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Juniper SSL VPN Terminal Sessions

Has anyone ever had to use Juniper SSL VPN Terminal Sessions before? One of the clients we support uses this for remote access. This isn't the Juniper VPN where you just hit "Network Connect" -- this...

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Are sed/awk still viable?

I'm a relatively green sysadmin who want's to get his scripting skills to the next level. My experience has mostly been limited to simple bash/expect scripts, and I've been spending my time recently...

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A Questions about Rsyslog/TLS

I currently have the task to set up a rsyslog environment with TLS encryption for testing purpose. I was able to do everything and it works fine. Now how can I ensure that the connection is actually...

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Route Wlan0 traffic trought openvpn

Hello all togetherI have the raspberry pi 2 and the Edimax EW-7811Un wireless dongle working on my pi. I followed this toturial...

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deleting 5 day old folders w/ cron

Use this with cron to auto backup every 2 hours (tar cpzf /backup/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H).tar.gz /servers). how can i make it delete after 5 days (so the 60 lastest folders will always be there)? any help...

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VMWare ESXi alternatives

Are there any open source ESXi alternatives? I've got a dedicated server running and i want to put some VPS's on it. My ideal solution would be a ubuntu server based option. Googling "create VPS on...

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Would you take a job at Google for 63% less base pay

Say you interviewed at Google recently. You have an offer in hand at a great company with perks that are totally comparable to Google, but only select people will know of the company. You may be...

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Finding and replacing multiple repeat characters in one pass

So for some reason, a client of ours decided to use characters like < in file names. I'm writing a script to recursively change instances of < to _ throughout the file system but I'm running into...

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Installed puppet-enterprise-3.8 on Centos. I wish to connect to the...

Hello folks.I installed puppet-enterprise-3.8 on Centos7. I would like to connect to the database it self and poke around. However, I am having some trouble understanding how to do it.I configured the...

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Ban ip range with CSF (configserver firewall)?

Recently I have noticed a lot of login attempts from a group of similar ip's:110.82.133.206 212 110.82.165.189 212 110.82.168.136 212 110.82.169.27 212 110.86.185.154 212 110.89.32.53 212 110.89.46.22...

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one-to-one iptables help

I'm trying to set up a router with multiple public IPs pointed to private ones. It's working, but using the configuration below, all my ports are open instead of just the ones I'm forwarding. Any...

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Run mysql query from within a rpm?

Pretty self explanatory. I need to query a mysql table during an rpm install. Has anyone done this before? EDIT: Unless anyone has a way to rollback database schema changes please don't suggest to use...

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IPTables: How can I make all traffic to a certain subnet go through one...

Say I have two network interfaces and both are connected. The OS still routes everything through one connection as far as I can tell, unless the application (or something beneath it like ip tables)...

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What's filling up /tmp?

I've hit a complete wall here and it's driving me mad. I've got a centOS server that periodically crashes because /tmp becomes full. Rather than just increase the size (500mb), I want to understand...

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Idempotent deployment tool recommendation

Can anyone recommend a good idempotent deployment tool for server softare deployment and configuration?And before anyone mentions Chef or Puppet or Ansible, please let me stop you.By idempotent, I mean...

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KVM with ZFS

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone has had experience with running a KVM image on top of a ZFS file system. The reason I ask is I noticed some horrible performance with using btrfs and later found this...

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setting multiple scope DHCP Server on redhat.

hi, im trying to setup a small lab.. to learn about networking and, i have a voip call manager (cisco) im trying to set up a DHCP Server to serve three subnets. one for Voice, and other for DATA, the...

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Have your shops deployed RH7/CentOS7 out? If so, what are your thoughts?

Hey folks.Just wondering if you guys have started deploying RH7/CentOS7 out. If so, what are your thoughts, horror stories, great stories?I have been out of the loop for a while and I am just...

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Help me catch a thief ?

the problemSo I work at a lab, where CUDA classes are taught. We purchased a few GPUs for the classroom a few months ago : 4 Nvidia GTX970 and a GTX980. Last monday, a teacher told me about his CUDA...

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Best IP Failover tool?

So currently the shop I work at uses ucarp as an ip failover tool. I don't particularly like ucarp as it has been causing some problems over the last few weeks so I was looking at other alternatives....

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