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Canon iR2525/2530 UFRII printer drivers

I cannot get this dang printer to print, I'm running Debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 and cannot find the drivers, the gnome wizard ID's it correctly, searches for drivers (and finds none) and I the i2525 is not...

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Going for the RHCSA and I have a few questions... (also posted in r/redhat)

I have some experience with Redhat (mostly scientific linux) but nothing done on a professional or production level. I am being sent to the Admin I and Admin II classes this month with the test at the...

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SSH and SSHFS hanging problems

Hello, I have had a home server set up for my web development work, and it has been working very well until recently. Here is my situation. I have a server set up and use no-ip.com for DNS services. I...

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File transfer issues

I have a RHEL5 web server and have built up a new RHEL6 server. I have an apache directory with many files/directories under it. I ran du -hs and it shows 210M. I am simply trying to copy this entire...

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Recipes for extending Net-SNMP

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Is there a way to route dhcp petitions (i know, you cant route a broadcast)...

I m not sure about the security implications of this, but i suspect less troublesome to manage and it seems more secure to have the machine in the backend only (instead of in the backend and frontend,...

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Varnish doesnt send host, or apache cant resolve it correctly

Hi, sorry if im in the wrong subreddit. I have this varnish configuration backend localhost { .host = "127.0.0.1"; .port = "8080"; } backend static { .host = "static.example.com"; .port = "80"; } sub...

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First Server

I've been using Linux for a couple of months now, read Introduction to Linux from tldp. I want to setup my first server. Right now from virtual box. My question is what should I do? I want something...

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Apache + PHP serves extra slow only to Win PCs?

Hi! I got a weird problem, and all the guys at my relatively small web dev company have giant question marks above their heads. So here is the thing: we have turned PC of one of our ex developers into...

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Linux Firewall/Workstation hybrid

I have a spare core2quad box lying around gathering dust, so I've decided why not linux? I'd like to turn this box into a "hybrid" firewall / workstation (so I can ditch my linux vm) I'd like to learn...

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Need help finding a utility that breaks a linux system on purpose.

Hi. I'm about to start training one of my employees in system administration, and would like to put him in some of the many very odd situations you'll encounter as a sysadmin. A couple of years ago, I...

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Who uses avahi? What are it's downsides?

I'm experimenting with avahi on a small office network. So far it's great for what I need to do, dynamic dns tracking of workstations and commonly accessed machines. Are they are any downsides I should...

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Uptime lying about uptime

Uptime is saying it has been 96 days on a CentOS VPS that was set up two days ago. Is there anything that could cause uptime to lie like this? submitted by maxwellhansen [link] [6 comments]

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KVM Networking

Preparing to take the RHCSA and RHCE Certification exams, I'm touching up while reading along to RHCSA/RHCE Study Guide by Michael Jang. I have a host with three VMs using qemu. On this host, there are...

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Migrate exim to postfix

I have an exim mailserver that I want to migrate to a postfix mailserver. Since they both use maildir, I figure it is just a matter of creating new users with the same name and moving the contents of...

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Is anyone using DSPAM in a medium to large email server setup (2K or more...

How do you guys deal with database performance and the huge number of tokens and signatures, aside from the usual db engine tweaks? I'm migrating from SpamAssassin to DSPAM, and it works amazingly well...

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Wordpress on LAMP

I want to install wordpress however I don't know where to start exactly. I have lamp configured. Now I've been googling around but I find conflicting information. How should I install wordpress from...

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Drive Thrashing Help

I just built a new home server with 4x2TB drives in software raid5. Built the array and everything using mdadm and everything seemed to be going well until about a week ago. One of the drives sounds...

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Per process network usage ?

Hi reddit, I'm looking for a way to get the amount of data transferred by a specific process. The only thing I've found that comes close to this is nethogs, but it doesn't seem to be very accurate, and...

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Best books on server administration?

Hey guys I just got a centos vps and I am pretty new at the game. Are there some books or online resources I could check out to help me learn server administration and security? Thanks! submitted by...

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