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My First 10 Minutes On a Server

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Missing disk space

So, I have following problem:One month ago we saw that our linux server had drastic increase of disk usage: ~12GB in less than a minute time... Started at exactly 22:00. We had no cron job at that...

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Recommend me a Wireless access point.

Not really a linux sysadmin question but why not give it a shot as the cli ninjas in this sub is pretty knowledge in everything. I have a windows ssd-fileserver with multiple interface. One interface...

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Windows admin needs to encrypt data at rest and share via SFTP

I've setup SFTP before, but just to encrypt data in transit. Now I have a requirement to encrypt at rest and share with an outside org. I'm assuming I would have to share the decryption key with them...

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Switch between BIOS boot and EFI boot modes?

Is there any command line tool to toggle between booting in BIOS mode and booting in EFI mode? It looks like ipmitool almost does this? submitted by /u/bobthecowboy [link] [comments]

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Cisco router become really loud after I remove the plastic

I have a 4331, I removed the plastic ,more picture, reboot the router and my router become really loud. In the picture, the top one is not quite right because I am unable to put the plastic back into...

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Unable to modify user in freeipa

Using Freeipa for authentication, but I am unable to make any changes. I wish to change the GID of a particular user. note ipa user-find klin works. [root@elis scripts]# id klin uid=4130(klin)...

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On Snappy and Flatpak: business as usual in the Canonical propaganda department

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AWS VPC VPN two-way connection with quagga

So what I have is a quagga + racoon vpn connection to aws. Then I have a gre tunnels to other nodes on my network in different subnets. The nodes can ping AWS EC2 just fine in the vpc, but the AWS EC2...

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Looking for reliable rsync links for Centos6 and EPEL.

Hello all.We are creating our own internal yum repos. One of them will be a Cento6 repo with Epel as well.I haven't done this for a while so I am not sure which links are reliable to use for these...

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Ubuntu 14.04 - Looking for VPN for Virtual Private Server

Hey All,Just signed up for a Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with a static public IP and I am looking for a way to setup a VPN I can connect into. Can anyone recommend a method in which I can setup a VPN To connect...

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Let's talk about making files immutable.

At my current job it is fairly standard practice for admins to chatter +i files.One of my issues with this is when I make a change to puppet and expect it to do something and it doesn't on one server...

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Real World Technologies For Home Lab?

Looking to break into Linux administration and am wondering what are some real world technologies I can use in my home lab?KVM is a must I know, and I was looking at FreeIPA for logins.For things like...

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Spacewalk user group and advance use cases.

Hello everyone, long time reader and first time posting. I volunteered my services to a small business that have about a dozen or so CentOS and Fedora boxes. Anticipating potential growth I have...

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Permission (SELinux) issue with Apache for RHCSA lab

Hey group, Hopefully, this is the correct sub to post this help. I KNOW the issue is probably so easy, but I just can't see what it is. When I navigate to the site 192.168.1.65/inst, I should see the...

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linode just doubled the RAM on all my servers.. for free

Went into the control panel today to get some info, was greeted with this message:A free upgrade is available for this Linode! Click here for more information! After clicking, I saw this:This Linode...

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Gluster mounting before daemon is up

Hi AllApologies if this is a stupid question. I have a small dev setup where Gluster server and client are installed on the same server. However it seems that the glusterfs-server daemon comes up after...

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Virt Manager - Cannot access storage file, permission denied for qemu

Due to my / being only a 50 GB partition and my lab will need to support 4 VMs, I followed the advice suggested by Jang to create a new directory in my users home, /home/adrian/images. /home resides on...

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Got my RHCSA yesterday, sharping up bash scripting at the moment and looking...

Hi everyone, a long time lurker here in this subreddit, first and foremost, thanks for everyone that contribute to this subreddit and answering anything regarding RHCSA, you've no idea how much that...

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(noob bash scripting question)time difference calculation in bash script

Hello Linux Admins! I'm slowly getting into Linux and I was wondering how I would add a shell function to calculate the number of days between two dates. I'm basically trying to print out the remaining...

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