IP's not working, ISP says must be my server because ping works. I disagree...
Just got some new IP's assigned to my OpenVZ node. They don't seem to work properly and the ISP says must be my problem. What can I do to prove it's not? The server IP and other VPS IP's on the server...
View Articlehtop and top report different processes?
After noticing that my hard-drive light was going crazy on my home server, I wanted to investigate to make sure nothing was wrong. In doing so I ran my go to process viewer htop: Imgur.So according to...
View ArticleSome help please - bad things happening.
Break out the tin-foil hats and prepare yourself for some crazy.System: Dual boot (windows 8, xubuntu), Intel, ASRock, SSD desktop. Primary use is desktop, I run assorted VM's while in Windows (rarely)...
View ArticleNew to AWS and Need Help
Hey guys, I'm very new to AWS and have been tasked with getting our CentOS template to our AWS instance for deployment. So far I cannot figure out how to upload our template to AWS. I see a bunch of...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 LTS pam_tty_audit?
I've probably missed something, but is there a package that would provide this? I'd like to be able to create an audit trail for root when someone runs sudo su. submitted by 0x570x690x6c0x6c [link][5...
View ArticleLocal Ubuntu mirror for network installs using Cobbler with deb-mirror or...
Fair warning: The way I'm going about this is probably not the best solution, but it should be possible. I have a server running Cent and have installed/configured Cobbler. With Cobbler I'm trying to...
View ArticleUser management question
I'm redesigning my linux servers, there's just a handful. Previously I was doing the Winbind thing. It worked fine, I had it automated. It just felt overkill for my uses. I have maybe 5 people who need...
View ArticleServer backup options?
I have a small fleet of personal VPS/Debian based servers scattered about worldwide that I want to keep backups of to my NAS at home. I have nothing huge stored on any of the servers, but I'm mainly...
View ArticleOpening a public server to get sysadmin experience
I've been thinking about setting up a server for public use so I can get some experience as a sysadmin. I've got a spare laptop and I found out I can get a second IPv4 address by using the USB port on...
View ArticleRAID help - chunk,stripe,stride sizes
I'm cashing in some karma to ask this: I've got an adaptec 6405 with several arrays attached and just want to know the correct mkfs parameters to use for efficient reads and writes.This is one area...
View ArticleSLES and eDirectory
I'm trying to install SLES 11sp3 and eDirectory, and it seems like you just can't install it. There seems to be some magic I am missing. I've downloaded OES and tried using that ISO. I see the...
View ArticleHow to monitor port activity on a system?
I have an application and I want to know when users make inbound connections. It would be nice to know the duration also. Admins, how can this be done on a continuous basis? Netstat scripts are too...
View ArticleHelp I need ideas, What should I do with my Lamp Server?
So I built a lamp server the server is about the size of a pack of cigarets, its lightweight, mobile, can run off batteries (8 to 24 hours) and It has solid state memory... Then I added a USB Key and...
View ArticleMail server able to send but not receive?
So I'm absolutely stumped on setting up this mail server. It uses a mysql table for the virtual users and can send mail but not receive. When trying to send to the server, I get an email back saying...
View ArticleConfig a 512MB RAM centos 32bit VPS apache
Hi all, I'm a IT student and I got a little VPS on OVH, I want to config apache to get the best of this little server.I want to use it for 2 max 3 website, 2 powered by WordPress and 1 by custom cms,...
View ArticleWhat are you folks using to benchmark MySQL?
I'd like to test some configuration changes but I need a solid baseline to work from prior to this. What are you folks using to benchmark MySQL? submitted by Namrett [link][12 comments]
View ArticleNeed help...getting "you don't have permission to access /repodata on this...
I know I must be missing something really simple, but since I'm only about average in Linux administration I'm tearing my hair out. Details: Building a local yum repo using this walkthrough. I get all...
View ArticleDo you also feel this way? Re: IT Professionals Overworked, Losing Pride in...
Over in /r/sysadmin there's a thread about how terrible IT people get abused and mistreated. http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/26mf41/it_professionals_overworked_losing_pride_in_their/My...
View ArticleWhich Tools do you use to give you actual Memory usage?
Please no ps and top, they calculate shared memory as well.I recently got to know about http://www.selenic.com/smem/, I got an error when I ran smem -w though, hence I wanted to know which tools you...
View ArticleI find myself with more RAM for a LAMP stack than ever before, not sure how...
A great problem to have, 80 gigs of ram, 30 2Ghz cores to be sharded up into a web stack for a high volume innodb database and PHP heavy application, This is more ram than I have ever had to work with...
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