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what is the point of stripping a binary/elf program?

I'm just wondering if stripping a program file has more benefits than just saving disk space.
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What are the popular (free?) options for application deployment? [closed]

I manage a small school network with about 150 machines. I am looking for an easy way to deploy software to all the machines without having to visit each one. I've used Symantec Ghost to get the ...
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Adding an HTTP request header with Squid

I want to permit my users to login to Google apps only for my domain. I found a solution by adding the HTTP header X-GoogApps-Allowed-Domains as described in this Google help page. I use Squid, but ...
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start exe in a Remote Session with PsExec

I would like to start an application remotely. I am using the following PsExec command: PsExec \\computerOne -u Domain\User1 -p 123456 -x "C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe" I tried to use -i so that the ...
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install .app file on MacOS via script?

I have an .app executable generated for MacOSX. Is it any easy way to install this app into Applications so it can be used by end users, via script? (need to install on multiple computers and really ...
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Working around Gmail mailing-list "feature."

We're using Google Apps for our domain's e-mail via IMAP. Whenever mail is sent to a mailing list, copies of the original mail are not received in inboxes. According to Google, this is a "feature." ...
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Windows Server 2012: Add/Remove Programs? [closed]

In Windows Server (currently using 2012), is there an interface to uninstall 3rd party applications that have been previously installed by an installer (i.e., files as well as registry settings must ...
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Output directory tree as XML

HI all, Is there a linux command which will output the structure of a given directory as XML? if there is, that would be awesome. Thanks very much
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How to protect against against data access if USB drive gets lost?

Using any external USB drive under Windows XP, how to encrypt/decrypt files on the fly, but without too much slow-down from the overhead. Most of the obvious solutions like Truecrypt won't work ...
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Portable scripting language for a multi-server admin?

Please Note: Portable as in portableapps.com, not the traditional definition. Originally posted on stackoverflow.com, asking here at another user's suggestion. I'm a DBA and sysadmin, mostly for ...
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Add-AppxPackage : 0x80073CF6, ... could not be registered. Merge Failure : error 0x80070003 :

I have a PC running windows 10 enterprise th2 build 1511/10586 The PC is joined to a domain. The issue occurs in a Domain User Account with Standard User permissions. First - The photo app kept on ...
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Completely Copying Over Application Installs in Windows

I've got a Windows Server 2003 computer with a payroll application, and a new Server 2008 System that I'm migrating to. My question is regarding (I believe) all Windows: How can I track all files ...
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How SAN Storage or NAS devices are typically used?

Can these storage devices be accessed like normal hard drives or applications specifically target a device? The applications you guys use against these devices, do you have tell your application what ...
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How do I know which process is what program?

Task manager shows a list of processes running. How do I find out, what process is what program? Sure the list shows the name of the exe-file, but I want to know the name of the program. Also I would ...
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Which Unix book or pdf would advanced users like to keep with them?

I am looking for some books or online pdf or tutorials for advanced Linux system administration which they would always like to keep with them. I mean ones in which there are some advanced, ready to ...
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Where can I find the source for the unix app 'free'?

Free is a rather hard word to Google for, all my variations failed to bring up anything related to the unix app free (it's for viewing memory usage - free -m etc.). If anyone has a link to the source ...
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Change shortcut arguments via script

We have a program here that requires every user to have a shortcut on their desktop that points to an ini file. Each file is unique to the user. Recently, we've done a new install of the application ...
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Permerror when testing multiple SPF records for Google Apps and MailChimp

Our domain uses Google Apps for mail and Mailchimp for templated email campaigns. Mailchimp recommends adding an SPF record for their servers to decrease the likelihood of spam filter traps. I have ...
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Strategy to isolate multiple nginx ssl apps with single domain via suburi's?

Warning: so far I have only learnt how to use nginx to serve apps with their own domain and server block. But I think its time to dive a little deeper. To mitigate the need for multiple SSL ...
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Should ldap client use different credentials than end user to do end user authentication?

short form: Should I use some well-known uid to authenticate a ldap client, and then other means within that client to validate the user-entered uid and pw? long form: We have a commercial .net-based ...
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IIS6 host multiple websites under same sub-domain (or something similar)

I'm trying to figure out a structure for a hosted application that i'm working on. I've got a domain lets call it app.company.com (a sub-domain company.com of course) that is setup to redirect to my ...
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Recommended tools for mass file delete [closed]

We have a challenge in deleting circa X million files that meet a certain criteria - specifically must be over 90 days old and exclude certain file formats. To date, we've been using a multi-threaded ...
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How to find a path where an application was set up?

I'm unsure whether I should put this question in Serverfault or Stackoverflow. I'm developing a script (so 'press start->search' is not an option) and try to find out a way to find where an ...
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Replace single file on tomcat-deployed war

I'd like to know how to configure tomcat 6 in order to be able to replace a file from a war - for instance an image or a jsp - so I don't need to restart the server to keep it updated. I assume I'll ...
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Tools to manage large network of heterogeneous web applications? [closed]

I recently started a new job where I've been tasked with managing a global network of heterogenous web applications. There's very little documentation. My first order of business is to create an ...
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App pool gets stuck on reset and takes .net pages out

Several times after our app pool has been told to reset, it gets stuck, the .net pages go down and the following error appears in the application event log: Failed to execute request because the App-...
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wget application replacement

Is there any other application similar to wget? If yes can you post a link?
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Two applications listening on the same port

Wat happens if two applications try to listen to the same port?
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What commands are being sent to an exe?

I have an application that calls a console based application when I open a file. I would like to somehow "spy" on this console application so that when it gets called I would like to see what command ...
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Tomcat is web server or application server?

please let me know !!
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Free (or OS) cloud backup program [closed]

I am looking for program which would allow me to backup data from Windows web server 2008 to cloud storage (Amazon, Rackspace and so on) - sites and mssql express backup files and automatically ...
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How can I see which permissions are necessary during a workstation app install?

Is it possible to see which permissions an application installer needs while it is running? I'm thinking sort of like a debugger or monitor to see what windows is checking for. The situation is that ...
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Method of deploying a VB6 app to a Windows server 2012 RDS server

My environment currently has a Windows 2003 server running terminal services. That server has the visual studio 6 IDE installed. It also is responsible for running a very old ( and poorly built ) VB6 ...
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Pre-Configured installation of applications on domain computers

I have an application I would like to be installed for all computes that are joined to the domain. The thing about that is I would like to have the application pre-configured for all users. I have ...
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How to get an application's GUID

How can I get an application's GUID from an MSI file without installing it and searching for it in the registry? Is the GUID located in the MSI's properties? Or, can I retrieve it using Orca?
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How can I stop a Java jar file application that was started with this command

In order to run a game server (minecraft) I start it by running this command in CentOS: java -Xms512M -Xmx1G -jar minecraft_server.jar But I have no idea how to stop this file from running. I assume ...
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Updating Applications in a Corporate Environment

I am very new to this subject and was hoping someone could shed some light on it. I am working on creating a corporate network that will obviously have multiple servers and multiple workstations. Let'...
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Kill all program.exe instances open on network share from Windows

How do I kill all program.exe instances that are currently open through a Windows network share? I know how to list the open files net files | Findstr "program.exe" but how then how do I kill it? In ...
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1&1 hosting + azure cname + google apps mx

I have a problem while hosting my website on azure : I need to have an url mydomain.com, when deploying in azure it gives the url mydomain.cloudapp.net, so I do a cname record from mydomain.com to map ...
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Is it possible to get installed Microsoft software and serial number?

I want to have a list of all installed Microsoft software on a machine. I think this will do the job but the problem is that I need to have Serial numbers of the installed Microsoft applications. Is ...
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My Ruby on Rails application only works if the address contains the port

I have a Ruby on Rails application that works ok on my notebook ( http://localhost:3000/ ) I uploaded it on my hosting server, created with CPanel X an application, the URL is http://example.com:...
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Multiple servers with one configuration file

I have multiple applications running on different servers but they all require the same configuration file (which has sensitive information on it). Currently, I just load the config file on all my ...
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Nginx conf.d files via puppet

I'm trying to determine where to draw the line between what goes in puppet and what is part of an 'application'. One place I'm a bit perplexed is nginx conf.d files. In apache, I'd have these files ...
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Simple proxy server for development

For some development purposes I need to use a proxy server with authentication to test applications. I use Squid but sometimes I just need a simple configurable proxy where I need to provide hostname/...
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File-sync server software

We are currently using Dropbox in the company and running out of space lately. I'm wondering if there any similar software that we could use on our own server? I've looked at pogoplug, but I'd like ...
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Best monitoring system for less technical people and application-level monitoring?

I need to set up a monitoring and alerting system for one of our business teams-- they're smart people, but not engineers or sysadmins. I basically need to do the same thing that happens for system ...
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Creating an app pool a month to limit the scope of issues

I have about 360 sites running on a single app pool. Now I know we have a coding issue with one of those sites, were we have accidentally coded a memory leak. So what happens is the site runs, the ...
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How to forcibly disconnect a application listening on a port

I have an app that doesn't properly stop listening on a port. How do I force it to stop so I can open the application again/use that port again?
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Running gui based desktop software in a headless VM

I am dealing with some software that "wants" to be run from a system that has a desktop (call it the primary package). This software invokes other packages that also run as user level applications on ...
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Oracle: Can Weblogic 11G run PL/SQL code like App Server 10G?

This is probably a silly question, but I'm not an oracle admin so I'm not sure. Our client currently runs a website written in PL/SQL and HTML on a Oracle 10G system. As everything is moving in the ...
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