Questions tagged [documentation]

Question 1

As the title states - now the details: The link at https://documentation.help/7-Zip/register.htm to register 7-Zip You can find all information about registering at: http://www.7-zip.org/register....

Question 2

When I browse F5, "nginx" is consistently majuscule as "NGINX": When browsing nginx.org, both "NGINX" and "nginx" are used: When is it appropriate to use ...

Question 3

https://docs.docker.com/reference/dockerfile/#volume needs work. "The VOLUME instruction creates a mount point with the specified name and marks it as holding externally mounted volumes from ...

Question 4

I stumbled across this behavior and was wondering if it is intended and/or documented, because I could not find anything. The manpage of my version of ssh states for ssh_config / Include: Include ...

Question 5

I'm trying to understand the $request_uri variable in nginx configuration. The documentation says full original request URI (with arguments) To me that seems to be totally unambiguous - it should be ...

Question 6

Ansible: How to log performed changes on the Remote Server? Ansible can show and log the performed changes (including file diffs) locally on the Control Node, e.g. TASK [example_task : file mode] *****...

Question 7

The version of 389-DS shipped with SLES15 SP3 is 1.4.4.19, and I wonder where the corresponding documentation can be found: 389 Directory Server refers to Product Documentation for Red Hat Directory ...

Question 8

Anyone know where can I find some up-to-date documentation for the cgroupv1 memory resource controller? The docs.kernel.org page about the cgroupv1 memory resource controller contains the note at the ...

Question 9

Assume you have a third party program running on a server. To configure it, you log in, apply some CLI commands and leave again. Every time you do this, you also copy and paste the commands to some ...

Question 10

the deprecation warning discouraging the use of ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES includes a reasoning: ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES option, moved to a per plugin approach that is more flexible. , use ...

Question 11

I compiled Haproxy LTS 2.2 version from source with this command: make TARGET=linux-glibc USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1 USE_CRYPT_H=1 USE_LIBCRYPT=1 There was no error during compiling. This is ...

Question 12

I am having problems understanding FreeBSD's documentation on "Configuring System Logging": https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-syslog.html The documentation: "By default, syslogd is ...

Question 13

I do not have any need for Authentication/authorization modules on apache2.4, so I proceed to comment out all the Auth modules and all the Require directives. The server goes up fine, but i get a 500 ...

Question 14

Small company. We have an fairly robust application we built that runs on AWS that serves many clients. Our Sys Admin / Lead Developer has left the company and took with him knowledge we didn't all ...

Question 15

I have a small set of assets including: Virtual machine host Multiple virtual machines Shared folders AWS services Backup software If I were to get "hit by a bus" the people left behind that would ...

Question 16

I'm an intern and I had the opportunity to design and configure an "application server" for my company. It has a variety of important scripts and as part of my process to put it into production I want ...

Question 17

Does anyone know where I can find documentation for Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0? It reached its end of life on 2016-10-11, and MSDN no longer contains documentation for this product. The Microsoft ...

Question 18

I've "inherited" the network in my office recently, and I'd like to put black on white about all the networking gear, and I want to do it "the right way". We have managed switches, VLANs, LAGs, ...

Question 19

I am reviewing the security of a (quite large) network. There are a some thousands switches, several hundred routers, several hundred access points, tenths of FW, IPS, and so on. PCs and servers are ...

Question 20

The organization I work for is a growing one and with that growth comes maturity and with that maturity comes a need to better document. Today it's a hodge-podge of directories, wikis, OneNotes, and ...

Question 21

I'm using Jenkins to build and deploy HTML documentation to a local Apache web server for our devs to use. When I run the commands in the terminal, everything installs properly (Proving the server is ...

Question 22

I would like to know what does the numIdle attribute refers to. On the tomcat FAQ there the attributes numActive and numIdle are reffered on the JNDI DataSource section. I have been able to identify ...

Question 23

I've been tasked with looking if a combination of NoSQL (in this case possibly Neo4J) and SQL-Server is a possible solution for a performance problem we've been having. Part of my technical analysis ...

Question 24

I manage 500+ sites and need a better visual way of documenting and walking people through a given datacenter. I'm considering taking several (hundred) pictures and stitching them together so that I ...

Question 25

I saw partial information, old information, but nothing as good as the actual sample files with brief comments that I have locally. I need to understand the exact relationship between odbc.ini and ...

Question 26

I need to document my web site. It is a music web site on Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP on AWS. I need to document everything: architecture (5 servers), database (100+ tables), php classes, programming ...

Question 27

Is there anywhere that shows which security updates are included in the patch levels for centos yum repository package version of httpd?

Question 28

I have few, relatively small, servers running Linux distros. Sometimes I need to re-install 1 or 2 of the "development" servers from scratch. Often I just forget to setup little things, eg. forwarding ...

Question 29

I keep seeing HAProxy configuration examples with a two-argument syntax. Indeed, the default configuration file supplied with 1.4.18 contains this: listen appli1-rewrite 0.0.0.0:10001 cookie ...

Question 30

TL:DR? Fine...here: Short of hiring or outsourcing to a Tech Writer, are there basic standards/conventions/practices that Technical Writers employ in their trade that can be learned from in order to ...

Question 31

I've been working for some time at a super lean IIS 7.5 configuration for a static file serving purposes web site. To achieve this, I've simply stripped the designated web site for all dynamic modules,...

Question 32

I've been searching through the httpd docs and google, and I simply cannot find ANYWHERE that documents the complete list of what may go inside of the Directory directive. Here's the main ...

Question 33

Here's what a chef cookbook looks like: . ├── attributes │ ├── default.rb │ └── bla.rb ├── files │ ├── default │ │ └── some_file.txt │ └── windows │ └── some_file.txt ├── libraries │...

Question 34

Looks like it is not even documented on the samba website itself, or did I miss it?

Question 35

I'm currently generating documentation on one machine, and publishing it to a web server using the following commands in a script: net use "\\someShare" PASSWORD /user:username del /S /Q "\\someShare"...

Question 36

We have a moderately complex solution for which we need to construct a production environment. There are around a dozen components (and here I'm using a definition of "component" which means "can ...

Question 37

We have have reasonably good documentation for our environment (in AsciiDoc format) which recently allowed another person to recreate the entire setup from scratch in less than 30 minutes. However, I ...

Question 38

It's very important to have decent and good documentation. The problem is that often we might have good documenting techniques, but we forget some crucial points. It can be extremely painful to find ...

Question 39

Ubuntu's CloudInit package is very useful; however, the only documentation I've found on all of the available options is in their examples: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/...

Question 40

Just a few questions that I just can't find anywhere about migrating to XtraDB. My group has been using MyISAM dbs for production and was wondering how hard is it to migrate to Percona's XtraDB and ...

Question 41

Based on the the Securing Debian article on debian.org, I added the following to /etc/pam.d/other. auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_unix_auth.so auth required ...

Question 42

I work for a shop with 300+ physcial servers and about the same number of VM guests. We use Puppet heavily and are mostly Centos5.5 and about 20% Centos6.2. We use Google docs for storing various ...

Question 43

I am working on a project where I would like to perform host documentation for a variety of items. Part of these items would be sourced from Powershell and the rest would be sourced from NMAP. For ...

Question 44

I have just finished a large re-organization and update of our institutions web server(s). This server hosts 3 virtual hosts, 3-4 blogs, 2 wikis, some legacy static HTML pages, and many hosted ...

Question 45

I had to document the servers i use and i don't know what to use to hold the data. Could you sugest the best way to keep the server documentation? Do i create a data base that holds the harware and ...

Question 46

Some in our infrastructure group want to upgrade to start taking advantage of the new features in RHEL 6. In the past, I have relied on the NSA Guide (www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731....

Question 47

This could be a very naive question for many of you, but I have problem in answering this one, your help will be deeply appreciated. I need to document the server on which I work, and it should ...

Question 48

As part of the handover of our linux application server automated builds I would like to produce a high level "handover document" which captures the key functions and config items. (This is more of a ...

Question 49

I need to document which physical drives each server depends on ( SAN, on an external array, iSCSI etc). Since this potentially a many-many relationship, with dependencies, finding a usable solution ...

Question 50

I recently installed OpenIndiana because of an interest in ZFS. I like the feature-list of ZFS, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how to configure it. All of the documentation I ...