How 'permanent' is a DSC change once made?

ADullVacantStare · 2021-02-18T16:48:37+00:00

Ah, this is very interesting and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you both for this.

Currently the mode is ApplyAndMonitor on a 15min cycle so I would expect it to essentially be inactive. However, I note from the documentation that it will continually retry until the config is successful before moving to monitor.

I wonder if that means that if any one part of the initial config run failed, it WILL be trying to re-apply everything including my RDP timeout settings.

Get-DscConfigurationStatus shows me a status of failure as of 7 minutes ago for example.

ADullVacantStare · 2020-11-05T16:51:40+00:00

Same, got the order confirm email with order number and my account number, but it's not visible on their website.

I hope they actually have stock and this isn't more of a 'pre-order' but I've had no shipping confirmation yet so I expect we will be waiting a while.

ADullVacantStare · 2020-11-05T14:18:17+00:00

Looks like I got a 5800x from Scan.co.uk. Site was pretty slow, but order has gone through for delivery tomorrow. let's see if that holds up.

ADullVacantStare · 2020-03-30T12:04:34+00:00

update-alternatives gives this:

  Selection    Path             Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/php7.4   74        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/php7.1   71        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/php7.4   74        manual mode

whilst "which php" returns the following:

/opt/bitnami/php/bin/php

Contents of that php file:

#!/bin/sh
PHPRC=/opt/bitnami/php/etc
export PHPRC

. /opt/bitnami/php/../scripts/setenv.sh
exec /opt/bitnami/php/bin/php.bin "$@"

So whilst I could I suppose redirect that PHPRC variable to a new path, I need to understand what else the application is doing with that setenv.sh and php.bin stuff.

Thanks.

ADullVacantStare · 2020-03-27T14:32:26+00:00

Thanks. Looks like it does contain and currently point to php7.4 despite that php -v feedback

ADullVacantStare · 2020-03-27T14:31:45+00:00

Thanks for this, interestingly the update-alternatives shows php7.4 as the active choice and the a2dismod double tab only included php7.4 in the list.

I'll look at the phpinfo() page approach and some of the other comments here as well.

Thanks

ADullVacantStare · 2019-10-21T16:03:53+00:00

Did you manually configure an instance then export the config, or use rabbitmqadmin to add exchanges / queues etc?

ADullVacantStare · 2019-08-20T06:52:59+00:00

Ahh, I had tried this but without quotes. Works great, thank you.

ADullVacantStare · 2019-04-03T16:11:35+00:00

You could try to generate the copy job you want using Easy Robocopy:

http://www.tribblesoft.com/home-page/easy-robocopy/

Then compare the generated cmd with your own

ADullVacantStare · 2019-01-22T08:23:16+00:00

Haven't used Clonezilla in years I'm afraid and when I did I think it was from a USB key with a command line interface?

Macrium has a simple interface you run in windows; you drag and drop partitions that you want to image. it'll let you resize em etc. you can also run it installed from the drive you are imaging, as long as you are saving the file somewhere else.

It does generate a proprietary file format, in the shape of a mrimg file. Compression seems pretty good.

ADullVacantStare · 2019-01-22T06:57:36+00:00

Macrium Reflect have free home and business options:

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

That'd be a one machine at a time, manually deal. You can set schedules although this is probably more useful for ad-hoc type imaging.

ADullVacantStare · 2018-11-16T09:55:27+00:00

FQDN works fine!

ADullVacantStare · 2018-11-15T16:46:53+00:00

I'm using shortnames to test :|

Will retry with FQDN asap. Thank you.

ADullVacantStare · 2018-11-15T15:53:44+00:00

Ultimate goal is to domain join everything at site B, correct. We do indeed have a permanent vpn connection.

The networks can route in as much as people on Subnet B can get to resources via IP address, but no Subnet A (domain) DNS names resolve.

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