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How do you make it obvious you are on a production system?

A few of us at my company have root access on production servers. We are looking for a good way to make it exceedingly clear when we have ssh'd in. A few ideas we have had are: Bright red prompt Answer a riddle before getting a shell Type a random…
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How do I get apt-get to ignore some dependencies?

How do I make apt-get ignore some dependencies? For example, I wanted to install mailx so I can use it to send email from cron scripts/report-generating tools. However, installing mailx also installs exim4 and a whole bunch of dependencies (I…
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robocopy transfer file and not folder

I'm trying to use robocopy to transfer a single file from one location to another but robocopy seems to think I'm always specifying a folder. Here is an example: robocopy "c:\transfer_this.txt" "z:\transferred.txt" But I get this error…
Bill McKay
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How to list Apache enabled modules?

Is there a command that list all enabled Apache modules?
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How does IPv6 subnetting work and how does it differ from IPv4 subnetting?

This is a Canonical Question about IPv6 Subnetting. Related: How does IPv4 Subnetting Work? I know a lot about IPv4 Subnetting, and as I prepare to (deploy|work on) an IPv6 network I need to know how much of this knowledge is transferable and…
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Is there an equivalent of MySQL's SHOW CREATE TABLE in Postgres?

Is there an equivalent of MySQL's SHOW CREATE TABLE in Postgres? Is this possible? If not what is the next best solution? I need the statement because I use it to create the table on an remote server (over WCF).
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Certification authority root certificate expiry and renewal

In 2004, I set up a small certification authority using OpenSSL on Linux and the simple management scripts provided with OpenVPN. In accordance with the guides I found at the time, I set the validity period for the root CA certificate to 10 years.…
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Is there a way to view the members of an Active Directory group if you aren't a domain admin and can't log into to a domain controller?

Is there a way to view the members of an Active Directory group if you aren't a domain admin and can't log into to a domain controller?
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Rsync difference between --checksum and --ignore-times options

Can anyone clarify the differences between the --checksum and --ignore-times options of rsync? My understanding is as follows: --checksum If the file size and time match, it will do a checksum at both ends to see if the files are really…
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Clean way to write complex multi-line string to a variable

I need to write some complex xml to a variable inside a bash script. The xml needs to be readable inside the bash script as this is where the xml fragment will live, it's not being read from another file or source. So my question is this if I have a…
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FreeBSD performance tuning: Sysctl parameter, loader.conf, kernel

I wanted to share knowledge of tuning FreeBSD via sysctl.conf / loader.conf / KENCONF / etc. It was initially based on Igor Sysoev's (author of nginx) presentation about FreeBSD tuning up to 100,000-200,000 active connections. Newer versions of…
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How do I reattach to Ubuntu Server's 'do-release-upgrade' process?

I accidentally pressed Ctrl+C during Ubuntu Server's do-release-upgrade process. I'd dropped to a shell to compare a .conf file in /etc/. When I pressed Ctrl-C, it asked whether I wanted to try to reattach to the upgrade process, but it failed to do…
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What significance does the user/host at the end of an SSH public key file hold?

I can’t figure out why does an SSH public key file generated by ssh-keygen have a user and host at the end of it. Example: id_rsa.pub ssh-rsa ... rest of file ... /CA9gyE8HRhNMG6ZDwyhPBbDfX root@mydomain Notice the root@mydomain at the end of the…
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What does Apache's "Require all granted" really do?

I've just update my Apache server to Apache/2.4.6 which is running under Ubuntu 13.04. I used to have a vhost file that had the following: AllowOverride All But when I ran that I…
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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 (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 2003, 2008, 2013) ship with a…
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