Just want to share my Gnu Screen setup. It may be useful for other admins
I love system stats. But i also love a sense of organization considering how many systems I stay sshd'd into. Here's my screensetup:.screenrc altscreen on shell "/bin/bash" TERM=xterm #backtick 1 60 60...
View ArticleReset system clock nightly to a certain time?
So we have this VPS that's completely undocumented that nightly, will reset it's clock to like Dec 5th 2012. I have no idea how it does this, as there's no cron, and no NTP server. I've checked a lot...
View Articleproftpd + key-based SFTP
Hi All,I'm trying to implement passwordless login to automate file transfers. The source system I'm connecting from is a Windows 7 box. The destination system I'm connecting to is a Ubuntu Server 13.10...
View ArticleBest media centre for raspberry pi, but...
Hey guys. I have a raspberry pi, and I have taken a lot of time to set my raspbian distro up nice and good. But the thing is I wanna stream video on my hard drive to my TV (sony blu-ray). Now the only...
View ArticleLdap server/client with automount user home directories. - Does anyone have a...
I'm looking for a straightforward guide. This won't go into production I'm only using it for testing. I tried following this but after getting the server side setup I'm unable to login with domain...
View ArticleWindows Can't Write to NFS
I have an oddball question. I have a Windows 7 client and an Ubuntu 12.04 server that has a bunch of NFS shares. All the shares are read/write/modify/work just fine on Linux and OSX. However, when I...
View ArticleLocal UDP Broadcast traffic flooding my server [need pointers]
I have a Proliant ML350 G5 server i recently re-purposed/re-furbished running Debian 7 (on 3.13.2) with a bunch of ethernet cards and a bunch of hardrives. I have noticed something that weirds me out...
View ArticleA Question of Degree
Forgive me if this has been asked. I was wondering if a degree was absolutely necessary to break into the field of net/sys administration, or if certifications would do the trick. I'd rather avoid...
View ArticleSamba troubles
Hey guys, I have a samba share running on my raspberry pi. Its run good, and I can add things from the pi real easy. But the problem is I can't add anything from any other computer on the network. Here...
View ArticleRHEL/CentOS install with motif instead of GNOME
i'm installing RHEL/CentOS 6.5 and i don't want to install gnome. instead, i want X but with mwm. anyone know what grouplist i can remove in the kickstart file? i'm going for a minimal install....
View ArticleMy mail server... is it working?
Hello r/linux_admin,first of all: it is. My question may seem kind of stupid, please let my explain.In the last few month i have successfully deployed my own mail server using debian, postfix, dovecot,...
View ArticleSys Admin Woes
So a couple months ago I left a job at a global financial firm as a Linux Administrator in my hometown for an out of state job of the same title. There was a pretty decent increase in salary so I felt...
View ArticleTroubles with Squid3 delay pools
I have a linux box and 2 pc's connected to it via a switch. The routing and everything works, they can get online. I want to limit the bandwidth either of them uses. Individually or both for the same...
View ArticleSome processes hogged CPU and bandwidth
I have a VPS and I got a notification that both bandwidth and CPU have been overused. I have one site on there and it does not have high traffic. At first I thought it could be a search engine spider...
View ArticleCentos 6. Creating a yum repository server. Not sure about the directory...
Hello all.I am creating a yum repository server for CentOS6. I will copy the packages from the DVD and place them under the proper directory so they will be accessible by apache. Then rsync that...
View ArticleRHEL6 Kickstart to UEFI system failing. Help?
So I've got an existing and very reliable kickstart environment, and into that mess we're introducing UEFI systems. After finding and surmounting endless problems, we can't get the initial kernel...
View ArticleI did something really dumb... chmod u+s /usr/bin -R
I was up late trying to install a damned printer on my Arch box and without thinking I did chmod u+s /usr/bin -R and now I'm feeling really dumb since every package I install/update I getwarning:...
View ArticleRight Approach to 16VMs for Group Project?
Hi.The responsibility for configuring 16 virtual machines for a semester-long group project has fallen on me. There are 8 of us and we'll all be working on similar things, but split into a couple...
View ArticleAre there kids in college who want to be linux system administrators?
Sorry to be a bit abstract, but i don't want my actual self or the business i work for connected with this question. I'm a manager who's currently hiring linux system administrators. Not people who...
View ArticleWhat do you use as a workstation?
Assuming managing Linux machines is a major part of your day, what do you use as a workstation? Desktop or Laptop? Linux on the desktop? What distro? Mac or Windows? Have more than one at work?I do 99%...
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