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How can I sniff the traffic of remote machine with wireshark?

I can sniff the traffic of my local pc but I would like to know how to I sniff the traffic of a remote machine by wireshark? When in capture option I select remote interface and enter my remote ip show me error.code(10061). What should I do?
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How to VNC into an existing X session?

Would like to be able to connect to an existing X display, so can access my work environment and everything I left open from home. I vaguely remember something about using x11vnc in the past. But the package does not exists for Fedora 11, so I am…
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how to restart/clear memcache without restarting the whole web server?

/opt/eduserver/eduserver gives me options: Usage: /opt/eduserver/eduserver {start|stop|startphp|startwww|startooo|stopphp|stopwww|stopooo|restartphp|restartwww|restartooo|status|restart|reload|force-reload} where memcache is php module there is…
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What's the best fire suppression for a server room?

What is the state of the art in fire suppression for server rooms? What are the top priorities in choosing a good system?
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Cron: Only get errors in emails?

I finally set up a realistic backup schedule on my data through a shell script, which are handled by cron on tight intervals. Unfortunately, I keep getting empty emails each time the CRON has been executed and not only when things go wrong. Is it…
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What does the "IN" mean in a zone file?

Sometimes a record is listed as www IN A 192.168.1.1 and sometimes it is listed as www A 192.168.1.1. What is the purpose of the IN and when is it required/not required?
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How do I make cURL use keepalive from the command line?

I'm trying to verify that HTTP persistent connections are being used during communication with a Tomcat webserver I've got running. Currently, I can retrieve a resource on my server from a browser (e.g. Chrome) and verify using netstat that the…
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how to restrict access to directory and subdirs

I need to restrict access to any files or subdirs in direstory "testdir". My conf: ... location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|txt)$ { root /var/www/site; } location /testdir { deny all; return 404; } ... In my…
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how to run cron job every 3 months?

What would be the crontab entry look like for a job that runs on the first day of every third month?
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How to configure basic authentication in Apache httpd virtual hosts?

I'm trying to configure mercurial access using Apache http. It requires authentication. My /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mercurial looks like this: NameVirtualHost *:8080 UseCanonicalName Off ServerAdmin …
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How to delete Instances in Amazon EC2 ? Change Pair Key?

How to remove Instances ? I test some Instances and now I terminate it. So, I want to remove it. I can't find delete or remove action. I just found terminate. How to change the pair key ? I don't have pair key for old Instances and I want to…
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What is the difference between SQL Server standard and web edition?

Is there any technical difference between these 2 editions or is it just how they are licenced?
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Does Wi-Fi traffic from one client to another travel via the access point?

Consider a Wi-Fi network with one access point and two clients, operating in marginal conditions due to range, etc. Client 1 is communicating with Client 2. Obviously the Access Point (AP) must be in range of both (assuming no fancy mesh modes,…
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Use HTTP/2.0 between nginx reverse-proxy and backend webserver

I use nginx as a reverse-ssl-proxy in front of a backend webserver that is capable of doing HTTP/2.0. I noticed that nginx proxies the requests to the backend server via HTTP/1.1 rather than HTTP/2.0. Is it possible to tell nginx to use an…
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How to fix 'logjam' vulnerability in Apache (httpd)

Recently, a new vulnerability in Diffie-Hellman, informally referred to as 'logjam' has been published, for which this page has been put together suggesting how to counter the vulnerability: We have three recommendations for correctly deploying…