Perl or Python for system administrator?
Hi guys,I'm Junior Administrator at my company. I used to intensively use Debian at home as Desktop and for couple of months I had own rtorrent server. I have written some scripts in bash also, but now...
View ArticleWould someone mind explaining Reverse DNS with Virtual Hosts please?
Hi guys, I'm not 100% sure this is best place for such a question, but I cannot get my head around reverse DNS settings with virtual hosts. I have one IP address, Apache2 with a number of virtual...
View ArticleCron management/replacement?
Fellow neckbeards,I'm an admin for a mid sized Debian shop. ~250 VMs or so. Currently, we have no practical cron management. I started to tinker with Chronos, which seems like it would be perfect, but...
View ArticleCentrify for Active Directory Authentication
I am looking to integrate several new Linux servers with Active Directory to make user management easier for me and stay SOX compliant. Has anyone ever used Centrify for AD authentication on Linux...
View ArticleMod_Rewrite help needed: is there a NOT operator?
I recently posted here about hosting multiple SSL sites under one IP. I decided eventually to stick with SNI, because most browsers support it, and the ones that don't are outdated and the site...
View ArticleSMTP Relay Inquiry
Hello all,I hope this is the right place and that I can convey myself properly. Our accounting software uses its own email client to send emails and alerts. However, it only works when using smtp port...
View ArticleAmazon Glacier for backups?
Just curious if anyone has seen something more than s3cmd that is reliable to backup to Amazon Glacier. Or would running some EC2 instance (with rsync) be the easiest/most reliable way? submitted by...
View ArticleLinux-only "domain" without Samba
Now as we don't have any Windows clients anymore, we're searching for a complete alternative to using Samba. Using a windows protocol for communication between 2 linux hosts is a bit ugly. We only need...
View ArticleOSS/Free recommendations for server monitoring?
I've been having a lot of SSH bruteforce traffic lately (as stated in a previous post) and I've taken the necessary steps to mitigate it. However, I'd still like to monitor authentication (and...
View ArticleOpenVPN; Certificate Management and OCSP
I'm working on building an OpenVPN server on CenOS 6.4. I'm making great progress. I have OpenVPN working great, iptables handling traffic and I'm getting things done. I'm trying to get into CA and...
View ArticleNetwork Connection Sharing - CentOS
Hello CLI gods.Task: Share Internet Connection (usb0) via wlan0 AND eth0 [SOLVED]Reason: To connect printer via Ethernet cable while still connecting wifi devicesEnvironment: CentOSHistory: Internet...
View ArticleSimple Centralized Log Monitoring
I'm running about 8 Ubuntu 12.04 VMs on my home server, some of which are hosting websites. I'm basically looking for a simple program that monitors the logs on each VM and centralizes/alerts me of any...
View ArticleLooking for help. IBM cash registers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of...
I hope this is the right subreddit for this kind of question. We have just begun to rollout an upgrade to our registers from SLEPOS 11 SP1 to SP2. We are running into a few issues, one of which is...
View ArticleIssue with iSCSI initiator and LVM, not mounting at boot.
OS is Debian Wheezy. I have an iSCSI target set up, exporting the LUN to my initiator, which registers it as /dev/sdb. This works perfectly.I then set up an lvm, /dev/vgx, on top of that physical...
View ArticleCreated a linux webserver for basic instant messaging.
So I was at work today and found that myself and a colleague were unable to communicate as we were both on separate sites with no signal on our mobiles. This gave me the idea of hosting my own basic IM...
View ArticleLinux Live Cd, CLI only, in 32 and 64 bit flavors?
I've been using Ubuntu Rescue Remix for some time and I really enjoy it. The only thing i loathe about live OSes is the sheer amount of time it takes to boot into them. The majority of this time really...
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