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If my box from which I do backups to BackBlaze B2 is compromised, how can I...

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS hosting ownCloud. To backup my ownCloud data, I use the following command:duplicity /var/owncloud/data b2://account_id@bucket_name/folder_to_backup_to Then, it asks me for my...

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Allow SSH when on certain wifi

I have a few laptops or other mobile units, on some I would like to only allow key logins, and others no logins over SSH when not on a specific wifi.Is there a way to do this? submitted by /u/koera...

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Basics > best practice for storage setup on servers

Hello folks, A friend and I are taking first steps into the world of sysops/sysadmin, specific to Linux. We are total newbs and after digesting some info/videos online, today, we set a goal to set up a...

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FirewallD disabled but still runs at boot

I have a headless Fedora 24 system that I have stopped and disabled firewalld via systemctl. But after a reboot, it is running again! Any ideas where to start looking? thanks! submitted by /u/fsudave87...

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Setting up a cert on CENT OS 6

I work for a .NET shop but we have Linux for one server installed with WordPress. We added a feature in WordPress that lets us login with our LDAP... so with that, having https is more important. It is...

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Anti-virus on Linux

We have a regulatory requirement to run anti-virus on our Linux servers. We have now tried 2 different vendors, Kaspersky and McAfee, both have caused lots of issues with our RHEL 7 servers. Kaspersky...

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Question about linuxacademy.com and my preparation.

Hello everyone, I'll start this post by saying that my english might be not perfect but I understand it 100%, I also apologize if this isn't the right place to ask this, if so just tell me and I'll...

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Top 10 H-1B employers are all IT offshore outsourcing firms, costing U.S....

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Linux is 25 today

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Recalled patches statistics?

Microsoft tend to quite often recall patches that break windows. Are there any statistics on this and brokedness of patches for RHEL and other distros somewhere?This can help out chosing your patch...

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50 Web Server Monitoring & APM Solutions (For reference)

Back in 2014, I compiled a list of the top 20 server performance monitoring solutions. Largely because I already had a list saved locally for my own reference. Posting that list publicly was a great...

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Setting up Open Source Billing, some extra steps I had to take, if you plan...

Hi Folks,I'm in the process of evaluating : http://opensourcebilling.org/It looks pretty sweet, but boy was their installation documentation painfully inaccurate. It's supposedly written for Ubuntu...

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Can you please identify this monitoring software?

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Help deciding to use FreeIPA

I am enticed by this package but I have one fundamental question before delving into setup. I currently use OpenLDAP and one thing I am not clear on is this:I run containers and KVM vm's for my linux...

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Can you please identify this monitoring software? (Featured on Mr.Robot)

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Syslog analyzer (that actually do analyze?)

I'm looking for an open source solution that can take syslog, analyze it and identify potential security breaches or anomalies.A most simple stupid example:3 or more failed login attempts and then one...

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Pacemaker cluster with CentOS7 and vmware ESXi6 issue

Has anyone been able to set this up successfully?I am running ESXi 6 and the VMs are CentOS 7.2. When I attempt to setup fencing it fails. I tried to run fence_vmware_soap with the proper options...

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Fedora 24 FirewallD

I'm running a headless Fedora 24 install in my VM lab and I don't need a firewall on it right now. I stop and disable firewalld via systemctl but every time the machine is rebooted, firewalld starts up...

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I've maintained the same Debian 5.0 "Lenny" install for the past 7 years,...

Back in 2009 I decided to build a home-lab server using an Asus desktop computer with an AMD K6-2 processor. I have no idea why I had such a piece of shit computer laying around, but I wasn't about to...

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Hardening a Unix application server

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