Server Fault Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: Is SNMP still used widely as of 2015? A lot of things about SNMP seemed cumbersome to me even 15 years ago. One example is the concept of MIB being a local resource to "make sense" of the otherwise numeric OIDs. Has SNMP been modernized ... snmp   asked by Ilya 15 votes answered by MadHatter 17 votes How can we remotely administer our "fleet" of Windows 7 laptops? I'm working with a startup that's teaching kids to program. We've just obtained our first "fleet" of laptops - half a dozen refurbished thinkpads running Windows 7 - and I'm looking for the best way ... windows active-directory administrator laptop   asked by Nick Johnson 8 votes answered by MDMarra 4 votes Need explanation of why a particular GPO is applied to all domain computers I'm a little stumped on this one so I'm hoping someone can enlighten me, since I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable GPO person. I have a login banner GPO that changes the Interactive Logon: ... group-policy   asked by TheCleaner 8 votes answered by duenni 7 votes Is there any way to restrict user from changing file extensions in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7? For example, not allow users to rename abc.doc to abc.jpg? Is there any windows group policy for that? I am not asking file association restriction. If it really can't, is there any group policy to ... windows group-policy domain extension   asked by Frankie 8 votes answered by Ryan Ries 10 votes Troubleshooting a Redis Stall We have several redis instances running on a server. There are also multiple web tier servers connecting to those instance that experience a stall at the same time. We had packet captures going at ... linux memory redis   asked by Kyle Brandt 7 votes answered by Tobert 4 votes What, exactly, is the SCCM client doing when it installs an .msi for a system? I've been working with a particular .msi (AppleApplicationSupport.msi). I have installed it two different ways which I thought would be equivalent. However the results differ as follows. PSEXEC -i ... sccm msi windows-installer sccm-2012-r2   asked by alx9r 7 votes answered by kce 2 votes Generate entropy for PGP key I'm logged onto a VM remotely and trying to generate a 4096bit PGP key, it just hangs forever because there is no entropy and since I'm working through remote desktop it probably does not detect the ... linux pgp cryptography   asked by redic 5 votes answered by Thomas Guyot-Sionnest 4 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What's the default superuser username/password for postgres after a new install? I have just installed postgres 8.4 on Ubuntu 9.10 and it has never asked me to create a superuser. Is there a default superuser and its password? If not, how do I create a new one? postgresql   asked by Thierry Lam 147 votes answered by user716468 235 votes Why is my crontab not working, and how can I troubleshoot it? This is a Canonical Question about using cron & crontab. The answer for 'Why is my crontab not working, and how can I troubleshoot it?' can be seen below. This addresses the cron system with ... linux cron   asked by Eric Leschinski 69 votes answered by Eric Leschinski 103 votes Can you answer these? How can I install libmemcached on Openshift with sasl support? I need libmemcached with sasl support to use Memcached Cloud cartridge on Openshift Online. I doing next: 1. Install sasl. curl -LO ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26.tar.gz tar ... python django sasl openshift-online   asked by BottieYOYO 1 vote WSUS downloading driver updates every night I have a WSUS server running on Windows Server 2012. We use it because of limited bandwidth available here Every night at 3 AM it downloads 2+ GB of updates, even though a "synchronise now" event ... windows-server-2012 wsus   asked by TFD 5 votes Hyper-v virtual machine acting as two separate vm's I have a Hyper-V virtual machine (vm1) that has two separate instances of itself. I can log into what should be the same VM (vm1) through Hyper-v and RDP (Remote Desktop Connection) with the same ip ... networking virtualization hyper-v virtual-machines   asked by Marvin 1 vote

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