How do you deal with friends/family who need computer help?
This might not be what you expected.. I have been employed in an IT role since just after high school (so 14 years or so now). My friends/family know I'm in IT. And so come the typical "my computer has...
View ArticleI need a very fast & modern distribution for a small EC2 instance. Is Systemd...
Hi guys, I will be stopping/waking my EC2 instance a couple times a day. It will probably be a "small" or "medium" size. I would also need very up to date packages. Should I focus on a distribution...
View ArticleTrying to break into (linux) sysadmin; What are some ways I can publicly...
So I'm trying to switch careers from teaching into sysadmin, and I'm caught in the old catch-22 of needing experience to get experience for entry level jobs. All my experience has come from tinkering...
View ArticleIs ArchLinux the best choice for a KVM hypervisor?
So I'm building up a reverse proxy system and trying to setup a good quick deployment stack, but wanted to ask folks what they use for a base hypervisor distro. We'll be using mostly CentOS and...
View ArticleOpen source web frontend for DHCPD and BIND needed.
We are looking at replacing our aging dhcp and DNS servers. We currently have a pretty complex dhcp environment covering several hundred subnets with countless reservations and exclusions. Internally...
View ArticleConverting qmail to exim
I've been given a task of converting a qmail system to exim. For reasons that are not clear but it must be done. There are plenty of guides around to do this from exim to qmail, but I have been unable...
View ArticleImpact of vibration (even at a small level) on disk array performance.
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View ArticleRedirect TCP traffic without iptables - rinetd
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View ArticleHardware encryption on tape drives?
Does anyone have experience with setting the hardware encryption key on LTO-4/5 drives?I've been tasked with setting up hardware encryption on a Tandburg Data LTO-5 HH SAS tape drive for simple backups...
View ArticleIn need of a port scan detector system... or better
Hello fellow admins. Over the last month the number of attacks against my network has steadily increased and yesterday I was hit by over 280 IPs within a 20 minute period (all attacks against my mail...
View ArticleLooking for advice for an aspiring Linux Admin
I'm currently a Windows admin for small businesses, but I've been using Linux for about 7 years now. I've used a wide range of distros, from Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, I was a longtime Arch user, but...
View ArticleI'm looking for some help with my CV..
Hi /r/linuxadmin, I'm currently looking to relocate and move into a similar but different job to the one I'm in. I'm currently a Jnr sysadmin in the UK. At the moment I deal mostly with Windows XP/7...
View ArticleFundamentals of being a linux admin?
So I have been using a centos server for over 1 year for hosting gameservers and a webserver, using simple bash scripts for backing up things and such but I feel my knowledge in administration is very...
View ArticleSendmail or a replacement
At work we're migrating from Solaris to RedHat. We're taking the opportunity to rethink some assumptions. One of those is sendmail.None of my hosts need to accept mail, or route it. They will need to...
View ArticleAnyone use WPKG for Windows software deployment?
I have three Windows machines to take care of and I'm currently exploring ways of deploying software to them. Does anyone out there use WPKG? Are there better FOSS alternatives? At the moment samba4 is...
View ArticleHP DL360 G7 had its iLO 3 firmware recently upgraded to version 1.5. hponcfg...
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View ArticleSolaris and Fiber Attached SAN
I upgraded some Solaris 10 U8 boxes this weekend, and in the last few days we've noticed that I/O to the SAN drives, not the local ones, takes on order of 2-10x as long as it should. My forte is in...
View ArticleHow do I solve having my server automatically shutdown, if a UDP port has not...
I suppose this may be an odd question, but I have a small EC2-instance that costs quite a large sum of money every month. It's charged hourly though, so I only turn on this particular instance when I...
View Articlex86check - check what instruction set a binary uses.
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View Articlevery unusual KVM setup. Question about networking.
I've recently started using a kvm guest as a router for the office along with dnsmasq. I've given the kvm guest two physical nic ports using macvtap. It works great, however when the KVM host reboots I...
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