R1Soft backup may fail in some circumstances, even though no change occurred, the agent and kernel hcp module properly installed with message that the replication driver was not detected as shown below : 8/26/20 5:14:58 PM Error Protected Machine An exception occurred during the request. The replication driver was not detected (detail: An error occurred… Read More »
If you are accessing a computer using Remote Desktop (RDP) and try ripping an optical media (DVD, BD) using MakeMKV (or any other similar software for that matter), it will fail to access the disk. With MakeMKV, the error message will be as followed : The program can’t find any usable optical drive. This error… Read More »
Attempting to use the SAR (sadc) command to lookup the historical system resources consumption metrics and got the following message? Cannot open /var/log/sysstat/sa27: No such file or directory Please check if data collecting is enabled Most likely data collecting is disabled (it is the default on several systems). You need to enable data collecting and… Read More »
If you are experiencing issues with your local mail aliases, make sure there is no syntax error in /etc/aliases file and have a look at the mail log file : /var/log/mail.log You most likely will encounter a message like this one : postfix/local[15083]: warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases In that case,… Read More »
If you changed the hostname/FQDN of a Linux server, you may end up with some issues, especially with mailing if some areas were forgotten with that change. Here is a quick procedure involving all the steps you should be looking for. (The following example is based on a Debian Linux system running Postfix MTA.) 1.… Read More »
This symptom occurred all of a sudden with Nmap 7.80 and Windows 10 version 1909 (OS build 18363.836), where nmap tries to query using interface “eth0” : Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-06-30 11:28 Eastern Daylight Time dnet: Failed to open device eth0 QUITTING! It seems that latest Windows updates is involved in… Read More »
Having the following login error attempting to establish a RDP session to a Windows server or workstation? The requested session access is denied. The following behavior apply to your case: The user you are using is a part of the Remote Desktop Users group (or allowed to the RDP users) The user is a non-administrator… Read More »
Beside the iCloud service, iTunes is the way to go when you need to backup your Apple mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad. If you want to secure the backups taken by iTunes on your computer file system, this article will show you where it is stored on your macOS computer file system. Before… Read More »
If you have an Intel card and the necessary “Advanced Network Services (ANS)”, that is bundled with the Intel driver, you have the capability to manage VLans for your network interface with PowerShell. 1. Use the “ipconfig” command to find out the name of your adapter. Example : PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet… Read More »
Experiencing the following behavior with RHEL/CentOS 7.2 and NFS? NFS folder mount hang and the following output can be observed in logs and dmesg : NFS: state manager: lease expired failed on NFSv4 server 0.0.0.0 with error 10082 NFS: nfs4_discover_server_trunking unhandled error -512. Exiting with error EIO nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache… Read More »