Powertieke's questions

Is there a way to control the order in which services are stopped on a system shut-down?

We are having issues with our domain-controller, which takes forever to shut down (if it goes down at all) because of a mistake in the order the services are shut down (First domain services, then Exchange).

I could write a script to stop Exchange first and then shut down the machine, but would really like to be able to just issue a shutdown /r /t 1 and not have to think about it.

So, is there a way to control the order in which services are stopped/started on system stops/starts?

Is it possible to increase the size of an existing virtual server image (centos 5 guest on centos 5 host - Xen)? I just installed a new guest, and found out that I did not assign enough storage to the guest at install time.

I know I can add virtual storage by mounting to the virtual system, but I would really like to keep the system as simple as possible (one mounted device - one image file per system).

So, is it possible to increase the storage of an image in an existing system, or am I going to have to start over again?

I'm looking for a GUI client (preferably Windows) that will recognize when you copy files remotely, and will default to running a local shell command (f.a :

sfpt> !rsync -a /files/ /copyoffiles/

in SFTP)

Does something like this exist already?