You may get a device is busy error when you try to unmount a partition in Linux using the umount command:
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Let’s say you want to be notified every time someone connects to your Linux hosts via SSH. This article shows how to configure the Zabbix trigger to notify you when a user logs in to a Linux host using SSH.
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VMware Workstation and VMware Player do not have a built-in option to automatically start virtual machines when Windows boots up or when a user logs in. If you want the VM to start automatically, you must create an automated task in the Scheduler.
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In this article, we’ll look at how to automatically connect to an OpenVPN server when a user logs into Windows using a startup shortcut or using a Windows Service.
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You can use the built-in network recycle bin to automatically save all files deleted by a user on the Samba file server on Linux. For this, the vfs_recycle (Virtual File System) module is used.
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You can send Zabbix alerts as notifications to the Telegram messenger. Starting with version 5, Zabbix has built-in support for sending notifications to Telegram using the API and webhook.
On Linux, you can use the cups-pdf package to implement a virtual PDF printer. What is a PDF printer? This is a virtual device that is added to the system as a regular printer and when a document is sent for printing, it generates a PDF file from it.
In this article, we will look at several ways to find out the version and edition of the installed Microsoft SQL Server instance. For example, you are a DBA and you have been given the task of scheduling an upgrade on one of the SQL Server hosts. The first thought that comes to your mind is “How do I find out what version and edition of SQL Server is being used on a particular server?”.
On Linux, a history of recent console commands is stored in the .bash_history file. You can view the contents of this file with any text editor or with the command:
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In this article, we will look at how to install a Zabbix Agent on Linux, connect it to a Zabbix server, and configure data encryption using PSK.