Sourcing traffic as floating IP using keepalived
I have a few servers in a HA cluster setup with keepalived and floating an IP between them. Everything's working great, except that these servers also initiate traffic themselves, so while connections...
View ArticleHas anyone used Salt to configure a Cisco switch? Or specifically to add and...
I know how I could do this in theory -- probably using expect, or the python pexpect library, but I am notorious for re-inventing the wheel when a tool already has functionality built in or a "right...
View ArticleJunior Linux Admin
Hey guys, just wondering how difficult it is being a linux admin? I mean what would you guys advice to know before applying for a admin job and relative certification. Would you be able to provide...
View ArticleEntry Level Linux position w/ question about career path.
Hello fellow redditors and Linux professionals.Frequent reader of Linux subreddits but have always been too nervous to post.I just had a quick question about pursuing my career path down the Linux...
View ArticleShell script to edit apache config file
how can i delete a virtual host entry for a specific domain from apache conf using shell script , i want remove the whole virtualhost tag like in below example.com <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot...
View ArticleWasting my time
I'm 49, and I am studying for my Linux+ certification. Am I just wasting my time at my age with this? I really do enjoy linux, but am wondering if I am just too old now.Any advice is really...
View ArticleEmail Gateway setup
I have a handful of pop3 email boxes that need to be monitored. Since I cannot enable IMAP on those servers, I thought that it would be a good idea to setup an Email Gateway server which will fetch the...
View ArticleCrontab help
I am using the following and it is not creating the backup. When i first went into the crontab file it was blank, not sure if that has something to do with it 00 0-23/2 * * * tar cpzf /backup/$(date...
View Articlekdump configurations
Does anyone set up separate file systems specifically for vmcore files? Many moons ago, we used to create /var/crash file systems to ensure that we would capture vmcores successfully if a system...
View ArticleQuestion: do anyone know a small and simple post-board that can be used to...
Hi!The question itself is a bit strange, since I dont know myself what I'm searching for.Let say I'm doing some change or update on system X, then I would want to post an update to a changelog that is...
View ArticleMobaXterm Disconnects despite appropriate options
Greetings Everyone, I've been a lurker here for some time and this is my first post on this sub, but I'm having difficulty finding information regarding this specific issue.I have a user on a Windows 7...
View Articlenfs/idmap nobody issue!
Dear reddit'ers,I am getting the classic 'nss_getpwnam' error when I have autofs mount a nfs share users' /home directories and uid(s)/guid(s) aren't sync'ing to the nfs server, so I keep getting...
View Articlehelp with ftp error [550 the system cannot find the file specified]
myserver> ftp -v username@IP:21Connected to IP.220 Microsoft FTP Service331 Password required for username.Password:230 User logged in.Remote system type is Windows_NT.200 Type set to I.local: 21...
View Articlegroups and apache
I host a few dozen web instances of joomla and concrete5 and www-data (apache) owns it. I have a trainer that needs access via sftp to upload and change data files. What is the best approach to do...
View Articlelibxml parse error in pam_mount.conf.xml
I've spun up a test box this afternoon and I'm following this guide to setup powerbroker open on it. However I'm stuck at the pam_mount config. Every time I try and login with my test user the mount...
View Articlecat Career | grep linux > /dev/null
I've never had a Linux job before and I'm having a hell of a time changing that. I've been using Linux since 2003, since the very beginning of my career, but I admit I spent a lot of years being too...
View ArticleKatello 2.2/ The new Red Hat Satellite server
Alrighty folks, I have been whacking my face against this for a bit too long and figured I would ask if anyone is actually using this ? I am playing with it at home (yes, I hate myself) and I am...
View ArticleRecomend a "for dummies" website traffic logger?
I'm running an amazon EC2 Linux Virtual Machine to host an apache/php website. I am, if I'm being totally honest, a little out of my depth. What's a good (simple) web traffic monitoring suite? All I...
View ArticleLooking for a self-hosted encrypted open source messaging platform.
Hi everyone,I'm looking for a messaging server that I can run on my server for something to do. So far I haven't been able to find anything.Requirements:Open sourceProperly encrypted. If I have to...
View ArticleHow does firewalld choose the order of rules / zones?
I feel like this should be obvious somehow but I'm scratching my head. My basic question is does firewalld apply rules the order it finds them, a la iptables? Or does it do a best match? If in order it...
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