Top "Sysadmin" questions

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How to use SSH to run a local shell script on a remote machine?

I have to run a local shell script (windows/Linux) on a remote machine. I have SSH configured on both …

shell ssh sysadmin remote-execution
How can I delete a service in Windows?

I have a couple old services that I want to completely uninstall. How can I do this?

windows-services sysadmin administration
Tracking CPU and Memory usage per process

I suspect that one of my applications eats more CPU cycles than I want it to. The problem is - …

windows sysadmin process-management
How to find out what group a given user has?

In Unix/Linux, how do you find out what group a given user is in via command line?

linux unix command-line sysadmin
Best practice to run Linux service as a different user

Services default to starting as root at boot time on my RHEL box. If I recall correctly, the same is …

linux sysadmin rhel init.d
Crontab Day of the Week syntax

In crontab does the Day of the Week field run from 0 - 6 or 1 -7? I am seeing conflicting information on …

linux cron crontab sysadmin
Opening a remote machine's Windows C drive

I'm trying to locally mount a machine's C drive that is on my LAN. I need to able to browse …

windows windows-xp sysadmin
Calling JMX MBean method from a shell script

Are there any libraries that would allow me to call a JMX MBean method from a shell script. We expose …

java sysadmin jmx
Comprehensive methods of viewing memory usage on Solaris

On Linux, the "top" command shows a detailed but high level overview of your memory usage, showing: Total Memory, Used …

operating-system solaris sysadmin
Locate the nginx.conf file my nginx is actually using

Working on a client's server where there are two different versions of nginx installed. I think one of them was …

macos nginx sysadmin