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Low Cost SAN Solution

Is there a way to utilize a spare server we have lying around and turn it into a low cost SAN solution that can be used in a Microsoft Failover Cluster? I have a server that's only about 2 years old...

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ISC Bind vulnerability?

Anyone know anything about CVE-2015-5477 regarding a vulnerability in ISC Bind?It better be a big one. It's really fucked us up trying to apply the update today. 45min outages for several zones. 14hour...

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Why aren't my processes being better spread out?

http://i.imgur.com/9gVsM5I.pngI have 6 very intense services running, however, they all are running on Core 1, instead of the main service being assigned to another core.Shouldn't scheduling better...

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Network manager and its happy routes

Half vent, half advice post.So I just spent the morning (~ 4 hrs) trying to debug this one... Debian server, inherited. Has always run with single NIC. A couple months ago I installed a second NIC for...

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Passwd Expiration.

Hi all. We have a linux server with many users. There as never been a passwd expiration policy for this server....until now!all the users are set to 99999 i have changed. /etc/login.defs to 90 but that...

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how to handle amazon instance private VPC address + public IP dynamic DNS?

The setup:Amazon instance with a VPC subnet of 10.10.10.0/23 which can connect via VPN back to my internal infrastructure. On instance create I select "Auto Assign Public IP" which gets me a VPC IP and...

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apache -- geronimo -- tomcat.. ? (xpost fom /r/linuxquestions)

So I'm relatively new to hosting web apps on a linux server, but I'm familiar with hosting services and running file servers just fine on a linux server. I'm going to be involved with Geronimo and...

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Doing my RHCSA exam in next 8 hours

Any last minute tips?Reaaally stressed out for the exam! submitted by watomtevat [link][18 comments]

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Linux Ronin Sysadmin Day Contest! FREE LOOT!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3f9wj7/linux_ronin_sysadmin_day_contest_free_loot/ submitted by swathe [link][comment]

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What is your preferred method of making a custom installer?

What is your preferred method of making a custom installer? I tried a couple of build scripts but the flexibility of the ones I tried for building a couple different re-masteries of Debian based...

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Open Source SysAdmin Resources

submitted by JollyRoberts [link][9 comments]

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How do you "stress-test" a site?

For a site migration, I used loader.io (free account) just now to test a site on the current server, and on my (destination) server, but I created a free account. I'm happy with the results, but I'd...

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RHEL Admins: What is your go-to laptop workspace distro?

submitted by SMACz42 [link][44 comments]

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Linux Firewall

I am trying to setup a Firewall for Home/Work use I was wondering what would be the best distro and how would I go about configuring it? submitted by aheath1992 [link][10 comments]

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Any one using ExoPlatform?

Im having lots of trouble with setting it up for mobile devices, and the documentation is not helpful all all.thanks! submitted by gomexz [link][comment]

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openvpn-auth-ldap authentication against FreeIPA

Hey all you fantastic people..I recently deployed FreeIPA and am in the process of setting up a new OpenVPN server that auths against the 389 Directory Server included using openvpn-auth-ldap. However,...

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Asset management system

Hey!Any one here used Ralph → https://github.com/allegro/ralphAm looking for feedback, and if it can replace GLPI + Fusion Inventory! submitted by elacheche [link][1 comment]

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How to handle failover with only two servers?

Hey guys, I have two servers, my primary server and a failover server. I know, ideally I should have a separate server acting as a failover server but in this case, I only have two servers. The website...

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Recommendations for Linux Foundation SysAdmin (CentOS)

I'm doing my LFCSA CentOS 6 based this August 20, any recommendation or anyone who has already done it has any suggestion on what should i focus on and how tough is the test. I currently posses a...

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iptables NAT table not translating inbound packets to local address...

Hello everybody.So Mr Network Guy over here's trying to do what he does with CentOS acting as a NAT gateway and VPN concentrator10.1.1.1 in site 6 needs to talk to 10.1.1.1 in site 7 (identical...

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