Interesting: free and portable (no install required: just unzip and go): [WayBack] O&O ShutUp10.
Via [WayBack] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+ (which I think I got via Twitter)
–jeroen
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O&O ShutUp10
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/12
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Zabbix agent and long running scripts: Timeout parameter in zabbix_agentd.conf
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/12
The [WayBack] stock zabbix_agentd.conf is about 10k and the documentation quite a bit larger, so it can take a while to figure out a setting.
I needed one to ensure that scripts could take longer to execute than the default.
Searching for a per-script setting on the server side revealed no solution, so I had to solve it on the agent side. There, a per-script setting is also impossible: there is only the global Timeout (one word, no PascalCase like TimeOut) setting in zabbix_agentd.conf which is the same for Unix and Windows based Zabbix installations:
Unix: [WayBack] Zabbix Documentation 3.0 – 3 Zabbix agent (UNIX)
Parameter Mandatory Range Default Description Timeoutno 1–303Spend no more than Timeoutseconds on processing
Windows: [WayBack] Zabbix Documentation 3.0 – 9.4 Zabbix agent (Windows)
Parameter Mandatory Range Default Description Timeoutno 1–303Spend no more than Timeoutseconds on processing
In my case it was for a PowerShell script that ran twice a day to verify how recent the installations on a particular machine were. The Timeout value needed to be at least 15 for that:
### Option: Timeout
# Spend no more than Timeout seconds on processing.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Range: 1-30
# Default:
# Timeout=3
Timeout=15
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When an installer errors out with “Please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of”…
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/12
Via [WayBack] Anyone with a hint on how to work around this: … “Please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of”… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
This happened for instance when trying to install Source Tree 2.x on Windows (1.9.x works fine):
[Window Title]
SourceTreeSetup-2.3.1.0.exe[Main Instruction]
Installation has failed[Content]
Please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of “Run as Administrator”.[Close]
The problem was by accident the machine got in a state to run commands without UAC approval, so the run dialog would already look have “This task will be created with administrative privileges”:
It was odd, as the machine didn’t have it enabled in the security policy (secpo.msc):
So I did a bit more digging, bumped into [WayBack] Why does my Run dialog say that tasks will created with administrative privileges? – The Old New Thing and had one of those #facepalm moments: Explorer had crashed, and I had started it from Process Explorer, forgetting Process Explorer had an UAC token.
The solution is easy:
- Logoff / Logon
- Verify the Windows-R shows a “normal” run:
Then you can just run the installer:
–jeroen
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