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Hey reddit!I've set up a LAMP stack on Ubuntu Server 12.04, and along with OpenSSH for remote access. On top of that, I've set up an FTP server, which I can connect to remotely, and finally -...
View ArticleBest route for configuring email forwarding?
I want to setup email addresses that will forward to another email address;i.e joe.bloggs@specialdomain.com forwards to jbloggs@gmail.comMy system is Debian and has exim4 installed.Can you point me in...
View ArticleAnyone have experience migrating from in-house mail servers to gmail?
Hey all! I'm an IT guy (Among other dev duties) at a small office that runs it's own mail servers. As I am a fan of the KISS principle, I'm heavily swayed by the idea of switching our email service...
View ArticleKickstart install. %post section. How elaborate of a post script can I write?
Hello all. I am wondering if I can write %post install script that will do the following: - Create users with passwords - Download the latest postgresql RPMs and install them. - Edit the /etc file for...
View ArticleXserver with hardware acceleration capabilities
Does anyone know of free program that will allow remote sessions to use hardware acceleration(quad GPUs) in a remote desktop? VNCserver/viewer doesn't seem to support this. submitted by RHCidiiot...
View ArticleBuilding a new network - Should I setup authentication or configuration first?
So I'm finally getting around to rebuilding my horribly configured network and this time around I plan on using NIS for authentication and Puppet for configuration. I've worked with both in the past...
View Articletmuxp 0.1 released - python session manager for tmux. (cross post from /python/)
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View ArticleIs there a way to prevent squid from logging certain URLs?
I am running squid on Debian Wheezy, and for reasons too dumb to go into here, I would like to prevent squid from logging requests to a particular url. Alternately, but much, much less preferably, I...
View ArticleJust starting
Hello! I am new to linux with servers, but I have had some experience with Linux in general. My deal is this - I just got a server put together, and I plan on using Ubuntu server on it for web hosting,...
View ArticleUniversal way to see if service/daemon is running?
I have set up a monitoring system called Nagios. I would like to see if a service/daemon is running on a linux server. since my linux servers is not always the same (Some use systemctl, some use...
View ArticleRHEL 6.4 NIC bonding with VLAN tagging - need configuration advice
So, I have a new, physical RHEL 6.4 box which is boot-from-SAN, using Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) host buss adapters (HBAs). I need to get 2 of the NICs bonded together for primary network...
View ArticleIs 2+ Hours Boot Time Normal for (RHEL6) a Dell R815 Attached to a SAN?
Setup: * New Dell R815 * 1 x 3Par SAN * 1 x EMC VMAX SAN Together, the SANs have: * 108 x 999GB * 245 x 1.0TB * 150 x 2.0TB * 503 multipathed devices = 105T + 245TB + 300TB = 650TB Would you consider...
View ArticleHow to restart script in init.d if the program it launches happens to crash?...
So I have a startup script in my init.d folder that pretty much starts a Killing Floor gameserver once the machine starts up, however sometimes that killing floor server crashes and it doesn't restart...
View ArticleNetwork deploying Linux OS's
I'm building myself a small Linux network in a virtual lab using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the OS. For my sins I'm a Windows sysadmin but want to branch out my skill-set.So far I've built separate VMs for...
View ArticleCentralized backup
What are you guys using for centralized backup of your Linux servers? submitted by text_editor [link][10 comments]
View ArticleGetting the proper uid's and gid's from Active Directory to Ubuntu
I am setting up to have a bunch of my ubuntu machines authenticate against a Active Directory. I am using Samba4 and winbind. I have the machines talking, but the uid's and gid's aren't copying over. I...
View ArticleRAID 6 Performance using MD
So I'm thinking about creating a NAS for my house with somewhere between 12-24 disks in a RAID 6 with software RAID, RAID 5 is not an option. I've looked a bit trying to see the performance of using...
View Articlegetting a job in linux sys admin
This may be the wrong place to post, my apologies if so.I recently got into building rigs for myself and friends. I am able to install linux and control the systems remotely on the command line. I am...
View ArticleiRedMail Home Server Setup
I'm currently in the process of creating a KVM guest VM as a mail server running Debian Wheezy and the latest version of iRedMail. Setting up iRedMail is as simple as pie, but I have a few noob...
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