[may be stupid] can I cron and script this?
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I am running a few websites on a VPS and I am planning to upgrade it. The thing is that when you go up in ram you automatically end up with more but slower cores.Example: 6GB ram = 2x2.4 GHz @ 100%8GB...
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So our company has, for years, set everything important to root:root, and as a result, have had to enable "no_root_squash" in /etc/exports so that files aren't shared as nfsnobody, which has in the...
View ArticleGrep - regex: Parsing out the HWaddr. What am I doing wrong?
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View ArticleLinux Ronin - A brand new youtube channel aimed at sysadmins and more...
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I've been making a script to set things up a bit and wanted to make sure that I wasn't doing anything too stupid. It doesn't matter too much if the script isn't going to work on every type of system or...
View ArticleBasic ansible, SSH help
I posted a script earlier and got told to use Puppet, chef or ansible, I've decided to try ansible as its meant to be easier.I've no idea what I'm doing though and I'm struggling with the...
View ArticleGot any custom OSSEC and/or fail2ban configs?
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Doing some clean up of some CentOS servers. And want to lock them done more, so what AV do your run on your CentOS servers that catch rootkits and other crap? submitted by BaconZombie [link][3 comments]
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View ArticleLinux History for SU
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View ArticleCreating vhosts - Apache - CentOS
So in my day-to-day role, its my job to train up younger member of staff. I came across this video which was exactly what I needed and saved me time from doing it :). Just a simple video on creating an...
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