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logging net-snmp

How would i go about logging net-snmp access i can't seem to find anything about this in the config file or man pages. submitted by ownsyouall [link] [comment]

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what are your favorite bash one liners?

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Remote File Inclusion Attack Detection

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Comparing Linode to Prgmr

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Benchmarking iperf on Redhat 6.2 KVM on a I-7 3930.

Without any performance tuning about 52.0 GBytes 44.7 Gbits/sec. Thought I'd share, those are some damn good numbers. Cant wait to see what happens when I switch to kernel space drivers (vnet-host)....

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Current/Best anti-spam techniques

Good morning folks. I've been getting more and more complaints about spam getting through our email filters, and wanted to poll you guys to find out what you've found to be the most effective antispam...

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A good iptables tutorial/guide?

Looking through the internet I've had some trouble finding a good iptables guide that helps me understand chains (maybe I'm slow?). Anyone have links to some of their favorite guides/tutorials/etc?...

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How to split the program output to be stored into multiple files

submitted by mnikhil_nsbros [link] [1 comment]

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Help: Bash script to check if directories fed from array exists

I'm in need of help for some bash scripting and I'm hoping someone has the answer I'm looking for. I am trying to create a function in a bash script to check to see if a group of directories exist....

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syslog-ng 3.2 is limited to about 9000 msgs/sec from a clean install, what...

I installed syslog-ng and set it to log to a txt file locally. I then ran loggen to test how many messages per second it could process. I was reading about performance tweaks I could do to increase...

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Parsing incoming email attachments

I was wondering if anyone knows a good way to parse incoming emails on a certain address, take the attachments and store them to a database. Can Zimbra (or other email services) do this? Is it...

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Help: How to share virtual users between Postfix and CourierIMAP.

Hi, I'm using Postfix with SASL and CourierIMAP. I have multiple domains and I'm using virtual_mailbox+SASL's sasldb on Postfix and userdb for CourierIMAP... I found this stupid and if you want to...

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Question: How to make sure files never get destroyed.

Let's say I run a server and on this server I have several users to which I have given access to several folders which hold a lot of data, say 1TB. This is required for them to do their jobs. They need...

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Gradual Learning

Only experience I have is running arch as my desktop for 2 months and debian on my laptop. What would be the best way to do this? With what should I start first or should I do more at once? In what...

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WakeOnLAN on Home Server

I have a server running at my house, we'll call it "Server A". It is running Ubuntu 10.04 and is behind a Linksys WRT160Nv3 wireless router running DD-WRT, which is connected to a ZyXEL EQ-660R-F1 DSL...

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Server Question; Which distro do you prefer for servers? (X-Post from...

I know most people say Redhat, but I need something that's free. I'm setting up a new server, most likely storage but not certain. Replacing an older server running Ubuntu 7.10. edit: Unix and BSD will...

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48GB RAM, CentoOS only sees 15GB

the BIOS reads all 48GB perfectly, the OS only reports 15GB, I don't know why.. any suggestions? I know I should be thrilled to have 15GB of RAM but I put 48GB in there for a reason. EDIT: output of...

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Ubuntu Server recognizing an expansion chassis?

I have an IBM 3650 with the following expansion chassis - here will Ubuntu recognize this hardware using a serverraid card or am I jimmied with RH (which I'm not going to pay for) or alternatively can...

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Linux Scripting

I'm thinking about diving into linux scripting and i would love to know some of the better resources for learning some admin scripting. Any particular helpful links you guys know of? submitted by...

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DHCP Monitoring/Auditing Tools

We're taking a look at dhcping (http://c3rb3r.openwall.net/dhcping/) for a manual, script-based approach to monitoring our DHCP servers. Our goal was to effect a full DHCP request and response to test...

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