[Need Advice] What to prioritize? (x-post from r/sysadmin)
Hi all.A little background. I'm a database admin in our company. We have a separate syadmin team and, technically, my only concern should be administration and management of databases. However, since...
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Hi all,I've been trying to backup the /home directory of a remote server to expand the size of the /root partition. This has failed the two times I've done it for an unknown reason and the router...
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On one of Linux terminals I administrate, we allow users to write own scripts in bash/perl/python to enhance their administrative tasks. The problem with users is they don't always follow the rules.One...
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I've tried reading about the various features and uses of the different file system types for linux and unix systems, but I'm not sure I'm getting out of it what I need to. So what knowledge would I...
View ArticleLinux network metrics: why you should use nstat instead of netstat
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View ArticleWhat is the proper mailing list to ask about my booting problems?
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View ArticleCentOS - TLS 1.2 & HTTP/1.1 for eBay payment pages
Hi all,We've received notification from eBay that we need to upgrade our SSL web service to support TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1. This web site is currently hosted on Apache/CentOS 5 - and is therefore...
View ArticleSpacewalk problem
I've been trying to get spacewalk up and running. so far i've been able to do everything except get kickstart to work. I can get pxeboot to work, but it dies part way through. http://imgur.com/mFEBq9xI...
View ArticleInstall Zabbix 3.0 (Monitoring Server) on CentOS 7.x / RHEL 7.x
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View Articlewindows authentication problem to standalone samba server
I am working on setting a standalone samba server to share and manage files from the center Linux server using samba and ACL. But the problem I am unable to login from windows machine to the share...
View Articleapache 2.4 ssl vhost on centos 7 forbidden
I am having trouble with setting ssl vhost. Non-ssl vhost with exact documentroot works fine. Ssl version does not, returns only forbidden for all files that are accessible from non-ssl vhost. Vhosts...
View ArticleHow To Recover InnoDB tables using .frm and .ibd files
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View ArticleBanging my head against the wall with automount in preparation for RHCSA exam
So, I am preparing to resit RHCSA exam. Amongst other issues (including illness) when I sat the exam the first time, on the premise that it was goal oriented I prepared to use x-systemd.autmount in...
View ArticleCareer Path without certificates
This isn't a question post. This is a post to explain how to progress through your career without a certificate to your name. I will talk about each step, and provide links to where to go to get the...
View ArticleStand alone samba 4 File sharing server configuration with ACL
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View ArticleHow to use rsync with tar
I just want to backup my /home dir of my linux server to the usb drive, I want to achieve compression as well. Generally I can do rsync -a /home /media/USBBut I want to compress /home and then sync to...
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