Server Fault Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: Is it safe to reboot a server open to the internet? Specifically I have an iptables ruleset defined on a server running CentOS. Am I guaranteed / can I guarantee / how can I guarantee that when networking comes online (either at machine boot, or after … networking centos security boot internet   asked by Parthian Shot 19 votes answered by John 13 votes An unknown tool is wiping our Virtual Machines and we can't ID it A console view of a Windows 2008 R2 VM, on vSphere is showing the following screen: "Operation 2 of 2" "Wiping disk" Can someone advise on what this program is? Some information on this mystery: … windows-server-2008-r2 nfs vmware-vsphere disk   asked by Rqomey 14 votes Using IE to invoke PHP/CURL for long running data API causes Apache2 server to freeze and require restart I'm running a PHP program that works fine as long as it's not invoked by a Microsoft IE browser, after which it spawns the below processes, locks up Apache2 and requires a restart of the web server … apache-2.2 php internet-explorer curl api   asked by ProfVersaggi 7 votes answered by mc0e 3 votes Is it possible to extract last month's values from a MySQL server and build a new database from those values? I have an assignment to build a development virtual machine template. I need to add to the server MySQL databases from each one my company's products so that new developers will have the ability to … mysql centos5   asked by Itai Ganot 7 votes answered by Giedrius Rekasius 6 votes Is it reasonable to use Nagios to check that a service is NOT available? Suppose I have a server with a private interface and a public interface. Public might have things like HTTP(S) servers, private might have MySQL and SSH. Obviously Nagios is useful to check that the … firewall nagios services private-ip   asked by smitelli 5 votes answered by MadHatter 5 votes How can I require an array of resources in puppet? In my Puppet-manifest I need to exec a command, but only after an array-driven collection of another exec finished. Like this (pseudo-code): define foo() { exec { "touch $name": } } .... { … puppet   asked by Mikhail T. 5 votes answered by Mikhail T. 6 votes How to dump(collect) all the group policies in a domain? I want to collect all the GPOs in a domain , for reviewing settings. How many ways are there to do it. I used Get-GPOREPORT in Powershell, but it gave a comprehensive html file, is these a way to … active-directory group-policy domain domain-controller   asked by Darktux 4 votes answered by Ryan Ries 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: Can't seem to disable Java Automatic Update I'm just tweaking out my new Windows 7 laptop and wanted to disable the automatic Java updating (and thus kill the silly jusched.exe background process), but I can't seem to get it to actually turn it … java automaticupdates   asked by Scott Bussinger 58 votes answered by Alexander Lai 64 votes Does Windows have a built-in ZIP command for the command line? Since Windows Explorer (since at least Windows XP) has some basic support for ZIP files, it seems like there should be a command-line equivalent, but I can't seem to find any sign of one. Does … windows command-line zip   asked by Electrons_Ahoy 73 votes answered by Bryan 46 votes Can you answer these? Raid 5 URE rate I've recently read this post: http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2012/08/i-come-not-to-praise-raid-5/ tldr; It basically says that the error rate of a RAID system is tied to the hardware, and … raid software-raid raid5   asked by outrunthewolf 1 vote Who or what is writing suspicious files in /tmp Some hacker has managed to poke around enough to write files to my /tmp directory on a hardened CentOS 6 web server box. As far as I can tell they haven't succeeded in anything other than writing … linux security webserver web-hosting   asked by Franklin 1 vote Simple web tool for viewing log I'm developing a server deployment script that installs a bunch of stuff and generates a log in the process. I'd like users of the script to be able to view what's happening, on a web page, in real … webserver monitoring logging salt   asked by Steve Bennett 1 vote

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