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Have been eagerly awaiting the assessment from a new company. Now I'm scared...

I've been working in a lamp environment for 2 years but with limited access to all servers but my personal vps. This new company works with many new technologies that I'm acquainted with but haven't...

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Is there a program that can delete disks devices by wwid?

If one doesn't exist yet, one will exist soon because trying to copy and paste a hundred /dev/sd* numbers and not deleting anything important stresses me out too much. submitted by Oflameo [link][5...

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Core Technology: Signals

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need help compiling a good iptables list for a web/sql/ssh ubuntu box

hey I'm some what new to using iptables and need a bit of help compiling a secure ruleset for my web server.Services it runs:httphttpsSMTP (25)SSH (22)I am already using fail2ban to help lock down ssh...

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Debian stable can't connect to port 443

I am having a strange problem and don't know where to start looking. This is a Debian stable server box, no GUI. I am unable to connect to port 443 on other machines when trying it from the box in...

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Looking for redmine installation guide with SELinux ON.

At best it should be for Centos 7.Thanks submitted by Traim [link][7 comments]

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Central Authentication (Directory Servers) Primer

For a few years now I've had the job of doing large scale deployments/migrations using several directory servers for application and system authentication/authorization. I've used everything from...

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Is there an NMS with a customer web-portal?

We've just had a requirement come in for customers to be able to view their bandwidth/utilization graphs through some kind of portal. Our current NMS (OpManager) doesn't allow user creation at such a...

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Best Remote Desktop option for a CentOS & Debian Server that can be tunnelled...

I'm looking for what the best option are to tunnel a remote desktop connect to a a Server running either Debian or CentOS that I only have SSH access to.I need to be able to remote back into the same...

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xfs_copy stuck at 90% (sleeping process)

Hi fellow brothers,It's the 474548735th time I try to do an offline backup using xfs_copy. Is it supposed to be efficient to clone filesystems between them, but...Origin: 320GiB LVM2 snapshot of a XFS...

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software for monitoring linux servers ( i know another post about it. But,...

helo guys,I been looking for a software to monitor our systems. I want to monitor just about everything. Resources, connections, network and applications ( java). The catch is that it must be a...

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I wrote a bash script to scan IPs against RBLs. It relies on dig. Try it out...

submitted by hakarb [link][7 comments]

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Installing Windows (I know) from a linux based PXE.

Hi Folks,I'm trying to get windows 10 to boot from a Linux PXE server. I've been following this guide and after working out a few things, I have it starting the PXE and boot loader, but it fails on the...

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how do you add device and configure snmp correctly for librenms?

helo,I installed successfully librenms and trying to test it with the same server I installed it in. But, I added a community in snmpd on the server itself and I'm stuck here. I'm trying to add a...

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This is how we are using fail2ban notifications and Slack

submitted by nihisil [link][34 comments]

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vdsmd trouble

Hey guys,I'm in the final stages of a project I've been working on and off for a few months, a self hosted oVirt deployment using GlusterFS for storage and CTDB for failover. I've got the deployment...

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How do programs know they are using WebDAV?

This is a multiplatform, multi-software issue - so apologies if this is not the right /r - but as its my problem as a linuxadmin, can't think of where else...Not to go into the whys etc, I run a WebDav...

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Fastest FOSS database for writes?

I have an application which will be performing a LOT of writes (but a substantial amount of re-writing) on a modest sized database (under 5GiB). The data needs to be persistent and queryable in...

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Benchmarking storage configurations: can you think of something I should...

Howdy, everybody! After some frustrating performance issues with one of my storage pools, I've started running some more systematic tests to make sure that I accurately understand the implications of...

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Disabling passwordless root login in boot (Debian-based)

So I recently decided to switch to Linux Mint for my laptop for work. The other day, I accidentally grabbed the wrong set of house keys and couldn't get my laptop from my drawer so I grabbed an office...

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