Job offer; "You won't need root rights." - Your thoughts?
TL;DR: Was offered a job. Sysadmin of company don't have root rights because of managed hosting. I declined, but still this raises many questions for me. See questions.So, I was recently offered a job...
View ArticleRsync a folder between 2 servers
I am trying to rsync var/vmail between 2 servers (all files, and folders). I have tried to get key forward to work in putty, but i havent had any luck, so i am trying to get rsync to work with my key...
View ArticleLive Upgrading Thousands of Servers from an Ancient Red Hat Distribution to...
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View ArticleHow to print domain name where value is greater than X using grep
Hello,Using dig commandline tool with the -f option is it possible to only grep replies with MSG SIZE rcvd greater than 2000(bytes).Such that what gets printed on the terminal is the domain name with a...
View ArticleCentOS 5 Server I need to run log2timeline on. Can it be done live?
I need to run log2timeline against a CentOS 5 Server but all the examples show it been run against a DD image.What is the best was of doing this with powering off the Server. All the changes I want to...
View ArticleHonestly stuck with OpenLDAP
I'm legitimately at a dead end with OpenLDAP. Basically I'm just trying to disable older SSL protocol versions and older ciphers on OpenLDAP with CentOS 7. I've been reading about this the past two...
View ArticleRequest: Log ALL the thinks.
I want to improve the logging on our CentOS boxes.Anybody got a good config for auditd and OSSEC at they can share?Also is there any other stuff I should turn on?Timestamps in History?Writing on...
View Articlesyslog-ng not filtering/dropping useless data
I've been tasked with migrating a syslog-ng server from version 2 to 3. I made changes to the the following rules, but it seems they are no longer working:Original: filter f_useless {...
View ArticleCENTOS 7 freezing after running for a week -help!
system: Supermicro Server w/2 Xeon E5 v2 Core I7 processorsMemory: 128GBLSI RAID: 928CV-8e with 48 bay Supermicro enclosureStorage: 62TBApps: MYSQL & JBOSS 4.2.3gaThis server is running as a JBOSS...
View ArticleUbuntu, Fedora, Mint, Elementary and Others in One USB Flash – How To Create...
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View ArticleCentOS, SSSD, GDM, and SELinux
Hi folks,I'm having some difficulty getting SSSD authentication working with GDM and SELinux on CentOS 6. Users from the directory service (Active Directory) can log in successfully via SSH etc., but...
View ArticleAnyone using Vagrant libvirt? Looking for input on network config.
I'm setting up a new hypervisor and trying to use KVM and Vagrant with the libvirt plugin. It seems promising but I need a network config that I'm not finding in the documentation.I need these vm's to...
View Article[Update]Employer will pay training, what should I do?
Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/3onkez/employer_will_pay_training_what_should_i_do/After reading everyones posts, my employer let me know that I had until the end of the...
View ArticlePackaging noob could use some help packaging FreePBX through fpm.
I'm trying to wrap my head around using fpm and the right way to go about using it to create RPMs through custom compiled packages. My initial thought was to install all sources to a single directory...
View ArticleExtracting ONLY domain names from a text file
Hello,I have a text file with urls like below udp://tracker.1337x.org:80/announce udp://tracker.ccc.de:80/announce http://cpleft.com:2710/announce http://tracker.novalayer.org:6969/announce...
View ArticleMy Subject Alternate Names are being ignored by my certificate authority.
I used this tutorial to create a local certificate authority to encrypt all of my connections. I used this tutorial to create a request with subject alternate names, but when I sign the request with...
View ArticleCollaboration software like exoplatform
Hi all, what are you using for collaboration platform?im looking for something like exo, we like the layout and features. However we couldn't get it working properly so we have decided to move away...
View ArticleNFS mount stops responding
I've been seeing some odd (and annoying) behavior between two servers. The client is mounting a folder on the server via NFS (v3). On average, every 24-48 hours, the mount on the client will stop...
View ArticleSmall Laptop
I need a laptop to carry when I'm out of the office or away from home. I would prefer something in the 10inch size with good linux support and at least 120gb of space (I dont mind replacing the hard...
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