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Questions tagged [administration]

Refers to a wide range of system administration tasks. Please consider using more specific tags.

What to tag?

You should probably use one of the more specific administration tags, or the tag for your specific system instead, such as:

  • database-administration
  • windows-administration
  • jboss6.x

Meaning

performing operational activities on a system. these operations may require elevated permissions, special knowledge, or a limited user base.

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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?
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How SID is different from Service name in Oracle tnsnames.ora

Why do I need two of them? When I have to use one or another?
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Access is denied when attaching a database

I am using SQL Server 2008 developer edition. I was trying to attach the AdventureWorks2008 database. When I tried to attach, I received an "access is denied" error. According to the event log, it came from the O/S: Open failed: Could not open…
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How to transfer Google Cloud project ownership?

I would like to transfer ownership of Google Cloud project completely. By completely I mean rather than sharing ownership between multiple users, removing my account from project. Is there any way to do it?
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Command line tool to delete folder with a specified name recursively in Windows?

I want to delete every "_svn" in every folder and subfolder... For example c:\ proyect1 _svn images _svn banner _svn buttons _svn Then I run something like rm-recurse c:\proyect1 _svn And I should get: c:\ …
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MongoDB won't start after server crash

My Ubuntu computer had crashed, and when I restarted it MongoDB wasn't working. I tried the following commands, and got the following output: $ mongo Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:91 exception: connect…
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What do you do if the file in TFS is locked by someone else?

Someone left the organisation but before leaving, he locked all the files for an unknown reason. How do you unlock them all so that the other developers can work?
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SSL Multilevel Subdomain Wildcard

I bought a wildcard certificate for *.example.com. Now, I have to secure *.subdomain.example.com. Is it possible to create a sub-certificate for my wildcard-certificate? If it is, how I can do this?
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Can I just kill mongod to stop mongo?

I am very new at Mongo. I am running mongod as described here in Mac OS X. I am running two mongod processes from the command line. If I need to stop the mongod processes I just execute kill . Is it the recommended way to stop mongod?
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Running IIS Express with admin privileges

This has been asked before but was closed as "Not a real question" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7450813/how-to-run-a-site-with-administrative-privileges-in-iis-express-7-5 However I think it is a genuine question as I also need to do this,…
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What is the best way to see what files are locked in Subversion?

I finally got my group to switch from SourceSafe to Subversion. Unfortunately, my manager still wants to use exclusive locks on every single file. So I set the svn:needs-lock property on every file and created a pre-commit hook to make sure the…
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CouchDB backups and cloning the database

We're looking at CouchdDB for a CMS-ish application. What are some common patterns, best practices and workflow advice surrounding backing up our production database? I'm particularly interested in the process of cloning the database for use in…
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Migrating R libraries

I'd like to move several R libraries (*) from one drive to another, on Linux, and would like to know whether a simple move is feasible and safe or if I should uninstall and reinstall the packages. I realize that the locations of libraries are…
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What's the difference between the Oracle SYS and SYSTEM accounts?

What are the differences between the Oracle SYS and SYSTEM built-in accounts?
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Administration Area in Asp.Net MVC

My question may be obvious but I'd like to build a well-designed web application. As for any administration area, the admin should be able to list/create/delete/modify users, articles, posts, etc... I'd like to know what is the best way to design…
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