The systemd journal is the primary logging tool in modern Linux distros. The journald daemon intercepts all system messages via /dev/syslog, the /run/systemd/journal/stdout socket, and a few other paths. The journalctl tool is used to view systemd logs.
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When you click the Send button in Outlook, your e-mail is immediately sent to the mail server and then to the recipient. If you want to send an email automatically after a specified time, you can schedule it in Outlook to be sent at a specific time or set a delayed send.
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The maximum number of simultaneous remote RDP sessions is two for all versions of Windows Server OS (+ one console session that can be accessed by connecting with the mstsc /admin command). These Remote Desktop sessions can be used for administrative purposes. They do not require the installation of an RDS Licensing Server or the purchase of RDS CALs.
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The default script execution policy settings in Windows 10 and 11 prevent unsigned PowerShell scripts from running. This means that if you try to manually run a PS1 script file or a PSM1 module from the powershell.exe (or pwsh.exe) console, you get an error:
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When you try to install or uninstall a program in Windows, an error may occur:
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In Linux, you may sometimes find that after deleting a file from a disk, no free space is reclaimed. This is because when a particular file is being used by a running process, the file descriptor is not freed until the process releases it.
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This article is about the backup and recovery of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in the Active Directory domain environment. If the GPO files in SYSVOL are modified, corrupted, or deleted, GPO backups allow you to revert to a previous version of the policy.
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In order to safely run third-party services in Windows, you can use a user account that doesn’t have local administrator permissions. To do this, you must change the local security policy settings to allow the user to log on as a service.
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The built-in WindowsAdministrator account has unlimited rights on the computer and, if compromised, gives the attacker complete control over the system. In this article, we will look at some basic techniques that can help secure Windows’s built-in Administrator account.
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The ntpdate command is a simple client for synchronizing the local system clock with a remote NTP server. It allows you to verify that your host has the correct time and, if necessary, synchronize the time with the NTP source. Although the ntpdate tool is deprecated, it is often used in simple cases where it is necessary to check the accuracy of the time on a Linux host or to manually synchronize the time once.
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