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How to set up internal network with virtual FreeIPA server using either KVM...

Edit- This has been resolved, thanks to /u/iggy_koopaSo I am at my wits' end here trying to set up an internal network in order to do some RHCSA mock exams. I have been studying on my own for RHCSA and...

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WPA association works. DHCP fails after awhile. Please help me find the issue.

Hi. Disclaimer: I am rather ignorant of the inner workings of networking. You are experiencing me trying to change that, though. I am on Arch linux, using an external Wifi adapter with my old Laptop.I...

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Is linux administration a good choice for the long term?

I am really interested in linux systems architecture and administration. I have a good programming experience and love coding as well. I recently found out that I really like learning all about linux...

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Warning — Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored...

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Fedora 21 - XFCE VNC Server?

Hey! I wanted to install a graphical Desktop on my Fedora 21 VPS. I installed XFCE and VNCServer and tried to connect via VNC but it doesnt respond. Do you know how to set it up correctly / do you know...

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Odd behvaior: bsdtar stops packing files at 328kb

I'm building a lightweight windows box for vagrant, following the guide outlined by Matt Wrock here. Matt states that as of 1.6, tarball sizes over 2GB aren't supported but I'm hoping this isn't the...

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What is the best way to ssh to servers behind nat/firewall?

The company I work for is a software dev company but if the client does not have its own IT we often set up a server that our software runs on. They are usually CentOS linux servers and they are always...

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Anyone using the IUS repo on CentOS 7?

Our team is in the process of adopting Drupal 8, but CentOS 7's PHP version does not meet the system requirements. I came across IUS which has version 5.6 and it seems pretty solid. I've seen some...

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Mount AD shares on AD authenticated desktops.

I have a handful of users that are migrating from win 7 to Linux. Currently they have two network drives that are mounted via GPO, a home drive and a public drive. I have tried mounting these drives on...

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"Check the logs" Well, which logs? Is there a table or something that shows...

For example on arch when I have an issue related to systemd I can just check journalctl. submitted by /u/nontoxicreddit [link] [comments]

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Come join us at the new and improved SUSE subreddit! (x-post /r/linux)

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Does exim drop secondary groups for queue runners? Permission issues with...

Hi there,I've got an interesting problem with Exim on a debian jessie system where exim is installed through apt. I would like to use DKIM, but it seems that exim is unable to read the DKIM keyfile,...

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Should I get more experience with CentOS, Ubuntu or Fedora ?

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Apache Log File Help

I am after some help or hope someone has something like this already. I need a script (bash) I can run in a cron job that will email me daily a list of my websites that are hosted on a server and then...

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Help optimizing a LAMP server?

I am renting a fairly standard Debian/Apache2/MySQL5/PHP5 server to run a few medium-traffic websites. It's an Intel Core i5 with 16GB DDR3 RAM, serving sites with about 4 mio page views a...

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Tips for managing Linux servers from Windows workstation?

In my previous gig I was a solaris admin working on a Solaris workstation. Everything was hunky dory with terminal access. X forwarding etc. New job has me as a RHEL7 admin but we only have windows 7...

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I created a patch that allows you to unlock your LUKS volumes sharing one...

If you use ubuntu with LUKS and you use the same pass phrase for multiple volumes, then you will have to enter this pass phrase multiple times.This is annoying, so I created a modification for the...

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Spacewalk vs. Cobbler?

Hey everyone,I'm slowly piecing together a lab for my group and am starting to work on automating our VM deployments. It seems like the de-facto way for deploying systems over PXE is Cobbler (I also...

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Redirects with nginx

We recently set up an Artifactory server at my company. Right now, the server runs on port 8081, but we're using nginx as a reverse proxy to allow connections over port 80.We need to take this a step...

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Best certification to go through RH and get a job in Europe

Hey guys,I am moving to Europe this year with my family and I wish to work as a sysadmin too, just as I do it here. The problem is that my experience is not really easy to prove, since I've been...

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