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Reverse Engineering LDAP configurations on 25 plus Oracle Linux servers

I have been put in charge of a new server farm running OL 6.7, all of which are tied into AD. However, I have no documentation nor access to the previous admin to find out how they did this.I need to...

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How does CPU affinity interact with cgroups in Linux?

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Need some Advice: Admin coreutils

I've been giving this a lot of thought recently. I feel as though there are a lot of simple additions that could be made to commands we use everyday that could make our lives infinitely better... Some...

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Confuse with this filesystem.

[resolved, it's zfs]So normally when we have put hdd on the server. it will show as /dev/sd*, you can part it then mount it later on. But a common occurrence when you do df -kh is something like...

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How to Install Graylog 2.0 on CentOS 7 and Collect Windows Logs

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(Noob Question)Checking Wordpress versions

Hello Linuxadmins! Currently we have around 25 ubuntu servers in our infrastructure and I'm using landscape for an update source for all the machines. However, there are 3rd party apps that landscape...

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100% behind cloudflare; Ports are closed; is a DDOS possible?

Hi folks,If a server is 100% behind cloudflare and the ports are closed otherwise through the software firewall, and the IP address is widely known, is a DDOS attack still possible?What can be done to...

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Domain Join via SSSD fails with Constraint Violation?

I've configured OL 6.7 so that Kerberos and SAMBA are working. My SSSD.conf looks good as well.kinit works.net ads testjoin comes back ok.However, if I attempt to net ads join -U ADMINACCOUNTI get:...

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Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with EFF's Certbot, deploying...

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renaming all the files, directories, content with the matching syntax to...

So basically I want to do %s/<syntax_A>/<syntax_B> equiv to a directory that will recursively look for syntax_A on file names, dir names and content that match syntax_A and replace it by...

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Automate Ubuntu clients updates. How?

Hi guys. First time writing here, but I already learned a lot reading from this subreddit ;)At work, I have near 50 Ubuntu desktop clients. It's great to manage the machines as the user doesn't know...

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Managing SSH Authentication between multiple hosts?

Hey, I'm not sure if this has a clean solution, but I'm willing to ask anyway. I'd love your feedback, as I don't what I should do next.I'm running a couple Debian servers on DigitalOcean as a hobby...

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Encrypted SSH keys?

I'm looking for people's opinions on whether or not you should always encrypt ssh public/private keys. I know there is ssh-agent out there for those who do encrypt their keys, but i am just curious to...

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[Apache] Reverse proxy - tearing my hair out!

So Im trying to access a webpage on my local network from a outside network. And Im doing this by setting up a reverse proxy using Apache. Now site A is working just fine, so I copy that siteA.conf to...

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What would one need to implement different chat services from scratch on a...

Say for example a person is fed up with skype and google, and they're the type of person who enjoys learning things and taking on challenges. Now lets say this person decided they were going to make...

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So I just failed the RHCE

Hey all,Just leaving a message here for pity I guess.I just failed the RHCE, I paid for it out of pocket, also in the UK it's a lot more expensive than everywhere else for some reason (£450!).I was...

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Hi r/linux4noobs. I have an interview scheduled for Linux Admin. Just want to...

I do have some hands on experience on Linux for normal stuff like installing, configuring ubuntu, Linux mint in addition to some basic commands. Also, I can configure LAMP easily on my machine. I am a...

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How to increase disk size without losing data?

So let's say I have /dev/sda with 100GB. I parted /dev/sda1 for / for 20GB. Now it's full. How can I re-size /dev/sda1 to 40GB while retaining the data?df -khFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on...

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how to logout from smb in windows?

Followed this and everything is working. Got a linux fileserver up. However, after prompting me for user and pw once, I no longer need to type in user and pw and there's no way for me to log out. I...

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CentOs Install Help

Hey guys! I've decided to take pictures of the entire startup of the CentOsSo, I plug in my usb and chase the bios order to make it boot from the USB first.It then displays this:...

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