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SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
Is rsync doing kind of logging? Can you make it do some logging?
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
Edit: Not that it takes that long, but I have my other job before that.
The errors seem to be mostly like this one:
2012/02/15 01:22:37 [28460] rsync: readlink_stat("/old_spears/home/www/web/htdocs/text_2005/resources/testtest.php") failed: Input/output error (5)Those are disk/filesystem errors. You need to fsck, and possibly replace your disk.
Should be okay. It might throw an error during the part where it checks your server for readiness, but you should be able to click past that.
Yeah fuck you if you think I'm managing domain controllers on site, or not at my desk.
Can anybody suggest a good way to keep an eye on the security of a Web server, and maybe test against possible attacks? I've got a webserver/FTP server, and I'm unfortunately clueless on how to protect that outside of only allowing in the specific ports/protocols for Http/https/ftp.
Port forwarding would take care of 99% of the attacks you'll come across, so, if you only port forward 80 to the webserver, after that, there are probably no active tools to diagnose remote access, other than antivirus software?
god I hated the IIS server we used to have, piece of shit that was.
It is unfortunately an IIS server due to requirements by a certain piece of software running on it. i'll take a look for those white papers, but it's good to know I've got most problems covered.
What about the situations like where a websites database got hacked and data was pulled? How do they even know it happened?
Googling their company's name? As far as I'm aware most people don't know they've been hacked until someone defaces the website or it is extremely obvious (DDoS).
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
I saw SQL done in a few production environments recently and I think it would help prevent some sprawl, which I would like.
EDIT: Remote Desktop connectivity is included for up to 2 users in all server installs. You don't need to install Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
You'd be surprised how much data gets compromised by people not doing basic due diligence (e.g. not hardening servers by disabling unneeded services, not blocking basic port access, using default passwords). This one impatient fellow really wanted a VoIP server provisioned fast for a proof of concept. I was swamped and told him it'd be a week before I could do it. He decided to do it himself. At the time I washed my hands of it and told him I wasn't going to be responsible for it as I'd have to puzzle out how he configured it because he couldn't tell me what he'd done. Hacked after a couple of weeks cause he used default passwords on the web admin interface and DB server. Thankfully our SIP provider decided to halt services when they saw hundreds of calls to satellite phones.
Yeah, Exchange on an Active Directory server is a bad idea, even a low-traffic AD server. A lot of Exchange techs at Microsoft treat Small Business Server like some kind of black magic because of this.
A low-traffic SQL server install is fine.
Oh? SBS is just shit, but, installing exchange on the AD server seems fine.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
I check out the settings and change it to never sleep, I swap the cords, update the drivers, and the bios, and it still does it so I crack open the box. The video card is blazing hot because stupid dell didn't secure all the loose power cords and one of the cords was resting on the video card's fan jamming it. Heat + Video card = shutdown.
Thanks Dell.
I've been working a warranty case that began when a client's server failed to reboot properly after installing updates, giving the error 'OS not found'. Dell OpenManage reports that the RAID is degraded, although the physical disks all check out OK. It also reports a missing non-RAID disk that was never shipped with the system.
Dell's support has been stellar here, trying such innovative solutions as "have you tried reinstalling OpenManage". When replacing the motherboard and RAID controller failed to resolve the issue and I speculated that perhaps it was configured improperly before shipment, my Dell contact's response was I guess you'll just have to reinstall Windows.
We ended up having to order the drives from another source, because it was going to take Dell several weeks to get us new ones. Not because they were out of stock, but because all the ones they had were allocated to new systems, and selling a new system was far more important to them than supporting an old one.
Or I could take that same $2,000 and pocket it and buy a drive off newegg and have it here next day. Fuck it I almost want to start my own server business because fuck these huge companies and their shitty policies.
No, I'm thinking this issue is systemic and not racial.
Except that the race and English speaking skills of the techs tends to be part of the system, and can't be flippantly ignored because it's an uncomfortable reality. A lot of companies use customer service centers in that part of the world, and a lot of those same companies have terrible customer service. It can't be an ignored correlation, though it's surely not causation.
never on hold for more than a couple minutes, next day parts.
i fought with some hardware problems on a server they sent me, next day got the parts that we deduced had failed. didn't work, next day a tech came out worked on it for a couple hours, no luck. two days later i had a completely new machine waiting for me when i got in.
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