having some trouble mounting cifs/smb shares (ZFS share server)
I have a Debian 7 server with a ZFS pool on it, shared via samba/cifs to Windows clients just fine. When I try and setup .smbcredentials and mount the paths on linux clients, I get mount errors.What's...
View Articleiptables -m state
So I've been looking over some iptables configs and I'm confused on -m state --state NEW What does this mean? I've been reading the man page for iptables but I can't seem to find an explanation of the...
View ArticleLDAP Configuration help
I'm trying to restrict login access to centos 6.5. The way I have to do this is by AD security group. In nslcd.conf I am trying to restrict the ldap search to the dn of the groups w/ no luck (I am...
View ArticleOptimal setup for linux environment
Hey.First, I know i have posted about this before, so sorry for that.And now to the question: I have a school running with a few VM's with our file server, LDAP server and a gaming server, the...
View ArticleEasiest way to replicate an SQL database?
I've got two Ubuntu Server installs. One is an actual VPS, the other is a virtual install on a desktop. The virtual machine has much more computing power than the VPS.I have a Perl script that I run...
View ArticleCompany-Wide Conversion to Linux Thin-Clients
Hello everyone!I manage the IT Department for a mid-size furniture company. In each of our stores, we have 6-12 computer terminals for our salespeople to use. The terminals all connect via RDP to our...
View ArticleBest partition scheme for a LEMP web server?
We'll be running nginx, mariadb, memcached, php, and varnish on this machine. It has 4 1TB drives and will be structured in Raid 10. Most disk usage will be in /home for the website files and uploads....
View ArticleProcmail - Extract sender data to file and fire script. Help!
Getting desperate with this and don't really know where to ask... I have a script built that emails some content. I want procmail to write the sender address of incoming mail to a file, then fire the...
View ArticleAnyone seeing weird SSH User accepted logs recently?
(Crossposting to /r/sysadmin because I am really at a loss)I have googled around and can find nothing on this so I'd figure I'd reach out here.This morning I got some weird cron messages from a bunch...
View ArticleAnyone run a local repo for update management?
I manage around 500 physical servers and once in a while when someone runs an apt-update a few will get out ahead of the pack. Have any of you set up a local network repo where you stash all your...
View ArticleSuPHP with mod_deflate - Causing extra characters at the end of PHP files
Has anyone ever seen this before? If I have both mod_deflate and SuPHP enabled at the same time PHP files will output extra characters at the end of the file. Even if there is no actual PHP being...
View ArticleProblems with dos2unix
I have a log file from a windows server that dos2unix isn't converting. It's says it's a binary file. When I use a -f to force dos2unix to run on it, nothing gets changed. I can open the file in vi or...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi + CUPS = no web interface login. Help, please?
Hello reddit!I want to set my Raspberry Pi up as a printer server for my local network. It's running Raspbian.So I installed the required packagesapt-get install cups printer-driver-gutenprint And then...
View ArticleWhat's your go-to server distro?
I've been using Debian for quite a while for samba file servers, jabber servers and web servers. I've used Red Hat a couple of times. And I've also used Ubuntu on a few VPS machines. I'm curious what...
View ArticleDoes anyone do this extra sort of network monitoring? Idea I heard today.
It's straightforward enough:Use/keep your existing network, system, and application monitoring (Nagios, Solarwinds, whatever).Draft up a simple uniform bash script for each of your systems that does a...
View ArticleVNC as a service
Hey there,I'm trying to setup a VNC server for a remote connection, but I can't seem to be able to set it up. The furthest I was able to get to was a grey screen with an x cursor. Any advice?All help...
View Articlehow do you monitor uptime ?
Hi guys !One of my debian box recently rebooted unexpectingly (which is a bit preoccupying since this is my personal email server among other things).I still haven't found the cause of this reboot but...
View Articleorca compared to collectd
Noticed the collectd tool on another thread. We're using an older tool called orca that's been really good. I wonder if anyone has used orca and has some opinion on it compared to collectd? submitted...
View ArticleI wrote my first real bash script today; nifty little rdiff-backup routine...
https://github.com/sparklespdx/bash/blob/master/backup2.shThe idea is to have often-run, incremental backups of my work while I'm out and about and a full system backup run every night. It tests for...
View ArticleLinux Showdown 7
Howdy, just wanted to mention that LS7 is currently underway. For the leaderboard and list of prizes check out:http://www.linuxshowdown.com/seven/The bad news: we ask for an email address and SMS phone...
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