that IT/Boss screwed up, he knew that from the get-go, and he's getting blamed. We can offer some technical insight, but it still boils down to what he already knew.
There's no legal protection for him if that's what you're thinking... There's also nothing the company can do legal-wise.
It wouldn't matter any two ways.. Either the company will have a sudden outbreak of common sense, he'll quit, or be fired, or nothing will come of it (most likely IMHO).
There's no need for legal advice, and an independent investigation would only reveal more of what everyone already knows (the boss or IT are incompetent or blaming the scapegoat).
Well, the theory is that the audit logs are being selectively presented, meaning IT are covering their backs. if (a big if) someone in the company high up can take his side and if they agree to independent investigation it might at least find something that exonerates him or shows big lumps of missing audit trail.
It doesn't matter. The guy's being screwed over, and his only option is to get a job somewhere else, sadly. He saves his hide, then what? Continues to work with/for the people who tried to fuck him to save themselves? That's gonna work out well...
Which could mean he'll get no references and have a much harder time finding a job. Although if he fights it and then quits, he'll have a reputation as an agitator instead; so he's screwed either way. Isn't the world lovely? :P
@Cole there's some stuff (encrypted storage) that you only get with the spendy version, but you probably don't NEED that (and if you do, spend the damn money fool!)
Which would be more appropriate, serverfault or superuser, to ask about how one might set up an Outlook/Exchange rule that would take incoming messages, parse the subject for an email address, and forward the message on to the embedded email address? Or if something like that were even possible?
Problem:
Can't connect to OWA or the Exchange Management Console/Shell on our Exchange 2010 server (Server 2008R2 VM).
Background:
We have an Exchange 2010 VM (ESXi 5.1) we're "in the process" of doing a mail migration to (from Exchange 2003). We're currently in a co-existence situation, and ...
