Show us your work setup!
I'm wondering how professional sysadmins work setups look like - from system to desktop enviroment to hardware itself.What I mean are desktop and laptops and how do you use/configure them etc.Add...
View ArticleTroubleshooting help needed, Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS completely freezes seemingly...
Hello guys having a bit of an issue with my Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS headless server, the issue has been from the day i built the server.The issue is following: The server freezes completely, server stops...
View ArticleBackup script help
Hey guys, im having a little trouble understanding why the following script isnt working, any help is appreciated.#!/bin/sh#prepareTIME=$(date +%F_%R)#collect backuptar -zcvf...
View ArticleDebian Crash Diagnostic
How can i properly diagnose the reason of the crash of my server(Debian)? I inspect the logs( daemon.log, dmesg, kern.log, messages, syslog) but couldn't find nothing useful. Is kdump fit or complex...
View ArticlePartitioning question on a new server
Hello! I just got a new Supermicro server and a boat load of hard drives. 5 x 160GB WD 10K Velociraptors and 10 x 2TB Hitachi hard drives. My question is what would be the best practice for...
View ArticleShould I attend classes before taking RHCSA or just study alone before taking...
So after having used Linux for 15 years at home, I have taken the opportunity for a career change and I am studying for RHCSA with a view to becoming a Linux sysadmin. I appreciate that other skills...
View ArticleDoes anyone actually enjoy writing init.d scripts?
This is my #1 reason for preferring systemd over sysvinit.I've written probably two or three dozen custom init.d scripts over my professional career and I've enjoyed it exactly zero times.Maybe a bit...
View ArticleVM in CentOS 7
I'm running CentOS 7 in VMWare Workstation (My actual computer is running Windows). I created a VM inside CentOS successfully using virt-manager, however when I start it up and try to launch it, I get...
View ArticleIcinga2.cmd location
I installed Icinga2 and icingaweb2 on a centos7 machine and it is giving an alert about a check because icinga2.cmd is forbidden - because the file doesn't exist. "find / -name *cmd" and yum provides...
View ArticleDircolor Samples?
I'm lazy. Can I use your Dircolors file? submitted by techstress [link][comment]
View ArticleNot getting security CVE updates on Cent Os 5 for Apache question.
x-port from /r/linuxquestions...Running CentOs 5.11 Apache 2.2.3 Currently missing CVE-2015-3183I've ran yum update httpd but it doesn't kick back any available updates, so I would assume it's up to...
View ArticleHelp needed with SSL setup for 389-ds admin server
Hi allI have a working 389-ds server running on Centos 6.5 and am looking to build a 2nd one in a master-master mode. I have a Centos 6.7 server built from scratch and have managed to get SSL setuip...
View ArticleHow to run script as another user using their bash profile
I'm working in an environment that uses RHEL/CENTOS 5-7. I'm trying to migrate all crontab entries to rundeck. I'm using SSH to execute the scripts, and I have one user that has rights to sudo as...
View ArticleNetbackup help?
Guys, the former IT manager at my place of work left without documenting anything or doing a proper handoff. Most of the stuff I've been able to figure out, however, we have a backup server running...
View ArticleSuperCron, a small step beyond Cron
This is a tool I created as an extension to the classical cron/crontab, while keeping the CLI charm. It accepts intelligent repetition sentences like "on 9 april at 09:30 AM" or "from monday to friday...
View ArticleWhat are the alternatives to mod_security?
I've just started using Naxsi in one of my Nginx servers, and I like the self-learning part, but not sure if it can really catch all the new kind of malware that comes in.Is there anything else you...
View ArticleWhere is httpd.conf file in apache2?
Hi. Has this httpd.conf file been replaced with apache2.conf? I can't find it now. submitted by biborn [link][6 comments]
View ArticleLoad Sharing VPN/Web Proxy?
I would like create a load sharing vpn setup. My plan is to purchase a number of cheap vps in various locations to use as end points.I'm not sure if I should be looking into the distribution of the...
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