For those of you out there administering Windows with Linux infrastructure...
I'm in what is probably an unusual situation - I work in an environment that is mainly Linux and OS X but with increasing amounts of Windows boxes. I've found integrating them into the current systems...
View ArticleWhy is basic mail so so so hard?
Really guys? I love Linux. I like to be here everyday... in the thick of it. But why is some of this crap so damn hard? Unnecessarily so.... And why doesn't anyone answer questions? Ugghhh.So, I'm...
View ArticleTransferring files via email
I'd like to use email to forward log files from several clients to a central red hat node then strip those log attachments from the emails when they arrive.. Has anyone done this before? There's very...
View ArticleMutt and Postfix problem
*Sorry if this question is in the wrong sub-redditI have been trying to learn Postfix with Mutt as my MUA. I had set up users, Mutt had given them mail boxes, everything was working great :)I then...
View ArticleNot the dumbest things I've done, but it's up there
I have a remote Linux server for a variety of things. Today I was doing a few things and decided I should probably change the SSH port from 22, to some high number for security. I changed the port to...
View Articlesudoers help
I'm on a rehost project setting up new RHEL servers. We only have a few users, but to make life easy I set up visudo using %sysadm instead of naming each admin in the visudo file. I also have %wheel...
View ArticleInterview this afternoon, last minute advice?
EDIT: Just got back from the interview just moments ago. Think it went well. Will see. Thanks again!I have a junior/entry level interview this afternoon, and I need some advice. What are some...
View ArticleEmails quarantined in postfix identified by Spamassassin/MailScanner...
Good day, I was hoping someone might be able to help with this situation. I'm consulting for a company that recently had a major staff change, leaving hundreds of poorly-documented, misconfigured...
View ArticleArch on tonido2 has inconsistent filesystem and partition tables.
Hello, I installed Arch Arm on a tonido2plug, and it works. Unfortunatly, parted, fdisk and df all disagree about the disk partitioning:[root@tonido]# parted GNU Parted 3.1 Using /dev/sda ... (parted)...
View Articleext4 FS theoretical limits vs actual limits
I've got a box here that has a 2TB FS across two 1TB disks (~1.8TB usable space after LVM and ext4)It's currently holding around 1.4TB of data. I'm finding that it's corrupting a lot and performance...
View Articlegood api/website monitoring, preferable one that runs in GAE?
Hey all I'm gathering options for a good uptime monitoring tool that I could run from google app engine. Ideally it will monitor parts of our external facing infrastructure / public API and notify us...
View ArticleTales from systems administrators
Greetings all, I was wondering how many folks would be interested in a place like tales from tech support, but more targeted for sysadmins? I asked for a few moderators from /r/sysadmin and we actually...
View ArticleIs piping large amounts of data to gzip safe on production servers?
Hey there :)I currently have a db backup script that dumps the databases to disk, and then gzips a few lines and sanity checks after.The reason I did'nt do:mysqldump <params> | gzip >...
View ArticleAnyone else have a Timeserver problem yesterday (11/19)?
Yesterday our timeservers at work were suddenly offset by -12 years setting them to 19 Nov 2000. They sync with the USNO, NASA, and NIST...did anyone else have a problem? submitted by angstengel...
View ArticleLooking for Network SIP's
similiar to these I'd like some SIP's that I could use on servers that have no IPMI on-board, but most importantly don't need a specifc kvm switch. So something that serves up the KVM on the machines...
View ArticleHaving problems with sed
Hey guys,I'm trying to use sed in an ssh loop to add a line after another line. The script (with other irrelevant parts omitted) is this:ssh root@x.x.x.x'sed /RewriteRule ^ /auction-(.*)...
View Articlessh load balancing
I have a pair of servers with nfs shared home directories, and I want to load balance the ssh connections across them. Anyone have Ideas ? My users are pretty active on using ssh operate in this...
View ArticleJust got a job as a RedHat Sys Admin and have a couple questions for all the...
I have been doing linux administration for about 7 years now but have never worked with RHEL in a production env. and have a couple basic questions for you all.1) What are some good RHEL rss feeds that...
View ArticlePost your HA setups
I've been on a quest through HA land the past week and it's been such a wild ride with Debian Squeeze that I would like to hear how others have solved their HA problems. OS: Debian SqueezeNodes: 2,...
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