What is your public repository/directory site for sysadmin scripts?
Please write the languages/platforms supported if the site doesn’t allow every kind of scripts. Why you use it? Why is it a good source? Talk about the major weakness of the site. I’m not sure that...
View ArticleSpec for a Terminal Services box?
Currently, we have a test TS machine at work, which has a dual core Pentium 4 3GHz CPU, and 1.5GB of RAM, running 32bit server2003 (I didn’t built it, not my choices). My boss wants to get this using...
View ArticleMonitoring CPU usage in Ubuntu
How to find out what process is using CPU to what extent in Ubuntu? I’d like to have real-time data as well as recorded history. Both console and GUI apps would be great. The situation is that my...
View ArticleExchange calendar resource sharing externally
We are about to move into a shared building where we will be required to share meeting rooms with a few other small companies. We currently use exchange on a small business server but will be moving...
View Articlehow to track down permanent disk accesses on linux
I have a machine that runs few services, but I don’t believe they are responsible for sometimes heavy disk access on this server (massive head moving which I can hear, after long periods of almost no...
View ArticleResource Lock and the Power Shell
is there a way to use the windows power shell to trace what application has a resource lock on a file? Here is what i am looking for: A command line or script to show the application that has a lock...
View ArticleBSOD Error codes
Where is the best place to find out information about blue screen of death ‘STOP‘ and other error codes? Technet has a list but it doesn’t seem to have the STOP code that I’ve seen: STOP 0x000000F4...
View ArticleDovecot 2.x unix_listners
Could somebody be able to explain to me what the various unix_listners do in the Dovecot 2.x configuration (specifically 10-master.conf). Currently, for postfix to use to deliver mail, I have: service...
View ArticleMySQL file limit. Error Out of resources
I was benchmarking my database the other day using mysqlslap, and I ran into a “Out of resources when opening file ‘/tmp/somefile’ (Errcode: 24)” error. I with a few click on google, I found a...
View ArticleCPU Resource pool with and without hyperthreading in vmware esx/esxi
VMWare ESX/ESXI running with AMD 12core @2.2GHz. Intel 6core @2.4GHz In resource pool, with amd cpu I should see 26.4GHz available. Now it’s interesting what will be shown with Intel CPU? Am I gonna...
View Article