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Why can't I reach my Amazon EC2 instance via its Elastic IP address?
The server works fine via the Amazon assigned DNS entry, but I cannot reach it (using a browser) via the Elastic IP address Amazon assigned the box. Ping does not work either. I am trying to confirm it is reachable before I add the IP address to my…
Guido Anselmi
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nginx as reverse proxy with upstream SSL
I'm building a proxy for an internal API to allow clients to connect without having to have the self-signed certificates installed. Clients (built, owned and used only internally) will connect over SSL to the nginx box, where I'm using XSendfile to…
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How to find the gateway IP address in Linux
What command can you use to find the Gateway IP Address (ie. home router address) for eth0 in Linux? I need to get the IP address from a command line app to use in a shell script.
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What is the maximum username length on current GNU/Linux systems
I'd like to know what the maximum username length is for current GNU/Linux systems, e.g. Ubuntu 11.04. 8 characters appears to be some historical standard, but I've already noticed on my current Ubuntu system that this limit does not apply.
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Removing phantom applications from Application Pools in IIS7
I have an application in one of my application pools that has a virtual path of /Site/login.aspx . I want to remove it but it no longer exists on my computer and it's causing me issues setting up AppFabric. I understand that you can remove these…
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How to use node.js as a production web server?
I'm currently developing a project using node, and as I'm approaching the launch, I'm struggling to find resources on how to setup node for use on a commercial, production server. Most resources I have seen have consisted of contrived, simple…
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How do I tell what is running on which ports in Ubuntu?
How could I tell what is listening on which ports on Ubuntu? In other words, how do I get a list of ports that are in use?
Genadinik
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Get directory containing the currently executed batch script
I use %0 in batch file to get the containing directory of the batch file but the result is :- c:\folder1\folder2\batch.bat I want just directory, without batch file name, like this :- c:\folder1\folder2\ How can I do it? Maybe I should filter the…
Mohammad AL-Rawabdeh
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Understanding a Postfix log file entry
We have a Postfix hub and I'm trying to better understand the information in the mail.log file. I use tools like qshape, pflogsumm.pl and amavis-logwatch to summarize the log files, but I have still have questions about some of the elements of the…
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Measuring 'total bytes written' under Linux
We're quite interested in exploring the possibility of using SSD drives in a server environment. However, one thing that we need to establish is expected drive longevity. According to this article manufacturer's are reporting drive endurance in…
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How do I make RabbitMQ listen only to localhost?
I have installed RabbitMQ on a Debian Linux Squeeze machine, and I would like it to only listen to the localhost interface. I have added RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 to my /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf file, and that makes it bind to only the…
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How do I access a local web server on my laptop from another computer?
I have an app running on my computer at 127.0.0.1:3000 I would like to access that app from an iPhone connected to the same network. I have done this before but blanking out on how I did it. Any ideas?
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Is it safe to have SQL Server auto-shrink turned on?
There are many SQL Server options that can be enabled for databases, and one of the most misunderstood ones is auto-shrink. Is it safe? If not, why not?
Paul Randal
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How to set up stats for HAProxy?
I can't figure out how to set up stats for HAProxy. This is my configuration: global log 127.0.0.1 local0 log 127.0.0.1 local1 notice daemon #debug user haproxy group haproxy maxconn 4096 stats socket /tmp/haproxy defaults log global mode tcp option…
Jan Deinhard
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Listing available smb shares on a network through the command line in linux
I was wondering if there is a way of listing all the smb servers on a local network (like looking at a network neighborhood in windows) via the command line in fedora.
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