Brad Bruce's questions

I have a public facing application server that accesses an Oracle database that resides behind a firewall.

Some of the processes that are executed through the application server can run for over an hour. This causes the firewall to disconnect the session without any error messages being generated. This causes the process to appear hung.

I've set the KeepAliveInterval to 1 second and KeepAliveTime to two hours in the registry.

I've set the enable=broken option in my tnsnames.ora file

The listener has the sqlnet expire time set to two minutes, so it's sending keepalives from that end as well.

The problem is, it doesn't seem to be working. On a different machine, I at least got a message that the firewall had disconnected the app-server (that's when I discovered the enable=broken requirement)

How do I make sure that the keep-alives are being sent?

I have written an extension to the FTP server on Windows 7.

When I try to log in, I get a 503 error. The logs don't show any issues.

I've tried to monitor the file with filemon, but nothing shows up there either.

It's probably a security issue, but I can't find it.

All of the documentation I've ready says Windows 7 and Server 2008 are possible uses of such an extension. Unfortunately the step-by-step guides are all for Server 2008.

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How do I install my extension, so that it will be used when a user logs in to my FTP server?

Does anyone have a pointer to any information regarding installing this on Windows 7?

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I am trying to use the IIS server and the integrated FTP 7.5 server on a Windows 7 machine. I know this can be done on Server 2008, but am trying to get this working on W7 for customers without Server 2008.

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Since this got migrated from StackOverflow, I'm hoping there's some Windows 7 love over here!

I am trying to remove some VMWare images that were created by a machine that is no longer available. We do not plan to use VMWare and would like to clear up the space.

I get a message Cannot delete [filename]... for all of the files in these directories.

Can anyone tell me how to delete them (short of reformatting)?

Thanks

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The OS is Windows and the only machine that used the images isn't on the network any more. Process Explorer is showing no processes accessing the files.

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From the command prompt removed the system attribute and was able to delete the drive files, but still cannot remove the configuration files. WTF? Anyway, I got most of the space back.

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Are there any overwhelming reasons to pick one over the other?

I'm in the middle. Our database administrator says that Oracle on Linux is better, but cannot present proof. Our hardware administrators only know Windows.

Right now we're proceeding with Linux, but I'd feel better if I could find some proof that it was a better OS for hosting Oracle.

The database has 500 GB of data. I know it's not big, but we have some processes that are taxing our Windows 2003 (32 bit) server.

-- Edit -- I've seen several very good arguments for either one. Nothing that makes the decision easier, but good points none the less. It looks like there isn't a definite "bad" choice.

I ran fsck and now my Linux server (Oracle Enterprise Linux (a Red Hat derivitave)) will not boot. The old blocks are in the lost+found folder.

How do I get the box working again without rebuilding?

-- Edit -- Well... After spending 4 days having the system looked at, we decided to rebuild. It may actually be good that this happened. We've identified several pieces of documentation that were missing. We found a version incompatibility with our storage device.

Best of all, we were able to get most of the long-term maintenance of this server moved back to the operations group. (We made them do the actual reinstall, while we were there to answer questions)

On some new servers from HP we are using the ILO (Integrated Lights Out) to control some new Linux installs.

When we use the remote console options the mouse movements won't stay in synch. When we use the right-button-drag method to synchronize the mouse movements it looks good, until you move the mouse .

Since I don't administer the ILO settings, I was hoping someone could recommend something for the admin to look at.

They only manage MS Windows servers and typically use remote desktop or DameWare and don't run into these issues (and therefore don't know how to fix them)

Our Linux boxes require quite a bit of setup before we can turn on the XWindows server. (XMing for the win!!!)