Posts made by Pete.S

This is how you create tasks from the xml files with powershell.

https://www.petri.com/import-scheduled-tasks-PowerShell

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

How many tasks are we talking about?

I would probably export them, delete and import just to be certain.

And make sure task history is enabled.

Looks like at least 4 tasks are having this issue (there may be some more, I need to do another pass through the scheduled tasks). I'm going to try an export/delete/import and see what happens...

Don't import the old task. Create it new. Just set the same options, but new start date.

Makes no sense. They will be exactly the same regardless. If you want another start date (which makes no difference) just change it in the xml.

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh

Has this only happened once?

Nope. It's been happening for at least a week or so. I've finally pulled a majority of my hair out and made a post here.

There is always the possibility that it is the task scheduling service that fails or one of it's dependencies.

You could create a new task that triggers a simple script that just writes the current time in a log file.
If the task service fails to run you would know and also be able to see when.

There are some settings under the service as well what the service should do if it fails. Might want to check those as well.

If the Task Scheduler service was failing, wouldn't that be written to the Event Log? If so, it's not.

Well, we are kind of assuming that we are dealing with something that has changed or is not the way it should. Either a software bug, a change made by windows updates, insufficient privileges or something of that nature.

How many tasks are we talking about?

I would probably export them, delete and import just to be certain.

And make sure task history is enabled.

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh

Has this only happened once?

Nope. It's been happening for at least a week or so. I've finally pulled a majority of my hair out and made a post here.

There is always the possibility that it is the task scheduling service that fails or one of it's dependencies.

You could create a new task that triggers a simple script that just writes the current time in a log file.
If the task service fails to run you would know and also be able to see when.

There are some settings under the service as well what the service should do if it fails. Might want to check those as well.

@anthonyh

Has this only happened once?

What does the task history look like?

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

I am having an interesting problem with the Windows Task Scheduler under Server 2012. I have a couple dozen scheduled tasks that do various things via PowerShell scripts (mostly pull data from a SQL database then ship it off to their respective recipient). These scripts have been in place and scheduled for years. However, recently, about a half dozen of the scheduled tasks have plain stopped triggering and I have no idea why.

For example, I have a scheduled task that's set to run at 9PM every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of every week. It's "Next Run Time" is tonight at 9PM. It's "Last Run Time" was 1/24/2020 at 9:01:20 PM. Whaa?? The "Last Run Result" was "The operation completed successfully. (0x0)".

I can right click the offending jobs and run them manually no problem. I've "poked" at the scheduled tasks, enabled/disabled them, the trigger, changed the time back/forth, even changed the "Configure for" option from the default "Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008" to "Windows Server 2012". One thing I have not tried exporting/importing the offending tasks.

I'm curious if any of y'all have experienced anything like this?

If the task doesn't complete, it will not run again. Also the task scheduling service have to be running for any tasks to be triggered.

Right. I have "Stop the task if it runs longer than" set to 3 days. So I should see them in the "Running" state if that were the case, no?

Depends on if they are running right now. Anyway, how long does the task take to complete? Do your scripts produce a log file?

They are all "Ready" as of this moment. They run nightly, so I should see them as "Running" right now.

Some of them do, some of them do not (I've been adding Start/Stop Transcript to them as I've needed to troubleshoot). For those that do log, the log's last modified date/time corresponds to the last time the Task Scheduler reports the task ran.

I just edited my original post to add that the script I talk about as an example does log, and the log has not been touched since Task Scheduler reported it ran successfully.

OK, post screenshot of each tab under that task's properties, including what's under the edit button on the "triggers" tab.

Just export the xml here, clean any sensitive info. Easier.

Except that it is not really in clear text. Or do you what user "S-1-5-18" is?

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

I am having an interesting problem with the Windows Task Scheduler under Server 2012. I have a couple dozen scheduled tasks that do various things via PowerShell scripts (mostly pull data from a SQL database then ship it off to their respective recipient). These scripts have been in place and scheduled for years. However, recently, about a half dozen of the scheduled tasks have plain stopped triggering and I have no idea why.

For example, I have a scheduled task that's set to run at 9PM every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of every week. It's "Next Run Time" is tonight at 9PM. It's "Last Run Time" was 1/24/2020 at 9:01:20 PM. Whaa?? The "Last Run Result" was "The operation completed successfully. (0x0)".

I can right click the offending jobs and run them manually no problem. I've "poked" at the scheduled tasks, enabled/disabled them, the trigger, changed the time back/forth, even changed the "Configure for" option from the default "Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008" to "Windows Server 2012". One thing I have not tried exporting/importing the offending tasks.

I'm curious if any of y'all have experienced anything like this?

If the task doesn't complete, it will not run again. Also the task scheduling service have to be running for any tasks to be triggered.

Right. I have "Stop the task if it runs longer than" set to 3 days. So I should see them in the "Running" state if that were the case, no?

Depends on if they are running right now. Anyway, how long does the task take to complete? Do your scripts produce a log file?

They are all "Ready" as of this moment. They run nightly, so I should see them as "Running" right now.

Some of them do, some of them do not (I've been adding Start/Stop Transcript to them as I've needed to troubleshoot). For those that do log, the log's last modified date/time corresponds to the last time the Task Scheduler reports the task ran.

I just edited my original post to add that the script I talk about as an example does log, and the log has not been touched since Task Scheduler reported it ran successfully.

OK, post screenshot of each tab under that task's properties, including what's under the edit button on the "triggers" tab.

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@Pete-S said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

I am having an interesting problem with the Windows Task Scheduler under Server 2012. I have a couple dozen scheduled tasks that do various things via PowerShell scripts (mostly pull data from a SQL database then ship it off to their respective recipient). These scripts have been in place and scheduled for years. However, recently, about a half dozen of the scheduled tasks have plain stopped triggering and I have no idea why.

For example, I have a scheduled task that's set to run at 9PM every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of every week. It's "Next Run Time" is tonight at 9PM. It's "Last Run Time" was 1/24/2020 at 9:01:20 PM. Whaa?? The "Last Run Result" was "The operation completed successfully. (0x0)".

I can right click the offending jobs and run them manually no problem. I've "poked" at the scheduled tasks, enabled/disabled them, the trigger, changed the time back/forth, even changed the "Configure for" option from the default "Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008" to "Windows Server 2012". One thing I have not tried exporting/importing the offending tasks.

I'm curious if any of y'all have experienced anything like this?

If the task doesn't complete, it will not run again. Also the task scheduling service have to be running for any tasks to be triggered.

Right. I have "Stop the task if it runs longer than" set to 3 days. So I should see them in the "Running" state if that were the case, no?

Depends on if they are running right now. Anyway, how long does the task normally take to complete? Do your scripts produce a log file?

@anthonyh said in Windows Server 2012 - Task Scheduler Issue:

I am having an interesting problem with the Windows Task Scheduler under Server 2012. I have a couple dozen scheduled tasks that do various things via PowerShell scripts (mostly pull data from a SQL database then ship it off to their respective recipient). These scripts have been in place and scheduled for years. However, recently, about a half dozen of the scheduled tasks have plain stopped triggering and I have no idea why.

For example, I have a scheduled task that's set to run at 9PM every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of every week. It's "Next Run Time" is tonight at 9PM. It's "Last Run Time" was 1/24/2020 at 9:01:20 PM. Whaa?? The "Last Run Result" was "The operation completed successfully. (0x0)".

I can right click the offending jobs and run them manually no problem. I've "poked" at the scheduled tasks, enabled/disabled them, the trigger, changed the time back/forth, even changed the "Configure for" option from the default "Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008" to "Windows Server 2012". One thing I have not tried exporting/importing the offending tasks.

I'm curious if any of y'all have experienced anything like this?

If the task doesn't complete, it will not run again. Also the task scheduling service have to be running for any tasks to be triggered.

Scripts should be made so they produce a log. Then you use the log for troubleshooting.

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

Like I said before, we are already using a Core i9-9900k, the upper end of available desktop CPUs, hosted by Hetzner

Yes, but it's not a real server with server grade components. It will increase the probability of having problems.

Problem with the desktops CPUs are that Intel doesn't make server chipset for them and there are no motherboard manufacturers that makes server motherboards for desktop CPUs.

Now, you can put a desktop motherboard inside a server chassis so it will look like a real server but it will still have desktop components inside and lack things like ECC memory etc. That is probably what Hetzner has done. They also most likely use desktop NVMe M.2 drives instead of the enterprise grade NVMe components. Difference here is durability, reliability, performance under heavy load and efficient cooling.

There is one exception on the CPUs though and that is the i3, celeron, pentium CPUs. They can be used on server chipset like C246 and support the use of ECC memory. Primarily intended for entry-level servers though. They share pinout with Xeon E-2100 and E-2200 series.

Also, if you want maximum performance you shouldn't be looking at E3-1200 series anymore. They're two generations old.
Xeon E3-1200 v6 -> Xeon E-2100 -> Xeon E-2200.

@scottalanmiller said in Nginx setup:

I think all browser default to https now when not specified.

I think not. I'm not even sure Chrome does it.

But 99.9% of all sites redirect http to https so for normal users it's invisible. Also search engines default to showing https results.

@smartkid808 said in Nginx setup:

I have port 80 blocked by ISP, but will be passing all via 443. Anyone know a way to have either GoDaddy or no-ip force 80 to 443 when resolving host name?

Can't be done because DNS will only resolve the host name to ip address.

But if you have a proxy server in front of your own server and the proxy will answer on port 80 it will work. Then it could redirect to https. Look at Cloudflare for example.

@Dashrender said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

@scottalanmiller said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

@Pete-S said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

I was wondering how it works because we see a problem where a couple of Win 10 clients can resolve all the internal Windows servers names, but not the statically assigned names of linux servers.

I thought if the name resolution works over different mechanisms and uses different ports it could be an firewall or L3 switch somewhere that has been misconfigured.

This is common in situations where Linux is not given an opportunity to auto-update the DNS entries, no one makes them manually, and they are not joined to AD.

Exactly - have you or anyone else added these servers to AD's DNS?

They have been added manually. The name of the service is also not the name as the server. So if a webserver is abc001.company.com the name in the DNS that will send you to that server might be logistics.company.com. So client accessing the service would find it with https://logistics

@Dashrender said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@Pete-S said in Looking for a high performance game server:

There are no high GHz server CPUs.

I was wondering if this was the case - I'm expecting that Intel is building more for modern multi-threaded applications today, so there isn't as much need for high CPU speeds.

They have both those that are optimized for maximum number of cores and those that are optimized for highest frequency.
But I think they run them a little less "hot" to maximize reliability.

Best single thread performance Xeons are the E2200 series. It's not a "real" server CPU with massive I/O capability, lots of cache and multi-CPU capability but it might be perfect for this application. E-2288G is the fastest overall model with 8 cores @ 3.7GHz.

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@Pete-S said in Looking for a high performance game server:

If you want performance, you shouldn't run a VM on shared host somewhere where you have zero control of the resources used. You need a dedicated host / hardware. So bare metal hosting or colo.

Oh, that's a very common mistake. A (type 1 hypervisor) VM has next to no performance impact. Hosted VMs on the other side are often running on overcommitted hosts.

But yes, I'm looking for bare metal for rent.

I just wanted to clarify because it's common for people to think that running virtualized has only a few percent performance impact when in in fact there is a major impact when it comes to high performance I/O - unless you can use SR-IOV and bypass the entire hypervisor. Or bypassing the hypervisor with PCI passtrough on the controller. That goes for both NICs and NVMe drives.

Anyway, if you're looking to rent a server it would be very difficult to find one with a high GHz desktop CPU. There are no high GHz server CPUs. Server CPUs are tuned differently.

If you want performance, you shouldn't run a VM on shared host somewhere where you have zero control of the resources used. You need a dedicated host / hardware. So bare metal hosting or colo.

I was wondering how it works because we see a problem where a couple of Win 10 clients can resolve all the internal Windows servers names, but not the statically assigned names of linux servers.

I thought if the name resolution works over different mechanisms and uses different ports it could be an firewall or L3 switch somewhere that has been misconfigured.

@Dashrender said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

By default it's using DNS.

It could fall back on NetBIOS over IP though... if that protocol is enabled.

So if port 53 is blocked somewhere it will use NetBIOS instead?

Is that a client or AD/DNS setting or both? Is it enabled by default?

When you have a Windows 10 client and access a Windows intranet webserver that belongs to a domain (and you have AD and the whole shebang), is the client using DNS to resolve the server name or is it using something else?

@dafyre said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux):

@black3dynamite said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux):

@dafyre Installing sshfs and winfsp via choco is older than the ones from GitHub.

If you installed them via choco do this to mount at the host root directory or other directories.
https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/issues/102

Host root directory
\\sshfs\[email protected]\..\..

Specific directory like /var/www
\\sshfs\[email protected]\..\..\var\www

Thanks for the pointer. I did install using choco. I'm able to make it work now.

Edit: Just to see if I can, I may go back and do straight installs.

As I said above with the latest version I mount the root directory with \\sshfs.r\[email protected]

However, if you want to mount another directory like /var/www you have to do:
\\sshfs.r\[email protected]\var\www\
The trailing \ is very important!
It just doesn't work without it if your path is more than one directory deep. You also need to use backslash and not the forward slash.

You can mount the filesystem of another server over SSH (using SFTP) both on linux and windows with sshfs (SSH File System).

On the Windows client you have to install:

• WinSfp - https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/releases
• SSHFS-Win https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/releases

To mount the server just map the network drive in the file explorer or with net use or whatever.
Mount the root directory with \\sshfs.r\[email protected]

On the linux client you mount it with the sshfs command.
Syntax: sshfs [[email protected]]hostname:[directory] mountpoint
More on https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

Thought I'll share since I did this today and thought it might be useful for others as well.

I have Apache installed and it runs under the user www-data and the group www-data.
This is a Debian install so html files are by default located under /var/www/html and that is also the document root in Apache.

I was wondering what permission and owner should files like html, php etc have?

Also where should php include files be located? Somewhere under the document root (for example /var/www/html/include or outside (like /var/www/include/) or somewhere else?

@JaredBusch said in WP-CLI and database users:

So here is a good question. What kind of permissions do I need to setup on a MySQL account to let it have access to create new databases.

You can view permissions here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/privileges-provided.html#privileges-provided-summary

Usually those that can create new databases have full access, aka ALL PRIVILEGES.
That means they can do everything except grant others the same access.

If you just want to be able to create databases and tables, it's the CREATE privilege you need.

It's better to get a HVAC guy in and take some measurements. They measure the flow in the ventilation system and can tell you if it's enough or not. People die from CO but get headaches from high CO2 levels. Anyway, you trying to monitor the ventilation system is like the ventilation guy trying to monitor server performance.

If there is a real risk somewhere where people could die, you don't solve it with an alarm from amazon that you plug into the wall and hope it works and that someone will hear it and if they hear it they will know what it is and evacuate the building.

There are relatively few images on ML. The images that @StuartJordan showed are the ones that are http. They are profile images hosted on rackcdn.

Why are there images served over http on mangolassi.it?

@scottalanmiller @Obsolesce

Which of Windows built-in backup tools did you have in mind?

@Dashrender @Danp
Then it was shared mailbox I was looking for so any response can come from the same email address.

Does Zoho have the same functionality as well? I found shared folders but that doesn't seem to work the same.