encrypted network share?
The title may be a little miss leading so I'll try explain as best as possible. What I am looking for is a way to encrypt a folder. Then have access to that folder shared amongst multiple users. Very...
View ArticleCan someone point me to the self lab for learning enterprise linux sysadmin?
I can't seem to locate the post on learning the tools of the enterprise linux trade posted by someone here. It had a list of setting up things like puppet and other enterprise linux tasks to get you...
View ArticleQuestion about a commonly recommended learning guide. (Hardware requirements...
I'm referring to this guide by /u/IConrad.I've started (set up KVM, started making the Spacewalk server), but I'm not sure I have the hardware to complete this. It seems like all told you need to be...
View ArticleIf HAproxy process dies, keepalived has no way of knowing the process died.
Hello folks.So this week I have been playing around with HA and it has been great to say the least.I created two HAproxy servers with keepalived and they work.However I discovered that if for example...
View ArticleIUS vs Webtatic?
Hey everyone,We need to start running PHP 5.6 on CentOS6. Does anyone have any experience with either Webtatic (https://webtatic.com/packages/php56/) or IUS (https://ius.io)? Can anyone recommend...
View ArticleStick to Dell/HP or venture out?
Hi All,What's the general consensus when it comes to hardware? For those in enterprise environments, are you mostly sticking to the big names? Or do you ever go with third party, or custom solutions?...
View ArticleAnyone have any experience using the 9p protocol for file sharing?
The entire first and only page of Google results for "v9pfs linux" are in Chinese, which I don't speak.EDIT:here is the 9p daemon (also in Debian-main for Wheezy and later).It works remarkably well,...
View Articlesuphp Issues
I am migrating servers and dragging a few customers with older versions of OSCommerce with me. TO do that I have to have register_globals On for them....not possible with the servers install of...
View ArticleControl cache priority based on mtime?
So I have a server that's going to get new files regularly. Those new files will be accessed by several people over the network early and often, then will not likely be used for a long time after that...
View Articlemd5sum script (help needed)
I have 468k files I need md5sums of. And one requirement is the timestamp in "long-iso" format. I used this one liner:find -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -dils --time-style=long-iso | awk '{printf...
View ArticleCross platform repository software?
I am having trouble deciding on a repo management software. It's going to be for our customers to get our software updates for Ubuntu and Red Hat servers. We currently use Reprepro but it is kind of...
View Articlehaproxy proxy TCP to UDP
I know the title sounds highly obscure but i'm trying to see if this is feasible. I have a requirement of needing to encrypt variable data with SSL/TLS across sites - data that developers could pollute...
View ArticleHow difficult is it to secure an Ubuntu box running NGINX?
I've had a managed VPS with KnownHost for a few years. I need better hardware and am thinking of getting an unmanaged dedicated server from Namecheap. They would install Ubuntu on the machine, then...
View ArticleNetwork guy...noob linux question. (Cygwin and modules)
Morning,I'm a network engineer getting into Python and automating. I'm using Cygwin to run my scripts and I'm trying to install a module that is written for cisco-based devices. It's called...
View Articlered hat web admin tool
Red Hat was showing off a web gui at the RH summit in one of their booths. anyone remember what this is called? submitted by crankysysadmin [link][19 comments]
View Articlenginx + php + reverse proxy + https? halp?
Edit 1: Found the solution for the remote php that nginx was trying to proces, code updatedHi friends! I'm back again thankful for all the help I had from this community previously. I'd like some help...
View ArticleBash increment first octet by 1?
if i have an ip of 55.0.0.9 how do I change the first octet of 55 to 56? I need to change several ips in the first octet... submitted by 9WNUCFEQ [link][17 comments]
View ArticleLVM Snapshot Backup
I have several linux VM's running on a VMware ESXi host that I need to backup. I had the foresight of using LVM but I'm shocked I could not find any LVM aware backup solutions. I did find one script...
View ArticleCould someone give me some insight on how this could be accomplished?
I was given a device with embedded linux running a 2.6.x kernel. One thing that is weird with it is that when you telnet to it with root (yes, I know, don't ask), it does not prompt for a password, but...
View ArticleEmployer will pay training, what should I do?
My employer gave me 1 week to decide how to use ~$9000 of training.About me - I am DevOps - mostly running Windows Servers in a Windows shop. I have some experience with Powershell. I have been...
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