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Difference between SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateChainFile?

Normally with a virtual host an ssl is setup with the following directives: Listen 443 SSLCertificateFile /home/web/certs/domain1.public.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/web/certs/domain1.private.key SSLCertificateChainFile…
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How to move files between two S3 buckets with minimum cost?

I have millions of files in a Amazon S3 bucket and I'd like to move these files to other buckets and folders with minimum cost or no cost if possible. All buckets are in the same zone. How could I do it?
Daniel Cukier
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Tools a Windows administrator cannot live without

As a Windows administrator, what tools do you feel you cannot live without?
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Is it possible to run sshd as a normal user?

I'm aiming to start up a second sshd instance on a non-privileged port (e.g. 2222) with my own configuration file. Obviously, the sshd process can't setuid so logging in as users other than the one who is running the sshd daemon is clearly…
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SSH connection lost during server upgrade - How to reconnect to process?

So, I was performing an Ubuntu Server upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10. I forgot about it in the background, and my SSH client timed out and disconnected (putty on Windows, go figure). The last thing on my terminal was a question about keeping an old…
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SSL Error - unable to read server certificate from file

I've been setting up SSL for my domain today, and have struck another issue - I was hoping someone could shed some light on.. I keep receiving the following error messages: [error] Init: Unable to read server certificate from file…
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How to check progress of DBCC SHRINKFILE?

Is there a way to find out the progress of DBCC SHRINKFILE statement? Here is how I was running it dbcc shrinkfile('main_data', 250000) I am running above statement on both SQL Server 2005 and 2008. [UPDATE] Here is the query I ran to check the…
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How do I find out the W3SVC number of a given IIS7.5 website?

I have a server running multiple websites under IIS7.5. I want to view the log files for one website in particular. In C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles I see a number of folders, W3SVC1 through 6. How do I find out which website corresponds to which…
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How do I make Apache Web Server listen on two different ports?

I'd like an Apache Web Server I have installed at home to listen on port 80 and port 8080. I've added Listen 8080 to httpd.conf and restarted the Apache services but the server doesn't seem to be listening on 8080. Punching in http://localhost:8080…
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Ubuntu ufw: set a rule on a per interface basis

I want to create a rule that allows anyone on eth1 to access port 80. Can UFW do this or should I go back to using Shorewall? To clarify: this is a capabilties question, can ufw handle interfaces as a target?
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Bind to ports less than 1024 without root access

I would like to run applications I'm working on that binds to port numbers less than 1000 without requiring root access. I'm using Linux Mint and have root access to set it up. I would ideally like to be able to do it over SSH. Also happy hear if…
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How can I filter https when monitoring traffic with Wireshark?

I want to observe the HTTPs protocol. How can I use a Wireshark filter to do that?
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Why would a server not send a SYN/ACK packet in response to a SYN packet

Lately, we've become aware of a TCP connection issue that is mostly limited to mac and Linux users who browse our websites. From the user perspective, it presents itself as a really long connection time to our websites (>11 seconds). We've managed…
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Why should I use Amazon Route 53 over my registrar's DNS servers?

I am building a site that I anticipate will have high usage. Currently, my registrar (GoDaddy) is handling DNS. However, Amazon's Route 53 looks interesting. They promise high speed and offer globally distributed DNS servers and a programmable…
Abtin Forouzandeh
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What is "freeable memory"?

Amazon RDS has a metric for 'freeable memory'. It appears to go up & down in a sawtooth pattern. This leads me to believe that it's memory that is being used by MySQL for caching and that when the cache expires, more freeable memory appears. Any…
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