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Samba with openLDAP

Hi RedditI have recently become responsible for a small Linux infrastructure in an r&d department. I am a software engineer with limited Linux admin know how and have setup a small lab...

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How to make git commit to work on puppet?

So right now whatever changes I do to my puppet modules will be immeidate after I save it. How can I make it so that it will only take effect if I do git commit? I've seen this somewhere but I don't...

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My ufw confusion. Ideas?

I am fairly new at ufw and am wondering about how deny works. I assumed that when I deny from {some IP address} to any, that IP has no chance to get in. Would that mean I will see attempts in...

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dhcpd reservations by device type.

Because of several factors too long to list here we have every single machine in our environment on a reserved DHCP lease, what I wanted to know is if you can assign a pool based on the first few bits...

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Are people here interested in a link to the pdf of the 7th edition of Michael...

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How to write a setup script that requires different privileges at different...

I'm building a service to be deployed to a clean VM. There are things that need to be done by root (e.g. installing stuff) and other things that need to be done by the non-privileged user that will be...

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lfd (csf) - Ignore alerts from certain users

I set up lfd configuration to send me email for every ssh login. Is it posible to ignore email alerts when certain user login on machine with ssh? submitted by /u/Fellsho [link] [comments]

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No output from pidstat when using -p flag

If I grep the output of pidstat, I can find the PID i'm looking for along with the desired statistics.$ pidstat | tail -10 10:57:26 AM 0 16433 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1 kworker/1:0H 10:57:26 AM 0 16489...

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Ubuntu installation with PXE and preseed fails at boot

I'm trying to automate Ubuntu 16.04 Server installation via PXE and preseed configurationsThe Installation runs fine without Errors but it fails to boot after the install and hangs at the filesystem...

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New system admin for a college linux lab. Does anybody have a similar setup?

I'm hoping to connect with other administrators who have similar setups or who work in a higher education environment so that I can compare notes. We're running two servers, both VM's, one Ubuntu...

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FreeIPA Woes

Hi /r/linuxadmin (xpost from sysadmin), we need help. We have been fighting this issue for months now with no resolve in sight.We use FreeIPA for authentication, DNS, etc because we are an almost all...

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arpspoof in virtual machine doesnt work

Hey! So I setup a Virtual Machine (Kali) and put it in Bridged mode. My Problem is, the whole network goes down / extremely slow and I dont have any connection on any device anymore.What I did:Victim...

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Zabbix: equal timeouts on server and agent can cause irregulary appearing...

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confused with git.

Hi guys i am trying to setup my local git repo. I have two directories /repo, /workingproject. In /repo I did git --bare initthen in /working I did $ git init $ touch TESTING $ git add TESTING $ git...

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question on Unbound DNS caching logging "Best Practices"

(sry for the potential n00b level here)hi team. We have an Unbound caching server that was setup by another internal team. However, there is no logging enabled. I not only want this enabled for...

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cloudinit timing

Hello All,Is there anyway to make cloud init perform certain modules in a certain order? Context: Atm i'm stuck in some sort of catch22 scenario. I have an repo thats lives on an s3 bucket, I want to...

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Forward Multicast stream to another machine

I am wondering if there is a way to forward a Multicast stream to another machine over tcp/ip. submitted by /u/BornInTheCCCP [link] [comments]

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Pair programming screen sharing.

I have devs that all pair program. They are wanting to have their own PC and be able to mouse over from one machine to the other and vice versa. I initially tried to get them to use synergy but the...

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RHCSA study book?

Looking to get my RHCSA. Was wondering if there's a recommended book out there. Any recommendations that people have found good as a study tool? submitted by /u/thomjrob [link] [comments]

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cPanel & Exim - CBL listing problems

So... We're having an issue with spamhaus CBL listing.We're being constantly listed on the CBL for the past week and a half.Which means that in a jiffy, we're on spamhause's ZEN too.Cue a team of us 3...

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