Confusion on if /tmp is occupying RAM.
TLDR: It looks like /tmp should just be a regular on-disk FS, but its behavior is leading me to believe it's in-RAM. How can I figure out what's going on?I thought I understood all of the functionality...
View ArticlePuppet/Chef/Salt worth the effort for small environment?
HI,I am moving our environment to a new datacenter and migrating from an old 2 server Xen implementation with DRBD to a SAN and VMWare HA cluster. We are having to recreate all the servers from scratch...
View ArticleWeird problem with networking on certain requests
Bare with me for a second. I am accessing a wordpress dashboard hosted in a godaddy managed wordpress installation. When accessing the dashboard from Linux many parts don't load correctly and many of...
View ArticleAn awkward confession and what we should do about it
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View ArticleTrying to SCP using a bastion server
Okay so I'm looking for a way to script coping files to and from a number of remote hosts behind a bastion (jump) server. I've been trying to use the ProxyCommand option so far all it does is throw...
View ArticleSamba Share and Windows User Access Problems
Hi Everyone, We are running into permissions issues with a Samba share from users on Windows 7 clients. A sys admin set up this Debian 8 Linux server, Samba Active Directory, and Samba 4 share and then...
View ArticleIssues with Samba
We are running Storagecraft Imagemanager and it is targeting a Folder hosted on a Samba share. This Samba share is sharing out a Gluster Volume via the Gluster VFS Module. When we try to consolidate,...
View ArticleDesigning a storage schema with BTRFS
Hey guys. I'm a fairly capable Linux admin, but my data storage game is weak and I just had a data loss event, so I'm looking to step it up.I'm interested in moving from ext4 to one of the more modern...
View ArticleDebian Wheezy to Jessie - Samba works intermittently
Hi all,I upgraded the school servers from Wheezy to Jessie last week, and it seemed to have gone fine, until today.One of the shares that the staff have access to was giving "Access Denied" errors on...
View Articlesecuring a folder containing a Play! Application?
I have setup a linux EC2 that I use to host a Play Framework application, the app uses a local mySQL database to store sensitive information (usernames and passwords). If somehow someone managed to...
View ArticleAutomated Installation of MySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 14.04
I recently published a video, http://youtu.be/jMaocv9SVI0, that shows how to write a shell script that will perform an automated installation of MySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 14.04. The shell script is launched...
View ArticleLooking for Distro advice for small business server
Hello all,I'm in charge of all things IT for my small business and I am looking at getting our server up-to-date with a stable distro and looking for advice on which might be best for our needs. We're...
View ArticleBash scripting style question
Is there anything inherently wrong with this style of bash if statement? I usually don't see this kind of style used, but it does work fine and is usually what I use.if ! grep 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
View Articleadvice on a cloning project
I am fairly new as a linux admin and would like to ask for a bit of advice. one of my users has a RHEL workstation that has been running on a RAID0 for the better part of 5 years. he would like to...
View Articlesudo rights to chown but limited to one folder and subfolder?
I need to do backups of Servers that don't have enough free space on them to store the backup so I'm rsync'ng all the files to the Backup Server and then tar.gz'ng them.But since I want to keep...
View ArticleUpgrade Samba to Newer Version
On Ubuntu 14.04, What's the best method to update samba. I see there is now 4.1.23 out, and this apparently resolves some of the bugs I've been seeing on 4.1.6. So How can I update my samba to 4.1.23...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet
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View ArticleSudo command issue on centos 7.2
Hi, I am running one script as root user (It prints "Hi" with sudo and "Bye" without sudo) from my test service which is located at "/etc/systemd/system/". In the output I am unable to see "Hi" which...
View ArticleNo-cost RHEL developer subscription now available!
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