Questions tagged [support]

Question 1

While I turned down a similar request on Super User, our tooling and circumstances are very different - and in discussions with a Server Fault moderator, the prospect of having additional automatic ...

Question 2

Serverfault is getting hit badly by spam - and one of the available mechanisms is to increase the flags users have available. I'm sure we can light the beacons and get help, but with one spammer ...

Question 3

(I don't have tag edit privilege yet) In the "tags" context when hovering over a tag, there is a link like "improve this tag" that allows me to edit the "tag wiki". ...

Question 4

I have a question about my Server Fault post: Server not finding storage device driver. Can't see hard drives and unable to start Windows Server 2019 I posted this question about a month ago here or ...

Question 5

I posted a question about Windows Server 2012 R2 and how Windows Server chooses the protocol for the client hello packet However, the question was closed soon after due to being off-topic. I have ...

Question 6

I'm noticing that more and more questions related to some home lab environment are appearing. As I understand the rules, this is not on topic. And for fun fact, it appears that no one has asked this ...

Question 7

I read the FAQ about deletions, which suggests going to Meta for undeleting a question. Last year, I asked a question about migrating AWS elastic beanstalk environments. It never received an answer or ...

Question 8

I have a question about my Server Fault post: Wordpress via 3 PHP versions Is here a place I'm able to ask questions about servers' software? I thought the questions about installing Wordpress and ...

Question 9

There seems to be several issues with some Stack Exchange sites. There is very low traffic in the sites, and question I ask are often deterred. For one example, take a look at the https://math....

Question 10

I was looking at this question which is historic but massively upvoted, and I don't understand why it's off topic. Does orientation affect hard drive lifespan? Mounting hard drives would seem to be ...

Question 11

It seems that https://serverfault.com/search?q=loan+number My first page on ServerFault looks like gets a lot of hits for the same spam type, and I'm already hitting the flag limits what could be ...

Question 12

I have question I asked on [server fault <-mistake on my part, long day] StackOverflow, it was originally locked by mods asking for debugging details. I thought I had explained the issue fairly ...

Question 13

On reflection I feel that I should have posted the following three questions of mine on U&L rather than SF. Can they please be migrated? How to block a specific GID via PAM? Can authconfig/...

Question 14

I can't ask in serverfault, I read the docs about how to question. How can I unlock asking question?

Question 15

I have a question about my Server Fault post: "Welcome to Intellek" when trying to install Windows LTSC 2021 in Qemu Why was my question closed? The close message does not provide enough ...

Question 16

I have a question about my Server Fault post: RDP Client showing different screen (related to SConfig) on VM Startup I have given all the information such as: Inputs Outputs Error details Valid ...

Question 17

I have a question about my Server Fault post: Client-side UAC seems to be enough to permit code to be "Run As Administrator" on Windows Server I'm not clear why this question was closed. ...

Question 18

There is an existing tag [freenas]. This refers to "FreeNAS", a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) software product which has been around for many years. Over the course of 2019-2021, the ...

Question 19

How should dead links in questions and answers be handled when found - should they be marked as such, removed, or similar? For example, in this answer, the links to pages on the GitHub site now return ...

Question 20

Some of my questions have been deleted automatically (roomba), but I put some effort into them that I want to preserve elsewhere. So, how can I access my own deleted questions?

Question 21

https://serverfault.com/questions/841780/fragmentation-leads-to-excessive-vhdx-backup-size Took me nearly 2 years to figure it out by myself, way too long for SF. Since it's a wtf-worthy curiosity and ...

Question 22

I'd like to know why I can't post on serverfault. I have checked my question history and they all have positive karma. When will the ban on server fault end? Why was I ban for such a long time (years)...

Question 23

I have an idea for a new tag. I think adding this tag would improve Server Fault. How do I add this tag? I am not finding documentation of how to do this. Topics I would like to know about creating a ...

Question 24

I had a novice account here, 4 questions asked (more answers): https://serverfault.com/users/208540/t-todua?tab=questions and out of 4, only 1 was marked as duplicate and 1 closed. However, my ...

Question 25

Somebody is going through my answers and downvoting them (in the last hour or so). Some of them are old but still work. And this one for example had been marked as the accepted answer by the OP. Is ...

Question 26

I have a issue with high system cpu usage with qemu but because i use a panel (virtualizor) that (probably?) doesn't fit on sf. I mainly just dont want to get downvoted into oblivion because "it ...

Question 27

I have positive reputation in Server Fault, I also don't have any negative votes on my questions, yet all of a sudden today I see that I am banned from asking questions and I am not allowed to ask any ...

Question 28

I feel like my question is locked by a moderator without cause (anymore). What's the equivalent of Nagios time periods in Prometheus? Can someone step in here?

Question 29

I don't want to keep adding tags to the ignored list. Is there a way to hide everything in my frontpage and only whitelist certain tags?

Question 30

Can this question be moved from Superuser? Or is there a way I can use it? https://superuser.com/questions/1491066/errors-2502-2503-when-installing-msis?noredirect=1#comment2249939_1491066

Question 31

The origin https://serverfault.daytorrents.com is coming up in Google searches. This site appears to be masquerading as serverfault.com, and is very convincing. It has a valid HTTPS certificate and ...

Question 32

I've already made an appointment with my psychiatrist. What else can I do now that editing is no longer possible?

Question 33

Can we have the bounty removed from this question so that we can close it please? The question is the epitome of a bad question that is unanswerable and is attracting some truly bad answers ;) Only ...

Question 34

Do the request lines of HTTP messages now all or mostly use full URLs or path components of URLs? is quickly closed, because: This question appears to be off-topic for this site. While what’s on- ...

Question 35

The first is irrepairable, it just should not have been asked here i agree, the second i have correct. Ive read about hidden deleted questions, where are they ? Is this site too harsh ?

Question 36

I think Ive corrected the problems and waited long enough, but with no feedback or replies from the initial mod its pretty frustrating and feels like he was just taking his angst out on me. This is ...

Question 37

A while ago I viewed a question in SF that was relevant to my interests, but I didn't mark it as favorite nor commented on it nor answered it. So I was trying to find a way to check the questions I've ...

Question 38

For the last weeks I sometimes see posts with wrong data at SF. recent: How to connect to a linux machine that changes IP regularly? Is that known?

Question 39

Why does the code formatting not work in this edit? I tried to fix the quotes from files in the question, but somehow the 4-space prefix is ignored.

Question 40

Some users (including myself) have a shaded red box around their usercard. But this only happens for certain questions/answers. For instance: Myself: red box: How to identify ancient KornShell ...

Question 41

I am pretty sure I asked a question 'few' days ago on SF and also got one down vote. So I searched a bit and had a glance on: https://serverfault.com/help/roomba I really cannot remember anymore if ...

Question 42

This is my profile on server fault: https://serverfault.com/users/178670/realtebo?tab=questions&sort=activity I am not here to ask to remove by block. I ask you to explain what make me fall into ...

Question 43

I believe my question was mistakenly closed and moved to SuperUser. The FAQ states that questions about managing the hardware or software of servers, workstations, storage or networks tools used for ...

Question 44

Can someone help by creating tag named microsoft-dynamics-crm similar to microsoft-dynamics-gp as they are different products? Right now all the questions are tagged into gp product tag itself as ...

Question 45

For some reason this answer https://serverfault.com/a/671363/1435 keeps getting editing by spammers, can we just lock the question for good?

Question 46

These are my questions & answer at Server Fault: which is a score of 0.4 - at least positive. I receive the warning when i want to ask a question: Wait! Some of your past questions have not been ...

Question 47

I have a question about my Server Fault post: finding cause for kernel-power error 41 (scenario 3) Generally, how can I get notified when someone answers my question? I don't want to keep checking ...

Question 48

My flagging has been refused for that post. Does posting just your configuration, without anything explaining the setup, is considered so ? Or should it be flagged as should be closed instead ? ...

Question 49

I have a question about my Server Fault post: What file do I need to change so Apache won't say what Operating System I am using? Several users had marked it as an exact duplicate, so I tried to ...

Question 50

I found this question about access to domain controller, which I think is very low quality (VLQ) and therefore should be deleted, since the OP answered it self with "I made a mistake". So I thought ...