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Why does my hostname appear with the address 127.0.1.1 rather than 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts?

This may be a bit of a noobish question, but I was taking a look at /etc/hosts on my new Xubuntu install and saw this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 myhostname On most 'nixes I've used, the second line is omitted, and if I want to add my hostname…
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How to see stdout of ansible commands?

How do I see stdout for ansible-playbook commands? -v only shows ansible output, not the individual commands. It would be great if I could figure out how to do this immediately, so if something fails or hangs I can see why. e.g. - name: print to…
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What’s the point in having “www” in a URL?

Other than for historical reasons, is there is reason to have “www” in a URL? Should I create a permanent redirect from www.xyz.com to xyz.com, or from xyz.com to www.xyz.com? Which one would you suggest and why?
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How can I run Debian stable but install some packages from testing?

Say you're running a server and you don't want to upgrade to Testing (Squeeze) from Stable (Lenny) to just install a required package or two. What's the best way of installing only certain packages from Testing?
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Can anyone explain precisely what IOWait is?

As much as I have read about iowait, it is still mystery to me. I know it's the time spent by the CPU waiting for a IO operations to complete, but what kind of IO operations precisely? What I am also not sure, is why it so important? Can't the CPU…
user3903
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Kubernetes stuck on ContainerCreating

A pod in my Kubernetes cluster is stuck on "ContainerCreating" after running a create. How do I see logs for this operation in order to diagnose why it is stuck? kubectl logs doesn't seem to work since the container needs to be in a non-pending…
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Docker Container time & timezone (will not reflect changes)

Where do Docker containers get their time information? I've created some containers from the basic ubuntu:trusty image, and when I run it and request 'date', I get UTC time. For awhile I got around this by doing the following in my Dockerfile: RUN…
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Can you pass user/pass for HTTP Basic Authentication in URL parameters?

I believe this is not possible, but someone I know insisted that it works. I don't even know what parameters to try, and I haven't found this documented anywhere. I tried http://myserver.com/~user=username&password=mypassword but it doesn't…
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How to reply with 200 from Nginx, without serving a file?

I have configured Apache to send back a 200 response without serving any file with this configuration line Redirect 200 /hello Can I do this with Nginx? I don't want to serve a file, I just want the server to respond with a 200 (I'm just logging…
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How do I add Access-Control-Allow-Origin in NGINX?

How do I set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header so I can use web-fonts from my subdomain on my main domain? Notes: You'll find examples of this and other headers for most HTTP servers in the HTML5BP Server Configs projects…
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When does `cron.daily` run?

When do entries in cron.daily (and .weekly and .hourly) run, and is it configurable? I haven't found a definitive answer to this, and am hoping there is one. I'm running RHEL5 and CentOS 4, but for other distros/platforms would be great, too.
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How can I find out what Active Directory groups I'm a member of?

I'm running a Windows XP desktop in a corporate environment. How can I find out which Active Directory groups I belong to?
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Is it bad to redirect http to https?

I just installed an SSL Certificate on my server. It then set up a redirect for all traffic on my domain on Port 80 to redirect it to Port 443. In other words, all my http://example.com traffic is now redirected to the appropriate…
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How can I see which flags Nginx was compiled with?

How can I check what modules have been added to an nginx installation?
Nisanio
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How to include multiple domains in an spf TXT Record

I am looking to setup a TXT spf record that has 2 included domains... individually: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all and v=spf1 include:otherdomain.com ~all What is the proper way of combining them into a single item?
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