>Yes, a simple way to solve this in Windows is to format the machine, install Linux and do your work >properly.
Ha, if it were up to me, I'd be totally with you on that one. I'm not a fan of Windows web servers, or coldfusion for that matter.
However, this is a production box running a lot of stuff designed for a Windows + ColdFusion environment (plus, I don't own it, just assigned to do tech support on it) so changing the platform is not an option.
As far as reformatting, if nothing else can be done, my plan is to recommend a full reformat and reinstall of everything. However, this is a PRODUCTION web server that is currently online, and has no cluster or failover backup so when this thing goes down, there's nothing to pick up the slack.
A reformat will leave it out of commission much longer than I'd like to risk. Also, there's a ton of stuff installed on it that would be difficult to recreate. (This guy has this machine running ColdFusion MX7, IMail POP3 / SMTP server, Microsoft SQL 2000, MySQL (installed but not currently running)) That said, I've been monitoring free memory and cpu utilization, the box has shown no signs of overloading.
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by: mihaimmPosted on 2007-06-12 at 06:22:26ID: 19265832
Yes, a simple way to solve this in Windows is to format the machine, install Linux and do your work properly.