Top "System-administration" questions

Use this tag for asking about programs you have written to perform system-administration tasks.

Map a network drive to be used by a service

Suppose some Windows service uses code that wants mapped network drives and no UNC paths. How can I make the …

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How do I extract the contents of an rpm?

I have an rpm and I want to treat it like a tarball. I want to extract the contents into …

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How do I get a list of locked users in an Oracle database?

I want to be able to list all of the users in a given database along with an icon that …

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What Process is using all of my disk IO

If I use "top" I can see what CPU is busy and what process is using all of my CPU. …

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How do you uninstall the package manager "pip", if installed from source?

I was unaware that pip could be installed via my operating system's package manager, so I compiled and installed pip …

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VB script - search for a file in directory

I am trying to write a VB script (having never attempted before) - I need it to search the folder'\…

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Postgresql 9.3 on Centos 7 with custom PGDATA

I am trying to set up Postgresql 9.3 server on Centos 7 (installation via yum) inside a custom directory, which in my …

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what is the proper way to test NFS performance

I'm given a project where the only objective is to monitor a network's NFS performance. I know there's a bunch …

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Add or update a configuration record in /etc/environment

My /etc/environment looks like this: cat /etc/environment PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/…

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Adding init.d service (chkconfig / autocomplete in shell)

I've made a startup script, (i.e. myserviced) and put it in /etc/init.d/ I ran chkconfig --add myserviced …

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